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ONLINE: COVID-19 Town Hall
2021-06-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Stay up to date on the University’s plans to safely welcome students, faculty and staff back to campus by attending our second COVID-19 Town Hall on Thursday, June 17.
We will be joined by Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, the Associate Medical Officer of Health with Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.
We encourage you to submit your questions in advance. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions through Teams during the event. We understand family members of current and incoming students may have questions as well, and we welcome you to submit questions and attend the town hall, too.
Please join us on:
Thursday, June 17
Noon to 1 p.m.
Join online: Microsoft Teams Live
Submit questions in advance through: https://uoguel.ph/townhallquestions
Members of our executive team will be present to answer questions:

Dr. Gwen Chapman, provost and vice-president (academic)
Dr. Malcolm Campbell, vice-president (research)
Daniel Atlin, vice-president (external)
Sharmilla Rasheed, vice-president (finance and operations)

ONLINE: Alumni and Reunion Week 2021
2021-06-21 - 2021-06-27 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Our biggest U of G alumni event – Alumni and Reunion Week – is back and has gone virtual!
Join us for a virtual celebration from June 21 – 27! While we can’t be together on campus this year, we have a great line-up of virtual class reunions, DIYs, professional development, contests and more.
ALUMNI WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
Monday, June 21, 2021
Connecting Community: In Conversation with Dr. Roberta Bondar
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Alumni Trivia Night
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Alumni Wine Tasting
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Craft Beer Happy Hour with Royal City Brewing
Friday, June 25, 2021
Three Cheers: A Celebration of Alumni Excellence
Learn more and register online!

ONLINE: Introduction to Digital Storytelling
2021-06-21 10:00 - 11:20 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Want to learn how to integrate storytelling into your digital projects? Join us for our workshop, Introduction to Digital Storytelling, where you will learn more about the components, the elements and the benefits of digital storytelling.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to: list the components of digital storytelling, identify how elements of storytelling create an effective story, and create meaning from different images and media.

ONLINE: Celebrate International Day of Yoga with U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective
2021-06-21 11:45 - 13:15 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Celebrate UN International Day of Yoga – Monday, June 21 – Live music for harmony and peace
2021 UN Theme: Yoga for well-being
Everyone welcome: faculty, staff, students, alumni, retirees, visiting scholars! No experience required. Try not to eat two hours before the event. A sip or two of water or juice is okay.
Join Zoom Meeting. Meeting ID: 954 8412 8908
Take part in this fun online event with live music performed by a popular local artist. Learn and practice postures (Asana), breath control (Pranayama), yoga gestures (Mudra), chanting, meditation (singing bowl) and relaxation. Feel calm, peaceful, resilient, strong, flexible, relaxed and rejuvenated. With special guest Indira Naidoo-Harris, associate vice-president Diversity and Human Rights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to address the mental health dimension of the pandemic, in addition to the physical health aspects. The message of Yoga in promoting both the physical and mental well-being of humanity has never been more relevant. The UN draft resolution 69/131 establishing the International Day of Yoga was endorsed by a record 175 member states.
U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective’s brand-new website will also be launched during the IDY celebrations to Improve Life – mental and physical health, and well-being – of all U of Guelph communities, campuses and beyond.
This event is brought to you by the U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective and sponsored by Wellness@Work, U of Guelph.
Join Online and celebrate with your own U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective.
“A yoga collective that cares about cultivating health and wellbeing on the diverse U of G campus and beyond. Our goal is to offer valuable tools for achieving a balanced state of mind and body.” – U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective – Steady Mind in a Dynamic World.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Introduction to Text Analysis - Counting and Context
2021-06-22 10:00 - 12:00 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Are you interested in uncovering patterns across vast amounts of textual information? In part one of this two part workshop, we’ll introduce distant reading techniques that address word count and location.
By attending you will get hands-on experience exploring entry level tools such as Google Ngram, Voyant and AntConc.
At the end of the workshop you will be able to complete basic word count and location techniques in the various tools, conduct normalization tasks in the tools that allow it, and explore your data with visualizations.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Faculty Information Exchange Series: Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy
2021-06-23 11:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Tri-Agencies have launched the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy to further promote excellence in data management practices in the Canadian research community.
Join us as we explore what this means for your research! We’ll give you an overview of the new Tri-Agency policy, an overview the new data management plans, an introduction to the Portage DMP Assistant, and more!
All researchers are welcome including faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Analysis: Introduction to Text Analysis - Natural Language Processing
2021-06-24 09:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Are you interested in uncovering patterns across vast amounts of textual information? This is the second part of our Introduction to Text Analysis workshop, which will introduce more complex concepts such as named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and topic modelling.
By attending, you will explore tools such as NER, Exploratory.io, and Topic Modelling Tool. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to complete basic word count and location techniques in the various tools, conduct normalization tasks in the tools that allow for it, and explore your data with visualizations.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Introduction to RStudio
2021-07-05 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
R is an open source software that has gained popularity in the community due to its power and capability to make research more reproduceable. In this workshop you will learn the basics of R and how to navigate the interface.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to comfortably use the R interface, understand the basics of R programming, work with packages, import data, and create basic descriptive statistics and frequency tables.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Create your own media for a Digital Story
2021-07-06 10:00 - 11:20 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Are you interested in learning more about digital storytelling? This workshop will introduce you to the creative practice of capturing and manipulating your own visual media to construct meaning.
By attending, you’ll have to opportunity to participate in an interactive activity where you will capture, edit, and arrange media in ways that communicate messages and ideas.
This workshop is available to anyone with an interest in Digital Storytelling, and a desire to explore a personal story inspired by events in their own lives.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Data Wrangling and Manipulation in R
2021-07-07 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Raw datasets are often quite messy. Cleaning and preparing your data is an essential step before you can begin your data analysis.
This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of using the tidyverse package in R, which include but aren’t limited to: manipulating columns and rows, filtering and merging datasets, converting to different variable types and creating scales.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Open Scholarship Series: Open Access, Open Data and the Tri-Agencies
2021-07-08 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
As a part of our Open Scholarship Series, this workshop focuses on using open access information and open data in your projects, and provides details about the Tri-Agencies. Additionally, this online workshop will explore the benefits of open access, the use of open data generally, and the use in our context at U of G.

