Data Skills Workshop: Tableau Part 1
2018-10-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
A picture is worth a thousand words! Especially when you don’t have to read the thousand words it would take to explain the patterns and trends in your data. There are many reasons why information is easier to explain, explore and convince with in a visual format. This session will provide you with some introductory theory and basic skills to make your data come to life using Tableau.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with the latest version of Tableau Public installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time. If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

OAC Job Fair
2018-10-03 10:00 - 15:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
The OAC Job Fair is an opportunity to meet employers who are actively recruiting students for exciting opportunities in the agricultural, business and environmental industries. Many employers in attendance have opportunities posted on Experience Guelph that you can explore prior to the day of the Fair.
Students of all years and programs are encouraged to attend this Fair to network with employers and find out about their current and upcoming opportunities.
Registration is not required to attend.
University Centre, Peter Clark Hall

SEDRD Speaker Series: Rural Life - Challenges and Opportunities
2018-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Landscape Architecture, 124 Reynolds Walk, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Please join us for the second School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) Speaker Series presentation. Prof. Al Lauzon (Capacity Development and Extension) will deliver a presentation titled “Rural Life: Challenges and Opportunities”. Everyone is welcome to attend the session. Please feel free to bring your lunch. The event will take place in Room 143 of the Landscape Architecture Building.
Landscape Architecture Building, Room 143

Data Skills Workshop: Tableau Part 2
2018-10-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Canada
A picture is worth a thousand words! Especially when you don’t have to read the thousand words it would take to explain the patterns and trends in your data. There are many reasons why information is easier to explain, explore and convince with in a visual format. This session will provide you with some introductory theory and basic skills to make your data come to life using Tableau.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with the latest version of Tableau Public installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop. Please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time. If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Thursday At Noon Concert: Lili Boulanger; ses influences and ses contemporains
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Soprano Maghan McPhee and pianist Carl Philippe Gionet warm-up the crowd for the upcoming “Creative Women at the End of the First World War Conference” (Oct 5-7, 2018).
Songs of the influential Lili Boulanger, who is being celebrated for the centennial of her death and her creation “Clarieres dans le ciel” will be the focus. Her teacher Gabriel Faure and their contemporaries, Ravel, Duparc and the iconic Claude Debussy, also celebrating the centennial of his death, will be featured.
Free event. All are welcome.
Presented by the University of Guelph, College of Arts, and the School of Fine Art and Music.
Mackinnon Building, Room 107 (Goldschmidt Room)

Data Skills Workshop: Voyant Tools
2018-10-04 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment that allows you to do a number of straight-forward text analysis functions, including but not limited to: word counts, tag cloud creation, colocation and word trending.
Voyant Tools allows one to read a single document or an enormous collection of works “from a distance”, meaning it enables the reader to extract characteristics of a corpus quickly and accurately discovering underlying themes in texts or verifying propositions against them.
Register for this Library workshop.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Guelph Women in Leadership: Strategies for Building a Career in Real Estate
2018-10-04 17:00 - 19:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
U of G’s Guelph Women in Leadership (GWIL) is excited to announce our first panel event in partnership with CLV Group and InterRent REIT to talk about strategies to help build your early career in the different sectors of real estate.
Come out to listen to experts in sales, marketing, property management, human resources and customer care. This is a great opportunity for students to gain knowledge about various opportunities the real estate industry has to offer and network with industry reps.
Panelists are:

Jennifer Brownhill, Regional Marketing Manager
Stevee-Anne Bates, Sales Manager
Anja Gorrie, Recruiting Specialist
Reanne Ghadban, Property Manager

This event is open to all students from all majors. Free pizza will be served with opportunities to win prizes! Registration is required.
University Centre, Room 442

Better Sleep Program Workshop
2018-10-04 19:30 - 20:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Learn how to decrease insomnia, fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, and get more energy from sleep using proven, drug-free strategies.
This skills program meets weekly on Thursday evenings, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m., for five sessions. An online program is also available.
The fee is $20 for U of G students, $50 for members of USW Local 4120, and $100 for all others.
University Centre, Room 332

World premiere of composition "The Flag"
2018-10-06 20:00 - 23:00
Join us for the world premier of award-winning musical composition “The Flag”. The piece will be performed by Monica Pearce, winner of the School of Fine Arts and Music and School of Language and Literatures’ competition to encourage early-career Canadian women composers.
This SSHRC-funded competition was created to honour the legacies of women composers at the end of the First World War. Pearce based her piece on Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting The Flag (1918) –a powerful anti-war statement and the artist’s response to her brother’s service in World War I.
St. George’s Anglican Church, Guelph
Tickets for the concert are available through EventBrite.

Cyber Security Awareness Roadshow
2018-10-10 11:00 - 14:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Free pizza!! Free stuff!!
Learn how to recognize a phishing scam, create strong passwords and protect yourself from bad actors online.
Come by the UC Courtyard and hang out with CCS – your campus IT department – and become cyber safe!

Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture: Alpa Nawre
2018-10-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Landscape Architecture, 124 Reynolds Walk, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture by Alpa Nawre, Assistant Professor (Landscape Architecture), University of Florida. Her talk is titled “Landscape Architecture in Rural India”. All are welcome to attend.

Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 1 Award in Wines
2018-10-12 | Macdonald Stewart Hall, 42 Macdonald St, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 1 in Wines is an entry level qualification providing a straightforward introduction to wine. It is ideal for boosting the confidence of new or inexperienced front line staff in the hospitality and retail sectors. It is also a great course for those wanting to know the main grape varieties and food and wine matching.
Application deadline: October 12, 2018

Lunch and Learn: The Power of Inclusive Research
2018-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Rozanski Hall, 98 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
U of G’s Centre for Families, Work and Well-being is hosting a lunch and learn on The Power of Inclusive Research.
Presenter Julianne Acker-Verney will share key findings from her work and highlight research methods that share power with, and give a voice to, diverse women with disabilities.
This is an interactive 90-minute workshop designed to identify and model inclusive practices. Julianne will draw from Hankivsky’s 2014 primer on intersectionality, as well as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s critical concept of misfitting (2011), to explore how women with disabilities are regularly marginalized and silenced by research. Attendees are encouraged to bring developing research ideas to refer to during a practical exercise aimed at illustrating methods and strategies for doing inclusive research that shares power with, and gives voice to, diverse women with disabilities.
Please bring your lunch. Coffee and light refreshments provided.
RSVP as space is limited
Rozanski Hall, Room 108

Special Monday edition of the Thursday At Noon Concert Series: Yazz Ahmed's Hafla Band
2018-10-15 12:00 - 14:00 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Special Monday edition of the Thursday At Noon (TAN) Concert Series: Yazz Ahmed’s Hafla Band
Yazz Ahmed will also participate in a post-concert talk-back conversation from 1 – 2 p.m. with Jonathan Campbell (Aga Khan Museum).
This event is part of the “Thinking Spaces,” The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series.
Free admission. All are welcome to attend.
MacKinnon Building, Room 107 (Goldschmidt Room)
Presented by the University of Guelph, College of Arts, the School of Fine Art and Music, and the Central Students Association (CSA).

Arboretum Workshop: Plants, Stars, Galaxies and the University
2018-10-15 19:00 - 21:15 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
The Arboretum’s Plants, Stars, Galaxies and the University workshop series includes 12 lectures (two per evening for six weeks) that explore many of the wonders of the night sky. On clear nights, telescopes will be available to observe the night sky. Series runs Oct. 15 to Nov. 19.
Early Bird Fee: $125 before Oct 7.
Regular Fee: $140.

Relaxation and Stress Management Skills Workshop
2018-10-16 17:30 - 18:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Learn to relax tight muscles, calm anxiety, settle a busy brain, cope effectively, and have more energy.
This skills training program meets twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., for 12 sessions (six weeks).
The fee is $40 for U of G students, $120 for members of USW Local 4120 and $240 for all others.
University Centre, Room 429

Public Presentation – Associate Vice-President (Academic)
2018-10-17 08:30 - 09:30 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
A schedule for the public presentation by the short-listed candidate for the position of Associate Vice-President (Academic) has been established as follows:

Wednesday, October 17, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
MacKinnon Building, Room 120
Dr. Cate Dewey, DVM, MSc, PhD, Professor, Ontario Veterinary College, Population Medicine, University of Guelph

The public presentation and question session for the candidate will be podcast and made available on the Decanal & Other Academic Searches website at http://www.uoguelph.ca/vpacademic/decanalsearch/
The committee invites written comments as part of this search; these should be directed to Charlotte Yates either by regular mail or email to provost@uoguelph.ca by November 1, 2018. Your comments will be dealt with in strict confidence.

She's Got Game Launch
2018-10-18 10:00 - 11:30 | Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre – Events Centre
Join us as we celebrate the exciting launch of U of G’s She’s Got Game initiative! She’s Got Game is committed to fostering gender equity and encouraging women and girls to excel in sports. It aims to help girls and women acquire tools to succeed on and off the field of play by engaging the community, informing policy and fundraising.
Food and beverages will be provided.
Learn more about the initiative at www.shesgotgame.ca.

