FULL - GenEQ Staff Leadership Conversation Cafe
2019-05-15 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The GenEQ: Advancing the Status of Women at the University of Guelph initiative is interested in learning more about women staff members’ needs around leadership. We are hosting a conversation cafe where you’ll have the opportunity to discuss your thoughts during facilitated conversations with other staff members. A light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP online. Each workshop can accommodate 50 participants and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Once you register, you will receive a calendar invitation within 24 hours to confirm your workshop participation.

Pint of Science Comes to Guelph
2019-05-20 - 2019-05-22 | Ontario, Canada
Pint of Science tickets are now available in twenty-five cities spanning Canada – including, for the first time ever, Guelph.
Pint of Science Guelph will be held over three nights (May 20, 21 and 22) at six different venues in Guelph, and will feature 12 different speakers. Each venue will host two speakers with talks ranging from bridging the digital divide to food fraud to the science of bubbles and beer.
There will be trivia, prizes and lots of opportunity to chat with University of Guelph researchers to learn more about what they do and why they do it.
For more information, and to order your FREE event tickets, visit https://pintofscience.ca/events/guelph-on

2019 Gryphon's LAAIR Innovation Showcase and Pitch Competition
2019-05-21 14:00 - 21:00 | Rozanski Hall, 98 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
The Research Innovation Office at the University of Guelph is pleased to invite you to celebrate innovators who are putting knowledge into action in ways that have a real-world impact!
Beginning with an afternoon of dialogue and case studies that highlight the many ways U of G researchers identify needs and validate concepts that improve the lives of external stakeholders, the Gryphon’s LAAIR Innovation Showcase will feature stories about commercialization and knowledge mobilization. The day culminates in a high-energy pitch competition where six corporations, each with roots in U of G’s research community, will go head-to-head to win a total of $15,000 in prizes! Following the competition, join us for a champagne toast to congratulate the Gryphon’s LAAIR Pitch Competitors and celebrate entrepreneurship successes at the University of Guelph.
Schedule of Events
2 p.m. – Registration Opens
3 to 4 p.m. – Exploring the Future of Knowledge Mobilization
4 to 5 p.m. – Gryphon’s LAAIR Project Showcase
5 to 6 p.m. – Programming Break
6 to 7:30 p.m. – Gryphon’s LAAIR Pitch Competition
7:30 to 9 p.m. – After Party

Getting Data: Open Data Workshop
2019-05-23 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Interested in learning more about Open Data?
In this interactive course you will discover, use and describe the benefits of open data. You will learn how you can use Open Data in your research. This workshop is for anyone that has little to some knowledge about open data. At the end of the workshop, you will know how to access free data after your academic career and be knowledgeable working with it!

Data Visualization: GIS Workshop
2019-05-23 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) – a software program for working with maps and geographic data. A GIS allows you to work with any data that you know a location for (e.g., addresses, latitude/longitude, census locations, name of a place, etc.). ArcGIS is available on all the library computers, and by download to the University community.
Although similar in some ways to online mapping sites, ArcGIS has greater analytical capabilities and allows you more input and control over your map. We’ll learn some GIS fundamentals and how to get started using ArcGIS.
In this workshop we will learn:

how to navigate ArcMap
kinds of GIS data
how to add data to a map
basic symbology and labelling
how to filter data
how to calculate new data and map it

GenEQ Staff Mentorship Conversation Cafe
2019-05-23 12:30 - 13:30 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The GenEQ: Advancing the Status of Women at the University of Guelph initiative is interested in learning more about women staff members’ needs around mentorship. We are hosting a conversation cafe where you’ll have the opportunity to discuss your thoughts during facilitated conversations with other staff members. A light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP online.
Each workshop can accommodate 50 participants and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Once you register, you will receive a calendar invitation to confirm your workshop participation.

AGG Summer Season Launch
2019-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Canada
Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Guelph:

The Drive
Jagdeep Raina: Chase

Refreshments and cash bar available. Admission is free. All are welcome.

