Sujeevan Ratnasingham, informatics director with U of G’s Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, is speaking at the ninth annual Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Science Symposium in Korea Oct. 13. Ratnasingham was asked to speak as the recipient of the 2010 Ebbe Nielsen Prize. The award, worth 30,000 euros (C$40,000), is named for the late Ebbe […]

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In partnership with the community, U of G’s community police provide services aimed at preventing crime and solving problems that affect students, staff, faculty and visitors. The Campus Community Police website provides tips for personal safety and crime prevention as well as news updates, crime bulletins and weekly incident reports. You can also report a […]

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When former U of G president William “Bill” Winegard retired in 1975, the University’s Board of Governors gave him a brick as a parting gift. He still has it and uses it as a doorstop in his Guelph home. Now he has a second red brick given to him Sept. 24 during the re-dedication of […]

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Human Resources (HR) has launched a new website designed to help the University of Guelph community find the information they need faster. “This robust new website will help us to build our clients’ capacity to meet the unique human resources challenges they face today and in the future,” says Martha Harley, assistant vice-president (human resources). […]

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A growing number of University of Guelph students are broadening their academic horizons with international learning experience, according to the Centre for International Programs (CIP), which offers field trips, exchanges and semesters abroad. Between 10 and 12 per cent of students travel abroad during their undergraduate career; CIP aims to increase that participation rate over […]

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History professor Kevin James is returning to the small screen, this time in the United Kingdom. James took part in a television series on Scotland and tourism that is set to air on the BBC Oct. 6. “I was interviewed in a horse-drawn carriage talking about Sir Walter Scott and tourism,” says James, a specialist […]

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Prof. Peter Pauls has been appointed for a five-year term as chair of the Department of Plant Agriculture. His role will involve enhancing the department’s academic programs and focusing on external relations and excellence in research. Pauls has been a U of G faculty member since 1983; he served as acting associate dean (academic) of […]

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The 2010 Harshman Lecture featuring Carolyn Webster-Stratton that had been scheduled for Oct. 13 at the Cutten Club has been cancelled. […]

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Retired professor George Bedell, founding chair of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM), died Sept. 2 in Rockport, Maine. Born in Connecticut in 1919, he was educated in the United States and served in the armed forces before coming to Guelph in 1969 to establish the School of Hotel and Food Administration (now […]

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Prof. David Kribs assumed a three-year appointment as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on Sept. 1, 2010. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1994 and graduate degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1996 and 2000. Before joining U of G in 2003, Kribs […]

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