The Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) will recognize contributions to campus life by UWindsor faculty, staff, alumni and part-time undergraduate students, during its annual awards banquet, March 24 in the Winclare Room, Vanier Hall.

This year’s award recipients are:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Christopher Baillargeon, OPUS treasurer;
• Friend of Students Award: Anna Kirby, acting executive director, IT Services;
• Volunteer of the Year Award: Sharmila Krishnamohan
• Teacher of the Year Award: Lorenzo Buj, Languages, Literatures and Cultures;
• Faculty Awards: Dusty Johnstone, women’s and gender studies; Mark Lubrick, open learning;
• Support Staff Awards:  David Soderlund, Student Success Centre; Arpa Smith, IT Services; and Brian Joyce, Food Services;
• Student Solidarity Award: Iftekhar Basith, president, Graduate Student Society;
• Staff/Faculty Leadership Award: Clayton Smith, dean of students;
• Alumni Association First Year Part-time Undergraduate Student Award: Adam Dagenais;
• Wayne Girard Leadership Memorial Award: Christie Nelson.

Eight part-time undergraduate students received OPUS bursaries valued at $500 each. For more information, visit www.uwindsor.ca/opus.

A “country carnival” Tuesday in the CAW Student Centre promises fun and games for students returning to classes from Reading Week. The event will run 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Commons area and offers game prizes and carnival-style snacks.

It’s the first in a series of activities sponsored this week by the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance and the Organization of Part-time University Students.

• Wednesday will bring Spidey the Hypnotist to the Ambassador Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door.
• Thursday will send the Lancer Nation to watch the Windsor Spitfires, with a 6 p.m. departure time for a bus to the WFCU Centre. The $5 ticket price includes return shuttle service and game admission.

Tickets for both later events are available from the UWSA office on the second floor of the CAW Student Centre.

The Campus Bookstore will set up a “pop-up shop” to bring some of its most popular items to locations across campus this week.

The tour will feature a booth selling Lancer gear, faculty sweaters, and other UWindsor merchandise—most at a 15 percent discount—from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Tuesday, February 23, in the Centre for Engineering Innovation
• Wednesday, February 24, in the Toldo Health Education Centre
• Thursday, February 25, in the Human Kinetics Building

Get geared up at a location near you!

The Chef to You station in the CAW Student Centre’s Market Place will offer a taste of Pakistan at lunch today—Monday, February 22.

Executive chef Paolo Vasapolli says the special dishes will complement an event by the Pakistani Students Association, and include:

• chicken biryani
• karahi beef
• aloo jeera served on naan
• rasgulla for dessert

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, European cartographers and anatomists developed novel strategies for representing the diversity of human bodies in their atlases of the world and its inhabitants.

In a free public lecture Tuesday on the UWindsor campus, Valerie Traub will track their implicit taxonomies of gender, sexuality, race, and class and speculate on the effects of their strategies on the historical emergence of the concept of “the normal.”

Dr. Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, which won the best book of 2002 award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama; and most recently, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns.

Her lecture, entitled “Anatomy, Cartography, and the Prehistory of Normality,” is set for 10 a.m. February 23 in the second-floor great room of Canterbury College.

A free public presentation on campus Thursday will discuss how advanced imaging combined with 3‑D printing will one day lead to improved treatment of such joint-related conditions as arthritis and fractures.

David Holdsworth will deliver his lecture, entitled “Musculoskeletal Imaging: A Closer Look at Bones and Joints,” at 7 p.m. February 25 in room 1115, Dr. Murray O’Neil Medical Education Centre.

Dr. Holdsworth is a professor at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, and scientific director at its Bone and Joint Institute. His appearance is part of a series of presentations in communities across southwestern Ontario by the school’s Robarts Research Institute. Register for free online by February 22 at www.robarts.ca/discover-robarts.

Nominations for the Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching are rapidly coming due—intent to nominate forms must be submitted by February 29, with letters of support due by April 4.

The University of Windsor Alumni Association confers the award annually at the Spring Convocation ceremonies to honour and recognize distinguished teaching on campus and to provide incentive and encouragement for achieving excellence in this field.

All full-time members of the teaching faculty, with a minimum of five consecutive years teaching at the University of Windsor, are eligible for nomination to the award.

Click here for the award criteria and intent to nominate form. For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Affairs at 519-971-3618 or e-mail alumni@uwindsor.ca.