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Attn: Guelph students

Guelph's delegation to the Harvard Model United Nations Conference is currently seeking delegates for the upcoming year. This program allows for delegations coming from 65+ countries from all over the world to attend a Mock United Nations conference, representing committees including UNICEF, WHO, WTO etc.  

The conference this year will be held in Melbourne, Australia on March 18-22, 2013.   

For more information, please visit the Harvard World Model United Nations website.

Restaurateurs committed to buying local food are contributing to an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable food system, says a University of Guelph expert on the restaurant business. But buying local is far from a complete sustainable approach to food service.

The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) and the University of Guelph Sustainable Restaurant Project (UGSRP) present the 2nd Annual UGSRP Forum on "Topics in Sustainability", Wednesday October 10th, 2012. The event is free of charge and will be held at the University of Guelph with a reception to follow. 

While markets look at demand rationing in the U.S. for grains, prices for corn, soybeans and other commodities are likely to remain high due to the unprecedented drought Americans are experiencing this summer.

But as farmers in that country deal with severe climatic conditions, near-perfect growing conditions in most of Canadian farmland and skyrocketing corn prices mean many farmers in this country are cashing in.

The footprints of a pair of Canadian Olympians have long pounded Guelph’s running trails. That fact was on everyone’s mind Sunday morning, as local competitive runners gathered in Fergus, first to watch two locally trained distance runners compete in the Olympic marathon, and then to participate in a run — albeit a much shorter one — of their own.

Joe van Koeverden is a proud father after watching his son Adam win an Olympic silver medal in the kayak K-1 1000-metre final this morning at Eton Dorney. Joe graduated with both his BComm Hotel and Food Administration and MBA Hospitality & Tourism from HTM. This silver medal is the fourth Olympic medal of Adam's career and makes him Canada's most decorated Olympian in the kayak event.

Leading professionals from across North America gathered for the first Ag HR Symposium in Canada at the University of Guelph July 24 and 25.  

The new accounting co-op program offered by the College of Management and Economics was mentioned today in The Globe and Mail's weekly Business School news roundup.  An excerpt from the article follows: 

Add the University of Guelph’s College of Management and Economics to a growing list of business schools offering a co-op education in accounting.

Guelph’s first regular co-op class will begin in fall, 2013, but a limited number of 15 or so top students will be offered placements for work terms next summer.

Olympic athlete Reid Coolsaet doesn't exercise like you or me.

“I only ran 14 k this morning,” Coolsaet says, deadpan. “I'll do 16 this afternoon. It's a light day.”

His light day would send many others to bed for a week. Or leave them gasping for air on the side of a road.

But Coolsaet will be competing in the 42.2 kilometre Olympic marathon, and gunning to do it in less than two hours, 10 minutes — a world-class time.

The well-being of the environment, society and business are core focal points for Lianne Foti when communicating the mission of ‘my world, my choice!’. Lianne Foti is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor for Marketing and Consumer Studies who shares CME’s value of sustainability through her role as co-founder and executive director of ‘my world, my choice!’, an educational program that teaches students about sustainability and challenges them to grow as leaders in their schools and communities.