ONLINE: Tree ID
2021-07-08 12:00 - 13:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Do you love trees but can’t tell an ash from a walnut, a birch from a beech, or a spruce from a fir? Are you looking to connect more with the nature around you as we continue to stay close to home?
Join Shelley Hunt, U of G course instructor and former arboretum director, for a virtual, interactive tree identification workshop! Over the course of four Zoom sessions, with hands-on challenges to complete in between, you will learn the basics of tree ID, with a focus on native Ontario species (and their look-alike non-native counterparts). You will learn about the important features to look for (e.g., leaf shape and arrangement, bark characteristics, fruits and cones), as well as the details that help us to distinguish between species in the same group (e.g., ashes, pines, maples). You will practice your skills on trees that you can (safely) find in your local area, and get feedback on your ‘homework’. The fourth session will include a virtual tour of trees in the Arboretum’s collections. Sessions will run from noon-1:30 p.m. (one hour of instruction, and up to 30 minutes of optional questions/discussion) on Thursdays from July 8 through to July 29.
Fee: $70 (plus HST) per person.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Data Analysis in R
2021-07-09 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This workshop will teach you how to conduct basic inferential statistics that are commonly seen in the literature using R Studio.
By attending, you can also expect to lean how to conduct the following statistical tests: an independent sample t-test, a paired sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA.

ONLINE - Library Workshop - Data Skills: Data Visualization in R
2021-07-12 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learn how to create visualizations like graphs and plots using the ggplot2 package by attending this workshop!
This workshop will teach you how to create highly customized plots as the ggplot2 package uses “grammar graphics” to add layers of tailored components to your graphs.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Recording Audio with Audacity
2021-07-13 10:00 - 11:20 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Audacity is an open source audio recording and editing tool that you can use to record and edit a voiceover for a video or a podcast! This workshop will teach you what the requirements of a basic audio recording set up are, how to record a short audio track, and practice basic editing tasks.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Open Scholarship Series: Academic Publishing for Authors
2021-07-13 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Are you a researcher at U of G? Join us for Academic Publishing for Authors, one of the workshops featured in our Open Scholarship Series. This workshop is designed to help you navigate through the academic publishing process including author contracts, article processing charges (APCs), and predatory journals and conferences. It will also teach you more about open access publishing.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Create Videos with WeVideo
2021-07-20 10:00 - 11:20 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Interested in learning more about editing and creating videos online? Join us for Create Videos with WeVideo, an online workshop that will teach you how to use WeVideo and will give you hands-on practice creating videos.
During this workshop, we’ll discuss the process for creating a video and teach you essential video editing skills in WeVideo.

