More than 300 pet lovers gathered at one of Toronto’s newest cultural hubs this week at a gala fundraiser for the Mona Campbell Centre for Animal Cancer at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). The $400,000 raised from the ‘A Walk in the Park’ gala, held Oct. 17 at Daniels Spectrum in Toronto will go to […]

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  The College of Management and Economics (CME) hosted an event in Toronto Oct. 16 on sustainable food systems and the role for business. It featured a panel discussion moderated by George Stroumboulopoulos, the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) Canadian Ambassador Against Hunger. The panel included U of G professors Sylvain Charlebois, CME’s associate […]

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U of G’s chief information officer and chief librarian Rebecca Graham was ranked number 36 in a list of the “Top 50 Social CIOs in Higher Education” published Oct. 17 in a Huffington Post technology blog. The list of North American CIOs was compiled by Huff Post Tech blogger Vala Afshar of Enterasys Networks, who […]

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Research Communications and Marketing staff received two awards Oct. 5 at the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation annual conference in Agassiz, British Columbia. The 2012-2013 Agri-Food Yearbook, highlighting the OMAFRA-U of G partnership, received a silver award in the category for general periodicals. Produced under the direction of Owen Roberts, director of research communications, the yearbook […]

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Guelph physicists Ralf Gellert and Iain Campbell are among authors of a new paper about Martian geology published last week in the journal Science. The paper discusses soil samples collected by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, and compares those results to samples taken by earlier rovers. An instrument […]

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