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Food Laureate, Anita Stewart, appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss her current role at the University of Guelph. Watch the video.

Food Laureate, Anita Stewart, will appear on The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight at 8:00pm EST to discuss her current role at the University of Guelph. Learn more about The Agenda.

Is the time right for significant change – perhaps even a fundamental paradigm shift within higher education? What would such a shift look like? And to what extent might one already be well underway? Julia Christensen Hughes, dean of the College of Management and Economics, discusses major changes in high education and how those may affect universities.

The full article can be found on The Globe and Mail.

On Monday, March 25th with support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), through the Café Scientifique Program, the College of Management and Economics is pleased to present an open dialogue entitled Obesity, Diabetes and Nutrition across the Lifespan: Implications for Health and Food Security.  The event will be held in the Trillium Room at the Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

Four graduate students, including two from the College of Management and Economics, have come together over their interest in sustainability to learn from each other and to gain insight into their own fields of study. Based on their combined research, the group wrote a paper entitled, Paradox and Dialogue: Ecology, Management and Food Sustainability, which was recently accepted at the Agriculture, Food and Human Value Society Annual Conference. The group will speak at the Conference whose 2013 theme is "Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes.”

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