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stack of pancakes with blueberries and syrupA pancake breakfast on Nov. 20 will kick off the Annual Giving campaign for UWindsor faculty, staff, and retirees.

Reminder: giving campaign to launch Nov. 20

A pancake breakfast on Nov. 20 will kick off the Annual Giving campaign for UWindsor faculty, staff, and retirees.

Rob Stewart gets up close and personal with a tiger shark during the filming of Sharkwater Extinction. The film is produced and edited by UWindsor assistant professor Nick Hector. Rob Stewart gets up close and personal with a tiger shark during the filming of Sharkwater Extinction. The film is produced and edited by UWindsor assistant professor Nick Hector.

New UWindsor prof's shark doc premiering at TIFF

Nick Hector faced a daunting challenge.

How do you take more than 500 terabytes of raw video footage and edit a documentary that honours the director’s legacy while holding true to his artistic vision?

“Rob Stewart was just so earnest and genuine and there was no artifice about him wanting to change the world,” Hector said, a University of Windsor assistant professor.

Free poetry reading this weekend

A trio of poets will be reading at the Storyteller Bookstore on Ottawa Street this Sunday.

Tom Gannon Hamilton, Sharon Berg and Laurie Smith from Windsor will be reading at the bookstore at 1473 Ottawa St. between 1 and 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Along with Lenore Langs (professor in the University of Windsor’s English department), Laurie Smith publishes and edits Windsor’s Cranberry Tree Press.

Smith is promoting her newest book, Said the Cannibal. She has an upcoming book on Charles Darwin.

Dylan Kristy is the University of Windsor's social media coordinator.Dylan Kristy is the University of Windsor's social media coordinator.

New social media co-ordinator a familiar face

Chances are you may have encountered Dylan Kristy in some capacity at the University of Windsor.

Whether Kristy reported on your research, engaged with you on social media, or stopped to talk on campus, he has been active on many fronts since joining the UWindsor staff in early 2017.

Describing himself as a “recovering newspaper reporter,” he spent eight years working as a reporter and senior copy editor at the Windsor Star before joining the University as its research communications co-ordinator.