ONLINE: Ask the Arb
2021-07-27 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Bring your garden, nature, and wildlife-related questions to our free one-hour live session on Zoom.
These sessions are FREE!

ONLINE: Virtual Constellation "Walk"
2021-07-29 20:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learning the night sky is like getting to know a new neighborhood. At first, it may seem big and confusing, but as you strike out and become more and more familiar with prominent landmarks, the day comes when you realize that the neighborhood is no longer new. It’s home.
Join us for monthly sessions as we get to know the night sky a little better. Participants will be introduced to prominent stars and constellations, where to look for them and how the motions of planet Earth cause them to appear to shift from hour to hour and month to month. You will receive a downloadable star map to help you make your way through the stars. We’ll learn a half dozen or so constellations every month and you will be invited to discuss your observations with the group as we each get to know the neighborhood a little better.
In July, we will look at a few more of the summer constellations, like Sagittarius (the archer), Lyra (the harp), Hercules (the champion), and Aquila (the eagle). There will be a heads up about one of the year’s best meteor showers (The Perseids) that peaks around August 11, with tips about how best to view it. The planets Jupiter and Saturn make a grand entrance into the evening sky this month, where they dominate the southeastern horizon.
Fee: $10 (plus HST) per person, per session (evening).

ONLINE: Food Day Canada
2021-07-31 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
As Canada’s food university, the University of Guelph is shining a light on all the ways we are supporting and improving Canada’s food systems in celebration of Food Day Canada on July 31, 2021.

Read stories about U of G’s contributions to Canadian food.
Celebrate Food Day Canada with ideas from the Food Day Canada website

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Research Data Management
2021-08-10 10:30 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Research Data Management involves a set of strategies aimed at protecting the data you collect to inform your research. This workshop will introduce you to best practices so your research data is appropriately managed during the life of your research project and beyond.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Data Skills: Research Data Management
2021-08-10 10:30 - 23:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Research Data Management (RDM) involves a set of strategies aimed at protecting the data you collect to inform your research.
A proper RDM approach includes:

sound data storage practices to avoid loss or corruption of data
security considerations to prevent exposure of your data to people who shouldn’t have access to it
documentation and metadata so that your data will be properly interpreted
data publication plans to share your data with other researchers as much as is appropriate, and
preservation mechanisms to enable future analysis of your data

This workshop will introduce you to best practices so that your research data is appropriately managed during the life of your research project and beyond.

ONLINE: COVID-19 Town Hall
2021-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
As we approach the beginning of the new academic year, the University of Guelph continues to implement plans that will ensure a safe and enriching on-campus experience for students, staff and faculty. We want to hear your questions and share the latest updates, so please join us Thursday, August 12 for a Town Hall.
We will be joined by Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, the associate medical officer of health with Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.
We encourage you to submit your questions in advance. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions through Teams during the event. We understand family members of current and incoming students may have questions as well, and we welcome them to submit questions and attend the town hall, too.
Thursday, August 12
Noon to 1 p.m.
Join online: Microsoft Teams Live
Submit questions in advance through uoguel.ph/townhallquestions
Members of our executive team will be present to answer questions:

Dr. Charlotte Yates, president
Daniel Atlin, vice-president (external)
Dr. Malcolm Campbell, vice-president (research)
Dr. Cate Dewey, acting provost and vice-president (academic)
Sharmilla Rasheed, vice-president (finance and operations)

The latest updates and answers can always be found on the University’s dedicated COVID-19 website.
We look forward to connecting with you.

Guelph Trial Garden Open House
2021-08-13 08:30 - 16:30 | Guelph Turfgrass Institute, 328 Victoria Rd. S., Guelph, ON, Canada
U of G is hosting in-person scheduled visits to its 2021 Trial Garden Open House at the new Guelph Turfgrass Institute. Learn more and register online.

