2022 UGRA Spring Forum Speaker Presentation Summary

By Pat Shewen

The UGRA Spring 2022 newsletter has been published and is being mailed to most UGRA members (unless you requested it not be mailed). You can download a PDF copy of the Spring Newsletter, or previous editions, by clicking: Newsletters

University of Guelph Nutrition Study in Older Adults

Older adults (60+ years) are needed for a beans and beef nutrition study in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph (Professor Alison Duncan).  

This study involves: 

CCS has only recently informed UGRA of changes that will afffect the licensing of retirees' Microsoft Office365 suite of products.  According to Craig Hyatt, Manager CCS:

The UGRA Winter 2022 newsletter has been published and is being mailed to most UGRA members (unless you requested it not be mailed). You can download a PDF copy of the Winter Newsletter, or previous editions, by clicking: Newsletters

We have added e-transfer as another payment option. Please use only the e-transfer account email ugraEtransfers@gmail.com. For those of you new to e-transfer, a primer on the process is available on our Contributing Membership page.

We are excited to announce that we are now accepting reservations to join our next UGRA Adventure to Costa Rica: A World of Nature trip featuring Tortuguero National Park, Arenal Volcano & Manuel Antonio National Park. This is a small group tour with Collette Vacations with a maximum group of 24. The trip will be 13 days from February 19 - March 3, 2023 and also includes 24 meals.

Retiree Judith Nasby, Curator Emerita of the Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, has published Making of a Museum, a Memoir  - relaying the origins of the Art Gallery of Guelph.  It is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.  The Making of a Museum, a Memoir brings the gallery’s history to vivid life in stories and images and recounts Nasby’s extensive career as a gallery leader, with anecdotes and insights into how art institutions are created.

Innovating, educating and collaborating to open green doors to the future

Yorklands Green Hub aims to create for Ontario’s public domain a self-sustaining education, demonstration, and research hub at the former Ontario Reformatory site in Guelph, Ontario.

Yorklands Green Hub will bring together businesses, organizations, and people of all ages and interests – to learn, work, share and innovate, with the common purpose of being engaged stewards of our land, food, water, cultural heritage and our overall wellbeing.

Alan Filewod introduced feminist philosopher and ethicist Dr. Samantha Brennan, Dean of the College of Arts, who provided an update on happenings in the COA. Dr. Brennan also kindly incorporated the information prepared by Music Professor Kimberly Francis, who had been unavoidably called away at the last moment.