Two U of G athletes have been honoured with Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) player of the year awards. They were announced Wednesday night during the All-Canadian Banquet at the Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel and Convention Centre. Brienne Stairs, a fourth-year student and forward for the Gryphon’s women’s field hockey team, received the award for the [...]

Eight characters can be pretty limiting when it’s the allotted length of an email address. Starting Oct. 28, though, U of G staff and faculty can break free of the eight-character restraints by creating new email aliases for themselves. Systems analyst Brent Harp says people have been requesting this change for years, but it was [...]

Hospitality and Tourism Management professor Marion Joppe presented a paper on Oct. 21 to the tourism committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The committee was meeting at the organization’s conference in Jerusalem, an event hosted by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and Local Development. Joppe’s paper [...]

Prof. Jack Trevors, School of Environmental Sciences, has been appointed chair of the environmental microbiology certification committee of the Canadian College of Microbiologists (CCM). He is currently leading a working group to establish the certification requirements and develop the national examination for the CCM environmental microbiology certification. Trevors recently completed a three-year term as chair of [...]