The “Your Degree. Your Direction.” campaign aims to offer students a peek into the work lives of early- and mid-career alumni with evolving, interesting, and fulfilling careers.

A project of the Office of the Provost, it comprises poster installations across campus. They have recently been updated to showcase another group of grads.

While some subjects are superstars in their fields, all of them spend their days doing interesting work in thought-provoking and often unexpected ways. The project’s goal is to expose current students to a wide range of career stories, broadening the spectrum of professional futures to which they might aspire.

Among those featured on the new collection of 15 posters are:

• Kayla Dodson, a strength and conditioning coach for Canadian athletes;
• tech entrepreneur Emilie Cushman, helping world-class brands and influencers; and
• international human rights lawyer Michelle Oliel.

Visit uwindsor.ca/yourdirection to view the complete curated collection of alumni profiles.

“It’s been our distinct pleasure to reconnect with so many excellent young professionals, each of whom exemplifies the value of a University of Windsor education in their own unique and inspiring way,” said Jeff Berryman, associate vice-president, academic. “This collection of posters reinforces my firm belief that our graduates are ambitious, accomplished, and agile enough to create truly meaningful professional lives in Windsor, elsewhere in Canada, and around the world.”

If you know a University of Windsor graduate that belongs in this company, the Your Degree. Your Direction. team encourages you to get in touch. Connect with Academic Initiatives Officer Beverley Hamilton in the Office of the Provost at beverley@uwindsor.ca to recommend a candidate for a future feature.

The Crocodile Grill has big plans for Sunday’s big game. The food outlet on the ground floor of Vanier Hall has a special Super Bowl menu featuring lots of fan favourites, no matter which team diners cheer for:

• Grilled sausage on a bun with caramelized onion, garlic aioli, and fries for $10
• The Big City burger, a 6 oz. patty with pepper jack cheese, peameal bacon, special sauce, and fries for $13
• The 49er burger, a 6 oz. patty with pepper cream cheese, shaved pastrami, special sauce, and fries for $13
• Southern-fried chicken breast on a crispy waffle with maple syrup drizzle and watermelon garnish for $12
• Steak and cheese fajitas of grilled sirloin with marinated onions, peppers, and cheddar cheese in a soft shell with fries for $13
• A Superbowl combo platter of two potato skins with cheese and bacon, two baked taquitos, two jerk chicken drumsticks with dipping sauce, onion rings, and fries for $14
• Pulled barbecue pork on a kaiser roll with savory coleslaw and fries for $12
• Basket of onion rings for $4

All available from 7 to 11 p.m.

The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, this year featuring a contest between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2.

UWindsor music students will perform as soloists with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in concert Saturday, Feb. 1.

In a program that ranges from Mozart to Shostakovich, the Concerto Concert will feature clarinetist Tomi Xhelili in Carl Maria von Weber’s Concerto in E-flat major for Clarinet and Orchestra and marimbist Ethyn Janssen in Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints by Alan Hovhaness.

The show is set for Assumption Hall’s Heritage Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $20, with a student rate of $10. Find details, including musician profiles and link to online ticket purchase, on the event website.

The School of Creative Arts is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to its Concerto Concert, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Heritage Auditorium, Assumption Hall.

The program will feature music students Tomi Xhelili and Ethyn Janssen as soloists alongside the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.

To enter the contest, just send your answers to the following trivia questions. The winner, selected at random from all correct responses received by 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, will receive two tickets to the performance.

1. The orchestra’s assistant conductor will lead this concert. Who is it?
   a) Robert Franz
   b) Bruce Kotowich
   c) John Morris Russell
   d) Daniel Wiley
    
2. The program will feature which composer’s Spanish Dance?
   a) Alan Hovhaness
   b) Wolfgang Mozart
   c) Carl Maria von Weber
   d) Dmitri Shostakovich
    
3. A percussionist, Janssen studies with which UWindsor instructor?
   a) Philip Adamson
   b) Miles Finlayson
   c) Michael Karloff
   d) Nicholas Papador
    

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.

The first phase of the rollout of multi-factor authentication (MFA) starts today.

