By the time you’ve finished reading this post, someone in Canada will need a blood transfusion or blood products.
A single blood donation has the potential to save up to three lives.
Georgian is hosting its inaugural Blood Drive Week (March 15 to 19) with a host of activities at a booth outside Bear Essentials, Barrie Campus.
On [...]

Georgian College students Brad Bowden and Adam Dixon will play out their boyhood dreams when they take to the ice at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver this March. Both are members of the 2010 Canadian Sledge Hockey Team.
Bowden, a third-year Art and Design Fundamentals student, has taken the semester off to moonlight as a [...]

[ March 16, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. March 17, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. March 23, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. March 24, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. March 31, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Organizational Planning and Development is hosting several lunch-and-learn sessions on Microsoft Outlook at the Barrie and Orillia campuses.

SESSION DATES

Barrie Campus

Tuesday, March 16, noon to 1 p.m., room E014
Wednesday, March 17, 11 a.m. to noon, room B215
Tuesday, March 23, noon to 1 p.m., room E014
Wednesday, March 24, 11 a.m. to noon, room B215

Orillia Campus:

Wednesday, March 17, [...]

[ March 18, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. March 19, 2010; 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. March 23, 2010; 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Georgian staff and faculty members are invited to join President and CEO Brian Tamblyn at one of the following times for a casual chat about current happenings at the College. New staff members are encouraged to attend.

BARRIE CAMPUS

Thursday, March 18, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Oak Room

ORILLIA CAMPUS

Friday, March 19, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Staff [...]

[ May 17, 2010; 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. ] The annual Georgian College Golf Classic is set to tee off on Monday, May 17 at The Club at Bond Head, a nationally ranked golf course just west of Bond Head.

The Georgian College Golf Classic, one of Simcoe County’s longest-running golf tournaments, has raised more than $730,000 since its inception.

Proceeds from the 23rd annual tournament [...]

Georgian will celebrate excellence in teaching and learning by presenting Teaching Excellence Awards at the Centre for Teaching and Learning Focus on Teaching conference May 5.
The awards recognize teachers who demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching as well as staff members who support teachers and teaching excellence.
Award recipients are those who have contributed to [...]

Dr. Bruce Meyer, a Laurentian University professor at the Barrie Campus, has been shortlisted in TVOntario’s 2010 Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition, and he’s counting on your vote.
Meyer’s lecture will be broadcast on TVO on March 27 at 5 p.m.
Viewers may cast their votes at www.tvo.org/big-ideas or by calling 1-877-792-VOTE (8683).
The voting period gets [...]

[ April 15, 2010; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; April 16, 2010; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; 8:00 am; ] Some of Canada’s top literary writers are coming to Barrie in April, as part of the annual L3 Writers’ Conference.

Sponsored in part by Georgian’s University Partnership Centre, the conference is a major project of high school students enrolled in a unique program at Barrie’s North Collegiate.

Now in its third year, the conference is professionally planned [...]

Canada has one of the safest and most plentiful food supplies in the world.
However, foodborne illnesses can occur if we eat food contaminated by pathogens that can make us ill.
Pathogens include bacteria, moulds, viruses and parasites which can produce symptoms ranging from upset stomach, to vomiting and diarrhea.
Consumers can do their part in reducing the [...]

Mumps continues to circulate in Ontario and those most vulnerable are students of college age.
Thanks to immunization mumps, which used to hit almost all children as they grew up, has become rare in the province. But in the last three years there have been several outbreaks.
Most students born between 1970 and 1992 have only had [...]