Like a taut spring, master’s student Baraka Gitari hops around his supervisor’s plant agriculture lab to show off the components of his nanoscience project. Here’s an incubator for growing bacteria. Here’s an autoclave for sterilizing growth medium. And here in the cooler is a bottle of Canadian maple syrup. Wait: maple syrup? That ingredient is […]
A cookbook born out of lessons learned from the Guelph Family Health Study (GFHS) at the University of Guelph will help busy families, say the study’s researchers. The GFHS is following families for 20 years to see whether lifestyle behaviours and strategies adopted early in life have long-term health benefits. The study’s researchers and students […]
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Insects love to mate, says University of Guelph professor Peter Krell. He will use that fact of bug life – along with new Genome Canada funding announced today – for studies intended ultimately to yield a pioneering “antenna in a box” for battling invasive insects that threaten to devastate parts of Canada’s multibillion-dollar forestry sector […]
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University community members are being invited to help in selecting the next University of Guelph chancellor. Community members may submit the names of individuals who fit the Senate’s chancellor profile by emailingchancellor@uoguelph.ca. Suggestions are welcome before Jan. 3. The chancellor profile can be found on the Secretariat’s website. The chancellor is the ceremonial head of […]
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Undergrad earns Best Demo award Madison McCarthy, a U of G undergrad engineering student, recently received international accolades for his work that prevents isolated wireless network failures and helps ensure crucial data can get where it needs to be. Together, McCarthy and engineering professor Petros Spachos received the IEEE Best Demo Award for their paper […]
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University of Guelph research puts a health lab right in your pocket Your smartphone can share photos with your friends, hail you a taxi, and reserve a table at your favourite restaurant. And one day, thanks to a partnership between the University of Guelph and Google, it could also save your life. The top drawer […]
First-year biology student Sara Kuwatly was profiled in the Globe and Mail Dec. 8 as part of a feature on the challenges of Syrian refugees who have recently moved to Canada. Kuwatly, who fled with her family from the war-torn region, discussed how she is adjusting to living in Guelph and away from her family, as well […]
A research program led by biomedical sciences professor Tami Martino, director of the U of G Centre for Cardiovascular Investigations, was featured Dec. 7 in Circulation, a top cardiovascular disease-prevention journal produced by the American Heart Association. Martino’s research into the best time to give a recovery drug to patients was discussed in the report, […]
The potential role of gut bacteria in autism was discussed by Prof. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Molecular and Cellular Biology, in an interview with Today’s Parent Dec. 6. Today, one in 68 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, compared to one in 150 in 2000, and Allen-Vercoe said the complex relationship we have with the gut ecosystem […]
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Prof. Karyn Freedman, Philosophy, wrote a column for the Huffington Post Dec. 6 looking at a recent letter by a group of Canadian authors defending a writer accused of several offences, including sexual misconduct and bullying. Freedman said the letter makes it more likely that marginalized voices will be sidelined forever. Her book One Hour […]
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A book by a University of Guelph history and European studies professor has made the “best books of the year” list published by a national British newspaper. The Guardian named Alan McDougall’s People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany among the best sport books of 2016. The book, published by Cambridge University Press, […]
His exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will end soon, but Walter Scott’s cartoon persona, Wendy, will live on along with other characters that the illustrator plans to explore during his master of fine art program at the University of Guelph. Wendy came to public life in 2014 as the eponymous heroine of […]
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Prof. Michael von Massow, Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, was interviewed by CTV News Channel and Global News Dec. 6. He discussed a recent report predicting higher food prices in 2017. Fruit and vegetable prices are the most likely to go up, as they are imported from other countries and the Canadian dollar is expected to […]
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What happens when you add up surgery on tiny birds, a cargo flight with odd luggage and miniature backpacks? If you are University of Guelph researchers, you find out birds may have less of a sense of direction than previously thought. U of G researchers packed birds onto a flight going from Toronto to Saskatoon, […]
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Prof. Ryan Norris, Integrative Biology, was featured on CBC Radio’s popular science show, Quirks & Quarks, Dec. 3 and interviewed for a Toronto Star story Dec. 5. He discussed his recent study of the navigational ability of birds and the potential effects of changing or disrupting their environment. Norris studies bird migration, animal behaviour and population […]
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Prof. Carla Rice, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, is featured in a Dec. 5 story in University Affairs on the role of art in advancing the rights of people with disablities. The article looks at her work with Ryerson’s Eliza Chandler. Rice and Chandler are co-directing Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to […]
U of G’s contribution to current and future Mars missions is highlighted in a Dec. 2 CBC news story. The article looks at how Canadian scientists and inventions have helped in understanding of Mars, and discusses the APXS device on the robotic Mars rovers. U of G physics professor Ralf Gellert led an international group of […]
The University of Guelph will receive $1.5 million through a new Canada Research Chair (CRC) and the renewal of two others. Kirsty Duncan, federal minister of science, made the announcement today in Toronto. In all, there are 203 new and renewed chairs at 48 institutions across Canada, an investment of $173 million. Guelph received a new […]
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For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Guelph community has raised more than $600,000 for the United Way. Giving by the U of G community has topped $620,000 this fall, and the University will continue to tally additional pledges, donations and proceeds through December. The announcement was made today at a volunteer luncheon by […]
One in five people who have HIV in Canada don’t know about their infection, and those who do may be reluctant to share their diagnoses because of the stigma that still exists. Sociology and anthropology professor Linda Hunter examined 25 years’ worth of HIV awareness posters aimed at women in a paper she co-authored with U […]
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