Lancer golfer Meaghan Pototschnik secured her second straight Ontario University Athletics individual title Tuesday in Waterloo.
The fourth-year nursing student’s rounds of 74 and 75 garnered a three-stroke win over Waterloo’s Devon Rizzo. Her 2011 championship was a first for a Lancer women’s golfer.
O the men’s side, team captain Mike Ayotte fired a three-under round of 68 Tuesday to finish tied for ninth overall. The Lancer men finished ninth in the team competition as well.
Martin Girash, chair of the University of Windsor’s Board of Governors, announced Tuesday that the board has appointed Alan Wildeman, to a second six-year term as president beginning July 1, 2014.
This appointment follows a review process carried out over the past six months. Dr. Wildeman began his current position at the University of Windsor on July 1, 2008.
Dr. Girash said he was “extremely pleased” to announce the approval of a second presidential term for Wildeman.
“He has led the University of Windsor in achieving major accomplishments in the development and implementation of the strategic plan, a renewed focus on the student experience, community partnerships, and capital transformation of our University,” said Girash. “We are confident that Dr. Wildeman will continue to facilitate accomplishments in these and other areas during his second term.”
Wildeman thanked the members of the Board of Governors for their support.
“The University of Windsor is an exceptional institution within a great community,” he said. “It is an honour for me to continue to be a part of it and to be able to continue to advocate on behalf of our students, faculty and staff as we shape our University’s education, creativity, innovation and community engagement in the years to come.”
Detroiters Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope have spent six years investigating new models of contemporary art and architectural practice. Their design studio situated itself in the public realm offering over-the-counter consultations and marketed $99 house call specials.
The team will discuss their work as visual artists with their Design 99 studio and as faciliators and collaborators with Power House Productions in a free public presentation “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Thursday, October 18, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.
Reichert and Cope founded a nonprofit organization to develop a test site for ideas and methods, low- and high-tech building systems, and a point of conversation for their entire neighbourhood.
The Humanities Research Group has sponsored their appearance as part of its Distinguished Speakers Series.
Chantal Vallée, head coach of Lancer women’s basketball, will share some secrets to her success during a dinner meeting of the Women’s Economic Forum on Tuesday, October 23.
The group, which offers women an opportunity to network and socialize, promises its members that Vallée, whose team repeated as Canadian Interuniversity Sport champions in March, will provide instruction in how to win, despite the odds.
“I will use examples from my personal life, goals and challenges as well as the team’s quest to a second straight national title after we lost by 49 points … a week prior to winning it all,” Vallée says.
Tickets to Tuesday’s dinner are $25 for members and $35 for guests; the networking begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Other Place Catering and Reception Centre, 1395 Walker Road. To register, call 519-992-5993 or e-mail administrator@womenseconomicforum.com.
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go?
The source of life’s endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin’s radical insights raised as many questions as they answered.
The documentary film What Darwin Never Knew offers answers to riddles that Darwin couldn’t explain. Scientific breakthroughs are linking the enigmas of evolution to another of nature’s great mysteries, the development of the embryo.
A campus screening of the film on Wednesday, October 17, will take viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today, where scientists are finally beginning to crack nature’s biggest secrets at the genetic level.
The Windsor/Essex County Atheist Society presents the screening at 7 p.m. in room 255, Dillon Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; admission is by donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
The ancient Mayans and Aztecs did not regard chocolate as a candy, but as an important aspect of worship and even as currency.
The International Student Centre International Wednesdays documentary series presents Semisweet: Life in Chocolate, at noon Wednesday, October 17, in the centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
The film travels to four vastly different places around the globe to follow the unique journey of characters whose lives have been transformed by chocolate:
International Wednesdays screenings are free and open to the public.
