The Human Rights and Equity Office (HREO) is seeking community input about how to best achieve its goal of building an inclusive university community that supports and advances equity in employment and education, accessibility and human rights.  HREO is considering a new name for the office and invites all members of the U of G community to participate in […]

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Pet owners who take their animals to the Ontario Veterinary College’s (OVC) primary care facility on Smith Lane will now be looking for a new hospital name. The former Companion Animal Hospital has been renamed the OVC Smith Lane Animal Hospital. The hospital is located in the Hill’s Pet Nutrition Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), says […]

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Starting in the fall 2014 semester, the equine management major of the bachelor of bio-resource management (BBRM) degree will be based entirely at the University of Guelph home campus. Previously, students spent the first two years of the program at the University’s Kemptville campus and moved to the Guelph campus to complete their third and […]

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The Department of Food Science is hosting 10 cheese-making experts from across Canada this week as they judge the inaugural Canadian Cheese Awards. Department chair Art Hill, an internationally recognized authority in cheese technology, is serving as chief judge. Anita Stewart is assisting the competition in her role as U of G food laureate. There […]

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An Equine Guelph partnership with the Minnesota State Fair received two Awards of Excellence at the International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) convention held in Las Vegas in December. The awards recognized the EquiMania! exhibit and the five-year educational partnership program. Produced by U of G’s Equine Guelph, EquiMania! is an interactive youth education […]

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A four-day study tour in the Netherlands showed animal science professor Tina Widowski that the Canadian food animal industry faces some of the same challenges as its European counterparts – and that solutions working in the Netherlands may provide ideas and inspiration for Canada. Widowski is director of U of G’s Campbell Centre for the […]

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A faster, cheaper way to capture more information about nature’s diversity is the main benefit of next-generation technology described by a team of researchers including U of G biologists in a paper published this week in Molecular Ecology Resources. The group has shown that next-generation sequencers plowing through numerous genetic samples at a time may […]

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The 2013 edition of Emerge magazine, produced by fourth-year students in the media studies program at the University of Guelph-Humber, has received 15 digital journalism awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in New York City. The magazine more than doubled the number of awards it won in 2012. The digital awards include first place […]

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