People – Fall 2020

Lysa Porth

Lysa Porth has been appointed dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. She was formerly an associate dean in the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba.


Jessica Bowes

Jessica Bowes, M.Sc. ’07, will join U of G in February 2021 as the inaugural assistant vice-president (research innovation and knowledge mobilization).


Baljit Singh

Baljit Singh, PhD ’94, has been named vice-president (research) at the University of Saskatchewan. He currently serves as dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary.


Jesse Popp

Jesse Popp has joined the Ontario Agricultural College as the Chair in Indigenous Environmental Stewardship. A member of Wiikwemikong Unceded Territory in Ontario, she holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science.


Gordon Bell

U of G graduate student Gordon Bell was named as a member of the inaugural Canadian Agricultural Youth Council.


Vicki Brisson

U of G graduate student Vicki Brisson was named as a member of the inaugural Canadian Agricultural Youth Council.


Georgia Mason

Animal biosciences professor Georgia Mason is the new director of the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare.