Research Centres, Facilities, and Institutes

Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC) established in 2008 and is led by Professor Amar Mohanty and Professor Manjusri Misra. As the inventor of the first biodegradable coffee pod, this interdisciplinary cutting-edge research centre is developing greener bioproducts to replace non renewable materials from plastic cutlery and automotive parts to sustainable packaging.

Canada Cyber Foundry at University of Guelph is committed to ending cyber poverty by 2030. CCF is a vehicle for cybersecurity research, training, and enterprise incubation. This will allow UofG to introduce programmatic solutions to meet the expansive needs of cybersecurity across many pillars. 

Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI) is unique, as it integrates ethics, governance and social responsibility with technical leadership. Its researchers hail from all Colleges on U of G’s campus – working in one or more of the three core pillars: AI methodologies; AI applications; and/or AI responsibility.

The Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute conducts field-based groundwater research in three main areas: aged industrial contaminated sites; groundwater resource protection for drinking water supplies; and potential impacts to surface water and groundwater from upstream unconventional oil and gas development. MG³⁶⁰ was founded by engineering professor Beth Parker in 2007 and is now a focal point of global groundwater research collaboration between over 20 institutions in 11 countries.