Press Release Archive

The University of Windsor will honour four outstanding supporters during the 21stannual Clark Awards ceremony taking place Tuesday, May 10, at 6 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium.

The Clark Award was established in 1994 in honour of the late Charles J. Clark Sr., O.C., Q.C., LL.D, former Chancellor of the University of Windsor, to recognize recipients’ outstanding service to the University of Windsor and the community.

This year’s recipients are:

The Aboriginal Education Centre at the University of Windsor will host an event to help launch the "Let's Take Our Future Further" campaign on Wednesday, February 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre. The drop-in event will feature tradtional signing and drumming.

University of Windsor faculty member Pierre Boulos has been appointed to the Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The agencies – also known as the Tri-Council – created PRE in 2001 to set out basic standards and processes for research ethics policies and practices of institutions receiving Agency funding.

Deserving Essex and Kent County students wishing to pursue the study of medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry – Windsor Program, will have additional opportunities for support thanks to a $250,000 gift from the Toldo Foundation to the Toldo Foundation Medical Excellence Scholarship.

Hundreds of local people in need will be celebrating a merrier Christmas this year thanks to the efforts of the University of Windsor community in supporting the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society’s Adopt-a-Family program.

For the past 23 years, Adopt-a-Family has marked the unofficial start to the University’s holiday season, with teams of students, faculty, staff, and individual donors fulfilling the Christmas wishes of 37 local families and youth. This year’s efforts yielded $18,415 in donations.

Ethno-racial immigrants to Canada almost always earn less through self-employment than through wage and salary employment, and almost always less than their white counterparts, according to a new study by UWindsor researcher Reza Nekhaie.

California software company funds UWindsor research on lightweight parts testing

A collaborative agreement between a team of UWindsor Engineering researchers and a California-based software company may soon provide better insight into the crashworthiness of aluminum parts used in the automotive industry.

(Windsor, Ontario, Oct. 14, 2015) ­­– The University of Windsor will confer degrees on more than 800 graduating students during two sessions of the University’s 104th Convocation ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. this Saturday, October 17, in the St. Denis Centre, College and California Avenues.