ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins – “Dispatch”
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series, together with the Art Gallery of Guelph, is pleased to present “Dispatch” a virtual talk with artist Raven Chacon and curator Candice
ONLINE: Arboretum Workshop – Winter Tree Identification
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaNo leaves? No problem! In this Arboretum workshop you will learn about the variety of features that are useful for winter identification of trees. From buds to bark to leaf
ONLINE: Arboretum Workshop – Tips for Heightening Your Winter Nature Walks
Ben Porchuk is Canada's first Certified Forest Therapy Guide. The Arboretum invites you to join Ben as he guides you through some meaningful and fun invitations to ease you out
ONLINE: Winter 2021 Book Launch with Dr. Greg Kelley
U of GH's Academic Services department invites you to attend the Winter 2021 Virtual Book Launch Series event, featuring Dr. Greg Kelley, Media Studies instructor at the University of Guelph-Humber. Join Dr. Kelley as he provides a review and reading of his newly released monograph Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media. The book examines how “folk
ONLINE: Black History Month – “Black + Mental Health + Matters” Workshop with Art with Impact
Black + Mental Health + Matters is a 1.5-hour virtual workshop that is designed to be a place of refuge for Black students. Knowing that Black humans in North America face unique and specific barriers to mental wellness, this workshop provides a place for them to be seen and heard, both collectively and individually. Equipping
ONLINE: Black History Month – Caribbean Dance Class
The Guelph Black Students’ Association will be offering a free dance class featuring a creative blend of Caribbean and African movements set to dancehall, afro, and soca music. Join artist and community leader Kween for this exhilarating dance
ONLINE: Analysis – Introduction to R Studio
Want to learn more about R, but worried about the programming skills needed to use it? Fear no more! This workshop from the McLaughlin Library will cover a number of topics including: getting comfortable with the R interface. learning the basics of R programming, working with packages, importing data, and creating basic descriptive statistics and
ONLINE: Arboretum Course – My First Vegetable Garden with Robert Pavlis
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThis Arboretum course is designed for the new gardener or the gardener that has only been growing vegetables for a couple of years. We’ll start at the very beginning, with ordering seeds and end with a detailed discussion of the 10 best vegetables for new gardeners. Focus is on hardiness zones 4 – 6. We’ll
ONLINE: Better Sleep for Mid-Life Women
Learn drug-free tips to help cope with mid-life sleep changes, hot flashes and the frustration of being awake through the night. This two-hour skills workshop meets online with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic. Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the workshop. Register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/peri-menopausal-sleep-workshop/
ONLINE: Midwest Cover Crop Council Conference
Soils at Guelph and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs are partnering to host this year's virtual conference exploring connections between cover crops, soil health and people.
ONLINE – Analysis: Data Manipulation and Wrangling in R
Before you can begin data analysis, cleaning and preparing data are hence vital skills. This online workshop from the McLaughlin Library will teach the fundamentals of using the tidyverse package. It will cover topics including: manipulating columns and rows, filtering and merging datasets, converting to different variable types, and creating scales.
ONLINE: Waste Work in the ‘Clean City’: Perspectives of Women Waste Pickers
The Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement presents Waste Work in the 'Clean City'. As marginalized urban workers in public spaces, women engaged in waste picking work in
ONLINE: 2021 Yoga Speaker Series
Join us for the inaugural Yoga Speaker Series event where we explore the Yoga Philosophy and Practice: Relevance for the Individual and Society in a Contemporary World. Our speakers will share their own long-term practice, how it affects their lives, and where they can enlighten us with yoga philosophy and its multi-dimensional application. The aim
ONLINE: Advantage Workshop – Building Productive Research Partnerships
Many researchers achieve more impact and success because of long-term relationships formed with industry and external partners. This workshop presented by Amy Skeoch will help researchers to develop a strategy for cultivating fruitful collaborations and to optimize the way they work with external partners. In this FREE online workshop, U of G research teams will:
ONLINE: Stress Eating Workshop
If going to the fridge is your #1 stress management strategy, it may be time to learn more about how stress drives us to emotional eating, and ways to start addressing it. This two hour online workshop with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic will include tips on decreasing emotional eating,
ONLINE: Black History Month – Stirrin’ the Pot: Afro-Caribbean Cooking Class with Access Gourmet Ltd.
Caribbean cuisine is a blend of African, Indian, European, Creole, Amerindian, Chinese, Cajun and Middle Eastern flavors. Traditional foods are treasured - they are not just a meal, but a
ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Taiwo Afolabi “Ethical Questioning in Research: Insight from an Applied Theatre Project”
Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Ethical Questioning in Research: Insight from an Applied Theatre Project,” a virtual talk with Taiwo Afolabi. This
ONLINE – Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series: Sovereignty, Intimacy and Resistance
Join the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences for the Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series and hear noted Indigenous scholars discuss research and issues related to gendered violence and settler
ONLINE: Analysis – Data Analysis and Inferential Statistics in R
This online workshop from the McLaughlin Library will teach you how to conduct basic inferential statistics that are commonly seen when using R. By the end of this workshop, you can expect to know how to conduct the following statistical tests: independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and repeated measures ANOVA.
ONLINE: Physical Distancing, School/Workplace Closure, and COVID-19: How Many Lives Did We Save?
One Health Winter 2021 Seminar Series Dr. Kathryn (Kat) Fair, School of Environmental Sciences shows us how her dynamic models measure the effects of closures and distancing in reducing case numbers and deaths resulting from COVID-19. She also uses modelling to explore questions related to climate change, infectious diseases and sustainability.