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Students, faculty and members of the community gathered at War Memorial Hall Monday for the inaugural Derry Lecture featuring Mick Jackson.

Sunny Choi and Jenny Kim, and Rebecca McIlroy and Chloe Blais will compete at the Restaurants Canada Show in Toronto for the $3,000 grand prize.

Venture philanthropist and University of Guelph honorary doctorate recipient Mick Jackson will speak February 23 at the inaugural Derry Lecture on “How a dollar can change the world.”

Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Canadienne, Ayrshire or Milking Shorthorn? In this interview with RealAgriculture.com, professor Elliott Currie talks about his recent project examining which dairy breed is the most profitable. To find out the answer, check out the interview.

Have a great business idea? Apply for the Hub Incubator Program by March 27.

In this Q&A, Professor Trent Tucker speaks to his career transition, the success of Micro-Tyco and his crowdfunding initiative to bring Lego Serious Play to U of G.

The College of Business and Economics’ Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship (CBaSE) recently received a $400,000 grant from the On-Campus Entrepreneurship Activities program (OCEA).

Marketing and Consumer Studies professor Tanya Mark has been awarded the 2015 William R. Davidson Award from the Journal of Retailing. The award recognizes the best article published in each volume of the journal. The article, titled “Capturing the Evolution of Customer–Firm Relationships: How Customers Become More (or Less) Valuable Over Time” was praised for its originality, technical competence and strong contribution to the theory and practice of marketing and retailing.

The award will be presented at the AMA Winter Conference in San Antonio, Texas later this month.

Economics professor and interim associate dean, research and graduate studies, Miana Plesca has received a grant from Ontario’s Pay Equity Office to study the gender wage gap. She is among one of three grant recipients of the new provincial Gender Wage Gap Grant Program.

Our Accounting Society recently hosted its first case competition, awarding four business students with a trip to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) headquarters in Toronto.