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March 3: Business and economics students help support Syrian student refugees

On March 7, the World University Service of Canada and the Multi-Faith Resource Team at the University of Guelph are partnering to host the Gryphons Care Dinner, with the goal of raising $30,000 to support the student refugees. The dinner will be held at Peter Clark Hall and will feature authentic Syrian vegetarian cuisine and entertainment.

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New CFL recruit John Rush will always be a Gryphon

The marketing management student reflects on his time at the University of Guelph and discusses what he is most looking forward to as he starts his professional football career.

“It’s a great time to be a movie marketing researcher”: Q&A with marketing professor Tirtha Dhar

Tirtha Dhar researches food and movie marketing, but if you ask him what his job entails, he might tell you he solves puzzles for a living. Inspired by the rapidly changing marketing landscape that took place while he was a PhD student in the 1990s, he decided to focus his dissertation on the implications of competitions in marketing channels on social welfare. His quantitative research has since progressed to include a broad range of social issues and problems as they pertain to marketing in an effort to understand the complex decision-making processes of managers and consumers.

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