Undergraduate students have until Feb. 14 to nominate a faculty advisor, program counsellor, or academic advising staff in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate academic advising. The annual award was created to recognize the work advisers do and the importance of academic advising to an undergraduate’s career. Nominations are evaluated on the evidence of […]

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Master’s students Jessica Kelly and Johanna Wilkes, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE), won top honours in the research poster competition at the annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference in Ottawa  Jan. 29 to 31. The conference theme was “Policies and Regulations for a Thriving Canadian Agri-Food System.” Kelly received first prize for her […]

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U of G welcomed an East African delegation to campus Jan. 31. The high commissioners and ministers from Uganda and Kenya met with faculty and researchers and toured campus research facilities. Their visit was part of Guelph East Africa (GEA), an ongoing initiative that includes establishing an institute in Tanzania to help solve regional problems. […]

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Food Science professor Alejandro Marangoni has won the prestigious Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Research Award from the American Oil Chemists’Society (AOCS). The award, which includes a $10,000 prize, honours substantial contributions to basic lipid science over a lifetime of research. It’s considered the most prestigious in the field of lipids; three Nobel laureates are among its recipients. […]

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The majority of Ontarians rank universities highly for their contributions to society in the form of research, science and health care, according to a recent survey by the Council of Ontario Universities. Universities scored highly for how they benefit the province; 88 per cent of Ontarians ranked universities’ contributions as important, just behind hospitals at 92 per cent, and elementary […]

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Prof. Gerald Adams, retired from the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition (FRAN), died Jan. 22 in Guelph. A renowned expert on personal identity and adolescent development, he held degrees from Midland Lutheran College in his hometown of Fremont, Neb., the University of Nebraska and Pennsylvania State University. He was a psychology program chair […]

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From the faculty member who takes extra time to help a student to the undergrads who create a non-profit organization to benefit others, the University of Guelph is filled with caring and passionate individuals. To honour those who contribute to our local, national and international communities, the University presents nine awards overseen by Student Life. […]

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Things we ingest to alter our minds – purposely or not – are the topic of a new book by food science professor Massimo Marcone. The Psychopharmacology of Legal Psychoactive Foods is published under the custom publication program of Nelson Education Ltd. Marcone uses the text in “Principles of Food Science,” a second-year course taken […]

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Can you change the world in five minutes? Maybe not. But geography professor Evan Fraser figures five minutes is enough time to share key messages about feeding a growing and ever-more hungry world. This month and next on his “Feeding 9 Billion” blog, he’s releasing four short animated videos on aspects of food security. Fraser […]

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Learning in a different culture and experiencing the “futureness” of China’s largest city are key reasons for U of G students to apply this week for the Shanghai semester in fall 2014. So says Guelph history professor Norm Smith, who has served as semester co-ordinator since the program began in 2010. Third- and fourth-year undergrads […]

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