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Sneha recently graduated with her BScAgr as part of the OAC Class of 2022. She came to Guelph in 2018 as an international student from Mauritius, and despite studying abroad at a particularly challenging time, she excelled. Sneha attributes part of her success to the OAC scholarships she received and the encouragement they inspired in her, including the Rosemont Scholarship in Food Sustainability and Class of '51 O.A.C. Leadership Prize she received at convocation.

It is with sympathy that we share the passing of Jack Gellner, MSc FARE 1976, on July 29, 2022. His obituary is available here. 

It is with sympathy that we share the passing of Klaas Baan, B.Sc. (Agr.) 2006, on Monday, August 1st. His obituary is available here.

It’s not exactly a varsity sport, but training and competing in the annual “weed Olympics” can be equally gruelling. 

The Northeastern Collegiate Weed Science Contest, an annual event that pits the finest plant science students against one another in tough but friendly competition, is set to return this week after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Continue reading, "Plant Science Students to Compete in International ‘Weed Olympics’" here. 

It is with sympathy that we share the passing of Keith Hutcheson on July 18, 2022. Keith was a member of the OAC Class of 1950 and was recently inducted into the Order of OAC to honour his philanthropic support of the college. His obituary is available here. 

Lillian Iris Chanasyk passed away on May 12, 2022 just shy of her 93 birthday. She is the wife of Victor Chanasyk who was the Founding Director of the first School of Landscape of Architecture in Canada at the University of Guelph (now the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development). She self identified as a “homemaker” which is an old fashioned term, but she felt her role was to love and support her husband and his career.

The OAC Dean’s Office is pleased to welcome Amir Bazrgar into the role of Statistics Consultant for OAC. In this role, Amir supports the use of statistics in teaching and research across the college. He consults with graduate students to provide advice on statistics and experimental design, and assist them in understanding and analyzing their data. He also facilitates workshops and training on a variety of statistical topics.

Ondose. In Ojibwe, it means “to walk from a certain place.”

Brad Howie, the former Anishnaabe environmental educator at the University of Guelph Arboretum, knows how the story of a journey is just as important as its culmination. In his case, the journey was his master’s degree in environmental science, which took place as U of G was welcoming its first students to the new bachelor of Indigenous environmental science and practice (BIESP) program.

Four of this year’s five inductees into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame are OAC alumni. Congratulations to all inductees. A photo album of the event is available here. 

The Ontario Agricultural College has released findings from the Master’s Destinations Project: Degrees with a Difference, highlighting employment data of OAC master’s program graduates. It is the second report released under the Graduate Destinations initiative.