A University of Guelph ecology professor has won the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction.
Dr. Madhur Anand’s experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir of Halves, was among five finalists in the category.
OAC leadership acknowledges the pain and trauma of Indigenous peoples following the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. We stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and we mourn this devastating loss.
We must continue to educate and reflect, while we challenge the systems that have oppressed and excluded Indigenous people, practices, and ways of knowing.
The School of Environmental Sciences is pleased to welcome Susan Chiblow as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Environmental Stewardship. Chiblow will begin in the role on November 1st, 2021.
Protecting freshwater and farming soils from possible harmful effects of microplastics is the goal of a four-year, $1-million project led by University of Guelph researchers.
One of seven projects across Canada awarded a total of $7 million, the U of G collaboration will receive $999,400 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Environment and Climate Change Canada under their joint Plastics Science for a Cleaner Future initiative. Other funded projects will look at other aspects of plastic pollution.
Two University of Guelph professors are among 14 international researchers to be appointed as CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Applied Research) Azrieli Global Scholars for 2021-23.
Dr. Rebecca Shapiro, a fungal pathogen researcher in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Dr. Jackie Goordial, an environmental microbiologist in the School of Environmental Sciences, were chosen for the prestigious program.
The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) Dean’s Office is pleased to announce Tahlia Dyer as the new Communications and Events Coordinator. She began in the role on May 17, 2021.
Dyer will support OAC’s strategic initiatives through a variety of internal and external communication projects and events. She will work collaboratively with a variety of contacts across OAC and the University of Guelph (U of G) and play a key support role in maintaining and enhancing communication with OAC’s various stakeholders.
The University of Guelph’s Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (CAMA) student chapter won the 2021 National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Student Marketing Competition held remotely last month.
The team, consisting of nine Ontario Agricultural College students, competed against 23 other North American schools to grab top prize.
The annual competition challenges students to develop a comprehensive marketing plan for a new agricultural product or service to improve producer income or productivity.
A team of University of Guelph agriculture students won the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC), held remotely this past month.
Rebecca Barr, Brooke Boonstoppel, Clayton McWilliams and Tyrone Wagler competed against three other schools to present the best dairy farm management recommendations.
U of G’s new bachelor of Indigenous environmental science was featured in University Affairs magazine for an article examining how Indigenous researchers are working together with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences.
The OAC Dean’s Office and Ridgetown Campus are pleased to welcome Mairin Scannell as the Business Development Centre (BDC) Project Manager. She began in the role on April 26, 2021.