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Our DECA U Guelph team made the College of Business and Economics proud at provincials last weekend. 

What would you do with $1?

Last fall, students in professor Trent Tucker’s MGMT*1000 class worked to turn $1 loans into profitable businesses through the Micro-Tyco Business Challenge. Micro-Tyco, which is run by the WildHearts charity, is a global competition that invests the money raised by participants into micro-loans for entrepreneurs in developing countries.

The College of Business and Economics, and the School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management (HFTM) regret to share that Thomas (Tom) F. Powers, former HFTM director, has passed away. Powers was the second director of the School from 1979 - 1987.

Tom's wife, Jo Marie was also a long standing faculty member in the School. Read full obituary

An increasing number of Canadians might be hitting the road for their summer vacations, according to School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management director Statia Elliot. In this report from Global News, Elliot speaks to the impact lower gas prices are expected to have on domestic tourism, noting that "three-quarters of what we call tourism is generated by our own Canadian travel ...".

University of Guelph commerce students are getting their hands dirty building sustainable business opportunities…with soap.

Choosing to attend the University of Guelph on an academic exchange from the University of Copenhagen helped transform Cathrine Osterberg's love of ice cream into a business opportunity. In 2012, Osterberg worked with food science professor and ice cream researcher Doug Goff, and also wrote a business plan for the Nicol Entrepreneurial Competition, giving her the tools to open her own ice cream shop - Osterberg Ice Cream - in Denmark.

During his research on dark tourism, Brent McKenzie has visited many different sites across Europe where death and suffering have occured and are defining parts of history. In this interview with Research Matters, McKenzie discusses the how these places and the events that took place are memorialized.

For Kevin McLeod, an alumnus and proud member of the first accounting cohort, the UFE was one of the proudest moments in his career so far.

Marketing and Consumer Studies students Justin Manarang, Sophie Arkell and Ronnel Santos will travel to China in April 2015 to conduct research on the expansion of ESKA Water into China. The students recently won the Bridges to International Practice live case competition as part of assistant professor Lianne Foti’s International Marketing class. Students spent the semester working with ESKA Water president and CEO Jim Delsnyder on creating marketing strategies for the company’s expansion.