The London Olympics are just around the corner. Did you know that UWindsor alumni were part of the only Canadian basketball team to ever win a medal at the Games? Or that Lancer track athlete Melissa Bishop (BHK 2010, B.Ed 2011) will compete for Team Canada in London?
Read about them in “Silver Stars,” the cover story in the summer edition of View magazine, published by the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.
This edition also profiles:
Professor Clinton Beckford will begin a five-year term as dean of the Faculty of Education on July 1, provost Leo Groarke announced Tuesday.
“Over the course of his career, Dr. Beckford has gained significant experience with external partnerships, advocacy, and program and curriculum development,” Dr. Groarke said. “His strengths in team building, community collaboration, and international education will be an asset as the Faculty of Education embarks on its future course.”
How skilled are Windsor’s women basketball players? Lancers account for half of the Canadian university athletes playing with the nation’s senior national B team in preparation for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Miah-Marie Langlois, Korissa Williams and Tessa Kreiger join three of their Canadian Interuniversity Sport competitors and six Canadians playing in the NCAA on the squad.
Although achieving top grades in high school was a lot of work, it never felt like a burden, says Chelsea Bastien, “I just like learning and improving myself.”
A senior at Belle River District High School, she was among a select group of high school students whose accomplishments were celebrated Tuesday at the Presidential Scholars reception.
In what years did Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Francis Crick and James Watson win their Nobel Prizes?
Asking high school students to slot in a series of responses tests their knowledge of science history. Telling them how many they got right and timing them while they switch their answers also tests their ability to solve logic puzzles.
Engineering and education students have developed a day of hands-on learning activities for children and families, Saturday, April 21, at Canada South Science City.
Bridging Worlds: An Engineering Education Challenge will give children seven years and older a chance to engage in four activities – constructing a boat and setting it afloat, making a working model of a set of lungs, building a tower and testing its strengths, and cleaning spilled oil from water and feathers.
Faster, higher and stronger are no problem, but how about cleaner? About three dozen members of the Lancer track and field teams took on a new challenge Friday: litter.
The student-athletes donned rubber gloves, grabbed trash bags, and spread out across campus to clean the grounds.
“We want to show people a different side of the Lancers,” said education major Nicole Sassine, a co-captain of the women’s team. “We’re not just athletes; we give back to the community.”
A diversity exhibition highlighting the communal involvement and activism of teacher candidates will form the centerpiece of the fifth annual Social Justice in Education conference, Friday, March 9, in the Neil Education Building.
Several campus events on the theme of “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures” will celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8.
The Womyn’s Centre is sponsoring a series of activities in the CAW Student Centre, including a showcase of community groups in the Commons from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
It’s a show that can help educate a city, says Chris Rabideau.
A two-time UWindsor grad, with degrees in education and drama, the director of Interrogation says the play’s production will make history.
Interrogation tells the story of a transgender teenager who has been the victim of a hate crime. Its script draws on the actual experiences of local high school students.
“Victims of crimes shared their stories,” says Rabideau. “Then we cast it with students from all over town.”
