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December 2024

Mourning the loss of dramatic arts program, UWindsor students turn grief into performing arts piece
CTV Windsor News, Bob Bellacicco, Dec. 4, 2024

With no theatre company like the University Players to rely on anymore, dramatic arts students were devastated. They've used that pain to create their first play since the budget cuts in June, turning their hurt into art.

"I think it's really good to get it out," said Jeremiah McEachrane, a fourth year student from Brampton. "It's really getting all of our thoughts, all of our feelings about the situation out and I think we've really managed to create a really raw experience and intimate experience for the audience as well."

November 2024

'Ironic twist' — Marty Gervais tackles new role as UWindsor writer-in-residence
The Windsor Star. By Trevor Wilhelm. Nov. 7, 2024.

He calls it payback. 

Marty Gervais looks at his latest role, as the University of Windsor’s latest writer-in-residence, as a way of fulfilling the long-ago debt he took on as a fledgling poet.

“When I was a young writer, I was looking for someone to give me guidance,” Gervais told the Star. “How do you go about doing that? How do you find someone?

“And will anyone actually want to take time away from their work to give you advice? I was lucky. I had that opportunity.
 

October 2024

New money will help expand a sexual violence prevention program for high school girls
CBC. Katerina Georgieva. Oct. 25, 2024.

Federal dollars are going to help expand the Flip the Script program, led by professors at the University of Windsor. It's a sexual assault resistance initiative for high school-aged girls. CBC's Katerina Georgieva speaks with researcher Sara Crann about what's next for the program.

UWindsor researchers receive $2.4-million to advance sexual violence prevention program
AM800 CKLW. By Meagan Delaurier. Oct. 23, 2024.

Two professors at the University of Windsor will further their work in sexual assault resistance education thanks to a large investment. 
The Public Health Agency of Canada has provided a $2.5-million investment which will help to expand the Girls - Flip the Script with EAAA program. 
The Flip the Script program is an initiative designed for girls aged 14-years and older across Canada to help empower girls with the knowledge and skills to trust their own judgement and effectively resist sexual assault.
Speaking on AM800's The Shift, one of the professors involved - Dr. Charlene Senn - who teaches Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, says young women in university who participate in the program are significantly less likely to experience sexual assault.
Dr. Senn says the trial program showed success.
"Involvement in this program actually decreased sexual assaults that occurred - both completed and attempted rape - afterwards and for at least a year, and even up to two years, by 50 per cent."
She says it's important for women to know the dangers from men they know, and men they don't know. 
"It shows girls what the real risk cues are in situations, which things actually do elevate the risk of sexual assault, and also what kinds of things in boys and men's behaviour are actually red flags for someone who is more likely to be coercive."
 

UWindsor researchers get $2.5 million to advance sexual violence prevention program
CTVNewsWindsor.ca , Kate Otterbein Journalist. Oct. 22, 2024.

Researchers at the University of Windsor have been given $2.5 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada to advance a sexual violence prevention program.
The funding will be used by Charlene Senn, a professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Sara Crann, an Adjunct Professor in Psychology, to expand the “Girls – Flip the Script with EAAA” program.
The program is a sexual assault resistance initiative, designed for girls 14 years and up across the country.
Girls – Flip the Script with EAAA empowers girls with the knowledge and skills to trust their own judgement and effectively resist acquaintance sexual assault, according to the university.
 

UWindsor profs funded to expand sexual violence prevention program
CKNewsToday.ca  by Maureen Revait. October 22, 2024.

Two University of Windsor professors have a $2.5 million grant to expand their sexual violence prevention program throughout Canada.

The program, called Girls-Flip the Script with EAAA, empowers girls in high school to avoid acquaintance sexual assault. Charlene Senn, a professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Sara Crann, an Adjunct Professor in Psychology will spearhead the project.

“We know from our previous research that Flip the Script works. Young women in university who participate in the program are significantly less likely to experience sexual assault,” said Senn. “This funding allows us to expand the program’s reach to adolescent girls in the community and gives us the opportunity to work with community organizations to ensure the program can be delivered effectively to even more young women across the country in the future.”
 

September 2024

Canada’s migrant farm workers need better protection. A new program could help — if grocery chains and consumers buy in
The Toronto Star, by Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter. Sept. 5, 2024.

Researchers led by University of Windsor Prof. Tanya Basok. Basok and Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University, examined current social certification projects for food production and explored how best to introduce such a program in Canada. This month, they will launch the Fair Farmwork Toolkit as a step-by-step guide.

 

July 2024

Violent crime severity index up more than 15% in Windsor/Amherstburg
CBC, July 25, 2024. Dr. Randy Lippert, Sociology & Criminology

The crime severity index in Windsor and Amherstburg climbed between 2022 and 2023, according to a post on the Windsor Police Service's feed on X, formerly Twitter.
But a professor of criminology at the University of Windsor is cautioning people against drawing many conclusions from the numbers.
The crime severity index is based on sentencing, Randy Lippert said.
 

Q&A | ’It’s a crazy ride’: UWindsor professor on drama unfolding in U.S. presidential election campaign
RCI, July 23, 2024.

Dr. Lydia Miljan, Political Science professor and department head, discusses the possible impact of the US election on future Canadian Federal election. "Get out the popcorn! It has been quite the drama unfolding, it's better than any reality TV I've ever seen. It's just one thing after the other. I think that the American side has really been quite dramatic ever since the debates."
 

