![the College is endorsing the global "30 Seconds to Celebrate Love and Gender Diversity" initiative on May 17th – the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/diversity.jpg?h=1ef15d44&itok=rRw5wwMD)
President's message: 30 Seconds to Celebrate Love and Gender Diversity
There's an old saying that suggests that it takes only one facial muscle to smile but dozens to frown.
I'm not sure if that's true, but the sentiment behind it certainly is. It is much, much easier – and healthier, and more human and humane – to be happily accepting of others than it is to expend the needless stress and illogical anger associated with being intolerant of them.
![St. Clair College’s brick and stone apprenticeship program is building more than structures, it is building futures.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/Masonx.png?h=8abcec71&itok=b52EmV1o)
Building futures one stone at a time
St. Clair College’s brick and stone apprenticeship program is building more than structures, it is building futures.
Graduating apprentice Vince Zongaro is celebrating his certification as a Red Seal Mason after recently graduating from St. Clair College.
Obit: Charles Jackson was a trailblazer
Charles (Charlie) Jackson, who became head of the Western Ontario Institute of Technology (which was the predecessor to St. Clair College), died at his retirement home in London on May 7. He was 100.
![Nearly 82 per cent of St. Clair College graduates were employed within six months of receiving their diploma in 2018-2019, according to the most recent Key Performance Indicators released today by Colleges Ontario.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/stclairfountain.jpg?h=7685ba0d&itok=DLc5Ziot)
Grads find jobs, survey says
Nearly 82 per cent of St. Clair College graduates were employed within six months of receiving their diploma in 2018-2019, according to the most recent Key Performance Indicators released today by Colleges Ontario.
![St. Clair College’s culinary program is losing a teacher who is being described as the embodiment of what it means to be a chef.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/chefpierre.png?h=44cbddd8&itok=GKmVpMKD)
'He lives and breathes and always thinks about food'
St. Clair College’s culinary program is losing a teacher who is being described as the embodiment of what it means to be a chef.
Chef Pierre Dubrulle is preparing to retire from his position as an instructor in the cooking apprenticeship program at St. Clair College.
![The Windsor-Detroit Traffic Forecaster is a free-to-use web application that uses data gathered from the City of Windsor’s own records to predict the amount of traffic in the Windsor-Detroit border crossing. It uses artificial intelligence to help gauge these amounts.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/Traffic%20Forecaster_1.png?h=e0f426ba&itok=dlrdifBM)
Student project predicts traffic before it happens
St. Clair College students have created a system to predict local traffic.
![Data analytics helps individuals and organizations make sense of data, solves problems, and improves processes, systems and outcomes.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/JohnU.jpg?h=adf2c4e1&itok=0LJKVsDg)
Ask the expert: John Ulakovich on data analytics
COVID-19 has brought attention to the need for quick access to data and data analytics. What exactly is Data Analytics?
Data analytics helps individuals and organizations make sense of data, solves problems, and improves processes, systems and outcomes. For these reasons, data analytics can be interesting, exciting, challenging and rewarding!
![At WE-SPARK Health Institute, communicating health research, what researchers do and why it’s important is critical to helping translating knowledge and findings into action.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/M%20Pidgeon.png?h=e7416337&itok=iHNvgAF2)
Communicating health research takes a team
A third-year graphic design student helped create messaging for WE-SPARK Health Institute that will be used by the organization to spread the word about research that's being done in Windsor-Essex.
![A pair of St. Clair College students have created an app to assist people in taking their medication.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_images_taxonomy/public/articles/2021-05/Medifyx.png?h=4af22eae&itok=jAEMVBSk)
Students develop app to improve health
A pair of St. Clair College students have created an app to assist people in taking their medication.
The application, named Medify, allows users to add their medications with the date and time they are to be taken in a calendar format. The app also features an option for caregivers to view what medications the user is taking and what medications have been taken on any given day.
Capstone project helps visually impaired individuals see with sound
Graduating Biomedical Engineering Technology students have created a device which detects objects in the immediate walking path of a visually impaired person.
The customizable and wearable harness consists of a clip-on ultrasonic sensor which sounds an alert when the person wearing it is approaching a mass. It was designed to take the place of a white cane or walking stick.