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Sylvain Charlebois, associate dean of the College of Management and Economics, comments on the state of Canada's hog industry. 

The hog industry is experiencing more lows these days due to severe economic swings. In fact, Saskatchewan-based Big Sky farms, North America’s number 2 producer, entered receivership recently.

That announcement was followed the next day by Manitoba-based Puratone Corporation’s decision to file for bankruptcy protection.

Evie Adomait, Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor for the Department of Economics and Finance, has devoted her career to making Economics manageable and entertaining for students.  After being a member of the University for nearly 30 years, Evie has established herself personally and professionally and will be awarded for her accomplishments with the University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA) Distinguished Professorial Teaching Award for CME in October. 

Fred Pries, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, was recently appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory and Review Board for Issues in Accounting Education from 2013 to 2015.

Issues in Accounting Education is one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association. The mission of the journal is to publish research, commentaries, instructional resources and book reviews that assist accounting faculty in teaching and that address important issues in accounting education.

Sylvain Charlebois, associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Management and Economics, was interviewed on CBC Radio One’s The Current this morning. Charlebois discussed the pressure on the domestic pork industry and how all functions of the supply chain can be coordinated. Listen to the full CBC interview.

Article featured in the Guelph Tribune.

If you’ve ever walked into the LCBO to buy a nice bottle of wine but found yourself overwhelmed, the University of Guelph may have a solution.

The university’s School of Hospitality and Tourism is offering two courses to the general public this fall that should help make choosing a wine a lot easier for participants.

“We’re absolutely going to remove the intimidation” from the subject of wine, said course administrator Bruce McAdams.

The Guelph Mercury highlights CME alumnus, Gavin Armstrong, and his role as lead organizer of the recent world hunger event hosted at the University of Guelph. 

As university frosh week traditions go, the University of Guelph appears to have developed something of an international marvel.

For two years running, the school has staged an event to confront a world hunger emergency. It has hosted an effort by university and community stakeholders to try to set a world record in preparing the most emergency relief meal kits in one hour.

In his previous life as a restaurateur, University of Guelph professor Bruce McAdams realized he didn’t know much about wine.

“I was buying wine and making a wine list as a manager of a restaurant and I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. I didn’t know anything about wine,” McAdams said.

He certainly could have benefitted from the two separate wine appreciation and knowledge courses he has helped bring to the U of G campus starting later this month.

According to rankings released by RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) in August 2012, the Department of Economics and Finance is among the top five percent of economic institutions worldwide. This ranking is based on 5858 institutions with 33,138 registered authors. View a list of economic institutions ranked in the top ten percent worldwide. 

Dr. Brent McKenzie of the Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies was recently the featured lecturer on the ship Black Watch on a Baltic Cities cruise.  Brent, who is an expert on the Baltic Sea region, conducted public presentations on the people and food culture of the Baltic sea region; Soviet Dark tourism; and the history of Tallinna Kaubamaja, a leading Estonian department store.  

Wine, says hospitality and tourism management professor Bruce McAdams, is incredibly complex. “There are so many types and styles. It can be very confusing.” But there is a method to sort out the madness of wine, and it will soon be available at U of G.