A growing number of University of Guelph students are broadening their academic horizons with international learning experience, according to the Centre for International Programs (CIP), which offers field trips, exchanges and semesters abroad. Between 10 and 12 per cent of students travel abroad during their undergraduate career; CIP aims to increase that participation rate over […]

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History professor Kevin James is returning to the small screen, this time in the United Kingdom. James took part in a television series on Scotland and tourism that is set to air on the BBC Oct. 6. “I was interviewed in a horse-drawn carriage talking about Sir Walter Scott and tourism,” says James, a specialist […]

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Prof. Peter Pauls has been appointed for a five-year term as chair of the Department of Plant Agriculture. His role will involve enhancing the department’s academic programs and focusing on external relations and excellence in research. Pauls has been a U of G faculty member since 1983; he served as acting associate dean (academic) of […]

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The 2010 Harshman Lecture featuring Carolyn Webster-Stratton that had been scheduled for Oct. 13 at the Cutten Club has been cancelled. […]

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Retired professor George Bedell, founding chair of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM), died Sept. 2 in Rockport, Maine. Born in Connecticut in 1919, he was educated in the United States and served in the armed forces before coming to Guelph in 1969 to establish the School of Hotel and Food Administration (now […]

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Prof. David Kribs assumed a three-year appointment as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on Sept. 1, 2010. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1994 and graduate degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1996 and 2000. Before joining U of G in 2003, Kribs […]

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Food science professor Keith Warriner will receive $95,000 in funding over two years from the UC Davis Center for Produce Safety to study the microbial quality of water used to wash produce. The center is based at the University of California, Davis, and aimed at providing the produce industry and government with information to enhance […]

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Members of the University of Guelph, As you may have already heard, several instances of hateful graffiti appeared on the sides of campus buildings here at the University of Guelph during early September. Shortly after one incident, president Alastair Summerlee asked students to come together to condemn these acts of hate and intolerance. We, the […]

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Maureen Sabia, chair of the board for Canadian Tire Corporation and a former member of the University of Guelph’s Board of Governors, spoke Sept. 23 at the Women of Influence luncheon series in Toronto. In addition to chairing the board of a major Canadian corporation, a responsibility held by less than five women, she has […]

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Prof. Andrea Buchholz, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, has received a teaching award from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). She is one of five recipients this year; the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the quality of higher education in Ontario. Buchholz, who joined U of G in 2004, has related […]

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The College of Arts will host the European Identities Conference: Europe in its own Eyes/Europe in the Eyes of the Other in the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre from Oct. 1 to 3. Featuring speakers from North America, Europe and Asia, the conference will explore a wide variety of issues, such as the influence of fashion, […]

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