Have you ever wanted to try yoga, zumba, or karate? Now is your chance, with a week of free trials from Campus Recreation.
Fall programs are starting this week, and students and employees can try out a variety of fitness and instructional classes free. Find more information, including a full list of fall offerings, on the Campus Recd Web site.
A public open house this Wednesday, September 19, will provide insight into plans that will shape the University of Windsor campus for the next half-century.
The event runs 4 to 7 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium and will feature information on:
A formal presentation will begin at 5 p.m.
The changes identified in the two-phase plan touch on every one of the University’s strategic goals and will provide the campus an efficient infrastructure to better meet student needs.
A video along Sunset Avenue on Thursday illustrates the heavy volume of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
The promise of the Centre for Engineering Innovation definitely helped to convince Sarah Kwiatkowski to study at the University of Windsor. Now the promise is being fulfilled for the second-year electrical engineering major.
“I am so excited about having everything in one place—classes, labs, professors’ offices,” she says. “This building played a huge role in my decision to come here.”
Kwiatkowski was one of a group of students to make the first use of the building’s second phase on Monday, as part of professor Esam Abdel-Raheem’s lab in circuit analysis. University officials, including UWindsor president Alan Wildeman and dean of engineering Mehrdad Saif, were on hand to mark the occasion.
“You are the pioneers—the very first class in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation,” Dr. Wildeman said. “You are launching us into the next half-century.”
Dr. Saif noted that the building is the result of years of effort: “A lot of people worked very hard to make it a reality.”
He said it will prove a catalyst for discoveries by students and researchers and said he is proud to have been present for its opening.
“This is a landmark occasion in the history of Windsor Engineering,” he said.
Work continues on the building’s construction. Additional facilities, including more lab spaces, classrooms and offices will open in the coming weeks.
Watch a video interview with Sarah Kwiatkowski:
First class in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation, September 17, 2012
“Something as simple as an old pair of glasses could make a real difference to the children of Ghana,” says physics professor Gordon Drake.
He and his wife, nursing professor Mary Louise Drake, are among 16 local members of the Rotary Club who will travel to the west African nation in November on a mission to build and supply a school. Besides the school supplies, the group is seeking to bring eyeglasses, sunglasses, and mosquito netting.
“The inhabitants are in desperate need of the things that we take for granted,” says Gordon Drake. “A pair of eyeglasses may be all that is needed to open up a world of literature and gainful employment.”
He is seeking the donation of non-prescription eyeglasses or sunglasses, as well as monetary gifts. A net large enough to protect an entire family from mosquitoes and the diseases they carry—including malaria—costs $5.
For further information or to make a donation, visit the project Web site or e-mail him at gdrake@uwindsor.ca.
An exhibition now on display in the LeBel Building’s SoVA Projects Gallery showcases the combined talents of the schools of visual arts and music.
The public is invited to the Site, Sight, Cite faculty exhibition, featuring artwork by the instructors at the School of Visual Arts. The show will run through September 28, when a closing reception at 7 p.m. will include a solo performance by flutist Jamie Wagner, a music professor.
The gallery is open for public viewing Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
—by Chantelle Myers
Members of the University’s administration and representatives of the Windsor University Faculty Association met Monday for a signing ceremony to recognize the current collective agreement. The association represents more than 500 full-time faculty and librarians and 300 sessional members. Both sides ratified the contract in November 2011. Seated are faculty association president Brian E. Brown and UWindsor president Alan Wildeman; standing behind them are the association’s Peter Zimmerman and Alan Hall, chief human resources officer Rita La Civita and associate vice-president, academic, Bruce Tucker.
The Senate Steering Sub-Committee on Honorary Degrees is welcoming nominations for honorary degrees. Anyone wishing to nominate a candidate for an honorary degree must submit a nomination form by Friday, September 28.
Selection criteria, nomination guidelines and forms are available on the committee’s Web site. For more information contact Maria Giampuzzi at 519-253-3000, ext. 3317, or by e-mail at woody@uwindsor.ca.
