She started triathlons as a youngster partly to make friends in her brand-new home country. Nearly two decades later, Dominika Jamnicky, B.Sc. ’15, is training for the Americas triathlon championships in Uruguay this fall – with her eye on ultimately qualifying for the Paris Olympics in 2024 – while completing the home stretch of
Dozens of threatened, endangered and at-risk plants and animals are found across Canada, and two University of Guelph grads are playing a small but important role in ensuring they have a future. Ian Adams and Robyn Rumney work for the Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada as Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) coordinators. From their respective bases in
Ever since he was a child, David Borish wanted to tell stories about ecosystem and community health, and now thanks to his studies at the University of Guelph, he is doing just that. A documentary film he directed and produced for his PhD is debuting this fall at festivals and screenings – including one
View of Earth from space fuels nature photography career for U of G alum STORY BY ANDREW VOWLES Orbiting Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery 30 years ago, Dr. Roberta Bondar heard the voices of her six crewmates, mechanical sounds from equipment, taped music. But as she peered through a window while photographing the planet
U OF G AT FOREFRONT OF NEW GLOBAL APPROACH STORY BY ANDREW VOWLES “I was eight years old, and I wanted to be a monkey.” When that plan fell through, Travis Steffens decided to do the next best thing. He studied primates for his B.Sc., followed by grad studies in anthropology. During his first trip
From retracing the footsteps of the Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic to taking part in cocaine drug busts in the Caribbean, Lisa Tubb had her share of memorable moments during her first-ever deployment with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in fall 2021. It was a voyage of firsts for Tubb, who grew up in landlocked
Providing safe and inclusive workplaces for women in skilled trades is the goal of a project led by a U of G grad and launched this past year by a national coalition. We Are Trades, a guide for employers to improve their workplace environment and culture for women, may also help address a projected labour
U of G grad Marcie Jacklin received the 2021 Canadian Wildlife Federation’s (CWF) Stan Hodgkiss Outdoorsperson of the Year Award for organizing local bird counts and calling for preservation of natural areas around Fort Erie, Ont. More generally, she said, the award reflects her decades’ worth of environmental advocacy and citizen science with various organizations
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics wrapped up this weekend (Feb. 19-20) with impressive performances from the participating U of G grads. Cody Sorensen, 35, competed with his team in the four-man bobsleigh competition on the final weekend of the Olympics. They placed ninth overall with a time of three minutes, 56 seconds and 99 milliseconds. Germany’s
Where do you go for exercise and air amid nature during a pandemic? For more and more people, the urge to escape housebound claustrophobia over the past two years has led to an uptick in local hiking and walking. And for many of those newly minted explorers in southern Ontario, University of Guelph grad Nicola