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Wearing gloves while shopping and wiping down food packaging at home may be unnecessary, as new University of Guelph research suggests the chances of getting infected with COVID-19 from grocery store surfaces are very low.

A team of U of G scientists, who swabbed hundreds of high-contact surfaces in grocery stores, found that none tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

No surface location harboured SARS-CoV-2, from a payment station and a deli counter to the refrigerated food section or the carts and baskets.

The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) has released findings from a new project, Doctoral Destinations: PhDs with Impact, which highlights PhD career pathways. It is the first under the umbrella of OAC’s Graduate Destinations Project. 

Seven University of Guelph researchers exploring subjects from Indigenous history in North America to improving the availability of safe and healthy food have received the 2021 U of G Research Excellence Awards.

The awards program highlights the achievements of recently tenured faculty members and helps to raise their profile among external funding agencies. The $5,000 awards are sponsored by the Office of Research and the Office of the Provost.

A guided “sound-walk” recording that can accompany you in the woods, the country or the city wherever you are in the world, Inose/Field Trip produced at the University of Guelph invites listeners to reflect deeply on the land we walk upon and the diverse living things we encounter.

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About 20 University of Guelph students, many in the University’s new bachelor of Indigenous environmental science and practice program (BIESP), waded into the Eramosa River this week for a hands-on experience of the life of water.

Sue Chiblow, who will become a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences (SES) as of Nov.1, co-led the “Water Is Life” excursion. An Anishinaabe woman and raised in Garden River First Nation, Chiblow said the students are learning to think about the environment through land-based learning that combines Indigenous and Western science.

Today is Orange Shirt Day – a day dedicated to honouring residential school survivors, the children who never returned home, their families and their communities.

It is also the inaugural annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Canadian government’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) call to action 80.

Plans are underway to build on the grounds of the University of Guelph’s Arboretum a unique Indigenous research facility that is expected to be one of the first of its kind in Canada.

The new facility will be called Nokom’s House, from the Ojibway word for grandmother, “nokomis.” It will be a land-based learning space to be used by three Indigenous researchers, their students and collaborating Indigenous community members for research, engagement and ceremony.

Improving pet nutrition and health is the goal of a University of Guelph animal scientist who has been named as the inaugural Champion Petfoods Chair in Canine and Feline Nutrition, Physiology and Metabolism.

Dr. Anna Kate Shoveller, Department of Animal Biosciences, will also lead a new international research collaboration under a five-year grant from Champion Petfoods based in Edmonton. The new group will study critical pet food nutrition topics and train students for leadership roles in North America’s pet food and nutrition industry.

Long before the University of Guelph’s Arboretum came into being, Attawandaron, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples lived on the land it occupies.

Now, numerous initiatives are under way to ensure that Indigenous knowledge systems are integral to the life of this significant green space in teaching, research and outreach.

Conflict between rich and poor over how to mitigate climate change can itself lead to more global warming – by as much as 0.7 degrees Celsius, according to a new study led by a University of Guelph scientist.

Using novel modelling, the research team identified some of the social processes that may increase polarization between these two income groups that leads to inaction when it comes to fighting climate change.