It’s a match made in radio heaven — digital journalism students provide high-quality content while gaining broadcasting experience. Campus community radio station CJAMfm will honour the volunteers who produce the 30 News — Radio Edition during its annual awards ceremony.

The weekly news program airs on 99.1FM Fridays at noon. Its contributors have been named the station’s volunteers of the year, with special recognition for host Ashley Quinton, who conceived the show and launched it as her fourth-year capstone project.

Now a master’s student of communication and social justice, she says she uses skills learned in the digital journalism program during every live broadcast.

“It’s a thrilling and new experience each week as I work alongside the 30 News reporters to gather guests to speak about relevant and important issues to the campus and the broader community,” Quinton says. “It’s all about seeking out the information students need and want to hear.”

Blake Roberts, chair of the digital journalism program, says that radio remains a viable medium for providing news and information.

“An interesting fact about radio is that compared to newspapers and television, radio has lost less audience share to online formats,” he says. “Having the 30 News — Radio Edition on CJAM thus gives our digital journalism students yet another venue for them to learn their craft and tell their stories to the broader community.”

Station manager Brady Holek says CJAM is a natural home for the show.

“There is something to be said for the experience of going live to air, interviewing guests and operating the boards all at once,” he says. “We are proud to provide opportunities like this to the professional students from digital journalism.”

He notes the volunteer award will be presented alongside a host of others voted by listeners, during the Jammy Awards celebration Friday, April 7.

“The Jammy Awards highlight the hard work that volunteers put in all year long,” Holek says. “These volunteers come in weekly to create programming that is not offered anywhere else on the dial and that dedication and hard work deserves to be celebrated.”

The free public event is set for Villains Beastro, 256 Pelissier Street. Doors open at 8 p.m. with the awards at 9 p.m. and a performance at 11 p.m. by Teenage Geese, a self-described “flock and roll band.”

The nominees for Lancer athlete of the year were so competitive, starring in just a single sport wasn’t enough.

Dual-sport standouts Corey Bellemore and Krystin Lawrence claimed the Olympic and Banner shields as athletes of the year at the Lancer Evening of Excellence banquet Wednesday.

It was the second straight year Bellemore, a competitor in cross country and track, won the honour. He took gold at the Ontario University Athletics cross country championship, and finished in the top 10 at nationals to earn all-Canadian status. On the inside track, Bellemore brought home three medals at each of the provincial and national meets.

Lawrence plays varsity soccer and hockey. Tending goal for Lancer soccer, she recorded shutouts in half her starts, earning an OUA first-team all-star berth. On the ice, Lawrence netted 32 points for her second-straight OUA scoring title, was named provincial hockey player of the year and an all-Canadian.

Her leadership on the pitch helped Lancer women’s soccer to its best finish in more than 10 years and an appearance in the OUA final four. Head coach Steve Hart received the Gino Fracas Coach of the Year Award at Wednesday’s banquet.

Basketball players Emily Prevost and Mike Rocca and distance runner Nick MacMackin received DeMarco Awards, presented annually to the top female and male students that best combine academic achievement with athletic prowess.

Find a full list of honorees at goLancers.ca.

The School of Creative Arts is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to the concert of their choice this weekend, either the jazz or wind ensemble.

The University Jazz Ensemble Cabaret promises a formal performance followed by live dance music starting at 8 p.m. Friday, April 7, at the Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Avenue.

The University Wind Ensemble Spring Concert will feature a program of music drawn from the last century at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 9, at the Capitol Theatre, 121 University Avenue West.

Tickets for either concert are $15, with a student rate of $5. Purchase them at the box office in room 115, Music Building; by phone at 519-253-3000 ext. 4212; or online.

To enter the contest, just send your answers to the following three questions about instruments that will be featured in both ensembles. The winner will be selected at random from all correct responses received by 3 p.m. Thursday, April 6.

1. What is the purpose of a trumpet’s spit valve?

a) to release moisture from the tube
b) to raise the pitch by one octave
c) to produce a muted effect
d) to create a second harmonic tone
e) to allow lubrication of the keys
 

2. The alto and baritone saxophones are pitched in the key of E-flat. In which key is the tenor saxophone pitched?

a) A-sharp
b) B-flat
c) C
d) D-sharp
e) E-flat
 

3. Which element of the drum kit is strung with a rattle of metal wires?

a) bass drum
b) hi-hat cymbal
c) snare drum
d) tom drum
e) wood block

Contest is open to all readers of the DailyNews. Send an e-mail with your responses to uofwnews@uwindsor.ca. One entry per contestant, please. Note: the decision of the judge in determining the most correct response is inviolable.

Student recitals in the Music Building today — Thursday, April 6 — offer a jazz/pop sensibility.

The Guitar Ensemble recital will bring guitarists Logan Fletcher, Alessandro Rotondi, and Parker Schaefer together with bassist Michael Molnar and percussionist Nicholas Baddeley for a program that ranges from Count Basie to Sergio Mendes. It gets underway at 5 p.m.

The Jazz Combo recital will see multiple small groups tackle repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein to John Mayer, by way of Stevie Wonder. It starts at 7 p.m.