Visiting Fulbright Specialist Melody Graulich, Utah State University
2018-10-18 14:30 - 16:30 | Canada
At the junction between personal memory and social history: Using family photographs to create cultural memories.
Part of the Rural History Roundtable talk series featuring Visiting Fulbright Specialist on Western North American Cultural Studies.
Sponsored by The Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History, The College of Arts and Fulbright Canada
McLaughlin Library, Room 246

Take the Stress Out of IBS
2018-10-19 12:30 - 13:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Learn strategies to decrease symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome or a stressed stomach.
This skills program, offered by the Stress Management Clinic and the dietitian at Student Health Services, meets weekly on Fridays, 12:30 – 1:30 pm, for four sessions.
The fee is $20 for U of G students, $40 for members of USW Local 4120, and $80 for all others.
University Centre, Room 334

Open Access Week: Keynote Speaker
2018-10-22 11:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Come kick off this year’s Open Access Week with our opening keynote, Kelsey Merkley. Merkley is a Senior Policy Advisor at Ontario Digital Service and an open innovation practitioner with several years’ experience working with local, national and global organizations. Formerly a Public Lead for Creative Commons Canada and Creative Commons South Africa, she has launched numerous community-building projects, including UnCommon Women and Open Textbooks for Africa, and is an expert in all things Open. Her talk will address this year’s Open Access theme, “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge.”
McLaughlin Library, Room 246

Better Sleep for Peri-Menopausal Women
2018-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
This two-hour workshop offers drug-free tips to help cope with mid-life sleep changes, hot flashes and the frustration of being awake through the night.
The fee is $5 for U of G students, $20 for members of USW Local 4120, and $40 for all others.
University Centre, Room 430

Beyond Graduation Educational Opportunities Fair
2018-10-23 10:00 - 15:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Meet representatives from educational institutions in Ontario, across Canada, the United States and international locations to explore post-graduation opportunities including certificate, post-diploma and graduate programs. A wide variety of educational fields and programs will be represented such as:

teacher education
MBA programs
social work
accounting
law
college post-diploma programs
homeopathic medicine
applied sciences
and more.

Anxiety: Skills & Strategies Workshop
2018-10-23 12:00 - 13:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Learn practical techniques, new tips and information on how to respond to the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety.
This skills program meets weekly on Tuesdays, from noon – 1 p.m., for three sessions.
The fee is $10 for U of G students, $30 for members of USW Local 4120, and $60 for all others.
University Centre, Room 430

Writing the African City: A conversation with Angolan author Ondjaki
2018-10-23 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a compelling conversation with Angolan author, Ondjaki, who will discuss his multiple award-winning novel, Transparent City. Co-hosted by the College of Arts, the School of Languages and Literatures, and the Bookshelf.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec St., Guelph

Ondjaki, chosen by The Guardian in 2012 as one of their “Top Five African Writers,” is one of the most widely read younger writers in Africa. Born in 1977, he is the author of more than twenty books which have been published in more than a dozen languages. Ondjaki’s latest novel, Transparent City, a wrenching, sometimes surreal and always deeply human portrait of his native city of Luanda, Angola, won the coveted José Saramago Prize in Portugal, the Best African Novel Prize in France and a World Literature Prize from the St. Malo Literary Festival. As part of an extensive North American tour, Ondjaki will be visiting The Bookshelf in Guelph, where he will discuss Transparent City with his English translator, Stephen Henighan.

Open Access Week: OA Hackathon - Hack It Open
2018-10-24 10:00 - 15:00 | Canada
As the availability of open data through the Internet becomes more common, students are being asked to solve new and varied problems. Drop by Scholars Studio (2nd floor, library) for a fun and relaxed day of creative problem solving and community. Can’t stay for the whole event? No problem! Feel free to come and go as you please.
There will be three datasets on hand to choose from, catering to historical and contemporary areas of interest. Participants will work in groups to answer a question. A prize will be awarded to the team with the best answer.
Individuals and groups are welcome. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Library, Room 289

2018 Gairdner Lecture: Azim Surani
2018-10-24 10:30 - 12:00 | OVC Pathobiology AHL, 419 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join us Oct. 24 for the 2018 Gairdner Lecture, “From Genomic Imprinting to the Human Germline” presented by Dr. Azim Surani.
Surani is the recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International award for the discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease.
He is the Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Marshall-Walton Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.
OVC Pathobiology AHL, Room 1800

SEDRD Speaker Series: Social Justice, Rural Policy and ICRPS 2019
2018-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Landscape Architecture, 124 Reynolds Walk, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Join us for the third School of Environmental Design and Rural Development Speaker Series event. Stephen Penner will share reflections from his participation in the 2018 International Comparative Rural Policy Summer Institute. The event, held in Tuskegee, Alabama, focused on social justice and rural policy. Information will also be shared about the 2019 International Comparative Rural Policy Summer Institute.
All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
Landscape Architecture Building, Pit Lobby

Open Access Week: Tri-Agency Policies - What You Need to Know
2018-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Canada
Join us for this informative session where we will provide an overview of current Canadian policies related to open access and data management, such as the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications and the Draft Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, and how these policies may impact your research. We will also highlight the services the library offers to support you in meeting your funding obligations.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Thursday At Noon Concert: Jesse Stewart, Solo Percussion
2018-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
University of Guelph alumnus, Jesse Stewart, returns to his alma mater to perform a free concert of improvised solo percussion music on a variety of unusual instruments including the waterphone, handpan, wood flutes and more.
MacKinnon Building, Room 107 (Goldschmidt Room)
