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Virtual Gardening Fundamentals

Recurring
Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Garden Fundamentals will focus on ornamental gardens including trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and grasses. You will gain a good understanding of how these plants grow and their relationship with the soil. Robert Pavlis will cover lots of practical topics such as planting, maintenance, plant selection, sun/shade requirements, and give you some of his top picks.

WSET Level 3 Award in Wines Certification

Macdonald Stewart Hall 42 Macdonald St, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

This advanced level certification is designed to give a more comprehensive coverage of the wines of the world. Students will benefit from in-depth high-quality tastings and detailed understanding of grape growing and wine making. You will be able to assess wines accurately and use your understanding to confidently explain wine style and quality. This qualification

Drop-In Blood Pressure Clinic

Alexander Hall

High blood pressure can increase your risk for serious health problems including stroke, heart disease, and heart attacks. As faculty and staff, you can take an easy step to improve your heart health and drop-in at Occupational Health and Wellness to get your blood pressure tested. Drop-In Blood Pressure Clinics: Registration is not required. Put

Virtual (Zoom) Wildlife Garden Design Course

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Learn how to design a diverse garden space that attracts native wildlife species through key design elements, plant choices and maintenance needs. This course will draw from concepts found in The Arboretum’s Gosling Wildlife Gardens while also offering insight on design features and plant species that have proven to be successful in our local Ontario

$15

Skills for Research Impact Series: Community Engagement

ONLINE Ontario, Canada

Actively engaging your audiences in your research process is one of the most effective ways to increase the uptake and impact of your research. But how does that work? By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify a range of key stakeholders and potential goals for engagement Consider different levels and

Social Reproduction and One Health on the Farm: Feeding the World as if People Mattered

University Centre 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Hear from anthropologist, instructor and award winning science writer Dr. Andrew Flach. Dr, Flach is a renowned professor at Purdue University and will join the One Health Institute, Guelph Institute of Development Studies and the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement in an engaging talk that asks big questions around the challenges and

Equity Essentials: Call it Out? Identifying and Responding to Microaggressions

University Centre 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

This workshop session will identify the systems and attitudes that contribute to microaggressions and discuss strategies for responding effectively. Gain a broader awareness of how oppression affects the lived experience of equity-deserving groups, and the specific context of EDI on post-secondary campuses. Understand how dominant groups perpetuate, actively or unconsciously, oppression. Be able to apply

Canada’s Constitution: 1982 wasn’t 1789

Alexander Hall

Join us to hear from Justice Malcolm Roe, Supreme Court of Canada to discuss the evolution of Canada's constitution. In revolutionary France, 1789 became Year One in the new constitutional order. No comparable event occurred in Canada with the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982. While the Charter and the protection of Aboriginal and treaty

Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture: Kona Gray of EDSA

ONLINE Ontario, Canada

The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture by Kona Gray, FASLA. Principal of EDSA and President of the American Society of Landscape Architects. With over 29 years of experience in 30+ countries, Kona has designed memorable places and unselfishly served the profession through volunteer efforts

Community-centered conservation and One Health in action: the Jane Goodall Institute’s work

ONLINE Ontario, Canada

Marie Meloche has worked with grassroots organizations, local and international NGOs in Canada and the Middle East before joining the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada team in 2018. As the Programs Manager, she supports the implementation of community-centered conservation projects in Africa and Canada. She believes that the key to sustainable development is to build

Hibernate: A virtual, creative workshop on caring for our mental health in winter

ONLINE Ontario, Canada

Winter is a hard season for many of us. The days are shorter, the quality of light is not as brilliant as the spring & summer months, the cold temperatures limit our activities and often lead us to retreat inside. For these reasons and more, our mental health can really suffer during the winter months.

Owl Prowl (In-Person)

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Discover how to use your eyes and ears to identify Ontario's Owls. Through a wide variety of hands-on activities participants will learn about owl plumage, calls and behaviour, habitat requirements, migration patterns, and owl folklore. We'll end the evening with an outdoor owl prowl on The Arboretum grounds. The Adults only program is for adults

Owl Prowl (In-Person)

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Discover how to use your eyes and ears to identify Ontario's Owls. Through a wide variety of hands-on activities participants will learn about owl plumage, calls and behaviour, habitat requirements, migration patterns, and owl folklore. We'll end the evening with an outdoor owl prowl on The Arboretum grounds. The Adults only program is for adults

UC Agriculture Day

University Centre Courtyard Ontario, Canada

Come on out to the UC for UC Ag Day happening on February 12th, 2024. Learn about different agriculture industries in Canada such as dairy, poultry, swine, beef and cash crop farming. You will have the opportunity to speak with students who are involved in many areas of agriculture, and voice your questions and inquiries

Virtual Gardening Fundamentals

Recurring
Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Garden Fundamentals will focus on ornamental gardens including trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and grasses. You will gain a good understanding of how these plants grow and their relationship with the soil. Robert Pavlis will cover lots of practical topics such as planting, maintenance, plant selection, sun/shade requirements, and give you some of his top picks.

Local Government: A Social Ontology of Care

MacKinnon Building 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

What is 'local government'? How can it be understood? Join our guest speaker JS (Kobus) Wessels, University of South Africa, who takes a theoretical lens to question, study and challenge our underlying assumptions about good or bad local government within different contexts. The day-to-day well-being of people worldwide is affected in dissimilar ways and intensity

Skills for Research Impact Series: Evaluating KTT Activities

ONLINE Ontario, Canada

When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your knowledge mobilization efforts. After attending this workshop, participants will be able to: Summarize the steps involved in evaluating KTT Discuss common challenges and best practices in KTT

Human Rights & You: Addressing Discrimination and Harassment on Campus

University Centre 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

This workshop encourages participants to move beyond the text of Ontario's human rights legislation to understand how legal requirements affect our day-to-day work. How do we identify when behaviour is harassment or discrimination? How do we know when behaviour rises to the level of a human rights violation? What is a reasonable response to a

Winter Tree I.D. (In-person)

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

No leaves? No problem! In this hands-on, interactive workshop you will learn about the variety of tree features that are useful for identifying trees in winter. From buds and twigs to leaf scars and bark, we will take an in-depth look at the surprisingly distinctive characteristics that let us unlock the identities of trees in

U of G on Tour: Ontario Veterinary College Complex

University of Guelph

This tour travels through the OVC anatomy museum and the non-clinical areas of the Large and Small Animal Clinics for about 50 minutes. Maximum 30 participants. Due to biosecurity and confidentiality concerns, a guided tour is required, and participants are not permitted to “wander around” or explore within the clinics without a guide. Please note