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Windsor alumna honoured among country’s top student-athletes

Oct 29th, 2012

Canadian Interuniversity Sport named UWindsor grad Nicole Sassine (BHK 2011, B.Ed 2012) to its Academic Top 8 for the 2011/12 season. The award recognizes one female and one male student-athlete from each of the four CIS regional associations for their academic and athletic successes.

Sassine was an A+ student in kinesiology, earning academic all-Canadian honours and membership on the Dean’s Achievement List and the President’s Honour Roll each of the past four years. In 2012, she received the DeMarco Trophy as the University’s top female student-athlete.

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Nicole Sassine

Weekend to welcome alumni's return to campus

Oct 29th, 2012

The Faculty of Human Kinetics will honour its graduating class of 1987 with a reunion on Friday, November 9, and a series of reunions, receptions, and a tour of the Human Kinetics Building for all HK alumni on Saturday, November 10.

Alumni will also be featured guests at the Lancer basketball games in the St. Denis Centre on Saturday, November 10. The women play at 6 p.m. and the men play at 8 p.m.

Get more details on the event Web site.

Continuing Education Fair helps students discover possibilities

Oct 24th, 2012

As Rita Jabbour understands it, it’s a simple formula.

“The more school you have, the more money you make over time,” said the fourth-year history major, one of hundreds of UWindsor students touring the Continuing Education Fair in the CAW Student Centre on Tuesday.

She spoke with Chris Young, program administrator for the Odette MBA, about pursuing graduate study in business.

“It would let me take what I have learned in history and apply it to help society,” Jabbour said.

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Student hoping to lighten the loads of cancer patients

Oct 12th, 2012

When people are going through the physical and emotional stresses of treatment for cancer, the last thing they need is to add financial strain to their loads, says Samantha Hann.

The first-year kinesiology student hopes she has lightened some loads after a $2,000 donation to the Windsor and Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation’s patient assistance fund. The fund helps patients and their families by providing monies for everything from purchasing groceries, to paying utility bills, or covering travel or medications not insured.

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Lecture to bridge theory and practice of sport industry consulting

Oct 11th, 2012

With a career that spans projects for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the PGA Tour, NASCAR, the National Hockey League and the International Association for Venue Managers, Matthew Walker has demonstrated expertise in the areas of consumer behavior, market research, social responsibility, environmental systems, and brand management.

He will share that expertise in a free public lecture, “Research and Consulting in the Sport Industry: Bridging the Practice-Theory Divide,” at noon Friday, October 12, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.

Workshop to promote understanding of social media

Sep 28th, 2012

An October 13 workshop presented on campus by Leadership Advancement for Women in Sport will introduce participants to the benefits and risks of social media.

The workshop will teach the major principles of engagement:

Kinesiology student goes from researching Olympics to attending them

Sep 14th, 2012

Katrina Krawec went from conducting Olympic-related research in Germany this summer to actually attending the Games in London.

A master’s student in kinesiology, Krawec spent several months at the University of Tübingen, just south of Stuttgart, where she participated in a large multi-year study to analyze the health and nutrition behaviours in adolescent Olympic-level elite athletes.

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