ONLINE: Improvisation Festival - IF 2021
2021-08-13 19:00 - 2021-08-14 20:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
IF 2021 is a free, online, 24-hour improvisation festival celebrating all forms of artistic expression. This digital festival will take place between August 13 and 14, starting at 7 p.m. (ET). You can stream this all-day, all-night, online celebration of the arts, featuring new, improvised works by 150+ artists from over 25 countries around the world via the IF 2021 website: http://improvfest.ca/watch/.
Due to the incredible enthusiasm of our artists and Festival partners this year, we also have a special announcement: IF 2021 is stretching from 24 hours to 25.5 hours! That means that the event will run from August 13 at 7 p.m. (ET) until August 14 at 8:30 p.m. (ET). Be sure to catch this final hour-and-a-half finale of IF 2021!
We’re also excited to share that a full audio version of IF 2021 will be available in audio form through various radio stations across North America! You can listen to the entirety of IF 2021 on CFRU 93.3 (Guelph) or tune in to all or part of the Festival on the following stations: 17Radio (Mexico), CJLO (Montreal), CKMS (Waterloo), Radio Western/CHRW (London), CJRU (Toronto), CiTR (Vancouver), and UMFM (Manitoba). Head to our website to find out when you can tune in.
Finally, thank you to the many IF 2021 partners and sponsors for helping to make this event such a distinctive, global affair.
We look forward to seeing you at IF 2021!
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ONLINE: Library Workshop - WeVideo in the Classroom
2021-09-02 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
WeVideo is a web-based video editor. Use WeVideo in your class for individual or group video assignments. The McLaughlin Library workshop will introduce participants to using WeVideo effectively with a Teacher account, and discuss how to collaborate, monitor student progress, and share media. ​
After this workshop, participants will: ​

Have a WeVideo teacher account to use for the semester​.
Understand the basics of how WeVideo works.​
Know how to set-up Groups, Projects and Galleries for their students. ​
Practice using WeVideo to create videos, as well as setting up groups and projects for their students.
​List supports available from the media studio​.

Participants are encouraged to bring questions and ideas about projects or assignments they are planning for their courses for discussion during the workshop. ​
This workshop is open to all instructors at the University of Guelph.

ONLINE: Shrub ID
2021-09-09 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Ontario has dozens of native shrub species, from dogwoods to viburnums, blackberries to spicebush, and everything in between. Where to start in learning to identify them? In this workshop, spread over four Zoom sessions, we will cover basic shrub morphology and learn the key ID features of a wide variety of these diverse woody plants. The third session will include a virtual tour of shrubs in the Arboretum’s collections.
Fee:$50 (plus HST) per person.

Gryphon Rowing Novice Tryouts
2021-09-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Athletics Centre, 150 Reynolds Walk, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Open to students wishing to try competitive rowing, as rowers or coxswains – no previous experience required. Eligible athletes should not have raced in sanctioned regattas previously. Athletes are selected through a two-phase open tryout. There are two opportunities to complete Phase 1:

Session One – Sept. 9
Session Two – Sept. 10

Both sessions run from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Athletics Centre West or Small Gym (TBC).
Each begins with a brief information session followed by a try out to assess basic fitness (Beep Test). Please wear clothing and shoes suitable for running. Athletes selected to Phase 2 will be invited to an orientation at the Guelph Rowing Club Boat House, Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (bus transportation provided).
For more information, contact head coach Dave Leger (rowing@uoguelph.ca).

ONLINE: Eco-Art Therapy
2021-09-14 18:30 - 20:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This is not an arts-technique-based course, but rather an opportunity to freely create without any boundaries and be inspired by nature’s beauty!
Though nature does not speak to us through words, it has a way of touching us deeply, and inspiring us to self-explore and creatively express ourselves in unique ways through a path of personal growth. Through this eight-week course, participants will explore introductory concepts of Eco-Art Therapy and participate in hands-on learning experiences that are embedded in our nature-connective relationships. No previous learning or experiences required! The only requirement is that you are open to engage, unleash your inhibitions and let nature guide you!
Fee: $150 (plus HST) per person.

ONLINE: Library Workshop - Science Communication Toolkit: Impactful Presentations
2021-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This workshop introduces science graduate students to science communication, focused on presentation skills for non-specialist audiences. If you are looking for opportunities to get your research to the public and practice your presentations skills in a safe and non-judgmental environment, this workshop is for you! We will give you tips to create effective, clear and concise presentations, as well as some guidelines on slide design. You will have the chance to give and receive feedback in small groups and participate in group discussions as we all dissect pre-recorded presentations as case studies. Join us for an interactive session, get to know your peers and the amazing work they are doing, and brush up your skills for your next conference!
Facilitators: Jason Dodd (Science Learning Specialist, McLaughlin Library), Keriann Mcgoogan (CEPS Research Communications Officer) and Virginia Capmourteres (CBS Research and Graduate Officer)
This Teams event requires advance registration.
All levels of SciComm experience and disciplinary science backgrounds welcome!
Important: We encourage you to check out how to prepare an Elevator Pitch so we can work on it together during the session!
Related LibGuide: Present Like a Pro
