The University of Guelph will mark Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence with events including a memorial gathering and the launch of a new research “observatory” on femicide. A memorial gathering to be held Wednesday in the Thornbrough Building atrium will honour the 14 female engineering students who were killed at l’École […]
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Microbiologist Jason Tetro, a visiting scientist at the University of Guelph, is featured in a Dec. 4 NBC News.com story about the science of cleaning. Tetro is the author of two books, The Germ Files and The Germ Code, and is known as “the germ guy.” In the article, Tetro, a U of G graduate, discusses […]
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A University of Guelph graduate is one of two women appointed to the Canadian Senate Monday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Mary Coyle will sit as an independent senator for Nova Scotia. She completed a BA in languages and literature and a master’s degree in rural planning and development at U of G. Coyle is […]
Listening to familiar music offers therapeutic benefits for people with dementia, but operating devices that play music can be challenging for them. Enter University of Guelph student and computer programming whiz Frazer Seymour. The 21-year-old helped create a device that makes accessing songs more manageable for people with memory loss. “Independent access to music for […]
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The University of Guelph has surpassed its 2017 United Way campaign goal by $12,000, raising $632,000. This is the sixth consecutive year that the U of G community has raised more than $600,000 for the United Way. The announcement was made today by U of G president Franco Vaccarino during a celebration with campaign volunteers. […]
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We did it! Thanks to the outstanding generosity of the University community, we surpassed our 2017 goal and raised an incredible $632,000 for Wellington Dufferin Guelph United Way! President Franco Vaccarino was on hand when the 2017 United Way campaign total was announced at an event celebrating this year’s campaign volunteers. “Our annual United Way […]
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University of Guelph innovation that helped create the world’s first compostable coffee pods will be featured on Discovery Canada Dec. 4. The pods – known as Club Coffee’s PurPod100™ — will be profiled in an episode of Made by Destruction airing Monday at 8:30 p.m. on the cable and satellite specialty channel. The program shows how everything from obsolete […]
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A University of Guelph professor has been invited to recommend how the federal government can help the Canadian agricultural sector better adjust to effects of climate change, and better address water and soil conservation. Naresh Thevathasan will address the standing committee on agriculture and agri-food Dec. 7 at 3:30 p.m. He will discuss the role […]
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An opinion piece co-written by U of G Prof. Faisal Moola and environmental activist and scientist David Suzuki was published Nov. 29 in the Toronto Star. In the article, Moola and Suzuki discuss the creation of a $85-million government trust to clean up industrial mercury contamination that has been poisoning people in the Grassy Narrows […]
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Prof. Emma Allen-Vercoe is featured in The New York Times discussing new research about a certain bacterium in colon tumours. Fusobacteria nucleatum has been found in up to half of all colon tumours. Although it is unknown whether this bacteria helps cause or spur on cancer growth, a new study revealed that the antibiotic that squelches this organism also […]
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We get by with some help from our (little) friends. While you’re studying on campus for exams, keep an eye out for a troupe of pint-sized well-wishers. Groups of children from U of G’s Child Care and Learning Centre – the on-campus daycare – are visiting study spots on campus to hand out “cards of […]
Could a traveling orange couch be your next business adviser? Drop by the Thornbrough Building today from noon to 4 p.m. to find out. The Centre for Business and Student Enterprise (CBaSE) is spreading the word that business knowledge is relevant – and valuable – to all students. As part of its new CBaSE Couch […]
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The best place to find a fallen meteorite on Earth is in a land of permanent ice and snow. Dark rock from Mars and elsewhere in space stands out on the blinding white surface of Antarctica. That is why physicist Scott VanBommel, a University of Guelph post-doctoral researcher, will head to the southernmost continent as […]
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Why do men kill women? Tracking cases of femicide to understand its causes and consequences is the goal of a new University of Guelph project that will be the first of its kind in Canada. Although local agencies and organizations have long monitored these crimes, Canada has lacked a system for monitoring femicide rates and […]
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Profs. Ryan Norris and Andrew McAdam, Department of Integrative Biology, will be featured on the popular CBC program The Nature of Things Sunday, Nov. 26, at 8 p.m. The two participated in a documentary hosted by David Suzuki that explores the secret lives of trees and creatures in the boreal forest. “What Trees Talk About” looks at how […]
Prof. Evan Fraser, director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, is featured in a new video released today by CBC for its “Canada Is…” series that is part of Canada 150. Fraser discusses why “Farming is Canada” in the animated video, which was produced for CBC by The Thought Café. Other […]
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An article co-authored by U of G geography professor Noella Gray was published in the Los Angeles Times Nov. 23. The article discusses the importance of ensuring that large ocean parks benefit people as well as sea life, based on a recent study by Gray and her collaborators intended to inform sound conservation policies. The study looked […]
Prof. Mike von Massow discusses online grocery services in the Globe and Mail, CTV, BNN and the Ottawa Business Journal. Metro Inc. is looking to expand its online grocery offerings to Ontario next year. The move followed an announcement last week by Loblaw Cos. Ltd. launching home delivery in Toronto and Vancouver. The professor in the Department […]