Richard Appiah / Jill McCutcheon

Education takes on a whole new perspective when bright and inquisitive students like Richard Appiah meet committed faculty like Jill McCutcheon. A political science major who graduated in June 2002 and a veterinary professor, they study in different disciplines, but worked together as members of the University Senate.

McCutcheon has been a key player in designing a new veterinary curriculum, but it's her broad concern for the quality of education that impresses Appiah. The winner of a U of G student leadership award, Appiah is now preparing for a career in law.

Faculty...Support...Research...Involvement

Students thrive at Guelph because they are taught by some of the best faculty anywhere — more than 96 per cent of our professors have a doctorate and more than 100 of them have received prestigious teaching and research excellence awards, including 10 national 3M teaching awards and 19 fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada. Our academic and wide range of personal support services are cited repeatedly by our students and their parents. Our graduate and undergraduate students are given every opportunity to participate in research and acquire lifelong leadership and citizenship skills through work and volunteer experience.

Accolades for 2001-2002

• Fred Evers, Sociology and anthropology, recently won a national 3M Fellowship for teaching excellence.

• Peter Kevan, Environmental Biology, received a 2001 Synergy Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Conference Board of Canada for innovation.

• John McMurtry, Philosophy, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

• John Walsh, associate dean of the Faculty of Management, was named a Hotelier Pinnacle Award Winner in the category "Educator of the Year."

• Mary Swan, a library staff member, won the 2001 O.Henry Award for short fiction.

E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship

• Alejandro Marangoni, Food Science

NSERC Environmental Design Engineering

• Warren Stiver, Engineering

John Charles Polanyi Prize

• Carl Svensson, Physics

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Faculty Accolades

Premier's Research Excellence Awards

• Dorothee Bienzle, Pathobiology

• Elisabeth Boulding, Zoology

• Daniel Fischlin, English

• Barbara Mable, Botany

• Dev Mangroo, Biochemistry

• Yoshi Mine, Food Science

• Robert Mullen, Botany

• Beren Robinson, Zoology

• Carl Svensson, Physics

Canada Research Chairs

• Terry Beveridge, Microbiology

• Serge Desmarais, Psychology

• Rob de Loë, Geography

• Christopher Hall, Environmental Biology

• Paul Hebert, Zoology

• Brian Husband, Botany

• Jonathan LaMarre, Biomedical Sciences

• Jacek Lipkowski, Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Douglas McCalla, History

• Alejandro Marangoni, Food Science

• Chris Whitfield, Microbiology

Genome Canada Awards

• Basil Arif, Microbiology

• David Castle, Philosophy

• David Evans, Molecular Biology and Genetics

• Karen Finlay, Family and Consumer Studies

• Peter Krell, Microbiology

• John Phillips, Molecular Biology and Genetics

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Faculty Excellence

When it comes to its share of Canada Foundation for Innovation funding, the University of Guelph ranks fifth in Canada, demonstrating both its faculty and research strengths.

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$15.8 million for student financial aid

U of G is committed to ensuring that no qualified and motivated student is denied admission to the University because of financial need. Guelph now awards almost $16 million per year in student aid, with almost 60 per cent of it awarded on the basis of financial need.
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Research tops $100 million

The University of Guelph is the second most research intensive university in Canada, with total research funding exceeding $100 million in 2001/02. Since 1998, more than $170 million in research infrastructure funding has been committed by federal and provincial funding sources, including the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Innovation Trust, the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, the Premier's Research Excellence Awards and the Canada Research Chairs program, as well as industry partners.
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Technology supports students

The University has aggressively pursued Web-based technology and distance education as part of its overall commitment to supporting both electronic and lifelong learning. In 2001-02:

• 11,000 students were registered in distance courses, more than 175 of these courses being taught on line.

• U of G joined with Dalhousie, Simon Fraser and York universities, and the universities of Alberta, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Waterloo to integrate each other's Internet-based courses into respective online learning programs, and to share extensive library resources.

• An online distance education course titled "Humans in the Natural World" won a first prize at the North American Web Conference.

• More than 95 per cent of first-year students registered in advance over the Web.

• A "virtual" librarian was added to the online Tri-University catalogue that allows students to access library resources at Guelph, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

• The Office of Open Learning and Equine Research Centre launched Canada's first online Canadian Equine Science Certificate Program aimed at enhancing knowledge of the equine industry.
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Students engage in discovery

Involving students in research is a particular priority of the School of Engineering, where Prof. John Runciman and Stacey Bullock, an undergraduate student in biological engineering, recently developed a new method to test the pins that keep neck halos — the metal braces used to help neck injuries heal — in place and with less pain. Runciman and four other students Gino Cicchello, Stefan Michalski, James Pemberton and John Phillips B also created a medical device to compress vertebrae during spinal alignment surgery, leading to less scarring, less trauma and faster recovery times.

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Staff member improves student life

Pat Richards, a supervisor in the Department of Athletics' lifestyle and fitness team — which is student-based and employs students as fitness instructors, weight training supervisors and personal trainers — received both the 2002 R.P. Gilmor Student Life Award from U of G and a YMCA-MWCA Women of Distinction Award for "wellness, health and active living." The Gilmor award recognizes those who have made significant contributions toward the betterment of student life at the University of Guelph.
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