The University of Windsor will honour four supporters during the 21st annual Clark Awards ceremony taking place Tuesday, May 10, at 6 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium.

Established in 1994 in honour of the late Charles J. Clark, former Chancellor of the University of Windsor, the awards recognize recipients’ outstanding service to the University of Windsor and the community.

This year’s recipients are:

Tony Doucette, host of the CBC Radio news and current affairs program, Windsor Morning. As a sports broadcaster, Doucette helped elevate Lancer athletics to a priority position in CBC media coverage. He widened the scope of story-telling around issues affecting the UWindsor community after assuming the role of morning show host in 2006. He has been involved in hosting the athletics Evening of Excellence, the annual Three Minute Thesis competition, and most recently an evening honouring Lancer track and field coach Dennis Fairall. He has also shared his expertise and experience with students in the digital journalism program.

Thomas Robert Porter (BA 1974, LL.B. 1978), a partner in the Law Firm of Mousseau, DeLuca, McPherson, Prince. Porter served 12 years as a Windsor city councillor, with additional community service with the Windsor Essex Development Commission; the Essex Region Conservation Authority; the Riverfront Lands Advisory Committee; the Community Care Access Committee; the Windsor Hospitals Study Committee; the Windsor Port Authority; the Windsor Cancer Research Advisory Committee; and the Windsor Endowment for the Arts Advisory Committee.

He continues to be an advocate of the University of Windsor and has served 10 years on the board of the Alumni Association, including as president from 2008 to 2010.

Carol A. Reader (BA women’s studies 2011, BA history 2013), a graduate student of history. In February 2004, Reader joined the Friends of Women’s Studies, which organizes the annual Distinguished Visitor in Women’s Studies program.

She headed the group’s 2006 button campaign to produce protest and activist buttons for students, faculty, staff, campus and community groups. She has also volunteered with the Feminist Research Group and the Windsor International Film Festival.

Reader graduated with a BA in Women’s Studies in 2011 and with a BA in History in 2013, earning the Board of Governors Gold Medal in both disciplines.

Elder Mona Stonefish, Bear Clan, Doctor of Traditional Medicine, Keeper of Wisdom, Grandmother Water-Walker, Traditional Dancer and anti-violence against women leader. Stonefish hails from the Mohawk Nation-Iroquois Confederacy and the Potawatomi Nation-Three Fires Confederacy.

She has been active for many years as an advocate at the University of Windsor for increased awareness, understanding and appreciation of Indigenous people. She has provided a strong voice in law and women’s studies to highlight the issues facing Indigenous women and girls in their communities and also focused on the role of human rights, restorative justice and education.

Find more information on each of the honourees.

Tickets for the May 10 dinner are priced at $75 each and available by contacting Mary-Ann Rennie by April 25 at mrennie@uwindsor.ca or 519-973-7059.

A fruitful collaboration with an old friend and colleague has led to an award-winning book and a chance for history professor Steven Palmer to host his co-author, a world leader in the history of science and medicine, during the Knowledge Networks and Health Innovation in the North and South Americas conference this week in Detroit.

Dr. Palmer and Marcos Cueto, a senior fellow at Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), recently received the book prize from the Health, Science and Technology section of the Latin American Studies Association for their book, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America.

The prize comes just as Palmer is set to host the Canada Research Chair capstone conference, which received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections grant of $25,000. The conference is an international joint colloquium, co-sponsored by the University of Windsor and the University of Michigan’s Brazil Initiative and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. It will take place this Wednesday and Thursday, April 13 and 14, at the University of Michigan’s Detroit Conference Center.

“Among the nicest things about this book, aside from getting to work with a world leader in the history of science and medicine like Cueto, is that I have known him since we were both doctoral students at Columbia University,” Palmer says. “He was a few years ahead of me in the program then, has been a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and it’s a thrill and an honour to win the prize with him, and also to host him here next week for a major talk on global health.”

The book award committee calls the pair’s book a remarkable contribution to its field of study, providing the first comprehensive historical survey of medicine and public health in Latin America from the pre-Columbian era to the present.

Dr. Cueto will give the keynote address, “Lost in Translation? Brazil, AIDS, Anti-retrovirals, the World Health Organization and Global Health, 1996-2005,” at 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, April 13.

Besides Palmer, UWindsor presenters include professors Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Stephen Pender and Jennifer Willet, and history students Salma Abumeeiz, Kyle Lariviere, and Kayla Dettinger. Find a full program on the conference website.

The Windsor Law Faculty Group of Five is more than two-thirds of the way to meeting its minimum requirement of $30,000 to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. A wine and cheese reception Monday, April 18, is the next stop on the fundraising trail.

It runs 5 to 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Canterbury College building at 2500 University Avenue West.

Admission to the event is free; donations will be solicited at the entrance.

RSVP to Cristina Corio by April 14 at Cristina.Corio@uwindsor.ca.

Learn more about University of Windsor efforts to sponsor a Syrian refugee family.

Food services outlets will alter their hours of operation this week, approaching the end of the semester.

April 11 to 15:

• Crocodile Grill, Vanier Hall, breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to noon and dinner from 7 to 11 p.m.
• Bru, Alumni Hall, 5 to 11 p.m.

• Marketplace, CAW Student Centre, 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Tim Hortons kiosk, CAW Student Centre, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Brown Gold Café, Leddy Library, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Dividends, Odette Building, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Tim Hortons, Centre for Engineering Innovation, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Toldo Health Education Centre, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

April 16 and 17:

• Crocodile Grill, Vanier Hall, breakfast from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 11 p.m.
• Bru, Alumni Hall, 5 to 11 p.m.
• Marketplace, CAW Student Centre, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Brown Gold Café, Leddy Library, noon to 9 p.m.
• the Tim Hortons kiosk, Dividends, and outlets in the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Toldo Health Education Centre, are all closed

Find the up-to-date schedule on the Food Services website.

Exam time is a great time to pick up a relaxing hobby like colouring, says Martin Deck, marketing coordinator for the Campus Bookstore.

That’s why he is discounting all its colouring books 20 percent through April 17 as Books of the Week.

“Don’t let stress make you blue,” Deck says. “Pick up one of these books and you’ll be tickled pink—and your friends will be green with envy.”

The Campus Bookstore stocks titles on varied subjects ranging from cityscapes to gardens and animals. Deck praises their intricate designs, noting that they aren’t kid stuff. He invites patrons to stop by the store on the lower level of the CAW Student Centre to check out the selection.