Both events are set in room 126, Music Building, and free and open to the public. Find more info on the School of Creative Arts website.

Monika Monika paints a good egg.

Her design, depicting a tropical scene and titled “Life on Earth,” took top honours in the Campus Bookstore’s egg decorating contest Tuesday. A master’s student of applied computing, she received a $100 UWindsor gift card.

“An egg is full of life, so I just wanted to show that,” she said.

Bookstore marketing co-ordinator Martin Deck said it was difficult to pick just one winner.

“We had so many good entries,” he said. “There’s a lot of talent on this campus!”

The activity was intended to take students’ minds off the pressures of schoolwork, Deck said: “We just thought it would be a de-stressor as they prepare for final exams.”

Participation exceeded his expectations, as did the gusto with which students threw themselves into the task.

“We want to thank all the students who coloured eggs for our contest,” said Deck. “We appreciate your enthusiasm!”

Runners-up Amandeep Kaur and Kitu Turcas each received a $25 gift card.

The science behind ballistics and blood spatter are among the topics of interest at the fourth annual Trends in Forensic Sciences Conference scheduled for Friday.

The conference will give students and visitors a chance to hear from such forensics experts as Francisco J. Diaz, assistant medical examiner for Wayne County, and Vincent Power, deputy chief of operations for Windsor Police Services.

Participants will also take part in a mock crime scene investigation and workshops in such areas as trace evidence, forensic photography, and latent fingerprint analysis.

For a full schedule of the day’s activities, visit the conference website: www.uwindsor.ca/tifs.

The Leddy Library will host an event Friday morning to launch an exhibition recognizing Canada’s 150th birthday and the contributions of Poles to its development.

The exhibit, a collaborative effort with the Polish-Canadian Business and Professional Association of Windsor, explores three themes:

• contributions of Poles to Canada,
• contributions of Poles to the world, and
• why Poles are grateful to Canada.

Friday’s launch is free and open to the public. It begins at 9 a.m. on the library’s first floor with a reception to follow in its fourth-floor lounge.

Biology professor Dora Cavallo-Medved was honoured to receive the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance (UWSA) Excellence in Teaching Award and says working with students is a bonus in a job she already loves.

“To know that this award is coming from the students is phenomenal, and it gives me the incentive to keep doing what I’m doing,” says Dr. Cavallo-Medved. “I love working with these students and I enjoy seeing them succeed, so this is the icing on the cake.”

Third-year biology student Youshaa El-Abed says he nominated Cavallo-Medved because she contributes so much to the lives of the students with her continuous effort to engage students both in and out of the classroom.

“Dr. Cavallo-Medved has been a great role model and has inspired so many students, including myself, to go on to do great things in life,” says El-Abed. “She has the unique talent of seeing the potential in everyone and encouraging them to be engaged in their education and to flourish.”

Cavallo-Medved says she values her relationship with her students and uses undergraduate research grants to involve students directly in curriculum development.

“By creating a strong student-faculty partnership, the student becomes part of the academic process,” she says. “Helping to design labs and educational tools, they become contributors to our programs, and get to leave a legacy.”

Seven students took home UWSA awards:

• The Ron Ianni Student of the Year Award, Victoria Pedri
• The “Gold W” Award of Excellence, Youshaa El-Abed
• First-year Student Award, Amanda Skocic
• UWSA Volunteer of the Year, Edward Tang
• Certificate of Distinction, Ghadeer AlGhosein
• Global Village Award, Marissa Bumanlag
• Dr. Dale Woodyard Student Volunteer, Amber Shaheen

The awards were presented at the UWSA gala on March 30.

A free public lecture Friday will consider factors that shape perceptions of persuasiveness of accounting numbers.

Leona Wiegmann will present “Exploring the construction of persuasiveness of forecast numbers – A temporal work perspective on forecast meetings,” April 7 at 1:30 p.m. in room 321, Odette Building.

Dr. Wiegmann is a professor of accounting at a private business school in Germany who is spending April in Windsor as a visiting scholar at the Odette School of Business. Her research interests focus especially on organizational change in the area of management accounting and control, in particular on management accounting and control systems as well as roles and practices of management accountants.

“Our study demonstrates that actors in face-to-face meetings negotiate about coherence, plausibility and acceptability,” she says.

Wiegmann is an assistant professor at the Institute of Management Accounting and Control at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Rheinland-Pfalz. WHU is the abbreviation of Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung, or “academic institution of higher education for corporate management.”

A team representing the University of Windsor in a charity run this weekend seeks students, staff, and faculty who want to join the cause.

The “Run for Rocky” raises funds for Gay-Straight Alliances in local high schools and programming of the Windsor Pride Community, Resource and Education Centre. The event commemorates Rockwell Campana, who died in August 2012 at 23 years of age.

At 11 a.m. Sunday, April 9, participants will gather in Dieppe Park, including political science student Amanda Emery and her colleagues from the Office of Human Rights, Equity and Accessibility.

“We encourage people to walk, run, or roll in this event — either individually or as part of our University of Windsor team,” she says. “Anyone who can’t attend can participate through a financial donation.”

Learn more about the Run for Rocky on the event website. Donate to the OHREA team on its pledge page.