By Kathryn Walton, Registered Dietitian, Research Fellow, University of Guelph and Angela Wallace, Registered Dietitian and Project Coordinator, University of Guelph […]
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Prof. Dave Guyadeen’s study evaluating the climate change plans of 63 Canadian municipalities was featured by TVO. Published recently in the journal Climatic Change, the study assessed plans based on eight criteria, including how a community sets its climate goals, how effective those goals are, and how it measures and achieves progress. The article discusses how Kingston, Ont., […]
Building “machines with morals” and addressing the ethics of artificial intelligence are among the goals of a new research and teaching centre announced today at the University of Guelph. “AI has the potential to do harm and the potential to improve life,” said Prof. Graham Taylor, the academic director of U of G’s new Centre […]
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If you want to park on campus in the morning, the snowplows need to do their work at night. As of Dec. 1, overnight parking is allowed only in the following residence lots: P13 P17 P18 P19 (with the exception of the signed area in the southwest corner) In all other lots, vehicles must be […]
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Prof. Jamie Gruman appeared in a Dec. 12 Huffington Post article about how to survive spending the holidays with difficult relatives. A professor in the Department of Management, Gruman has previously written about this topic in The Conversation. He discussed tactics for dealing with difficult people, including recognizing the source of annoying behaviour and establishing boundaries. Gruman […]
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Environmental sciences professor Mike Dixon, director of U of G’s Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility, lent his expertise to a recent CBC News story. The article discussed growing food using technology developed at U of G and how the technology can eliminate toxins such as E. coli. Dixon is a world expert in growing plants […]
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Prof. Jamie Gruman’s students helped raise $1,300 for the Guelph Food Bank as part of their coursework in Gruman’s managerial and leadership class. The GuelphMercuryTribune.com published a story about Gruman’s class on Dec. 10. The third-year students developed fundraising ideas for the food bank in order to expand their practical leadership skills. Each semester, Gruman’s students […]
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Update: John F. Wood died on Dec. 25, 2018. Family and community remember him for his giving and caring nature. Among his last known philanthropic activities was this donation to U to of G’s College of Business and Economics. The University of Guelph’s Centre for Business and Student Enterprise has received a groundbreaking, $7-million gift from […]
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U of G Prof. Art Schaafsma discusses an outbreak of vomitoxin in a recent TVO news report. The plant toxin, which causes vomiting, has been widespread in southwestern Ontario cornfields this fall, impacting the bottom-line of hundreds of farmers. Schaafsma, a plant agriculture professor at the University’s Ridgetown Campus, said farmers with highly contaminated crops […]
Pesticide regulations designed to protect honeybees fail to account for potential health threats posed by agrochemicals to the full diversity of bee species that are even more important pollinators of food crops and other plants, say three new international papers co-authored by University of Guelph biologists. As the global human population grows, and as pollinators […]
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U of G’s Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC) was featured in a November Science article about new research in composite materials. Included in the article was a paper about composites from renewable and sustainable resources written by U of G professors Amar Mohanty, Department of Plant Agriculture, and Manjusri Misra, Department of Engineering, along with colleagues […]
U of G Prof. Tim Dewhirst’s op-ed on the marketing factors that could influence Canada’s recreational marijuana market appeared in the Toronto Star this week. Dewhirst writes about the relentless flurry of media reports and commentaries that have swirled around the issue since the Government of Canada announced the timeline for legalizing cannabis. He sees […]
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By Prof. Evan Fraser […]
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Prof. Myrna Dawson is featured in a Dec. 6 FLARE magazine article highlighting Canadians who are fighting gender-based violence. The article explains how Dawson, director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence at U of G, has been documenting femicide in Ontario for the past 25 years. It also talked […]
Jane Ngobia, the University of Guelph’s assistant vice-president (diversity and human rights), has been named as a special adviser to the president at Sheridan College. Her last day at U of G is Dec. 19. Calling the appointment a great opportunity for Ngobia and a gain for Sheridan, U of G president Franco Vaccarino said: […]
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Victor Gulewitsch, a U of G sessional lecturer in anthropology, has been awarded the prestigious Margaret Mead Global Citizenship Award by the Center for a Public Anthropology. Named after one of the 20th century’s leading anthropologists, the award recognizes Gulewitsch’s efforts to bring greater public awareness to anthropological issues and for his exemplary participation in […]
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Have your voice heard in U of G’s Diversity Matters survey. At the University of Guelph, diversity, equity and inclusion matter. They are core values at U of G and are fundamental to who we are and what we do. To help us create a better understanding of employment diversity at U of G, all […]
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Prof. Youbin Zheng talked to the Toronto Star on Dec. 6 about Canada’s first legal open-air cannabis crop. Zheng, a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, talked about the benefits of growing cannabis crops indoors versus outdoors. His research includes medical cannabis production and growing plants in controlled environment systems. […]
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 […]
Has a faculty advisor, program counsellor or academic advising staff member made an important contribution to your academic success as an undergrad? Consider nominating that person for an Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising Medallion. The annual award was created to recognize the work advisers do and the importance of academic advising to an undergraduate’s career. […]