By Prof. Evan Fraser

More than half of Canadians killed through domestic violence in recent years were Indigenous, immigrants or refugees, lived in rural, remote or northern areas, or were children, according to a first-ever report led by a U of G researcher. The inaugural report titled One Is Too Many: Trends and Patterns in Domestic Homicides in Canada …

Marking World Soil Day, the University of Guelph announced today a $500,000 donation for soil health outreach in Ontario. The joint donation was made by Lillie Ann Morris, who has worked for more than four decades in agricultural advertising sales; Glacier FarmMedia, the agricultural division of information communications company Glacier Media Inc. based in Vancouver; …

The average Canadian family can expect to spend $411 more on food in 2019, bringing their total yearly grocery bill to $12,157 thanks to more expensive fruit and vegetables, according to Canada’s Food Price Report. The story made national headlines appearing in The Globe and Mail, CBC’s The National, the National Post, the Toronto Star, …

When a deadly assault on young women unfolded 29 years ago at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Karina McInnis was an engineering student in a lecture hall at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. She was terrified. “I remember thinking that if someone came in behind us with a machine gun, we would all be stuck in …

The University of Guelph’s expertise in pharmaceutical plant production is expected to grow thanks to a new $1-million research chair sponsored by PhytoGro Canada, which plans to make and market plant-based medicines. The PhytoGro Chair in Medicinal Phyto Substances will support development of new medicines from plants, including those made from cannabis. These products are …

A University of Guelph plant scientist has been given the green light by Health Canada to grow cannabis on campus. Under the licence granted to cultivate cannabis in his lab, Prof. Max Jones plans to study everything from cannabis genes to optimal growing conditions to help bring scientific rigour to Canada’s newly legal industry. This …

By Philip A Loring and Ratana Chuenpagdee

By Abdul-Rahim Abdulai

By Julia Christensen Hughes

By Jamie Gruman

A new U of G study has revealed teenagers and young adults who sit down for family dinners – regardless of how well the family unit manages daily routines, communicates and connects emotionally – are more likely to have healthier eating habits than if they graze or fend for themselves at suppertime. “Gathering around the …

By Helen Hambly and Jamie Lee, University of Guelph

By Norm O’Reilly and David J Finch

By Erin Siracusa

The busier the neighbourhood, the bigger the brain — at least for pumpkinseed sunfish, according to a pioneering study by University of Guelph biologists. Brains of sunfish living in more complex shoreline habitats are larger than those of their counterparts in simpler open water, according to the study published recently in Proceedings of the Royal …

The University of Guelph’s sustainable commerce MBA program has been recognized as one of the best in the world. In a new ranking released this week, U of G places ninth globally among graduate business programs with a sustainability focus. The 16th annual Better World MBA Rankings by the Toronto-based Corporate Knights — a media, …

A few months ago, the academic career of Evren Altinkas was in tatters. Forced to resign from the university where he taught in his native Turkey and blacklisted because of his political views from teaching in any state-run university in the country, he believed that his lifelong dream of being a professor was lost. Thanks …

By Sarah Rotz, Rod Macrae, and Ralph C. Martin