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Over the weekend of March 18th and 19th, Roboticon, our robot-building and programming challenge, entered its 16th year at the University of Guelph.

The University of Guelph now has a swath of new ideas for tackling student mental health, thanks to the students and staff who took part in last weekend's "Guelph Hacks for Mental Health."

The School of Computer Science's Ryan Schott and his team came in 2nd place at the recent Ryerson Social xChange. The event brought together students from regional universities to develop solutions that would address broad social issues and have a lasting impact in Canada. 

This week School of Computer Science Assistant Professor Dan Gillis is curating the @RealScientists Twitter account. 

RealScientists was established in February of 2013 as a way for scientists, academics, and researchers to communicate directly with the public through social media. Every week a new scientist is selected to curate the account. At the time of writing this post, @RealScientists had over 40,000 followers.

Dr. Gillis is curating from the week of Sunday, January 15th to Saturday, January 21st. 

School of Computer Science student Christopher Katsaras joined University of Guelph President Vaccarino, Evan Fraser. Director of the Food Institute, Shoshanah Jacobs and other students from the Idea Congress and Feeding9Billion Classroom in a roundtable discussion on student efforts to reduce food waste with Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell.

Read more here: Lieutenant-Governor Tours U of G, Gives Environmental Politics Lecture.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced the 2017 competition results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program (DAS). Dr. Stacey Scott from the University of Guelph was awarded this prestigious grant and will lead a project on "Improving the Effectiveness of Co-lated Colloboration Technologies."

The School of Computer Science's Dr. Blair Nonnecke is one of the principle investigators studying motorist behaviour in the new DRIVE lab. 

Please read about the exciting announcement of the opening of the new 170,000-square-foot Athletic Centre on the University of Guelph campus:

http://news.uoguelph.ca/2016/08/new-state-of-the-art-athletics-centre-opens-university-of-guelph/