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Assistant Prof. Mike von Massow helps to deliver the Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Scholarship Program which is offered by the Partnership Agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and the Ministry of Rural Affairs. A recent At Guelph article highlight's from a grad student's perspective, how this program which integrates science, business and marketing, and helped prepare her for work in her industry.

HTM professor Bruce McAdams explores the absurity of the idea of tipping based on the amount of the cheque and not the level of service. After a New York restaurant instituted a no tipping policy and instead increased prices 15 per cent to pay staff fair wages and benefits, the industry wonders if this is the beginning of the end for tipping. Did you get great service? Don't leave a tip.

Featured in today's Globe and Mail, Ph.D. Candidate, Rita Hansen Stern is first came across the sprawling academic get-together known simply as Congress in 1986, and remembers thinking, “These people have got their heads in the clouds.” But she doesn’t think that any more. Academic conference brings community to campus.

Professor Sean Lyons' research on millenials in the workplace is highlighted in today's Globe and Mail, specifically on how to attract and retain this generation in the workforce. Wooing the millennial worker.

Today's Guelph Mercury writes that Paul Martin was gracious, humorous and spoke passionately about his work trying to improve education and business opportunities for aboriginal youth, as he received the Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leadership Award last night. Paul Martin receives leadership award.

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