Impact Stories

Raffaele and Anne Marie Desando
Alumni Duo Gives Back to Odette!

Every member of the University of Windsor alumni and donor community has a story. Alumni and donor stories reflect a personal journey, a particular academic or career path or a pledge to having an impact on the students of today and tomorrow. Raffaele and Anne Marie Desando continue to share their story with the Odette School of Business as alumni, donors, advisors, and mentors.

Rodzik family
$3 million gift from Rodzik family to support Windsor Law transformation

A planned $30 million transformation of the current Ron Ianni Faculty of Law building got a major boost Friday with the announcement of a $3 million gift by the Don Rodzik Foundation in support of the Transforming Windsor Law building project.

Cancer Research donation
Fund to support research into natural treatments for cancer

Encouraging results investigating natural treatments for cancer continue to generate support for the work of biochemistry professor Siyaram Pandey and his research team.

Donor Mary Hatch gets some help with ribbon cutting from UWindsor president Robert Gordon, head librarian Pascal Calarco, and associate Karen Pillon.
Collaboratory shifts traditional view of library

“The heart and soul of a university is its library,” said donor Mary Hatch at an event Friday, Sept. 20, to mark the grand opening of Leddy Library’s new Student Research Collaboratory.