Four UWindsor graduates will be inducted into the Alumni Sports Hall of Fame this Sunday, October 2—Lancer athletes Jodi Beaugrand, Andy Buckstein and Jennifer (Graham) Schutz, and builder Richard Peddie. Sports broadcaster Joe Bowen will receive an award recognizing achievement outside the University.
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Canadian University Sport named UWindsor kinesiology grad Erika Reiser (BHK 2011) to its Academic Top 8 for the 2010/11 season.
The former Lancer pole vaulter graduated in movement science this spring with a grade point average of 12.4 on a 13-point scale, earning the President’s Medal as the top overall student at the University of Windsor in terms of academic achievement and contribution to campus and community.
Sep 28th, 2011
UWindsor students hoping to win a new Apple iPad2 have until Thursday to enter the Facebook video contest.
The competition invites answers to the question “Are You Proud to be a UWindsor Lancer?” in the form of a one- to three-minute video. The entry period ends Thursday, September 29. Review the contest rules and check out last year’s winning creation at www.uwindsor.ca/pac/fbcontest.
If being stranded on a nearly deserted Arctic island for just about an entire summer sounds like your cup of tea, you’d get along swimmingly with Christie Macdonald.
More than 200 species of birds make the annual migration from Canada to the tropics. University of Windsor students had a chance to study 47 of them this weekend when they went on a full-day field trip as part of a third-year class in ornithology.
Almost 60 students watched migratory gulls and hawks at Point Pelee National Park, documented avian biodiversity at UWindsor’s Pelee Environmental Research Centre and banded migratory birds at Holiday Beach Conservation Area. Enthusiastic students were impressed to learn about the scale of the autumnal migration through Essex County.
Sep 26th, 2011
Poet Alan Davies, the university’s new writer-in-residence, will offer a free public reading of his work this Wednesday.
Sep 26th, 2011
For a very brief moment, Mia Sisic’s eyes well up ever so slightly when asked what she recalls about growing up in a small town in what was still Yugoslavia in the early 1990s during a bitter war that would eventually divide her home country along ethnic and religious lines.
“I remember a lot but I don’t want to talk about it,” she replies with a quick, smiling recovery. “My parents and I still talk about it, but we try to leave that in the past. I do remember being a very happy kid, playing with kids who were Serbian, Muslim and Croatian. It didn’t matter then.”
Industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers will identify winners and losers in the North American automotive sector over the past two years in a classroom presentation to marketing students in the Odette School of Business on Wednesday, October 5. The class begins at 8 a.m. in room 112, Odette Building.
This lecture is open to members of the public, but space is limited. To ensure adequate seating, RSVP to Barbara Barone at bbarone@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000, ext. 3678.
Funding agencies seeking to maximize the impact of research are increasingly requiring applicants to submit plans for knowledge mobilization. A one-hour workshop on campus this week will present different approaches to organizing a knowledge mobilization plan.
The workshop, Effective Knowledge Mobilization Plans, is aimed at faculty members and graduate students applying for funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It runs 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 29, in Vanier Hall’s Oak Room.
Students, staff and faculty across campus are signing on to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Run for the Cure, Sunday, October 2, on Windsor’s riverfront. The foundation has launched a challenge to Canada’s colleges and universities, inviting them to compete with other institutions in an effort to maximize fundraising to support its vision of creating a future without breast cancer.
Josh Paglione, director of student life for the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance, hopes to draw representation from every club to his team.