Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be a do-gooder, according to a new University of Guelph study. Highly cooperative and generous people can attract hatred and social punishment, especially in competitive circumstances, the research found. The study got picked up by Yahoo News, Bustle, the Times of India and Vice. “Most of the time we like the […]
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Prof. Alan Ker was interviewed for a July 17 Christian Science Monitor story about how slumping milk prices in the U.S. are forcing many American dairy farmers to rethink their business model or get out of dairy farming altogether. The article said milk prices have dropped because of overproduction worldwide. Many U.S. dairy farmers are […]
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Prof. Glenn Hanna was interviewed by Global News Radio 900 CHML on July 16 for a story about the death of NHL player Ray Emery and how police investigators approach similar cases. Assistant program head of justice studies at the University of Guelph-Humber, Hanna told Global News that when investigators are called to a scene, they […]
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Positive messaging through social media could be a powerful tool to help people overcome non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), according to a new U of G study. “Self-injury, including cutting and burning, is a serious public health concern around the world,” said Prof. Stephen Lewis, psychology professor and lead author of the study. The study got picked […]
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Hear voices from the past come alive this summer on U of G’s CFRU 93.3 FM. Students from Prof. Catharine Wilson’s graduate rural history class share half-hour episodes that pull from fascinating Canadian diaries. Each of the six shows features a nineteenth-century diarist from the Rural Diary Archive website. As a United Empire Loyalist, Hannah Peters Jarvis […]
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The August issue of Scientific American hit newsstands today and features an interview with U of G’s Prof. Ryan Norris talking about a new study on the impact of traffic on caterpillars. The University of Georgia found that caterpillar hearts beat 17 per cent faster when exposed to traffic noise for two hours than those of […]
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The University of Guelph community is mourning the death of professor emeritus Denis Lynn, who died June 26. Lynn worked as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia at the time of his death. Community members in the Department of Integrative Biology are creating an academic award in Lynn’s honour. The Lynn Medal […]
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U of G Prof. Michael von Massow appeared in July 16 stories talking about how to look for and buy Canadian products at the grocery store. The story follows the #BuyCanadian movement and many consumers who have vowed to buy only made-in-Canada products after the federal government put tariffs on dozens of U.S. goods as […]
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Prof. Susan Nance was interviewed for a July 13 Boston Globe article about why history is always about humans and has until recently excluded animals. A professor in the Department of History at U of G, Nance studies and writes about celebrity animals in circuses, zoos and rodeos. She’s part of a growing wave of historians who […]
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Artisanal ice creams offer fancy flavours, such as golden milk or coconut charcoal, but they can also come with a fancy price, and some consumers wonder why a single cone might cost more than an entire tub of a conventional store-bought brand. U of G’s resident ice cream expert, Prof. Douglas Goff, has spent a […]
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A rash of wildfires burning in northern Ontario, B.C. and California has spurred national news stories on the topic. U of G Prof. Merritt Turetsky says although forest fires have been a natural part of history, today the fires are burning longer and more intensively due to climate change. Wildfires are one of the clearest […]
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Prof. Wayne Caldwell, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, appeared in a series of CBC Radio interviews at stations across the country on July 12 discussing the future of rural communities in Canada. The interviews were based on the CBC series Transformation, which explores how small towns are trying to thrive and survive in changing times. While some […]
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Researcher Elizabeth Franklin appeared in a Popular Science article on July 12 about the impact of pesticides on bees’ learning and memory. The article focused on a new study that pooled evidence from 23 studies of honeybees and bumblebees. The article said levels of pesticides currently considered safe to use may still affect bee colony […]
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Prof. Katrina Merkies was interviewed for a July 11 Gizmodo article about a new study from the University of Rennes in France that found horses make a certain snorting sound when they’re happy. A professor and ethologist in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the Ontario Agricultural College, Merkies said owners who recognize this particular […]
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New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change and its impact on forests in Canada and abroad. It’s long been thought that climate change is enabling treelines to march farther uphill and northward. But it turns out that climate warming-induced advances may be halted by unsuitable soils. […]
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In an unprecedented move, Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, is opening its data vault to the academic research community – and a University of Guelph professor and social media expert is helping to lead the project. Political scientist Tamara A. Small, an expert in digital technology and its influence on the electoral process, […]
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In a continued effort to draw attention to femicide in this country, the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability has publicly disclosed a list of the names of Canadian victims. The national observatory listed the names of 78 femicide victims who were killed from January to June 2018. Tracking cases of femicide to understand […]
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U of G professor Rebecca Shapiro was featured in Nature on July 9 recounting her story of how she built a microbiology lab from scratch — on a budget. A professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Shapiro said she began by applying for grants, sourcing equipment on online auction sites and using […]
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Prof. Maya Goldenberg talked to the Globe and Mail for an article examining the ethics of health-care data sharing and our privacy. The article, written by Catherine Stinson, a senior policy associate at the Mowat Centre, looked at why it’s so important for our health-care data to remain secure, and talked about future data storage, sharing and […]
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