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May 8: The Globe and Mail profiles CME grad who developed robot to assist building inspectors

CME grad Thomas Sobotka along with his father Jozef and brother Filip, decided to develop a robot to automate building inspections after witnessing another inspector duct tape a digital camera to a broom so he could see around a corner. The Sobotkas started FTD Highrise Inspection Inc. and hired engineers to build hired engineers to build a robot that can reach places people cannot and now enables inspection of an entire building.

May 8: Brent McKenzie brings Estonia to CME

Sylvain Charlebois, CME's Associate Dean (Academics) and Kerry Godfrey, Director of HTM, met with the Rector and other representatives from Lääne-Viru College in Estonia last week. The contingent from Estonia were interested in how curriculum is developed in a Canadian business school, as well as finding out more about the process for getting new programs accepted at our university.

May 7: Time for a Broader Approach to Local Food

Agricultural Communications Professor, Owen Roberts and Marketing Professor, Paulette Padanyi are members of a Guelph and Waterloo research group exploring the challenges and opportunities facing local food producers.  The Ontario Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has provided support for the research group in their effort to find potential uses for local food in Ontario's health-care system. Read the full article in the Guelph Mercury

 

May 1: Business Students Search for Jobs in the Public Sector

Economic volatility and high unemployment are increasingly prompting enterprising and profit-oriented Canadian business students to set their sights on the public sector, which they see as a beacon of security and opportunity for career development.

April 30: Marketing & Consumer Studies Assistant Professor Receives Award

 Jian Zhou was recently awarded the William N. Kinnard Young Scholar Award by  ARES, the American Real Estate Society – a leading real estate research and education organization whose mission is to influence real estate through leadership and decision making.  Jian was nominated by Associate Professor and REH Advisor, Jane Londerville, and received the award in recognition of his high quality research contributions to the real estate discipline achieved in the first ten years of receiving his PhD.  

CME Students and Acting Dean Play Role in Brazil Mission

Professor Sylvain Charlebois, acting dean of the College of Management and Economics (CME) — along with marketing students Ben Bickers and Maggie Chen, and accounting student Dave Howard — will attend an “Education in Canada” reception Friday in Sao Paulo. The event is part of an unprecedented visit to Brazil by 30 Canadian university presidents who will have the chance to meet high-ranking government and university officials in Brazil this week.

April 26: CME Marketing Graduate Makes Olympic Marathon Team

It’s been 12 years since a Canadian appeared in the Olympic marathon, and now two runners with ties to the University of Guelph will line up in London this summer. The 2012 men’s Canadian Olympic marathon team announced today includes U of G graduate Reid Coolsaet and Eric Gillis. Both are elite members of the Speed River Track and Field Club in Guelph. Read more about these athletes

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