Partnering with a new provider will enable UWindsor food services to better reflect the many cultures represented on campus, says Ryan Kenney, the University’s associate vice-president, operations.

With significant experience managing large-scale food operations in the education sector, Sodexo has a proven track record of developing and enhancing the food and catering experience for campuses.

“Through this partnership, we plan to broaden and diversify food-service options,” Kenney says. “We are driven by the goal of enhancing the student experience and look forward to the offering of flexible meal plan options and a wide cultural variety of food choices.”

Sodexo is committed to:

• fostering a culture that supports equity, diversity, and inclusion;
• environmental sustainability in its food practices; and
• cultivating a culture of respect, wellness, professional development, and growth.

In January, the campus saw the re-opening of the café in the Odette Building, which will be re-branded as a Tim Hortons outlet in the coming weeks, along with the launch of the Origins café in the Toldo Health Education Centre. All other existing outlets on campus will continue to operate throughout 2023 with users able to purchase items using their existing UwinCARDs.

Students, faculty, and staff may also notice catering, signage, and food offering upgrades across campus, along with other service-related enhancements. Visit the food services website to stay up to date on all food and catering news.

A ceremony Friday, Feb. 17, will celebrate the opening of a display commemorating the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The Leddy Library is hosting the exhibit in collaboration with Windsor’s Polish community as Canada’s national inauguration of the Copernicus Jubilee (550). Friday’s launch reception will begin at 1:30 p.m. The display will be available for public viewing from 3:30 p.m. Feb. 17 to 6 p.m. Feb. 18.

Copernicus, a Polish polymath of the Renaissance, made significant contributions to astronomy and mathematics that are still applied today. His revolutionary vision of science and theory of the sun’s placement at the centre of our solar system changed human understanding of the universe.

“Nicolaus Copernicus is perhaps the most famous Polish scientist of all time,” said Jerry Barycki, president of the Polish-Canadian Business and Professional Association of Windsor and lead in working with Leddy Library from the Polonia community in Windsor. “His work was revolutionary in astronomy 500 years ago and much of what followed in astronomical physics was built on his scientific discoveries.”

Witold Dzielski, ambassador of the Republic of Poland, will join the celebration at Leddy Library along with Janusz Tomczak, president of the Canadian Polish Congress; Dominik Roszak, vice-chair of the World Polonia Council; and other dignitaries.

“The Leddy Library and the Polonia community have collaborated to present dozens of exhibits over the years,” says Pascal Calarco, Polonia liaison librarian. “These events compliment the comprehensive Polonia Collection available at Leddy Library that has been generously supported by the Polonia community.”

After leaving Windsor, the Copernicus display will travel to several Canadian cities including Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa and will be presented to the Polish Senate in Warsaw later this year.

Learn more on the Leddy Library website.

—Marcie Demmans

The Department of Human Resources invites the campus community to the annual Employee Recognition Awards ceremony March 7 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Alumni Auditorium, CAW Student Centre.

These awards reinforce the importance of service, innovation, teamwork, leadership, engagement, and celebrate the outstanding contributions of individuals and teams to the University of Windsor.

At this event, Employee Recognition Awards will be presented to the following individuals and teams:

Impact Award – Community Engagement

• Chad Sutherland, applied learning co-ordinator, Department of Kinesiology

Impact Award – Innovation

• Katie Chauvin, mental health and wellness co-ordinator, Student Health, Counselling, & Wellness Services

Inclusive Excellence Award

• Tranum Kaur, learning specialist, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Leadership Award

• Mohsan Beg, executive director, Student Health, Counselling and Wellness Services
• Ziad Kobti, professor, School of Computer Science
• Calvin Love, electronics technologist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Ryan Kenney, associate vice-president, operations, Office of the Vice-President, Finance and Operations, and Marcin Pulcer, interim executive director, Information Technology Services

Service Excellence Award – All Service Interactions

• Sherri Dutot, secretary to the head, Department of Psychology
• Alyssa Frazao, research associate, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Department of Integrative Biology
• Shafqat Hanif, technical support specialist, Law Library
• Payroll Team, Jessica Higgins, payroll manager, and payroll administrators Kellie Hansaruk, Christine Boakes, and Carmen Olteanu

Service Excellence Award – Student Services

• Ashley Quinton, digital communications developer, Office of Enrolment Management – Recruitment
• Melissa Robinet, MAC program secretary, School of Computer Science
• Niel Van Engelen, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Lancer Recreation Student Staff (list of team members can be found on the Employee Recognition Awards website)

Wellness Champion Award

• Giovanna Abraham, office co-ordinator, Office of Associate Vice-President, Operations
• Krista Loughead, sessional instructor, Department of Kinesiology
• Hoda Skaff, administrative assistant, reception and employer support, Career Development and Experiential Learning

RSVP by Monday, Feb. 27, online at www.uwindsor.ca/humanresources/rsvp or by e-mail to oligat@uwindsor.ca.

The athletics department has a limited number of T-shirts left from the annual Lancer Breast Cancer Awareness Day and is offering them for sale to supporters.

With a message of “Tougher than cancer; stronger together,” the shirts are available in sizes ranging from youth medium to adult extra-large.

The $15 sale prize will support breast cancer research. To make a purchase, contact Elisa Mitton at emitton@uwindsor.ca.

Author Wayde Compton will follow a free public reading from his work with a lecture on the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 16.

Compton is chair of the creative writing program at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C. In 2006 he co-founded Commodore Books, western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press.

Compton has written five books, including the short story collection The Outer Harbour, which won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and his latest, The Blue Road, a fantasy graphic novel for young adults. He is currently working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as a surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century.

Thursday’s reading will begin at 1 p.m. followed at 2 p.m. by a talk. Attendance is welcome in person in room 359, Dillon Hall, or online in Microsoft Teams.

These events are part of the series “Engaging the Social: Literary Events & Readings” sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and by the Office of the Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Knowledge of significant dates in Black history earned political science student Pranjal Reen a victory in Monday’s DailyNews quiz and its prize of a poster by artist Robert Small (BA 1993).

Reen’s entry was drawn from all those which correctly identified 1804 as the year of Haitian independence, 1919 as the founding of a Windsor chapter of the NAACP, and 1965 as the closing of Ontario’s last segregated school.

Watch DailyNews through February for more chances to win.

Awards of up to $5,000 are available to UWindsor faculty and librarians through the University Diversity, Indigeneity, and Anti-Racism Professional Development Funds.

Applications for the March 2023 disbursement are due by March 15. Find more information, including the application form, on the Office of the Vice-President, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion website.