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7 August 2018

Food from Thought Welcomes New Research Assistant Cohort for September 2018

The University of Guelph has selected sixteen outstanding graduate students to receive exclusive Food from Thought Research Assistant awards for
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12 June 2018

Conversation Canada: Restaurants Not Only Feed Us, They Shape Our Food Preferences

Food from Thought principal investigator Alfons Weersink was featured in the Conversation Canada discussing restaurants and food preferences. Prof. Weersink
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22 May 2018

Industry News: Trust the Opportunity

Food from Thought principal investigator and scientific director, Evan Fraser, discusses the amount of food available to feed the planet
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25 April 2018

Appointment of Director of Research Data Strategy for Food from Thought

The University of Guelph has named Dr. Karen Hand as the new Director of Research Data Strategy for the Food
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23 March 2018

Phys.org: Monitor climate change, not predators, to protect lake diversity

Food from Thought principal investigator Andrew MacDougall weighs in on the role of climate change and fish diversity. According to
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30 January 2018

Discovering a Bigger Impact for the Agri-food System

Michelle Thompson is an Food from Thought research assistant and a Masters student in Plant Agriculture with Dr. Manish Raizada,
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22 January 2018

Touring Family-Owned Crop, Poultry and Dairy farms

On a sunny day during the last week of September, we, the inaugural Arrell Food Institute and Food from Thought
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7 December 2017

The Hill Times: Canada Needs to Adopt Blockchain Technology to Meet Ambitious Agriculture and Food Goals

Food from Thought scientific director and principal investigator, Evan Fraser, wrote an op-ed in The Hill Times about Blockchain in
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28 November 2017

A Plurality of Ideas

Cameron Fioret is a Research Assistant with Food From Thought and a PhD student with Dr. Monique Deveaux, Canada Research Chair
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20 November 2017

Interdisciplinary Approach for Big Data and Agriculture

Emily Duncan and Andrew Nixon are Food From Thought Research Assistants with Food From Thought, and Katya Kudashinka and Nasrin
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10 November 2017

Water and Our Food

Kathleen Johnson is an Arrell Scholar and a Masters student in water resources engineering in the School of Engineering with
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7 November 2017

Food Literacy for Canadians

Kristin Mattice, Melissa MacKinnon, Shannon Cartwright and Midian Nascimento dos Santos are research assistants with Food From Thought. Kristin is a PhD
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3 November 2017

Reflecting on the Interdisciplinary Research Process

Steven Lam is a Research Assistant with Food From Thought and a PhD student examining the development and evaluation of
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10 August 2017

First Cohort of Food From Thought Research Assistants

Tackling global food issues will be the focus for 12 graduate students in the inaugural cohort of the Food From
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8 September 2016

U of G Receives $77 Million to Launch ‘Food From Thought’

Learn more about Food from Thought The University of Guelph has received $76.6 million from the federal government to start
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