Could the dramatic American presidential race play a role in Canada’ next federal election?
CBC Windsor Morning, July 23, 2024.

Dr. Lydia Miljan, Political Science professor and department head, discusses the possible impact of the US election on future Canadian Federal election.
 

April 2024

Local playwright focuses on early days of motherhood
Windsor Star, Julie Kotsis. April 25, 2024

Exploring the isolation felt by many women during the early days of motherhood came naturally to playwright Laura Quigley and formed the basis for her recently published play, The Waves.


Us & Them: Locked Out Of Voting?
West Virginia Public Broadcasting, April 11, 2024.

“There is absolutely no way to talk about voting rights in the United States without talking about the fact that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in not only the world but in world history. We know that incarceration is not sprinkled randomly through the society, it’s not just that men are overwhelmingly more likely to have criminal records. It’s that racialized men are more likely to have criminal records, because of the ways in which we understand crime … It’s also about poverty and class. It’s poor men that go to jail, they go to prison. We absolutely know that class divisions very much predict voting divisions.”
— Natalie Delia
 

Sound and sight: Charlie McKittrick – “You never know how the future takes shape”
Huntsville Doppler, Stuart McLean. April 7, 2024.

“I went out to the University of Windsor, and I studied percussion. It was a classical program and they had some extracurriculars like community orchestra, jazz band, percussion ensemble, things like that. University singers. I learned I could sing in university. I had no idea I had any talent whatsoever. and there were a couple people and especially the director, he said to me, ‘you know would you stay back and I’d like to work with you, just a one-on-one, for a second’ and I thought that’s weird, maybe I’m in trouble, and he says ‘I noticed you’re standing out in the tenor section and I think you’ve got some real talent there.’ I said, wow, okay I guess I should rethink my approach to this whole thing and I started to take his words under advisement and put into practice what he was showing me and I just loved it and I discovered a love for singing.” 


March 2024

Making this quilt involved more than 250 artists — and it's not done yet - CBC
CBC March 27, 2024

Visual arts professor Catherine Heard will be giving a public talk at the University of Windsor on Thursday to tell the story of a quilt project involving 250 embroiderers. It weaves together important and difficult historical events and uses a technique called redwork embroidery.
 

Ghosts, personalities, crazy stories: new poetry books focus on Windsor, Amherstburg
The Windsor Star, March 15, 2024, by Trevor Wilhelm.

Let them panic.
That’s the basic philosophy that Marty Gervais, Windsor’s Poet Laureate Emeritus and publisher at Black Moss Press, has developed for teaching over the last two decades.
 

As ‘Oppenheimer’ triumphs at the Oscars, we should ask how historical films frame our shared future,

The Conversation Canada, March 11, 2024. By Dr. Kim Nelson, Associate Professor, Film, UWindsor School of Creative Arts.

 

February 2024

‘Everyone knew everyone’: A researcher on the Black history of a Windsor neighbourhood
TVO.org - February 28, 2024

TVO Today speaks with University of Windsor graduate student Willow Key about the people, businesses, and relationships that built a community — and how they inform the present
... little-known even in the city itself. Willow Key, University of Windsor graduate student and lead researcher of the digital exhibit We Were ...
 

Adaptive reuse or build-from-scratch? Experts say repurposing new buildings brings many benefits
Globe & Mail, Marjo Johne, February 21, 2024

Featured Prof. Jason Grossi, architect and Coordinator, Visual Arts & the Built Environment program at the University of Windsor.

"Jason Grossi, a Windsor, Ont., architect who recently converted a mid-19th-century stable and a fire station from 1921 into a public library for the township of Sandwich – a historic area along the Detroit River in Windsor – says the challenges of adaptively reusing old structures are also a big part of what makes these projects so rewarding..."

 

January 2024


A Windsor professor is continuing to preserve a style of music that was once nearly eradicated.
January 31, 2024. CBC Windsor Morning

Nicholas Papador talks about his new book, "Vessels of Song: A Collection of Klezmer Suites for Mallet Ensemble"


The middle finger is the most controversial digit. Thank the ancient Greeks for that.
January 22, 2024. By Scottie Andrew, CNN

The cheeky Greeks “probably relied on the use of the middle finger to represent an erect penis,” wrote Max Nelson, who teaches courses on classical civilizations at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, in a 2017 piece on the gesture’s origins.
 

'It's not like TV' — Canadian courtroom jury duty can exact heavy toll | Windsor Star
Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star, January 3, 2024.

“They might have seen something like this on TV, but that’s fiction — there’s a comfort in knowing that’s not part of my world,” said Antonio Pascual-Leone, a clinical psychologist at the University of Windsor.
“But this can be a hard reality check — you’ve got a front-row seat to a reality you don’t normally get invited into,” Pascual-Leone said of the jury’s world. “And you’re alone.”


A Windsor urban planner and architect believes the city should rethink its stance on fourplexes | CBC Windsor Morning
Amy Dodge, Jan. 3, 2024

Dorian Moore, an urban planner, architect and instructor at the University of Windsor, speaks with CBC Windsor Morning host Amy Dodge.

Princes call Order of Canada honour 'humbling' - Chatham Daily News
Trevor Terfloth, Chatham Daily News, Jan. 2, 2024

Her work has earned her an honorary doctorate from the University of Windsor for her achievements. “We have seen a significant increase in Black history (awareness) over the past several years. Starting with Black Lives Matter, people wanting to know their history/genealogy,” she said.

 

Updated: Nov. 8, 2024

 

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