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Student Experience Awards honour the achievements and contributions of campus leaders who have made a lasting difference in students’ lives and in campus-community relations.  Each year, the University community is invited to submit nominations for staff, faculty and students who exemplify commitment and contribution to U of G and the greater community.  This year’s Student Experience Awards were celebrated at an in-person event, the first since 2019.

Learn more about this year’s inspiring winners:

Are you ready to learn about cutting-edge technology that is revolutionizing the way we design digital circuits? Say hello to FPGAs - the Swiss Army knife of computer chips!

The Morwick G360 Groundwater Institute is featured in the Ontario Water Consortium. 

GUELPH — Artificial intelligence has the potential to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, but it also poses risks that need to be taken seriously and addressed quickly, believe a collective of researchers that includes a University of Guelph professor.

Greenhouses offer a 365 day a year growing cycle, increasing our food security and access to fresh produce year-round. Growing efforts by the industry are resulting in more sustainable production practices, including reducing energy and water use, and finding alternatives to plastic packaging.

Four U of G-led projects have received a total of $997,000 from the federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), which supports interdisciplinary projects and encourages inventive approaches to research.

The School of Engineering is proud to announce that four 41X students recently competed and won the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) Student Design Competition for 2023. The design challenge focused on upgrades to the Mid Halton Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in anticipation of significant growth. Kelly Ward, Victoria Lucas, Jeffrey Stevens, and Daniel O'Connell will go on to represent Ontario at the Water Environment Federation Student Design Competition in Chicago in October this year.

School of Engineering associate professor, Dr. Manick Annamalai has secured a $540,000 Alliance grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The funded project entitled “Development of value-added pulse-flour for potential ingredient in domestic and industrial food preparation” aligns with Manick’s ongoing research efforts to improve the availability of safe and healthy food. In partnership with co-applicants Dr.

On April 10, 2023, the inaugural Guelph Food Engineering Conference was held in Adams Atrium at the School of Engineering. Led by Dr. Manick Annamalai, the day represented the significant growth of interest and research into Food Engineering.

The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences is proud to introduce 4 new writers for our Science Communicators program. Science Communicators is an opportunity for CEPS' gradute students to help the college tell its research story by writing 500-word pieces that summarize and translate research publications coming out of the college. These highlights are written in plain and accessible language for broad audiences and are amplified by the College through various communication platforms.