By Samantha Brennan, Professor and Dean, College of Arts

A University of Guelph study is the first to uncover the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees’ ability to groom and rid themselves of deadly mites. The research comes as Health Canada places new limits on the use of three key neonicotinoids while it decides whether to impose a full phase-out of the chemicals. …

The increase in smart devices and digital networking has created opportunities for hackers to infiltrate our homes and disrupt our businesses and governments. With the demand for highly skilled cybersecurity experts growing every day, the University of Guelph will launch a new graduate degree in cybersecurity and threat intelligence to train the next generation on …

By Margot Irvine, Associate Professor, School of Languages and Literatures

Keep thawing and re-freezing an item from your freezer, and soon it won’t be worth eating. But if you’re a Canada jay, the consequences of freeze-thaw – more frequent and more unpredictable with climate change – on overwintering food stores may mean lower chances of breeding successfully the following year, according to a new study …

By Jess Haines, Associate Professor of Applied Nutrition

Ever stopped to wonder what those bumps on the back of a crocodile are made of? Or those plates of armour on an armadillo? Or the bumpy scales of a lizard? They’re called osteoderms, small pieces of bone that grow directly within the skin. While many lizard species have osteoderms, little is known about how …

By Sarah Rotz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University; and Prof Mervyn Horgan, Department of Sociology, University of Guelph and Visiting Fellow at Yale University

America will only become a fairer nation once its warring political factions gain a deeper understanding of each other’s concept of justice, says University of Guelph psychology professor Dan Meegan. Meegan discussed his new book with TVO’s The Agenda. He also appeared on a Cornell Press podcast. Human beings are hardwired to recognize and react …

If you accurately follow the food safety instructions in some of the new popular Canadian cookbooks, you could make yourself sick, according to a new University of Guelph study. Prof. Jeffrey Farber and his students analyzed the food safety instructions in 770 recipes involving meat or seafood from 19 popular Canadian cookbooks and found they …

Heart failure patients often have trouble with thinking and depression. A new study by University of Guelph researchers explains why and points to ways to prevent and treat both heart and brain maladies through the emerging field of circadian medicine. Published recently in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the study is the first to reveal how cognition …

By Prof. Jamie Gruman, Department of Management

Why do NBA players who aren’t living up to their high salaries manage to get so much time on the court? Perhaps their coaches have fallen victim to unconscious bias known as the “sunk-cost fallacy,” according to a new University of Guelph study. Published in the journal Empirical Economics, the study by two U of …

The University of Guelph has received a $21-million donation to boost the global reputation and impact of its business school. The gift – the largest-ever in University of Guelph history – is from longtime benefactors Stu and Kim Lang. In recognition, the College of Business and Economics has been renamed the Gordon S. Lang School …

A tapeworm that can infect dogs and humans and lead to potentially fatal illness is now widespread in southern Ontario, new work by Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) researchers at the University of Guelph has revealed. The researchers found the Echinococcus multilocularis tapeworm in nearly one in four coyotes and foxes they tested in southern Ontario, suggesting the potentially dangerous parasite is now well established …

They are the scavengers of the deep and the dead. Hagfish are slimy bottom-dwellers that live off the carcasses of dead sea creatures and thrive in deep waters where oxygen is hard to come by. In fact, their hearts can keep beating for 36 hours without oxygen, making hagfish a champion among anoxia-tolerant fish. A …

By Prof. Sonia B. Dhaliwal, Department of Management

By Amberley T. Ruetz, Geography PhD candidate and Arrell Food Scholar, and Prof. Sara F.L. Kirk, Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University

Warmer temperatures are having a ripple effect on food webs in Ontario lakes, according to a new University of Guelph study. Researchers have found warmer average temperatures over the past decade have forced fish to forage in deeper water. There they hunt different prey species, causing a climate-induced “rewiring” of food webs, altering the flow …

How climate change will affect public health, infrastructure, fish, wildlife and the economy around the Great Lakes is the focus of a new North American report released today. University of Guelph professor emeritus Robin Davidson-Arnott is one of a dozen leading scientists and experts from universities and research institutions in Canada and the U.S. Midwest …