Prof. Jamie Gruman appeared in a Dec. 12 Huffington Post article about how to survive spending the holidays with difficult relatives. A professor in the Department of Management, Gruman has previously written about this topic in The Conversation. He discussed tactics for dealing with difficult people, including recognizing the source of annoying behaviour and establishing boundaries. Gruman […]
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Environmental sciences professor Mike Dixon, director of U of G’s Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility, lent his expertise to a recent CBC News story. The article discussed growing food using technology developed at U of G and how the technology can eliminate toxins such as E. coli. Dixon is a world expert in growing plants […]
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Prof. Jamie Gruman’s students helped raise $1,300 for the Guelph Food Bank as part of their coursework in Gruman’s managerial and leadership class. The GuelphMercuryTribune.com published a story about Gruman’s class on Dec. 10. The third-year students developed fundraising ideas for the food bank in order to expand their practical leadership skills. Each semester, Gruman’s students […]
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Update: John F. Wood died on Dec. 25, 2018. Family and community remember him for his giving and caring nature. Among his last known philanthropic activities was this donation to U to of G’s College of Business and Economics. The University of Guelph’s Centre for Business and Student Enterprise has received a groundbreaking, $7-million gift from […]
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U of G Prof. Art Schaafsma discusses an outbreak of vomitoxin in a recent TVO news report. The plant toxin, which causes vomiting, has been widespread in southwestern Ontario cornfields this fall, impacting the bottom-line of hundreds of farmers. Schaafsma, a plant agriculture professor at the University’s Ridgetown Campus, said farmers with highly contaminated crops […]
Pesticide regulations designed to protect honeybees fail to account for potential health threats posed by agrochemicals to the full diversity of bee species that are even more important pollinators of food crops and other plants, say three new international papers co-authored by University of Guelph biologists. As the global human population grows, and as pollinators […]
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U of G’s Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC) was featured in a November Science article about new research in composite materials. Included in the article was a paper about composites from renewable and sustainable resources written by U of G professors Amar Mohanty, Department of Plant Agriculture, and Manjusri Misra, Department of Engineering, along with colleagues […]
U of G Prof. Tim Dewhirst’s op-ed on the marketing factors that could influence Canada’s recreational marijuana market appeared in the Toronto Star this week. Dewhirst writes about the relentless flurry of media reports and commentaries that have swirled around the issue since the Government of Canada announced the timeline for legalizing cannabis. He sees […]
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Prof. Myrna Dawson is featured in a Dec. 6 FLARE magazine article highlighting Canadians who are fighting gender-based violence. The article explains how Dawson, director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence at U of G, has been documenting femicide in Ontario for the past 25 years. It also talked […]
Jane Ngobia, the University of Guelph’s assistant vice-president (diversity and human rights), has been named as a special adviser to the president at Sheridan College. Her last day at U of G is Dec. 19. Calling the appointment a great opportunity for Ngobia and a gain for Sheridan, U of G president Franco Vaccarino said: […]
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Victor Gulewitsch, a U of G sessional lecturer in anthropology, has been awarded the prestigious Margaret Mead Global Citizenship Award by the Center for a Public Anthropology. Named after one of the 20th century’s leading anthropologists, the award recognizes Gulewitsch’s efforts to bring greater public awareness to anthropological issues and for his exemplary participation in […]
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Have your voice heard in U of G’s Diversity Matters survey. At the University of Guelph, diversity, equity and inclusion matter. They are core values at U of G and are fundamental to who we are and what we do. To help us create a better understanding of employment diversity at U of G, all […]
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Prof. Youbin Zheng talked to the Toronto Star on Dec. 6 about Canada’s first legal open-air cannabis crop. Zheng, a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, talked about the benefits of growing cannabis crops indoors versus outdoors. His research includes medical cannabis production and growing plants in controlled environment systems. […]
More than half of Canadians killed through domestic violence in recent years were Indigenous, immigrants or refugees, lived in rural, remote or northern areas, or were children, according to a first-ever report led by a U of G researcher. The inaugural report titled One Is Too Many: Trends and Patterns in Domestic Homicides in Canada […]
Has a faculty advisor, program counsellor or academic advising staff member made an important contribution to your academic success as an undergrad? Consider nominating that person for an Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising Medallion. The annual award was created to recognize the work advisers do and the importance of academic advising to an undergraduate’s career. […]
Marking World Soil Day, the University of Guelph announced today a $500,000 donation for soil health outreach in Ontario. The joint donation was made by Lillie Ann Morris, who has worked for more than four decades in agricultural advertising sales; Glacier FarmMedia, the agricultural division of information communications company Glacier Media Inc. based in Vancouver; […]
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In partnership with the University of Guelph, the ArtsEverywhere Festival invites students to apply for the ArtsEverywhere Emerging Scholars program. This initiative offers 20 graduate and undergraduate students a complimentary festival pass, a festival mentor, access to receptions with festival speakers, an intimate two-hour conversation with presenters and organizers, and an opportunity to publish festival insights at […]
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Prof. Dave Guyadeen did a series of CBC Radio interviews across Canada on Dec. 4, talking about a new study he co-authored on climate change and municipal planning. The study, “Evaluating the Quality of Municipal Climate Change Plans in Canada,” looked at plans for 63 of the country’s most populous communities and found that most lacked concrete […]
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The average Canadian family can expect to spend $411 more on food in 2019, bringing their total yearly grocery bill to $12,157 thanks to more expensive fruit and vegetables, according to Canada’s Food Price Report. The story made national headlines appearing in The Globe and Mail, CBC’s The National, the National Post, the Toronto Star, […]