Terry Stepien, Martyn Mallick"The Guelph students and graduates we've hired have brought good skills, but they're also creative, eager to challenge conventional thinking and willing to push the envelope." Terry Stepien
 

President's Report, Our students

Terry Stepien / Martyn Mallick

Martyn Mallick is a specialist in wireless solutions who was able to turn a successful Guelph co-op work experience into a full-time job. He works in the engineering department of iAnywhere Solutions. A subsidiary of Sybase Inc., the Waterloo company has hired 38 Guelph graduates in the last five years. "Our team needs people who have the ability to grasp our broader vision and come prepared to make contributions to the Sybase team," says president Terry Stepien.

Perspective...Experience...Commitment...Expertise

University of Guelph students succeed because between matriculation and graduation, they acquire a global perspective, valuable work experience, a high-quality education, a commitment to making the world a better place and broad expertise on the issues most pressing to today's society. As such, according to the 2000-01 Ontario University Graduate Survey, our graduates experience a 98-per-cent employment rate two years after graduation. Those not active in the labour market are pursuing graduate or professional programs. Equally important, our 70,000 graduates can be found around the globe as leaders, innovators, teachers, advisors and mentors.


Graduate grants beat the average

U of G graduate students again beat the overall national average for successful Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grants, with more than 68 per cent of Guelph applicants winning the highly prized scholarships. Valued at $17,300 to $19,100, the post-graduate scholarships allow students to pursue studies in natural sciences and engineering.
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Co-op program builds skills

  • Third-highest enrolment in co-operative education among Ontario universities, after Waterloo and Ottawa; tenth largest program in Canada.

  • Currently more than 1,600 U of G students enrolled.

  • No other Ontario university has co-op programs in child studies, hotel and food administration, biological engineering and pharmaceutical chemistry.
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Co-operative Education Work Placements

The University of Guelph works closely with students and employers to create work opportunities in a broad range of programs, resulting in almost 700 work placements in 2001.

Number of work term placements - graph
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Veterinary graduate shares expertise

Kathleen KeilIt's been only five years since Kathleen Keil graduated from Guelph's veterinary college, but she's already become a leader in the veterinary profession and her community, earning her the University's 2002 Alumni Medal of Achievement. She works for Bayer Inc., leading a team of veterinarians in providing customer service, monitoring field trials and preparing regulatory submissions. She also chaired Bayer's 2001 United Way campaign and serves on committees that promote recycling, resource conservation and voluntarism. Keil is working to advance her profession as a volunteer for the Ontario Association of Industrial Veterinarians and the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association. And she shares her expertise with future veterinarians by acting as coach and mentor for current DVM students at U of G.
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Ken HammillAlumni commitment recognized

The University of Guelph Alumni Association includes 1951 agriculture graduate Ken Hammill among its Alumnus of Honour award winners. Hammill earned a national reputation as vice-president and general manager of Blount Canada Ltd. Under his leadership, the company became a North American leader in "quality circles" and "just-in-time" manufacturing, while building a strong profile of support for the community and the arts.
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Prestigious prize for PhD student

Kirit Patel, a PhD candidate in the rural studies program, is one of only two researchers in the world to receive a 2002 Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship from the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute based in Rome. The $24,000 US fellowship aims to encourage the conservation and use of plant genetic resources. Patel, a native of India, will use the fellowship to study that country's link between poverty and biodiversity and develop ways of encouraging farmers to continue growing local varieties of plants while boosting their incomes. Within the world of plant conservation, the Vavilov-Frankel is considered the most prestigious award for young scholars.
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Mark LautensResearcher applauds Guelph experience

Mark Lautens says it was his undergraduate experience at U of G that led him to pursue a research and academic career. Now an organic chemist and professor at the University of Toronto, Lautens has been awarded a fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, the country's highest honour for scholars and scientists. "The experience I had at Guelph — the way in which faculty interacted with students and the opportunity to work on real research projects — had a huge impact on the way I try to interact with students here in Toronto," he says.
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Alumni receive accolades

  • Graduating international development student Janet McLaughlin and graduating engineering student Brendan Munn received prestigious 2002 Commonwealth Scholarships to study abroad.

  • Cassie Campbell, a 1997 BA graduate, led Canada's national women's hockey team to a gold medal win at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

  • 2000 B.Comm. graduate Darcy Van Wyck was one of only four commerce graduates in North America to be selected for the 2001 Hilton Hotel fast-track management program. He went on to win Hilton's international award for management trainees.

  • John Harlim earned opportunities to attend national and international workshops while completing a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The 2001 graduate is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Maryland.

  • 1995 fine art graduate Phil Irish represented Canada at the Jeux de la Francophonie, an international cultural competition involving more than 50 French-speaking countries around the world.
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Community leadership begins at Guelph

Our students are up to their elbows in community activities, involving themselves in everything from residence council and University governance to volunteering on campus and in the greater community. Bolstering this is U of G's Citizenship Education Program which arranges one-day service events, operates an on-line volunteer placement service, and organizes the University's annual Project Serve B named 2001 Program of the Year by the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services. "Cleaning conservation areas, helping out at the Humane Society, delivering meals to seniors and sorting food at the local food banks all help to remind us that the community is there and that we can and should have a significant impact within it," says student Mike Stephenson, a Project Serve team leader.
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Why they succeed
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Graduate grants beat the average

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Co-op program builds skills

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Co-operative Education Work Placements

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Veterinary graduate shares expertise

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Alumni commitment recognized

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Prestigious prize for PhD student

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Researcher applauds Guelph experience

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Alumni receive accolades

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Community leadership begins at Guelph