The Graduate Student Society will host a free public screening of the film Piled Higher and Deeper: the Movie, Thursday, November 17, at 8 p.m. in room 102, Toldo Health Education Centre.
The film is a live-action adaptation of the online PhD Comics by Jorge Cham. The strip explores the culture of academe through the stories of four graduate students struggling to find balance between research, teaching and their personal lives.
Watch the film’s trailer here:
Complications from the flu can be very serious, but help is on the way. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit will administer free immunization at a flu vaccine clinic Wednesday, November 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.
The university’s warehouse in the United States will close Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, to celebrate US Thanksgiving. Anyone expecting perishable shipments to come through the facility at that time should take measures to ensure they arrive no later than 10:30 a.m. on Monday, November 21, for delivery to campus before the weekend.
For more information, contact Evelyn St. Pierre at 519-253-3000, ext. 2083.
Who says hula hoops are a thing of the past? Not Kathy Bellamy, who runs Hoopnotica classes for Campus Recreation.
“Hoopnotica is a fun fitness alternative,” Bellamy says. “Hula hooping will strengthen and tone your abdominal muscles, strengthen and mobilize your lower back and hips. Because you are engaging and using so many different muscle groups at the same time you also have the benefit of burning far more calories than you would with just simple sit-ups or crunches.”
She says making it part of your fitness routine will also improve your posture, balance and agility.
Students, faculty and staff are reminded that the sixth annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence is scheduled for 4 p.m. today – Monday, November 14 – in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium.
The event, jointly hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Centre for Teaching and Learning, will highlight the achievements and initiatives of faculty who have received national, provincial, and campus-wide awards.
Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff gathered in front of Memorial Hall on Friday to pay tribute to Canadian soldiers who fought and fell in the cause of freedom.
The service included an address by UWindsor president Alan Wildeman, a reading of the poem In Flanders Fields, playing of The Last Post and Reveille, singing of O Canada, and concluded with the laying of a wreath below the commemorative plaque in Memorial Hall.
The University of Windsor community is invited to a special Remembrance Day ceremony outside the east entrance to Memorial Hall on Friday, November 11, at 10:45 a.m.
The Office of Human Resources has made a provision for non-essential university employees to attend the ceremony, which will last until approximately 11:15 a.m. In particular, anyone on campus who has served in the military is especially welcome to attend.
Membership has its privileges, and the University Club is offering a special promotion this month to UWindsor staff to encourage their membership.
Dues for the 2011-12 school year have been reduced from $40 to $30 for each employee who joins on a Friday in November: 11, 18 or 25. Every new member will receive that day’s lunch buffet – an $11.95 value – free.
Club members qualify for a number of benefits:
Putting history in perspective and expanding the base of knowledge regarding historical events is not only UWindsor archivist Brian Owen’s calling, it is his passion.
“What we initially may see as possibly a worthless, brown, aged document, may actually have very important value,” says Dr. Owens. “It can really transform the way we think about things. That is what I feel is the most important part of my job as an archivist – being able to take the historical record, interpret it and sew it into other things we already know to make it an exciting document.”
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to a recital of classical works featuring clarinetist Trevor Pittman, pianist Gregory Butler and violinist Lillian Scheirich, on Sunday, November 13, at 2:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel. Tickets are $15 general admission, available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music.
