A professor in rural planning since 1992, Wayne Caldwell has been appointed for a five-year term as director of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), one of six academic units in the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC). Caldwell’s term begins Aug. 8. His expertise includes the future of rural communities, and he has […]
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Mary MacLeod, interim manager of advancement research, received the Professional of the Year Award from the international organization APRA, the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, on July 28. The award recognizes a professional who has made a significant impact on his or her organization’s fundraising success by going above and beyond the scope of […]
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Early philosophers mastered the art of insulting colleagues […]
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History becomes personal for great-granddaughter of Canadian veteran […]
APXS operations centre to open on campus this fall […]
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A team of University of Guelph undergraduate students has won third place in a national competition for food development. The students, Adi Berk, Hannah Rotstein and Hilary Watt, developed Dip n’ Go, a combination of crisp beans, peas and chickpeas and three different dips made from beans, lentils or peas. Previously, the team won the […]
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Grad student’s research to help local hospitals tackle C. difficile and MRSA […]
U of G engineers use hydrocarbon degraders to clean contaminated soil […]
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A U of G economics professor has won the 2011 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists. Miana Plesca received the honour this week. Named for renowned economist and Nobel laureate Kenneth J. Arrow, the prize is awarded by Berkeley Electronic Press annually and recognizes outstanding contributions in the field. Plesca received the award for […]
State-of-the-art facility celebrates first anniversary […]
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FeelingBetterNow® (FBN), an online mental health program that provides anonymity to the user, has yielded encouraging results on campus, according to the first semi-annual report on FBN by Student Health Services. Since the two- year trial of FBN launched in September 2010, there have been 1,298 visits to the website; 478 students completed the program […]
Researchers, Inuit community collaborate on digital storytelling project […]
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