Rene Van Acker has been chosen vice-president for research and innovation for the University of Guelph.
His five-year appointment follows a year as interim vice-president.
Van Acker is a farm boy who grew up near Burford and studied crop and weed sciences at Guelph and earned a doctorate in crop weed ecology from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
He was a professor at the University of Manitoba before returning to Guelph in 2006.
“As I’ve come to appreciate the scope and scale of the role, I’m looking forward to continue the work I’ve been doing with the excellent leaders and teams within the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation,” Van Acker said.
