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Associate Professor Emeritus Joe Barth's recent book, Pepper: A Guide to the World's Favourite Spice, was announced as the winner in the spices category for Canada in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 to honour the best food and wine books. This year, culinary books from 225 countries were submitted for the spices category. As the winner for Canada, Barth's book will move forward among 9 others to compete for the Best in the World.

The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics is excited to announce $225,000 in new entrance scholarships to support students that embody the Lang School’s vision of being a business school for a changing world, redefining leadership and business education.

Thanks to the generosity of Lang business alumnus Daniel F. Engels, a new bursary has been created to support Québec students who choose to study at the University of Guelph.

Through a one-time donation by Daniel, the Québec Undergraduate Student Bursary will provide $4,000 in funding each year in perpetuity. Students from Québec, who are registered in a minimum of 2.0 credits from any program, are eligible.

Last week, more than 750 first-year Lang business students learned first-hand how to manage an ethical dilemma in real-time, as part of a unique live case competition for an introductory business course.

Canadian families can expect to fork out $487 more on food this year. Rising meat, produce and seafood prices are to blame according to the 2020 Canada's Food Price Report.

Last week, Lang’s Department of Management hosted the 4^th annual Qualitative Accounting Research Symposium, a research initiative that brings together researchers and accounting faculty from across the world.

The event is an opportunity for researchers who share an interest in qualitative accounting research from diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives to come together and discuss accounting practices in a social, political, and economic context.

On November 22, the Guelph Sports Management Association (GSMA) teamed up with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) to host the first MLSE case competition at the University of Guelph.

The competition provides students the chance to compete against one another to move on to the finals in downtown Toronto, where they compete for the shot at a paid internship with MLSE.

At the U of G competition last month, six representatives from MLSE were on campus to watch and judge the competition.

Last month, DECA U Guelph hosted the Ignite conference, their 2^nd annual invitational conference and case competition open to all University of Guelph students and beyond.

The conference had over 60 attendees from the University of Guelph and other schools across Ontario.

The Ignite Conference featured a panel discussion with local entrepreneurs, workshops from DECA U Ontario and Guelph Student Investment Council (GSIC), and a case competition.