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Sherise McDowal

Students reap rewards of smoking cessation contest

It may have been scorching hot Wednesday afternoon, but it was much less smoky than usual, as the Leave the Pack Behind student health services group held its awards ceremony in the Thirsty Scholar.

With about 50 student participants on hand to watch, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman handed out awards to those winners who reduced or eliminated cigarettes from their lives.

CLEW contest winners enjoy free iPads

Leo Oriet, a faculty member in Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Ashley Chartier, a fourth-year student in Family & Social Relations and Psychology, each won an iPad from the University Bookstore for their participation in the campus-wide CLEW survey.

More than 1500 faculty, staff, and students participated in the study as part of an assessment of the University’s learning management system. Principal investigator Lorie Stolarchuk was overwhelmed with the number of responses received from the survey.