Friends and colleagues are invited to join in celebration of the life of Virginia Gray, former director of the U of G Office of Open Learning, who died May 17, 2010. The celebration will take place Nov. 21 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Cutten Club, 190 College Ave. E. Mrs. Gray worked at […]

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Eleven undergraduate students have been selected to represent U of G at the 2011 Agri-Marketing Conference in Kansas City. They are one of two Canadian teams who will be at the April competition. The team members were chosen “for their passion for agriculture and interest in marketing and communications,” says Elizabeth Schouten, student chapter president. […]

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Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced a new Ontario Trillium Scholarship for international students. He made the announcement Thursday at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the final stops of his trade mission to China. The new scholarship will provide 75 of the best students from around the globe with $40,000 each […]

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Sociology professor Kerry Preibisch has been named a 2010 recipient of the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award. She was honoured Nov. 3 during a special dinner in Toronto. The award was created 11 years ago by the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, one of Canada’s oldest unions to recognize people who are working […]

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Like it? Then Tweet it! Animal lovers are invited to help the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) Pet Trust Fund fight cancer in pets by supporting a social media campaign launched this month by a Canadian pet insurance provider. PetSecure Pet Insurance kicked off its 2010 “FURther the Fight” campaign to mark Pet Cancer Awareness Month […]

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Two U of G athletes have been honoured with Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) player of the year awards. They were announced Wednesday night during the All-Canadian Banquet at the Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel and Convention Centre. Brienne Stairs, a fourth-year student and forward for the Gryphon’s women’s field hockey team, received the award for the […]

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Eight characters can be pretty limiting when it’s the allotted length of an email address. Starting Oct. 28, though, U of G staff and faculty can break free of the eight-character restraints by creating new email aliases for themselves. Systems analyst Brent Harp says people have been requesting this change for years, but it was […]

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Hospitality and Tourism Management professor Marion Joppe presented a paper on Oct. 21 to the tourism committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The committee was meeting at the organization’s conference in Jerusalem, an event hosted by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and Local Development. Joppe’s paper […]

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Prof. Jack Trevors, School of Environmental Sciences, has been appointed chair of the environmental microbiology certification committee of the Canadian College of Microbiologists (CCM). He is currently leading a working group to establish the certification requirements and develop the national examination for the CCM environmental microbiology certification. Trevors recently completed a three-year term as chair of […]

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I would like to thank the dedicated blood donors and volunteers of Guelph who have attended and volunteered at local clinics so far this year. The need for blood is always ongoing. Two years ago, when I was 17, I was rushed to hospital for a major gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Before the ordeal was over, I […]

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