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ONLINE: Live chat sessions with staff for new graduate students
New graduate students will have the opportunity to chat with staff from campus units such as Student Wellness, the Library, Career Services, the Graduate Student Association, the Office of Teaching
ONLINE: 2020 Community Breakfast for Faculty and Staff
All U of G faculty and staff are invited to the 2020 Community Breakfast! Connect as a community online as we celebrate the start of the academic year together. Learn more
ONLINE: Inhale Courage. Exhale Fear – Live Classical Yoga and Pranayama
Ontario, CanadaCOVID-19 has brought the focus right back to the Breath and Pranayama. During this Classical Yoga and Pranayama class, we will practice Pranayama - controlled breathing exercises. Prana is
Tech Meet and Greet – Employers and Upper-year Students
Meet online with tech companies for a casual networking event for upper year students in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering and engineering systems and computing. Create your profile, upload
ONLINE: Virtual Ecopsychology
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThis program is aimed at providing an experience where you will interact with an online community and share nature-based experiences to help bring hope, resilience and positivity to your life
ONLINE: Data Visualization – R using ggplot2
In this workshop, you will learn how to produce scatter plots, boxplots and time series plots using ggplot2. Also, you will learn the tools and knowledge to create any figure/graphic
ONLINE: Arboretum Virtual Plant Sale
The Arboretum’s Annual Plant Sale is virtual this year. The annual fundraiser is online as an auction featuring a sample of unique and special plants. Many of the plants are
ONLINE: Data Skills Advanced Survey Creation in Qualtrics – Creating Data with Online Surveys
This workshop will explore the more advanced question types and features of Qualtrics. When you register for this workshop you are committing to attend the entire workshop unless otherwise confirmed
ONLINE: Brain Food Online – Graduate Thesis Workshops
Through Brain Food Online, you'll learn effective ways to approach your work as a graduate student. Undergraduate students who are writing an Undergraduate Honours Thesis or writing extensive research papers may also attend. Workshop topics include: Time Management during the Thesis Process Formulating Your Research Question Working with Data Thesis Structure and Thesis Mapping Advanced
ONLINE: Data Skills – Cleaning and Preparing Data Using OpenRefine
Before we are able to analyze or visualize our data, we have to clean and prepare it. Typical tasks include fixing spelling, removing duplicate rows, finding and replacing text, changing number formats, and merging and splitting columns. OpenRefine is a powerful data manipulation tool that cleans, reshapes and edits batches of messy and unstructured data.
ONLINE: Virtual Fall Landscape Watercolour Painting
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaLearn how to translate any landscape into watercolour step by step with watercolour artist Candice Leyland. Each class we will be working through a full landscape painting based on a photograph taken in the Guelph Arboretum. We will explore painting water, foliage, trees and composition. Students will be able to receive feedback on their paintings
ONLINE: Data Skills – Research Data Management
Research Data Management (RDM) involves a set of strategies to ensure that the data you collect to inform your research will have the following protections: your data will not be lost or corrupted, your data will not be inadvertently exposed to people who shouldn't have access to it your data will be properly documented to
ONLINE: Fall Equinox Yoga
Special Event: Fall Equinox Yoga with special guest and seasoned meditator Sri Hans Everyone welcome: faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees – No experience required. How can we find calm in the midst of chaos? Where do we turn to access the voice of our deepest wisdom? What can we do to unplug and heal
ONLINE: Open Scholarship – Open Data, Open Access and the Tri-Agencies
Part of the Library's ongoing Open Scholarship workshop series, "Open Access, Open Data and the Tri-Agencies" will explore the benefits of open access and open data generally, and in our context here at the University of Guelph.
ONLINE: Circular Economy Workshop 2020 – Sustainable Materials – Innovating our future beyond the pandemic
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in fundamental ways and opened real possibilities to building a more sustainable industry sector in a broader ecosystem. This free virtual workshop is hosted by the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC) and is co-chaired by Prof. Amar Mohanty and Prof. Manju Misra. The panelists from academia, industry,
ONLINE: Planning for Success – Strategies for Maximizing Your Productivity
How can you learn efficiently and effectively? How can you make the most of your study time? Come to this workshop for strategies and ideas on: Using your course outlines for planning and studying purposes Creating -- and sticking to -- a study schedule Study techniques that make the most impact
ONLINE: Data Skills – Analysis – Introduction to Using Python
Interested in using Python but don't know where to start? Join us for a hands-on, beginner-level workshop will introduce you to the basic concepts of the world’s most popular programming language, Python. We'll cover reading-in data from an external source followed by some simple manipulation and analysis using the built-in capabilities that are provided by
ONLINE: Dial Down Academic Stress and Anxiety
Learn about the most common anxiety escalators (including a couple of surprising ones), along with practical, proven tips and strategies that you can use to decrease stress and anxiety this semester. This free, one hour workshop for university students meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. with Kathy Somers from the Stress Management Clinic. E-mail ksomers@uoguelph.ca
ONLINE: Virtual Getting into Astronomy
Ontario, CanadaAstronomy Foundations is an online course designed to introduce and orient astronomy enthusiasts to the night sky. Over 12 sessions, we will cover a wide range of topics, including understanding our place in space, finding our way in the sky and understanding a little more of the wide variety of astronomical objects that await your
ONLINE: Data Skills – Analysis – Data Manipulation Using Python
Join us for a hands-on, two-part workshop for folks with little experience programming. Data cleaning and manipulation usually takes up 80 per cent of the time allotted to data analysis project. We will cover how to handle unstructured and structured data, data manipulation and cleaning tasks using Numpy and Pandas libraries. Please have a laptop