If you visited U of G’s homepage recently, you probably noticed a new look and feel. Launched June 22 following consultation with senior administrators and other stakeholders across campus, the existing homepage was updated to make it more user- and smartphone-friendly. Unlike the old homepage, the new page fits better on smartphone screens without pinching […]
U of G researchers are studying if niacin could help improve chemotherapy results […]
Gayle Ecker, director of Equine Guelph at the University of Guelph, has been awarded the 2015 Equine Industry Vision Award. The award, sponsored by Zoetis, recognizes innovation, leadership and service to the equine industry in North America. “This award represents an amazing achievement for my dedicated staff who stay focused on the Equine Guelph vision of developing […]
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Two executive staff appointments announced today are intended to improve the responsiveness and efficiency of the University of Guelph executive offices while building on the work of the University Secretariat. President Franco Vaccarino announced that Vicki Hodgkinson, currently university secretary, has been appointed special adviser to the president, and Kate Revington has been named university […]
Developed by U of G students, Sustain-a-Bin encourages food waste reduction […]
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Helping Canada’s food industry better compete in a global marketplace is the goal of the first University of Guelph Food and Agriculture Business Seminar. Food and agricultural business leaders, financial professionals, senior government policy-makers and leaders of non-governmental organizations will gather in Guelph June 21-23. The seminar is offered by the Food Institute of the University […]
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Prof. Julia Christensen Hughes, dean of the College of Business and Economics (CBE) at the University of Guelph, will speak in the United Nations General Assembly Hall June 25. She will take part in a session on corporate social responsibility and sustainability that will include officials from the United Nations and leading international companies. Christensen […]
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University of Guelph president Franco Vaccarino is one of two principal editors of a new national report on the effects of early and frequent marijuana use during adolescence. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) released the report today during a news conference in Toronto. Vaccarino, a professor in U of G’s Department of Psychology […]
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Prof. James Carl introduces students to Chinese art on the Shanghai Semester study abroad program […]
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The University of Guelph will host the 37th annual Guelph Sexuality Conference, Canada’s largest and longest-running sexual health forum, June 18 to 19. The event will bring together more than 200 researchers, health-care workers, therapists, students, social workers and other health professionals from across North America. Co-chairs Ruth Neustifter and Robin Milhausen, faculty members in […]
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In addition to their U of G duties, director of research communications Owen Roberts and researcher Adam Hammond are freelance travel writers […]
Pharmaceutical companies may be able to lessen their use of animals for drug testing if researchers adopt a new “micro model” developed by University of Guelph researchers. This new microfluidic model would rely more on lab tests than on animal tests, provide results more easily and quickly, and require only small amounts of drugs, said […]
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Short-story writer Nadine Sander-Green is the Canadian nominee for the PEN International New Voices Award, which showcases new writers and their work. The soon-to-be MFA student in creative writing at U of G (she starts in September) is among a group of international nominees from PEN centres around the world. A longlist of nominees will be […]
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U of G AVP and Bruce Trail Conservancy volunteer Rich Moccia is testing soy-based chainsaw oils for tree-cutting along the popular footpath […]
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The University of Guelph has appointed a new dean of the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). Prof. Jeff Wichtel of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), University of Prince Edward Island, will begin a five-year term Oct. 1. The announcement was made today by Prof. Serge Desmarais, interim provost and vice-president (academic), who chaired the search committee. […]
The University of Guelph will receive more than $10.6 million to support research ranging from improved farming and species identification to subatomic physics and biomaterials to recycling of e-waste and fighting cancer. The announcement was made on campus today by Liz Sandals, minister of education and MPP for Guelph. The funding for 16 projects comes […]
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Two University of Guelph professors were part of a groundbreaking study released today that found resistance training significantly reduces occurrences of sexual assault among university students. Psychology professors Ian Newby-Clark and Paula Barata worked with principal investigator Charlene Senn from the University of Windsor on the research, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The […]
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Guelph Community Veterinary Outreach clinics will continue in fall […]
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A University of Guelph PhD candidate has received a Trudeau Scholarship, the most prestigious doctoral award in Canada. Geography student Jennifer Jones is one of 16 scholars to win a $60,000 scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation this year. “I feel honoured and a little overwhelmed,” said Jones, who studies human health impacts of […]
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A team of U of G mechanical engineering students won the Scotiabank EcoLiving Student Leadership Award, worth $10,000, for developing the Flywheel Energy Storage System. The winning students are Cody Carey, Melissa Love, Thomas Marshall and Wesley Romak. “The Flywheel Energy Storage System takes electrical energy from the grid and puts it through the motor to […]