Sustainability smarts won national honours for a University of Guelph team of engineering students last month. Lindsay Mooradian, Amanda Rhodes, Nirmal Shah and Stuart West won the Sustainability Award at the Canadian Engineering Competition in Vancouver. The annual contest draws competing universities from across Canada. That national award followed the Guelph team’s first-place finish in […]

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U of G graduate student Gavin Armstrong will be keynote speaker at an April 13 breakfast event hosted by the Career Education Council (CEC) of Guelph-Wellington-Dufferin. The annual CEC event highlights local business and education partnerships. A 2011 graduate of U of G’s marketing management program, Armstrong’s topic is “Making Hunger History: Students and Business […]

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College of Management and Economics students Andrew Wright, Krystal Carrey, Chloe Blais, Jena Mesih and Hannah McClenaghan lived outdoors during the annual “5 Days for the Homeless” event and raised more than $6,100 for Wyndham House, a Guelph-based youth emergency shelter. That amount exceeds the previous U of G record by more than 20 per […]

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The University of Guelph’s Department of Athletics raised nearly $9,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Guelph during the charity’s 37th annual Bowl For Kids Sake held earlier this month. A check was presented to Big Brothers Big Sisters during the annual University athletics banquet Thursday night. This was the third year U of G […]

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The University of Guelph’s pivotal role in the global growth of DNA barcoding is featured in this week’s edition of the local Rogers TV cable television show Talk Local with host Martin Bosch. Profs. Steven Newmaster, herbarium director at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, and Robert Hanner, associate director of the Canadian Barcode of Life […]

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Can the food industry better control the safety of their products? What risks come with new products, processes or markets? Considering the recent cases of E. coli contamination of food, the time is right to seek answers to these questions. A new short course offered by the University of Guelph’s Department of Food Science will […]

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