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CHANCELLOR
HONOURED
The Canadian Association
of Former Parliamentarians
bestowed its prestigious
lifetime achievement award
on UWindsor Chancellor
Ed Lumley on May 25 in
Toronto. He is only the
second former member of Parliament to receive the
honour.
Lumley BComm ’61, first appointed as Chancellor in
2006, was born and raised in Windsor. He had a distinguished
record of achievement as a private entrepreneur and mayor
of Cornwall, Ont., before serving 10 years as a Member of
Parliament. He held several senior Cabinet portfolios in the
Government of Canada.
He rejoined the private sector as chairman of The Noranda
Manufacturing group in 1986. Since 1991, Lumley has been
vice chairman of BMO Capital Markets and its predecessor
companies. Over the years, he has served on a number of
domestic and international corporate and advisory boards
and is currently a director of BCE Inc., Canadian National
Railway, and Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. He is also
involved in many non-profit organizations.
Norman Villegas BA ‘01 has served as a guide in
Canada’s Parliament and at Vimy Ridge, and
officially represented Canada as its first Youth
Observer at the 32nd UNESCO General Conference
in Paris. Today, he is the senior Parliamentary
Relations advisor at Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada. He credits it all to his time at UWindsor.
“The knowledge I gained while pursuing my
undergraduate degree in international relations has allowed
me to live incredible experiences,” he says.
Villegas shared his story on the University’s “Are You
Proud?” website.
NATIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
CONNECTS STUDENTS WITH
OPPORTUNITY
Five UWindsor students will become the first to
benefit from a recently launched national internship
program.
Connect Canada, a $5-million, five-year program, aims to
place 750 Master’s and PhD students with industry across the
country by 2016. The federally funded program will split the
cost of the students’ salary with the companies hiring them.
“We get to tap into the best and brightest, the youth of
Canada, to come work for us at our automotive research and
development centre, and that will hopefully help increase
our competitiveness,” said Chrysler Canada president Reid
Bigland at the program launch in April. The five UWindsor
students will be based at the UWindsor-Chrysler Canada
Automotive Research and Development Centre. Corporations
across Canada have pledged more than 500 other placements.
“The program brings a very talented, highly educated
person into an industrial setting at very low cost to industry,”
said Peter Frise, CEO of AUTO21, a network of Canadian
R&D centres. “We think it’s a tremendous way to have
students working on key industry problems.”
University of Windsor President Alan Wildeman added
that, “Ultimately, the University is in the business of
providing education and research that pushes at the frontiers,
and creating the most highly qualified people for our future.”
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