Actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play hockey rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov in the hit streaming show Heated Rivalry. (BELLMEDIA/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
From social media to the Golden Globes, the spicy new TV show Heated Rivalry seems to be everywhere.
The Canadian-made romance, directed by Jacob Tierney and based on the book series by Rachel Reid, centres around fictional gay and bisexual professional hockey players navigating their on-ice careers and personal lives.
— Published on Jan 14th, 2026
PEAK makes physical literacy fun for kids 8 to 12 (NAOMI PELKEY/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
Registration is now open for the Faculty of Human Kinetics’s Physically Empowered and Active Kids (PEAK) program, aimed at children aged eight to 12.
PEAK is a free physical literacy initiative, focusing on building children’s fundamental motor skills, from running to throwing and catching.
— Published on Jan 12th, 2026
Dr. Swati Mehta joined the University of Windsor's Faculty of Human Kinetics in 2025 (FILE/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
Inhabiting the intersection between kinesiology, psychology and computer science, Dr. Swati Mehta’s research is the definition of interdisciplinarity.
A new faculty member in kinesiology as of 2025, Mehta takes a holistic approach to mental and physical health while exploring novel technological supports.
— Published on Dec 11th, 2025
The Detroit River is central to Windsor-Detroit's cross-border relationship (FILE/University of Windsor)
The Windsor-Detroit region has an extensive and rich history of cross-border connection, including as a key gateway in the Underground Railroad.
A pair of events next week highlight the longstanding international ties across the Detroit River and the role this region played in helping formerly enslaved people escape to freedom.
— Published on Nov 28th, 2025
Faculty of Education Dean Dr. Ken Montgomery welcomes students into the teaching profession at the OTF pinning ceremony (MICHAEL WILKINS/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
While September brings the start of the school year, November marks the beginning of practicum placements for teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education.
On Friday, Nov. 14, more than 350 first-year teacher candidates gathered in the Dennis Fairall Field House at the Toldo Lancer Centre to be officially welcomed into the teaching profession during the annual pinning ceremony.
— Published on Nov 24th, 2025
The École Polytechnique memorial event will take place Dec. 4 at 12:10pm at the Memorial of Hope between Dillon and Essex Halls (FILE/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
On Dec. 6, 1989, Charlene Senn was procrastinating finishing her grad school homework when she saw a television news report about a shooting at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
— Published on Nov 24th, 2025
Mona Elkadri teaches hospitality and tourism with the Greater Essex County District School Board (photo: Jeanette Dufour-Amaral)
By Kate Hargreaves
Angela Langlais’s path to becoming a technological education teacher was a journey in more ways than one.
A 2024 graduate of the University of Windsor's Bachelor of Education in Technological Studies Program (BEd Tech), Langlais is now a hairstyling and aesthetics teacher with the Keewatin-Patricia School Board at Dryden High School.
— Published on Nov 28th, 2025
Dr. Bonnie Stewart is a professor in the Faculty of Education (photo courtesy of Bonnie Stewart)
By Kate Hargreaves
From search results to article summaries, image generators and facial recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere.
Bonnie Stewart, a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, challenges the idea that this AI omnipresence is inevitable or even something higher education should embrace.
Having worked in digital pedagogies since the late 1990s, Dr. Stewart’s research focuses on combining educational and sociological lenses to examine how digital tools are used.
— Published on Nov 19th, 2025
Abby Scott is an Outstanding Scholar and plays on the Lancers women's volleyball team (FILE/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
When Abby Scott joined the Outstanding Scholars program, she was not expecting to be listed as first author on a book chapter before she finished her undergrad.
The fourth-year sport management and leadership student didn’t even know what Outstanding Scholars was until she was invited to enrol in the program during her second year as a student-athlete on the women’s volleyball team.
— Published on Nov 24th, 2025
UWindsor alumna Cailey Theos is manager of partnership marketing at Canada Basketball (photo courtesy of Cailey Theos)
By Kate Hargreaves
When UWindsor Sport Management and Leadership alumna Cailey Theos (MHK ’21) recalls her experience with the program, she describes it as being part of a family.
From faculty, staff and peers to alumni and internship partners, she says “everybody that works within the program cares so much about everybody’s success. It feels so authentic.”
— Published on Nov 18th, 2025
Actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play hockey rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov in the hit streaming show Heated Rivalry. (BELLMEDIA/University of Windsor)
