As Dr. Cliff Redford prepares to take his veterinary skills into a war zone, the thing he’s most worried about is crying. The owner of a veterinary clinic in Markham, Ont., and graduate of the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) will volunteer in Poland in late March and early April at refugee shelters
A University of Guelph graduate and former professor has been named to Canada’s top public health role as the country balances declining COVID-19 cases with a fourth pandemic wave. Dr. Harpreet Kochhar was appointed as president of the Public Health Agency of Canada effective Oct 12. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement among several
Does the best-before date on a food item mean that it’s unsafe to eat and you should throw it out? Not according to U of G grad Hayden Fox, a fourth-generation farmer who says consumers misled by best-before labels routinely waste huge amounts of perfectly edible food. After he saw a TikTok video that recommended
You probably wouldn’t drink vinegar straight up. But two University of Guelph food science grads are betting consumers will raise a glass to their wine proxies and other acid-based food products that the duo believes are set to shake up a long-dormant grocery food category. Starting as undergrads doing fermentation experiments in a Guelph basement
Waiting for news of the safe landing of NASA’s latest Mars rover in mid-February, U of G physics grad Dr. Chris Heirwegh had a discomfiting thought: If the mission failed, what would he be doing next? As a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, Heirwegh had spent nearly five years helping
It was a weekend walk in the U of G Arboretum that helped Amritpal Singh solve his PhD research problem involving sugar maple tree propagation. Singh had been trying to clone sugar maples, a challenge that had stumped scientists for decades. Trees grown from seeds often produce inconsistent amounts of sugar from one generation to
Biodiversity, climate change, First Nations drinking water, the youth vote: they’re among pressing issues that will affect the future of young Canadians, says U of G alum Manvi Bhalla. A 2019 biomedical sciences grad, Bhalla now heads Shake Up the Establishment (SUTE), an advocacy organization she co-founded in her graduation year. The group, which includes
Between mid-June and late August: That’s when Jasmine Mah expects to receive a vaccination for COVID-19, according to the Vaccine Queue Calculator for Canada co-developed by the U of G grad in late 2020. The app estimates when a user will receive the vaccine based on age, location, underlying health risks, national public health guidelines
Two years after making plans, Lars Mueller started his combat sports equipment business as a side venture in early 2020. “Unfortunately, I launched two weeks before the first COVID lockdown. The timing was not very good.” When he was laid off from his IT sales job last spring, the 2012 B.Comm. grad decided to go
U of G alumna Laura Burns is a conservation biologist at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo. She is a recipient of this year’s Future 40 Awards, sponsored by CBC Manitoba. She was feature in a CBC story on the awards. Burns, who is from southern Ontario, has a B.Sc.(’10) and a M.Sc. (’13) from U