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Jane Londerville, associate professor of Real Estate and Housing within the Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies recently spoke to Department of Finance staff in Ottawa last Tuesday, May 29th. Jane spoke on the subject matter of mortgage insurance discussed in her latest instalment of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Straight Talk series. Londerville argued that homebuyers who need mortgage insurance are best served when there is competition for their business.

PJ's Restaurant made the list of "Canada's Greenest Restaurants," recently re-released by Leaders in Environmentally Accountable Foodservice (LEAF), a third-party certification program for restaurants that meet and adhere to strict environmental criteria.  LEAF released the list yesterday in recognition of Environment Week, an annual week dedicated to globally celebrating Earth's natural environment. 

Martin Connell, one of Canada’s most influential philanthropists and a prominent business leader, will receive the Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leader Award May 30 from the University of Guelph.

U of G’s highest leadership award was created in 2006 to honour Lincoln Alexander, who served as Guelph’s chancellor for an unprecedented 15 years.

The award is presented annually by Guelph’s College of Management and Economics (CME) to exemplary and dedicated Canadian leaders whose careers have included groundbreaking, socially significant pursuits.

The story of the University of Guelph’s Better Planet Project is being told in a decorative donor wall, where each of the tiles says a bit about the donor, what their donation will fund, and why they felt it so important to give sizable financial gifts to the university.

At its unveiling ceremony last Thursday seven new donors were celebrated for their philanthropy.

Today's Guelph Mercury reports that local food and culinary activist Anita Stewart is now a member of the Order of Canada. Last June, Stewart received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Guelph's College of Management and Economics. Read more on Anita Stewart

Associate Professor, Joe Barth and Assistant Professor, Statia Elliot recently published an article in the Journal of Product and Brand Management. The article, “Wine Label Design and Personality Preferences of Millennials,” discusses the purpose of the study Barth and Elliot conducted to explore the design and brand personality of wine labels and their appeal to the millennial market – the newest segment of wine consumers.

Josh Leyte-Jammu, CME B.Comm. Accounting student, competed in the seventh annual University of Waterloo Accounting Conference (UWAC) this past weekend with first year Waterloo Accounting students, Rida Raza and Carrie Law, and fourth year Concordia student, Ben Leung.   

As last year drew to a close, University of Guelph economics researchers Sylvain Charlebois and Francis Tapon were predicting the 2012 overall price increase in food would be about two per cent.

However, Charlebois cautioned at the time, unpredictable heat, cold and rainfall continue to influence farming in ways never experienced in modern-era agriculture. He warned that could send their numbers askew.

“If the weather co-operates, our predictions will be fine,” he said. “But how can we know what Mother Nature will do?”

Alastair Summerlee, University of Guelph president and vice-chancellor, will deliver the keynote session at the Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference on May 14. Presented by the Teaching Support Centre, the one-day conference runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in Social Science Centre, Room 2050.