Press Release Archive

 Students coming from abroad and on international exchange will have a new way of coping with academic and personal stressors thanks to the Keep.meSAFE Student Support Program introduced today at the University of Windsor.

The program is tailored to provide connections 24 hours a day to certified Canadian counsellors who can discuss:

(Windsor, Ontario, Monday, May 29, 2017) – The University of Windsor will confer degrees on 3,477 graduating students during eight sessions of the University’s 107th Convocation ceremonies May 30 through June 2.

The University will also award honorary degrees to eight individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of coaching and sport, social justice, literature, business, music, medicine, and law.

Receiving honorary degrees are:

A team of UWindsor Engineering students is having a blast as it prepares for the University’s first-ever entry in an international rocketry competition.

Nine senior students are completing a 2.4-metre rocket as their capstone project. In June, they will travel to the New Mexico desert to test their skills alongside more than 100 teams from a dozen countries in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition.

Their entry will be up against 50 other teams in the same category, carrying a payload of four kilograms to an altitude of 10,000 feet (more than three kilometres).

The University of Windsor will honour 18 local agencies during the annual Clark Awards, which will be presented during a celebratory dinner Wednesday, May 17, beginning at 6 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium, CAW Student Centre.

Adjunct professor and former Canadian ambassador Michael Bell was surprised with an honorary degree from the University of Windsor on Friday.

Bell was bestowed with a doctorate of laws by University of Windsor chancellor Ed Lumley at a private dinner on campus with friends, family and colleagues. The event also served as an opportunity to celebrate the first of three books detailing the Jerusalem Old City Initiative (JOCI) that Dr. Bell helped co-found in 2003. It was under that pretense that he was surprised with the degree.

In accordance with the Ontario Public Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, the University of Windsor is releasing the report linked here: 2016 Public Salary Disclosure .PDF Document listing all employees who earned in excess of $100,000 in salary and taxable benefits for the 2016 calendar year.

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(Windsor, Ontario, Feb. 2, 2017) ­­– A team of executives with expertise in corporate strategy, industrial and institutional leadership, entrepreneurial and technology support, and banking and innovation investment was recently appointed to UWindsor’s first EPIC Board of Advisors.

The board, selected by UWindsor President and Vice-Chancellor Alan Wildeman, will give guidance to EPICentre’s students, faculty, alumni, and community stakeholders in the areas of innovation and commercialization, as well as access to business contacts throughout North America.

(Windsor, Ontario, Friday, January 27, 2017) ­­– University of Windsor President and Vice Chancellor Alan Wildeman today announced that he will leave his position effective June 2018. Dr. Wildeman was appointed to his position July 1, 2008.

The announcement came at the annual State of the University address this morning at which Dr. Wildeman said he had made his decision only after long reflection.