Visiting faculty, researchers, alumni and campus partners can now securely connect to the University’s wireless network via a new web-based portal created by Computing and Communication Services (CCS). The U of G Guest Access Server provides visitors with limited access to the University’s network. Departments, units and organizations that have an ongoing need to grant […]

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What if Sky Gilbert wrote The Drawer Boy? That’s the question asked in publicity releases about U of G drama professor Sky Gilbert’s new play, Reconciliation, which opens April 15 at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. And the play itself is the answer. “It’s about the country versus city dichotomy and the […]

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Two Gryphon athletes ran for Canada at the 17th annual World University Cross Country Championships this past weekend in Kingston, Ont. It was the first time the event had been held outside of Europe or Africa; about 30 countries participated. Lindsay Carson, a third-year biological engineering student at U of G, placed 11th overall, the […]

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Members of the University of Guelph community are invited to dispose of obsolete electronics and ink cartridges during the week-long collection April 12 to 16. Computer equipment, televisions, microwaves, speakers, cameras, cell phones and ink cartridges from your home, lab or office can be dropped off free at disposal containers located in Peter Clark Hall, […]

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U of G’s Department of Athletics raised more than $15,700 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Guelph during its annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake event. Student athletes presented the agency with a check at the annual intercollegiate athletic banquet April 8. […]

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Track-and-field and cross-country runners Rachel Cliff and Kyle Boorsma were selected as U of G’s Athletes of the Year for 2009-2010. They were among the student athletes who were honoured April 8 at the Guelph Gryphons awards banquet held at the W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre. Cliff, a fourth-year biomedical toxicology student, helped lead her cross-country […]

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The University’s Department of Athletics has announced Stuart Lang as U of G’s new head football coach. Lang takes over the program from Kyle Walters, who stepped down in February to become special teams co-ordinator with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. This past season, Lang served as the receivers coach with […]

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Gary Ablett, the former director of U of G’s Ridgetown Campus and a U of G graduate, died April 4 at the age of 58. He was a soybean researcher and professor who had taught at Ridgetown since 1979. He also served as acting chair of the Department of Plant Agriculture on the Guelph campus […]

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The Gryphon Dome will be closed April 9 to 26 for final exams. […]

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Campus flags will be at half-mast Thursday to mark the memorial service for Wendy Dempsey, a U of G employee for 38 years, who died April 2. She was an undergraduate preparation room technician in the Department of Chemistry. She is survived by a sister, Nancy; and brothers, Jim and Bob. A tree will be […]

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