Bike Month Kick-Off: Coffee Giveaway and Prize Draw!
2019-05-27 08:00 - 09:00 | Branion Plaza, Branion Plaza, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
We’re kicking-off Bike Month Guelph with a campus celebration in Branion Plaza! Come join us to learn about biking resources on campus, meet other people who bike to campus and have a chance to win a local-business prize pack. Hospitality Services has generously donated free coffee vouchers for the first 30 people who bike to campus. Pick up yours at Branion Plaza!
The City of Guelph has an amazing line-up of events for Bike Month, which runs throughout June. Make sure to check out the Bike Month website to register your ride for the May 27 Bike to Work Day and to learn about the celebratory kick off at City Hall.

Anxiety Workshop: Skills and Strategies
2019-05-27 19:00 - 20:00 | 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 Monday evenings, from 7 – 8 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.

Data Visualization: Excel Workshop
2019-05-28 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Excel is a popular tool that provides many powerful features that can assist you in managing your data and help to better understand small and large datasets. While not as robust as other data visualization tools, it can be used for visualizing your data through its charting features. Come learn how to create charts using Pivot tables.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with the latest version of Excel installed. Click here for instructions on how to download the latest version of Excel.
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.

Better Sleep Program
2019-05-28 18:30 - 19:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Learn how to 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 Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 – 7:30 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.

Data Visualization: Gephi Workshop
2019-05-29 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Network data is all around us, but it takes a keen eye to see the hidden structure and patterns in the data. By visualizing network data we can expose this hidden information and study it. In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn to use Gephi to create visualizations and learn more about the structure of the network.
Attendees must bring a laptop for their own use during the workshop with the latest version of Gephi 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.

Data Analysis: SPSS Part 1 Workshop
2019-05-29 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
SPSS is a statistical software package, used in various disciplines. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce students to the software as well as its different functions and commands.
The basics of statistical analysis and interpretation using SPSS will be covered, in addition to topics like data entry, manipulation and interpretation.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students with minimal to no knowledge of SPSS. Basic knowledge and understanding of statistics would be a great asset.
This workshop is offered in two parts. If you would like to build on the skills from this workshop, attend the afternoon session as well!
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with SPSS installed on it. The latest version of SPSS can be downloaded for free from the CCS Software Distribution website.
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.

Data Analysis: SPSS Part 2 Workshop
2019-05-29 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Graduate Teaching Community: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Journal Club #2
2019-05-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Day Hall
Join us for the second summer meeting of the Graduate Teaching Community Journal Club. We will discuss a recent teaching publication related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. If you missed the first meeting, don’t worry. We will send registered participants an email with the paper in advance of the meeting. Please read the paper and bring any questions, comments or critiques with you. Bring your lunch. We look forward to discussing with you.
Register online.

Women, Work and Wellness: Listening to Your Body
2019-05-30 11:30 - 13:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This is the second of a three-part series that will explore the impact of our self-care habits on our day-to-day wellness. The overall goal for the series is to create a warm and engaging space for women to connect with one another to discuss their relationship with their body and their self-care habits. Sessions will examine:

what self-care looks like for you
your connection to your body signals for hunger, fullness, fatigue and stress
helpful mindfulness strategies
using your strengths for success

Facilitator Heidi Smith is a registered dietitian and co-founder of the company “Vitality at Work”. She has been consulting for over 20 years and provides a unique perspective by combining her expertise on nutrition and exercise with her passion for mindfulness, body awareness, self-compassion, self-discovery and intuitive eating.
Register online at: https://uoguel.ph/www30may19

Pride Flag Raising
2019-05-31 09:00 - 09:30 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
From May 31 to June 7, U of G will fly the Pride flag to celebrate and honour the LGBTQ2IA+ community. LGBTQ2IA+ represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirit, Intersex, Asexual and many other identities that fall outside of heterosexual and cisgender paradigms.
Take part in the official flag raising Friday, May 31 at 9 a.m. by the University Centre south entrance. Representatives from the University and Guelph Queer Equality will give remarks.
Throughout June, Pride events are happening around the city and on campus:

