Canada’s next generation of leaders – in disciplines ranging from business and biology to fine art and food science – are preparing to cross the stage at the University of Guelph’s winter convocation.
Fully 700 students will graduate during two ceremonies Feb. 20.
Convocation will take place this year for the first time in the spacious Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre’s event centre.
Prof. Carol Dauda, Department of Political Science, will deliver the morning convocation address, and biomedical sciences professor Alastair Summerlee, U of G’s former and longest-serving president, will speak during the afternoon ceremony.
An innovative researcher, teacher and world-renowned humanitarian, Summerlee will be named University Professor Emeritus.
Prof. Janet Wood, a founding member of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology whose world-renowned research on regulation of cellular hydration has benefited food and industrial microbiology, agriculture and human health, will be named University Professor Emerita.
Thousands of family and friends are expected to attend the ceremonies from around the world.
Ceremonies are live broadcast and available on the convocation website.
Immediately following each ceremony, receptions for grads and family, friends, faculty and staff will be hosted by college deans in Rozanski Hall.
Full Schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 20
10 a.m.
- College of Arts
- College of Business and Economics
- College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
2 p.m.
- College of Biological Science
- College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
- Ontario Agricultural College
- Ontario Veterinary College