Faculty and staff members who set up their secondary authentication method prior to Jan. 14 will be the first group to have MFA enabled. To confirm implementation of MFA on their UWin Accounts, these 349 early MFA adopters received a notification email from Information Technology Services yesterday.

Other faculty, staff, and student UWin Account holders will be scheduled to have MFA enabled on their accounts during the next several weeks and will be notified by IT Services prior to implementation.

IT Services strongly recommends setting up your authentication options before MFA is enabled on your account. If you have not done so, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to myprofile.microsoft.com in a web browser and sign in with your UWinID@uwindsor.ca and UWin Account password.
2. In the Security info box, click the UPDATE INFO link.
3. Click the + Add method button to add an authentication method. Authentication methods include Phone – text or call and Microsoft Authenticator App – verification code or notification.

To learn more about MFA, visit www.uwindsor.ca/itservices/multifactor. You can also ask a question or open a UWin Account ticket.

—Ericka Greenham

Have a temporary partition you don’t need?

The renovations to Windsor Law will see its offices, faculty, and students, temporarily relocated to work spaces across the campus. They will require the use of free-standing partitions with legs, such as those shown in the photo above.

If departments have any partitions currently not in use that they are willing to part with, contact Procurement at 519-253-3000, ext. 2081, or email procurement@uwindsor.ca with “Partitions” in the subject line.

The Office of Open Learning has released its annual call for proposals for funding to support development of online, open, and hybrid courses and Open Educational Resources.

The Digital, Open, and Online Learning Grants provide faculty with support to explore educational technology projects in their courses or non-credit and continuing education environments. Projects may include a range of activities from piloting and implementing pedagogical innovations and technology in classes, to developing fully online courses.

The OER ACE (Adopt, Create, Extend) Grants support faculty in the adoption, creation, and adaptation of open educational resources (OERs) — free, openly licenced resources that can replace commercial texts with no-cost alternatives. Last year’s grants supported four projects developing and adapting open textbooks and one involving students creating Open Educational Resources for teachers.

“The cost of commercial publisher texts has increased far above inflation for decades now and we know it is a barrier to success for many students who cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars each year for their texts,” said Nick Baker, director of the Office of Open Learning. “By supporting faculty to adapt or create their own open textbooks, we can both improve outcomes for our students and help faculty reclaim their pedagogy from publishers.”

Faculty choosing open textbooks to replace their commercial ones have saved UWindsor students over $350,000 since 2017, and Baker says he hopes to see that figure grow significantly as more instructors move away from costly resources.

For the 2020 call, organizers particularly encourage projects that:

• support indigenization of the curriculum;
• address issues of reconciliation, diversity, equity, internationalization; or
• are targeted to support and improve outcomes for underserved or diverse groups;

as well as interdisciplinary or collaborative proposals.

Instructions for how to apply are available on the Open Learning website. Proposals are due Monday, Feb. 16, and can be emailed to higgison@uwindsor.ca with the subject line “Open Learning Grant 2020 proposal.” Successful proposals will be announced during Open Education Week (March 2 to 6).

The Office of Open Learning strongly encourages anyone thinking of applying to contact the office to discuss their ideas before submitting a proposal.

For more information about the Office of Open Learning’s support possibilities, or questions about the grants, contact Baker at 519-253-3000, ext. 4925, by email at nbaker@uwindsor.ca, or drop in to its new offices at 700 California Ave. in the former WEEDC space of the Centre for Engineering Innovation.

Air pollution is associated with at least 88,000 excess deaths per year in the United States, says Robert Brook.

Professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, he will discuss the risk of breathing in fine particulate matter in his free public presentation “Inhaling the Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome: Air Pollution and Health,” at noon Friday, Jan. 31, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.

Dr. Brook is the director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Michigan with clinical interests in resistant and secondary hypertension, complex lipid disorders, and cardiovascular disease prevention.

His current research involves testing practical personal-level strategies to help mitigate the adverse cardiometabolic health effects of air pollution, with ongoing studies in China, Canada, and the United States.

This lecture is part of the Faculty of Human Kinetics Distinguished Speakers’ Series.