By Catherine Carstairs, Kathryn Harvey, Keshia Krucker, Kesia Kvill and Melissa Ann McAfee

The recent Toronto van attack brings the total number of women killed in Canada this year to at least 57, according to a new report led by a University of Guelph professor. “This equals one femicide victim every other day in this country,” said Prof. Myrna Dawson. Dawson talked about the report on May 1 …

Imagine a star so dense that it contained all the mass of our sun squeezed into a ball the size of Guelph. Then imagine a second super-dense star no farther than Toronto from the first one. Now set the two stars whizzing around each other about one-third as fast as the speed of light. Detecting …

By Rozita Dara

University of Guelph mathematics student Michael Griffiths is showing he has the right formula to excite the sophisticated taste buds of judges on the popular CTV television series MasterChef Canada. Chosen from hundreds of cooks from across the country, the applied mathematics and statistics graduate student recently advanced to the show’s top 10. MasterChef Canada …

By Michael von Massow and Alfons Weersink

It’s not only the baldness prevention and freckle remover formulas that are making copies of The Canadian Receipt Book fly off the shelves. The new volume, a facsimile of a very old, rare book discovered in the University of Guelph Library archives, also includes curatives for pig leprosy and inflammation of the haw, and more pudding …

By Thanasis Stengos

Instead of waking up before dawn to milk cows manually, many dairy farmers now use robots to milk — and those robots do more than just milk cows. They can also provide valuable information about the animals’ overall health. University of Guelph researchers tracked data captured by robotic milking systems to monitor cattle health, and found indicators …

By Michael von Massow

By Lisa Kowalchuk

Vaginal hygiene products have been used by 95 per cent of Canadian women, but they likely do more harm than good, according to a University of Guelph study. The first-ever study revealed that women who use these products are three times more likely to experience some type of vaginal infection. In some cases, women may …

Much like the gender pay gap in employment, there’s a gender play gap in sport. A University of Guelph professor is helping women overcome this gap with a new book aimed at empowering mid-life women to reach their full athletic potential. In the book Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey, authors Samantha Brennan and …

By Candace Johnson

Racehorses need their breath to run their best. But inflammatory airway disease (IAD) can rob them of their stamina. New research in the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) at the University of Guelph shows the disease is much more common than previously thought. “We looked microscopically at the lung tissue of horses that died during or …

By Sky Gilbert

Esther the Wonder Pig, the real-life star of a new hit children’s book and one of the most beloved and famous pigs on Earth, is making a very large contribution to the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). The porcine celebrity, and the two men who rescued her as a tiny piglet, are the benefactors behind …

Research shows that fathers play an important role in their children’s eating and physical activity habits, but a new study has found that dads are rarely included in family-based interventions designed to prevent childhood obesity. University of Guelph Prof. Jess Haines and her colleagues at Harvard Chan School of Public Health examined scientific studies worldwide …