Guelph Pride – May 31 to June 7 – throughout the city
Pride, Activism and Dance: Movie Night – June 4 – MacNaughton Building
Representation in the Queer Community: Pameka Dedman – June 14 – Library

Fresh-Air Celebration: Tobacco- and Smoke-Free Campus
2019-05-31 11:00 - 13:30 | Johnston Green
Please join us as we celebrate World No Tobacco Day and mark our Guelph campus’s first day as a tobacco- and smoke-free space. As we celebrate this important step to make a healthier campus for everyone, we support the efforts of Indigenous communities to become tobacco-wise and keep tobacco sacred.

Drop by Johnston Green to learn more about our new Tobacco- and Smoke-Free Policy.

Enjoy refreshments, fun fresh air activities and giveaways. Pick-up a free support kit with resources and information to help you cope, quit or help a friend. Stop by the community resource tables for information on smoking cessation and learn about the supports available in our community and on campus. Learn from the Aboriginal Resource Centre about the cultural uses of tobacco.

11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Resource tables from community partners and free support kits
12:15 – 12:20 p.m.: Remarks from Don O’Leary, Vice-President (Finance, Administration and Risk)
12:20 – 12:30 p.m.: Remarks from Dr. Tenenbaum, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Guelph Wellington Public Health
12:30 – 1 p.m.: Yoga on the Green *no mat, experience or work-out clothing required. Open to all.
12:30 p.m. – 1:15pm: Campus Walking Tour with Steve Nyman, Physical Resources

Learn more about our new Tobacco- and Smoke-Free Campus Policy and find resources at www.uoguelph.ca/smokefree.
Registration is encouraged, but not required.

Broadband Analytics Workshop
2019-06-03 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Regional and Rural Broadband (R2B2) Project hosts guests from Measurement Lab (M-Lab) which provides the largest collection of open Internet performance data on the planet. The workshop also considers new and existing tools for broadband infrastructure mapping, data visualization and analysis.
Interested attendees are asked to contact Prof. Helen Hambly (hhambly@uoguelph.ca) or the R2B2 Project.

University Budget Town Hall Update
2019-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Hall
Join Provost Charlotte Yates for an update town hall discussion on the 2019-20 University budget. All are welcome to attend.

2019 OFSAA Track and Field Championships
2019-06-06 - 2019-06-08 | Alumni Stadium, Alumni Stadium, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
Canada’s largest high school sporting event comes to U of G!
The Upper Grand District School Board and the University of Guelph Department of Athletics Track and Field Program are set to host the 2019 OFSAA Track and Field Championships at U of G.
This is Guelph’s first time hosting the annual meet – one of the largest athletic events in the city’s history. A total of 536 schools, 2600 student-athletes, 1000 coaches and 2000 spectators are expected to be on campus during the three-day event.
See the competition schedule.

Intro to R and RStudio Workshop Part 1
2019-06-06 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
R is an open source software environment for data manipulation and statistical analysis. Used in a variety of disciplines, R has become a popular tool because of its power, flexibility and active community. Join us as we teach the R language fundamentals and basic syntax, major R data structures and generate basic statistical analysis.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty and staff with minimal to no knowledge of R.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop. The laptop will need to have the latest versions of R and RStudio 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.

Intro to R and RStudio Workshop Part 2
2019-06-06 12:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. This workshop will introduce you to the dplyr package which makes tabular data manipulations easier by using a set of functions to extract and summarize insights from your data. The tidyr package works well with tidyr to quickly convert between different data formats (long v. wide) for graphing and analysis.
We highly recommend beginning with Intro to R and RStudio Part 1 as this workshop builds upon the material presented in Part 1. This is not an introductory workshop.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop. The laptop will need to have the latest versions of R and RStudio 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.

