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U of G’s new $45-million Athletic Centre includes a fitness centre, event centre, triple gym, multipurpose rooms and a central lobby with a climbing wall. Here are more stats:
$1.5 MILLION Cost of high-tech fitness equipment
1,300
11 Number of lockers
Number of multipurpose rooms
15,000 Number of additional athletic programming hours
2,200 8,0 00
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Number of seats in the event centre
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Students launch ‘green’ coffee cups campaign
Lawrence Hill, a creative writing professor, has been invested into the Order of Canada, considered the country’s highest honour.
A campaign organized by students and supported by U of G’s Hospitality Services aims to encourage the use of reusable coffee mugs on campus through customer incentives and an advertising campaign to reduce single-use cups. About 25,000 cups of coffee are sold each day on campus, A campaign mostly in disposable organized by cups. students aims “This is problematic to encourage due to the resources required to the use of manufacture and transport these reusable coffee single-use products, and their mugs. significant contribution to landfill waste,” says Alison Tindall, a student co-leader of the campaign. Tindall, along with students Tasia Wong, Monique Chan and Marion Davies, partnered with the Feeding 9 Billion program started by Evan Fraser, a U of G geography professor. The program aims to improve environmental sustainability and food security locally and globally. The campaign includes: • A new stamp-card program rewarding purchases of hot drinks in reusable mugs; • Convenient public sinks for washing mugs; • Posters explaining the environmental effects of consumers’ choices and savings from reusable mugs (Hospitality Services charges any hot drink as a “small” if purchased in a reusable mug, which saves $150 a year for the average customer); and • Cashiers’ verbal recognition of reusable mugs. Hospitality Services plans to integrate mugs into U of G’s existing “iamreusable” program, which allows patrons to borrow reusable dishes for to-go meals. “This campaign will draw on the University of Guelph’s commitment to environmental sustainability, and to inspiring long-term, pro-environmental behaviour in its students and staff,” says Ed Townsley, executive director of Hospitality Services.
Karen Menard has been appointed assistant vice-president (institutional research and planning). She previously held leadership roles with Trillium Health Partners, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and McMaster University. David Mirvish is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Guelph due to increasing work and personal responsibilities. The search for a new chancellor is under way. Jess Notwell, an international development and sociology PhD candidate, has been awarded a Vanier scholarship worth $50,000 a year for three years. She is researching women in nongovernmental organizations. Barry Smit, professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, has been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his work in climate change. Rene Van Acker has been appointed dean of the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) for a five-year term. He was previously OAC’s associate dean (external relations) and a professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture. Tony Vannelli, dean of the College of Physical and Engineering Science, has been named a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
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