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.
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
The accident that paralyzed CME student Drew Cumpson from the neck down last year didn’t affect his ability to smile, which he does often. He credits his positive attitude and the support of his friends and family for keeping him going. Drew plans to return to school by taking one or two courses online in the fall.
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Good citizenship can’t be taught, but it can be learned. That’s one of the aims of the Co-operators Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship (CBaSE), based in the College of Management and Economics (CME), which runs a program matching teams of students with local organizations that need some extra help.
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.
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.
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.
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
That’s a question that intrigues University of Guelph business professor Jamie Gruman, co-founder of the newly-created Canadian Positive Psychology Association that’s holding its first conference in July in Toronto.
Professor Gruman comments on the topic in today's Guelph Mercury.
According to today's Guelph Mercury, the Guelph offices of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will receive 30 to 35 job losses as the federal government enacts measures to eliminate its deficit. The union representing the employees revealed this week that veterinarians, biologists and agricultural scientists will be impacted. Acting CME Dean Sylvain Charlebois comments on this issue