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.
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.
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.
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.”
Article written by Chris Seto, Guelph Mercury
Everyone loves a good debate.
But while much of the country kept their eyes locked on the battle between democrat and republican south of the border, a group of 450 people decided to focus instead on the match up between economist and ecologist, here in Guelph.
Article featured in the Guelph Mercury.
David Suzuki, ecologist, and Jeff Rubin, economist, might seem like strange bedfellows, but after realizing they have some common goals when it comes to saving the planet, they’ve taken their show on the road to promote their common message.
The End of Growth tour comes to Guelph Oct. 16. Suzuki and Rubin will speak at 7 p.m. at Lakeside Hope House, 75 Norfolk St., Downtown Guelph (formerly Norfolk United Church).
Evan Fraser, an associate professor of geography at the University of Guelph, will moderate.
Nominations of, and applications from, current University of Guelph tenured faculty are invited for the position of Associate Dean, Academic, CME as an 80% administrative appointment. It is anticipated that the Associate Dean, Academic will serve a five year term with potential for renewal for an additional five years.
Column written by Sylvain Charlebois, Associate Dean, CME
In the wake of the XL Foods tainted-meat outbreak, the consensus among politicians and union leaders is that Canada should retain the services of more federal inspectors in order to elevate the quality of our food safety systems, arguing this is the only way to effectively reduce the number of future outbreaks.
Column by Sylvain Charlebois, Associate Dean, CME, featured in the Guelph Mercury.
The most recent massive recall at Alberta-based XL Foods is the last thing the Canadian beef industry needed, especially as it supplies 40 per cent of all beef consumed domestically.
This incident may yet again damage the industry’s already fragile image, particularly considering that the U.S. Department of Agriculture may have discovered the outbreak before our own Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Sylvain Charlebois comments on food safety systems in Canada. Article featured in the Ottawa Citizen.
In the wake of the XL Foods tainted meat outbreak, the general consensus among politicians and union leaders is that Canada should retain the services of more federal inspectors in order to elevate the quality of our food safety systems, arguing that this is only way to effectively reduce the number of future outbreaks. It is a message Canadians can easily comprehend, which is why it has received considerable airplay over the last few years.