Professional Staff Association Annual General Meeting
2019-06-07 10:30 - 13:00 | University Centre – Peter Clark Hall
The Professional Staff Association’s annual general meeting will be held Friday, June 7.
Registration opens at 10:15 a.m. Meeting runs 10:30 a.m. to noon.
All Professional and Managerial Employees are invited to attend. Only PSA members can vote.
Please join us for a BBQ in the Conservatory Gardens following the AGM, rain location is Peter Clark Hall.

Opening Up the World of Data
2019-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 | 10C Shared Space, 42 Carden Street, Guelph, ON, N1H 3A2
Data can empower your organization to create stronger proposals, develop evidence-informed programs and demonstrate impact. However, it can be difficult to know where to find it and what to do with it. McLaughlin Library has partnered with the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute and 10C Shared Space to create this three-hour introduction to data workshop.
In this workshop, you will learn some of the basics of data, including data management practices (backups, sharing data and licensing), data cleaning, data visualization and data analysis.
There will be a hands-on portion of this workshop, so we encourage you to bring your laptop. Registration for this event is required.

Intro to SAS Workshop Part 1
2019-06-11 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and clean data, and generate descriptive, exploratory and simple inferential statistics.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty, and staff with minimal to no knowledge of SAS. A basic understanding of statistics would be an asset.
For this session, we will be using the SAS University edition. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with SAS University edition installed on it.
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.

Intro to SAS Workshop Part 2
2019-06-11 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours, you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and clean data, and generate descriptive, exploratory and simple inferential statistics.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty and staff with minimal to no knowledge of SAS. A basic understanding of statistics would be an asset.
For this session, we will be using the SAS University edition. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with SAS University edition installed on it.
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.

Can Future Needs be Met Sustainably? Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Oxford Physics
2019-06-12 10:00 | MacNaughton Building, 482 Gordon Street
U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk “Can Future Needs be Met Sustainably?”
Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly, driven by rising living standards in developing countries. Decarbonisation is imperative to reduce air pollution, rebalance relations between oil producing and importing countries and moderate climate change. However, scenarios that meet the International Panel on Climate Change’s goal of net-zero emissions in the second half of the century all involve heroic technical, economic and political assumptions.
His presentation will focus on ‘stubborn’ (especially hard to decarbonise) sectors, which include heat, aviation and shipping. While examining the global outlook and commenting on the situation in Canada, he will illustrate some of the changes that total decarbonisation will require in the case of the UK.

Science Diplomacy: Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics
2019-06-12 14:00 | MacNaughton Building, 482 Gordon Street
U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk “Science Diplomacy”.
Science Diplomacy is a term that has come to be used to describe almost all activities that involve both science/scientists and international relations/politicians/diplomats. In his presentation, Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith will discuss examples, successes and failures of:

Science in diplomacy

Science supporting international political objectives
Science helping meet global technical challenges

Diplomacy for science
Science for diplomacy

He will also discuss the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) project, which is bringing together scientists from across the region.

Join us for the 2019 Chappel Memorial Lecture
2019-06-12 16:00 - 17:00 | OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, 25 McGilvray Street
The 2019 Chappel Memorial Lecture presents Dr. John Hogenesch, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the Divisions of Human Genetics and Immunobiology.

The Hogenesch lab has led in research into the transcriptional outputs of the clock in animal models and humans. This work is leading to a wealth of new opportunities in circadian medicine and has spurred community contributions, such as the public databases the Gene Atlas and Gene Wiki, CircaDB, and algorithms, including JTK, PSEA, MetaCycle, and CYCLOPS.
The Chappel Memorial Lecture was established in 1988 through an endowment by Dr. Clifford Chappel. Since that time, internationally renowned researchers have been invited to the University of Guelph to summarize their research and career progression to inspire those engaged in, or considering, graduate studies in biomedical research.
OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, Room 1714
