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Now employed at Ducks Unlimited, former MSc grads, Michael Merchant, and Becca Warren are part of the biggest project this organization has ever done. Ducks Unlimited Canada is in the middle of an ambitious survey of more than 31 million hectares of the Northweat Territories' wilderness.  The project will take about two years from start to finish, and result in a highly detailed digital map that will incluce information about existing habitats, and what plants make up those habitats.

CSAHS own Jess Haines, is looking for 300 more families to partake in a health study aimed to determine how we establish healthy habits early in life.  Participating families will be followed for a 20 year period to look at how habits that were formed as children impact them as adults.  Haines is looking specifically for families with children between the age of 18 months and 6 years old, since this age range is critical for creating he

Two researchers from the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS) have been named recipients of prestigious U of G research awards.

Dr. Linda Parker is a psychology and neuroscience professor at the University of Guelph and has been studying the pharmacological properties of cannabinoids on brain behaviours for almost two decades. She is the current president of the CCIC and is the 2016 recipient of the ICRS Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Barbara Morrongiello, a psychology professor at the University of Guelph who holds a Canada Research Chair in child and youth injury prevention, conducted a study with her colleagues looking at the safety of children while they swim. She concluded that parents often overestimate their childs ability to swim compared to the assessment of instructors.

An innovative lab at the U of G is providing a non-invasive, cost-effective method for clinically measuring sexual responses.

Researchers at the Psychophysiology of Sexual Health (POSH) lab are using thermal imaging technology to bring a unique perspective to physical sexual response and its effect on overall quality of life.

Prof. Tuuli Kukkonen of the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, the director of the POSH lab, says that she specifically designed the lab to examine issues surrounding the measurement of physical sexual arousal.

  When we think of homelessness we often think of urban areas, however, Sociology and Anthropology professor, Bill O'Grady, finds homelessness is even more widespread in rural and northern Ontario. Homelessness in rural and northern communities is less visable and described as "hidden" due to supports and services that aren't accessed.

We often think of how parents influence their children, however, children also influence their parents.