October 31: Interactive Food Industry Business Forum
Natural/Organic/Local
"Be careful what you ask for"
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
5:30 p.m. - Dinner
6:30 to 8:00 p.m. - Panel of experts
PJ's Restaurant in the Atrium, University of Guelph
News
October 29: CME Student Wins Bronze At World Triathlon Championships
Article featured in Guelph Now!
University of Guelph cross-country runner Joanna Brown won the bronze medal Saturday at the World Under 23 Triathlon Championships in Auckland, New Zealand.
She finished with a time of 2:14.12 and, at age 20, was the youngest competitor on the podium. It was the first time she competed in the race.
October 24: Marketing Professor Receives Grant to Study Effects of Gambling Advertisements
Article featured in the Guelph Mercury
A University of Guelph researcher had received funding to study how advertising about gambling influences gamblers.
October 25: Reaping the Harvest Discussion TONIGHT
Reaping the Harvest: The True Cost of Food on Your Plate
When: TONIGHT, October 25 at 7:00PM
Where: UG Science Atrium
October 25: Reaping the Harvest Discussion TONIGHT
Reaping the Harvest: The True Cost of Food on Your Plate
When: TONIGHT, October 25 at 7:00PM
Where: UG Science Atrium
October 24: Marketing Professor Receives Grant to Study Effects of Gambling Advertisements
Article featured in the Guelph Mercury
A University of Guelph researcher had received funding to study how advertising about gambling influences gamblers.
October 23: Lincoln Alexander remembered as an ‘amazingly giving man’
Article featured in the Guelph Tribune
Lincoln Alexander, who was the University of Guelph’s longest-serving chancellor and before that was Canada’s first black MP, has died at the age of 90.
“Lincoln Alexander was perhaps the most admired and respected public figure in Ontario,” U of G president Alastair Summerlee said in a news release Friday about Alexander’s death earlier that day.
October 22: CME Grad Student Wins Michaëlle Jean Award
Gavin Armstrong, a biomedical science PhD student, has received the inaugural Michaëlle Jean Emergency Hunger Relief Award.
Jean presented him with the award Wednesday in Ottawa during a University of Guelph alumni event.
October 19: International Partnerships Seek Global Solutions
The University of Guelph is exploring ways to strengthen its long-standing ties with East Africa.
It’s looking to improve connections with academics, governments, industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), alumni and others in Guelph, East Africa and beyond.
The goal is to work together on such regional issues as food security and scarcity, water and resource problems, and poverty, says Kevin Hall, vice-president (research). Academic opportunities for students from both U of G and East Africa will also be contemplated.
October 18: Learning is More Than a Lecture
Article written by Julia Christensen Hughes, Dean, College of Management and Economics.
Students have been complaining about the lecture since at least the late 1800s. In How Scholars Trumped Teachers (1999), Larry Cuban cites an 1895 student newspaper editorial challenging Stanford University professors to improve the effectiveness of their teaching. The article complains about students not being “called upon daily to recite” and professors who prefer “to spend most of [their] time in lecturing.”