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The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) is known for its collaborations with community groups, rural organizations and associations. Providing a critical service for many in Ontario and across the world, the school is often sought out to perform research, evaluation and provide helpful data to enhance these groups’ offerings, services and program delivery. A great example of this service is a recent collaboration between SEDRD researchers and the Rural Ontario Institute to strengthen the programming of their Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP).

Ben O'Hara and Karen Landman recently published a sustainable landscape article entitled: "The 'burbs and the bees: Creating pollinator habitats." in Landscape Trades, May 2013 Vol. 35 No. 4. (page 28).

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Nadia Amoroso, Adjunct Faculty at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, was featured in articles published in "IT Business News," on May 22, 2013, entitled "DataAppeal creates everyman tool for 3D geo-spatial data visualizations"  and the OALA Ground - Spring 2013 - Politics edition.

The University of Guelph Micro-Climate Pollinator Research Gardens are the basis for a collaborative research project with the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development, the NSERC-Canadian Pollination Initiative (CANPOLIN), and Rodger Tschanz, Manager of the University's Trial Gardens.

For more information please visit The Arboretum webpage Micro-Climate Pollinator Research Gardens.

The Micro-Climate Pollinator Research Gardens at the University of Guelph's Arboretum are the basis for a collaborative research project for the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development, the NSERC-Canadian Pollination Initiative (CANPOLIN), and Rodger Tschanz, Manager of the University's Trial Gardens. For more information please visit the Arboretum's Collections and Research Microclimate and Pollinator Research Gardens.

Expert seminar ‘Designing for Urban Climate Adaptation’, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, April 25, 2013

Congratulations to Adam Wright, MSc student in Rural Planning and Development and the Student Delegate for the Ontario Professional Planning Institute, on winning the prestigious Gerald Carrothers Graduate Scholarship.    The Gerald Carrothers Graduate Scholarship assists in furthering planning education and recognizes a student OPPI member who is making a contribution to the community. Applicants must be members of OPPI at the time of application and the recipient must be enrolled full-time in an accredited graduate planning program. The winner is selected based upon:

The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development in partnership with the Ontario Farmland Trust recently hosted a symposium entitled Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Rising Energy Prices.  The  proceedings are now available at:  http://ontariofarmlandtrust.ca/get-involved/events/annual-farmland-forum/

Improving high-speed Internet access fo rural residents of southwestern Ontario is the goal of a new feasibility study involving University of Guelph researchers in the Capacity Development and Extension program at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development.

See article at:  http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2013/04/post_242.html

Johnathan Behnke, a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student, designed a creative concept to memorialize his friend Isaak Kornelsen through public space.  Behnke designed a memorial parklet in honour of Kornelsen who died in an accident while cycling to work in Edmonton on August 27, 2012.

The news article featured in Spacing Edmonton on-line magazine can be viewed here.