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Over the weekend in Ottawa, CME sent its first team to JDC Central (Jeux du Commerce). JDC Central is an annual business case competition featuring top business schools and students from across Ontario and the Maritimes. JDC is now the biggest business case competition in the country (with East, Central and West). Each university sends one team of more than 45 representative students to participate respectively in one of 10 Academic Competitions. Points are awarded and accumulated towards a team being declared "School of the Year".

The 2011-2012 Hospitality and Tourism Managment Student Association (HTMSA) has pulled together to support their fellow student, Drew Cumpson, who was injured last summer on a volunteer mission in Peru. The fundraising dinner, which has just sold out, hopes to raise more than $10,000 to help cover the cost for a wheelchair. 

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CME Dean (Acting), Sylvain Charlebois participated as a panelist for a public discussion around the need for a national approach to emerging food challenges. Focusing his comments around food safety and security, he saw an emerging era of food safety accountability, but called for more government openness on food safety issues and a regulatory environment better adapted to the smaller players in agriculture.

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Acting CME Dean, Sylvain Charlebois and Prof. Francis Tapon's study entitled Food Index 2012, predicts an average increase of 2 percent in food prices for 2012. Quoted in the Yahoo!Finance article Will food, electronics weight heavily on your wallet in 2012?, the study projects a 3 percent price increase for items such as meat, vegetables and baked goods and a zero increase for other staples, creating a 2 percent average increase.

Three CME University of Guelph students are profiled in the Guelph Mercury for turning their homework into a business; a website that connects students with the club scene. Sev Bailey, Mike Hillcoat and Adam Estrela were given a class assignment to create a business and soon realized the real-world potential of their assignment. Read full story in the Guelph Mercury

A University of Guelph economics professor belongs to a winning team in a prestigious humanities and social sciences research competition.

Kris Inwood’s project in mining information from one of the largest population databases in the world was named one of the victors of the 2012 Digging Into Data Challenge today. Sponsored by Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the competition promotes innovative research using digital resources to learn about people and cultures and to develop multidisciplinary partnerships.

Sunghwan Yi, a University of Guelph marketing and consumer studies associate professor is profiled in the Guelph Mercury discussing his research about shopping habits and motivations. He recently received a $105,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, a federal government body, to study the differences between impulsive and compulsive shoppers, and what motivates excessive shoppers.

Organized by CME alumni Julian Brass, 2006 graduate of hotel and food administration, the inaugural Notable Awards were held in Toronto and celebrated Canada's top young professionals. CME was proud to sponsor the Architecture and Real Estate Award. The recipient of this category sees beyond the traditional and knows that the industries of architecture and real estate have a greater purpose in the way that they impact their city. 

Julian Brass founder of Notable.ca

President Summerlee wears CME-CMESA wig in support of United Way.

This year's United Way campaign saw record numbers of U of G students contribute by raising $8,600 with the College of Management and Economics Student Association leading the student campaign with $2,200 raised.

As part of the Wig-A-Day competition organized by United Way student volunteers, the CME-CMESA wig raised the most funds this year. In support of this competition, President Summerlee wore this beautiful blue wig.

For the past five years, Prof. Karen Finlay from the Marketing and Consumer Studies Department has been collaborating with Michelle Nogueira, Addiction Councillor at Homewood Community Addiction Services (CADS) to discover what it is about the gambling environment that causes 4.8% of adults who gamble to become addicted.

Prof Karen Finlay