Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Tricia Van Rhijn

Tricia Van Rhijn

My research interests include parent-child relationships, child development, early childhood education and care, child and family well-being, family relations, various aspects of work-life integration (as well as school-life or school-work-life integration), and the experiences of non-traditional students in formal post-secondary education, in particular mature students and student parents. 

Email: tricia.vanrhijn@uoguelph.ca

Janet Beeler-Marfisi

Janet Beeler-Marfisi

My lab studies lung disease in horses, cats, and dogs. We look for relationships between air pollution and the incidence of asthma. As well, we are developing more detailed ways of understanding how lung diseases arise, and finding more accurate methods for diagnosing them.

Amy Greer

Amy Greer

My research uses mathematical models and computer simulation to help identify improved infectious disease prevention and control strategies in both humans and animals. Our work has a significant impact on public health and veterinary health, by strengthening planning and disease control strategies to prevent infectious disease outbreaks.

Portrait of Dr. Andrew Gadsden

Andrew Gadsden

My research is in the area of mechanical and electrical engineering. It involves the development of intelligent control and estimation strategies with applications to mechatronic systems, robotics, and real-world problems.

Email: gadsden@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Silver

Jennifer Silver

Jennifer's research is concerned with the roles of institutions, markets, and technologies in environmental governance. Topically, many of her projects have centered on oceans, marine resource management, and coastal and Indigenous communities.

Email: j.silver@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Derek Haley

Derek Haley

Studying the behavioural biology of cattle sheds light on how they see and experience the world, and ultimately offers us insight into their feelings. What drives their behaviour? How do the ways that we interact with them, house them, and manage them, impact their well-being? In our lab, answering these questions are fundamental to ensuring that the animals we farm, in this case cattle, live a good life.

Email: dhaley@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Jaclyn Cockburn

Jaclyn Cockburn

Physical processes and human activities change the landscape and increasingly these factors work in tandem on the Earth’s surface; these interactions are what inspire and drive my research.

Email: jaclyn.cockburn@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of graduate faculty Courtney R. Schott (Pathobiology PhD, DVSc, MSc)

Courtney R. Schott

About my research:

Osteosarcoma is an aggressive bone cancer in dogs and people. My lab investigates the mechanisms that permit osteosarcoma cells to spread to new sites (metastasis) and survive exposure to chemotherapy (chemoresistance). Additionally, we are working on identifying biomarkers that can help predict outcomes and/or guide therapeutic decisions for patients with osteosarcoma.

Portrait of Dr. Olga Smoliak

Olga Smoliak

I examine professional interactions in the context of therapy. I use discourse and conversation analysis to study the micro-details of social interaction.