Ontario University Athletics (OUA) announced major award winners for the 2012-2013 track and field season Feb. 28. The Guelph Gryphons won the OUA team banners at the track and field championship and now receive individual athlete and coaching  honours. Third-year student Anthony Romaniw from Hamilton, Ont., won three gold medals at the OUA championship and […]

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Over the last three years, University of Guelph Food Innovation Awards have been presented to Canadian restaurateurs and chefs from across Canada. Three winners of the national competition were on campus Feb. 25 to be honoured  by U of G food laureate Anita Stewart and president Alastair Summerlee. Charles Part and Jennifer Warren-Part, chefs and […]

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U of G is getting high profile for its food innovations at the Canadian Restaurant and Food Association Show in Toronto March 3 to 5. The Ontario Pavilion will host a food innovation exhibit showcasing Guelph’s recent work in health-promoting dry bean varieties and agri-product diversification in nut crops. The event is being promoted by […]

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The Human Rights and Equity Office (HREO) is recruiting volunteers who are interested in training to assist in the resolution of human rights concerns, disputes and complaints under the University’s human rights policy, Human Rights at the University of Guelph. HREO seeks volunteer fact-finders to serve as part of a team investigating formal human rights complaints. […]

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The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) published an extensive report  yesterday on the management of water resources in Canadian agriculture. The report was prepared by an expert panel that included Rene Van Acker, plant agriculture professor and associate dean external relations at the Ontario Agricultural College. The council’s expert panel on water and agriculture began […]

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The University of Guelph is recognizing the invaluable impact that teaching assistants (TAs) have on undergraduate education by launching a new campus-wide teaching award. The Associate Vice-President Academic (AVPA) Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence will be awarded for the first time this spring. This is the first U of G teaching award to recognize TA […]

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John Livernois’ appointment as interim associate vice-president (research services) ends on June 30, 2013. Accordingly, a search committee for the position is being created. Kevin Hall, vice-president (research), seeks nominations for three tenured faculty members for election to the search committee. Hall, who will chair the search committee, will also be appointing one dean, a […]

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Two members of the Gryphon women’s hockey team and their coach received accolades from the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) women’s hockey league Thursday. First-year student Amanda Parkins was named the most valuable player in the OUA league.  She played in every game this season and earned a league-leading 43 points, including a league high of […]

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Kevin Hall, vice-president (research) and Paul Hebert, a U of G integrative biology professor and director of the Guelph-based Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), hosted Gary Goodyear, minister of state, on campus Thursday. Goodyear toured BIO’s newest building addition, funded in part by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, which falls under Goodyear’s portfolio.  The facility […]

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The Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support has completed a branding initiative that began when the unit was created in 2011 by merging the former Teaching Support Services and the Office of Open Learning. The branding exercise provided feedback to inform the centre’s strategic and integrated planning and to position it to respond to […]

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