In recommending Kate Hargreaves for the Governor General's Gold Medal, the department of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing described the two-time grad (BA 2010, MA 2012) as “the most talented and hard-working student we have had the pleasure to teach and mentor.”
Hargreaves received the medal as the top graduate student in her cohort at Saturday’s Convocation ceremonies.
Many kids involved with sports grow up dreaming about being a professional athlete someday, but a group of grad students in kinesiology recently got an inside look at how they can turn their passion into a livelihood by visiting with employees from several sport organizations in Toronto.
The Lancer men’s hockey team will open its 2012-13 campaign with a pair of home games against the Ridgebacks of UOIT this weekend. Windsor defeated UOIT 6-1 during a pre-season exhibition game September 22 in Oshawa.
The squads will face off at Windsor Arena on Saturday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, October 14, at 2 p.m. Windsor Arena is located at 224 Wyandotte Street East. Read “Lancer men’s hockey set to open season against Ridgebacks” on goLancers.ca.
A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and former sessional instructor in the Faculty of Education will open an exhibit of his most recent mixed media drawings and paintings at Windsor’s Artspeak Gallery this weekend.
Signs, Symbols & Silhouettes will feature works by Jim Mroczkowski (BFA 1975) in his first solo exhibition in Windsor since 1977, when he exhibited his work in the former Leddy Library Gallery.
Therese Papineau may be getting a little old for the childhood game of show-and-tell, but she said it made her Thanksgiving a richer celebration.
She expanded her guest list by three international students through the Host for the Holidays program. Anvesh Sai Polari, Gurdeep Singh Boparai and Mandeep Singh Sidhu enjoyed a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings at her home on Sunday, October.
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With Saturday’s Fall Convocation coming up, finding an appropriate gift for a graduate can be a chore—but it’s a chore the staff of the University Bookstore are eager to help with.
“We have a lot of great, useful products that are equally timeless,” says Shirley Bott, general merchandise buyer. “Students and their parents can keep wonderful memories of their time here at the university.”
The go-to place for UWindsor apparel, school supplies and much more, the bookstore suggests these five best-sellers:
Embracing technology that relies on high-pressure water injection to make auto parts while other institutions are abandoning their research on it will place the university’s engineering department in the good graces of car companies that need to make components from difficult to form lightweight materials, according to Daniel Green.
When people are going through the physical and emotional stresses of treatment for cancer, the last thing they need is to add financial strain to their loads, says Samantha Hann.
The first-year kinesiology student hopes she has lightened some loads after a $2,000 donation to the Windsor and Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation’s patient assistance fund. The fund helps patients and their families by providing monies for everything from purchasing groceries, to paying utility bills, or covering travel or medications not insured.
UWindsor will confer degrees on nearly 1,000 graduating students during two sessions of the University’s 98th Convocation ceremonies Saturday, October 13, at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre, College and California Avenues.
Donald Walker, president of Magna International, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will address Convocation at the 10 .a.m. session and Jenny V. Coco, president of Coco Paving Inc., will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will address Convocation at the 3 p.m. session.
