Campus Police Services is encouraging members of the UWindsor community to register for its alert notification system in preparation for a test message this week.

In the event of an incident, UWindsor Alert sends information to registrants — by phone call, text, and email — providing students, staff, and faculty with an additional layer of security and protection in incident response.

“The system works best when everyone is signed up,” says Mike Mackinnon, director of Campus Community Police. “Events have demonstrated how vitally important it is for us to reach people wherever they are located.”

Noting the growing prevalence of cell phones, he urges subscribers to log in to add these devices to the registry: “It’s really the fastest way to communicate with people now.”

The UWindsor Alert system is accessible with a UWin ID and password at uwindsor.ca/alert.

Administrators will send a test message on Friday, June 21. Mackinnon says it will clearly indicate that there is not an actual emergency.

Two UWindsor masters students of engineering materials claimed prizes for their oral presentations at the 2019 Canadian Materials Science Conference, June 10 to 13 in Vancouver.

The conference is a forum for academics and professionals to discuss advancements in a wide range of areas of materials science, as evidenced by the UWindsor winners.

Alexandra Rose’s presentation “Analyzing the fracture behaviour of tool steels in various stress triaxialities,” under the supervision of professors Ahmet Alpas and Daniel Green, was judged best in the symposium dedicated to advanced characterization of materials.

Liza DiCecco won the best oral presentation award in the additive manufacturing symposium for her work “Fatigue Behaviour of Shot-Peened Additive Manufactured Ti-TiB,” supervised by professor Afsaneh Edrisy.

The scope of the conference includes aspects of the structure, processing, properties and performance as applied to structural materials, functional materials, electronic materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials, materials for energy, and others.

Students in professor Nicholas Papador’s “New Music Workshop” class will present an 80-minute sound collage featuring 16 works by composer John Cage in a free public performance Monday, June 17, at 3:30 p.m. in the SoCA Gallery.

It’s the final day in the six-week course, modelled after summer music festival residencies such as those housed at the Banff Centre. Dr. Papador’s students compose, analyze, and perform contemporary art music ranging from new tonality to avant-garde and experimental works.

“The members of the course completed analyses of more recent tonal works by Aaron Jay Kernis and Arvo Pärt, in an effort to express that new classical music does not necessarily fall into the stereotype of being dissonant and un-commercial,” says Papador. “Using a number of compositional techniques and aesthetic criteria, each student will create a short composition to conclude the semester.”

Cage’s music featured in Monday’s performance not only spans his entire career, but captures a wide palette of his musical languages and expressions.

The gallery is located in the SoCA Armouries, 37 University Ave. E.

A team of UWindsor students has reached the final round of the Erie Hack competition for pitching an innovative idea that could be worth $100,000 in cash and prizes.

Erie Hack was created by the Cleveland Water Alliance and the Creativity and Innovation Team at NASA Glenn Research Center to address such problems such the growth of harmful algal blooms, the lack of useful data collection, and aging water infrastructures.

Teams from Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Erie, Toledo, and Windsor are all in the finals for the chance to have their ideas be applied to these issues.

The competition in Cleveland on Thursday, June 20, focuses on collaborative solutions for the pressing problems in Lake Erie, and UWindsor students have created a cost-effective and technology-driven idea.

The UWindsor team is pitching its idea to use drones to monitor the lake’s hazardous algal blooms. These engineering and law students proposed combine unmanned aerial vehicles with advanced imaging hardware and hydrodynamic modeling. The resulting high-resolution images, more frequent sampling, and flexible data collection are all cost-effective, enabling policy makers, public stakeholders, and other research groups to make decisions about Lake Erie.

Registration for Erie Hack is available now and includes a full day of pitches that will feature the UWindsor students and their idea to address Lake Erie’s pressing water issues.

—Dana Roe

Nursing student Felicia Varacalli won the DailyNews Father’s Day quiz and its prize package of a folding lawn chair, insulated cooler bag, polarized sunglasses, water bottle, inflatable beach ball, flying disk, and rubber stress ball — all bearing the alumni association logo.

Her entry was drawn from all those which correctly identified Robin Williams as the actor who played Mrs. Doubtfire, Dan Castellaneta as the voice behind Homer Simpson, and Arthur Weasley as Ron’s dad.

A UWindsor alumnus had a once-in-a-lifetime experience Wednesday, hoisting the Stanley Cup after the St. Louis Blues won its first-ever National Hockey League championship.

Michael Murphy (BHK 1991) has been the team’s chiropractor since 1996 and shared its victory over the Boston Bruins. The Blues had been the oldest NHL team never to have won the cup.

Murphy is also an alumni speaker, sharing his achievements and career-related journey with students in the Faculty of Human Kinetics — this moment will probably feature in his future speeches!

—Dana Roe

June training sessions in UWinsite Finance will be held on June 18 (Expenses) and June 19 (Self Service Procurement). Join Finance experts as they go through everything you need to know and get the opportunity to ask in person any questions you may have.

To register, visit the training website; if you can’t make it to this month’s sessions, be sure to check out online resources available to help. To get assistance with any difficulties or answers to any questions, submit a ticket for team support.