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Graduate Students Association Annual General Meeting

University Centre Ontario, Canada

The Graduate Students' Association will host its annual general meeting March 28 at The Fifth GSA Rooftop Patio & Lounge. General Registration starts at 5 p.m.  Visit the GSA website for additional information. University Centre, 5th Floor, North Tower

2018 Hammond Lecture – Creating environmentally sustainable urban environments

Richards Building 101 Reynolds Walk

The United Nations projects that, globally, 66 per cent of people will live in cities by 2050. Urban centers in Southern Ontario are growing rapidly and this presents a critical opportunity for city planners to change the way we build and develop. What are the challenges and how can we overcome them to make urban

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art: Tom Sachs “Bricolage and Ritual In The Sculpture”

War Memorial Hall 390 Gordon Street, Guelph

War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario Admission Free - Everyone Welcome! Free parking in P23/24 and P19 after 5:00 pm Tom Sachs, a New York-based sculptor, will present a talk entitled Bricolage and Ritual In The Sculpture.  His combination of iconoclasm and tradition has produced a body of work that is brilliant, wickedly

Thursday At Noon Concert Series presents Student Soloist Day

MacKinnon Building 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Applied music students from the School of Fine Art and Music perform solo or in ensembles. Free 50-minute concert. Everyone is welcome. MacKinnon Building, Room 107

School of Environmental Sciences Lunch & Learn Series: Climate change and Ontario’s agri-food sector – OMAFRA’s perspective

Alexander Hall

  Rajib Hazarika, a research analyst at OMAFRA, presents "Climate change and Ontario’s agri-food sector: OMAFRA’s perspective" at the School of Environmental Sciences next lunch and learn session. The presentation highlights OMAFRA’s involvement in climate change adaption and mitigation initiatives for Ontario’s agri-food sector. Alexander Hall, Room 218

19th Century Conflict in Rural Ontario: Retribution or Reconciliation?

University Centre Ontario, Canada

Join the Centre for Families, Work and Well-being for a Lunch and Learn session with Prof. Catharine Wilson, Redelmeier Professor in Rural History at University of Guelph, as she discusses 19th century conflict in rural Ontario.  Specifically, this talk explores the idea that, to analyze disasters reveals the internal dynamics of neighbourhood moral economies and

Stress Less for Tests Workshop

University Centre Ontario, Canada

Learn practical skills to decrease test anxiety and enhance energy and performance during exam periods. Part One of this program meets today, and Part Two meets on Thursday, from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. The fee is $5 for U of G students. University Centre, Room 335

Exploring narratives of women survivors of abuse: Stories of empowerment and recovery in the context of Turkey

Alexander Hall

Bursa Yalcinoz is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Bogazici University, Turkey, presents a discussion on narratives of women survivors of abuse. In her research, she is addressing questions about the initiation of disengagement process from abusive relationships, women's personal experiences after physical separation and their processes of empowerment and

Design Day in Engineering

Thornbrough Building 80 South Ring Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Come see the best in student engineering design at Design Day! Visit the Thornbrough Building on April 5 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to see this year's innovations in engineering design. Industry and community judges will evaluate the students' work. Students will present their design solutions for real-world challenges in the areas of: Sustainable Design

Guelph Talks Research – Perspective: From space to waste to art

Science Complex 488 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

One Topic, Three Takes - Perspective: From space to waste to art Join us as we bring apples and oranges together. The University of Guelph is one of Canada’s top comprehensive research-intensive universities and scholarly excellence is at the core of our mission. We celebrate this excellence with University Research Awards which span all of our

Interdisciplinary Feminism (IF…) presents: Micro Counter Narratives

McLaughlin Library 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Interdisciplinary Feminism Speaker Series Presents: Micro Counter Narratives with Aimée Morrison, University of Waterloo The viral Twitter hashtag campaigns #DistractinglySexy, #StayMadAbby and #BeckyWithTheBadGrades respond to structural oppression in higher education and public culture by producing micro counter narratives to stereotyped characterizations of women in science, and race-based affirmative action in admissions, respectively. This talk will

2018 Last Lecture

War Memorial Hall 390 Gordon Street, Guelph

Join us for the 2018 Last Lecture, an opportunity for graduating students to come together and reflect on their experiences at U of G. Student lecturer: Aidan Paskinov, BA ’18 Faculty lecturer: Prof. Matt Demers, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Alumni lecturer: Kim Parlee, B. Comm. ’92 All members of the University of Guelph community are invited

Doing Good In Communities First Year Seminar Project Pitches

Doing Good in Communities is an experiential First Year Seminar course at U of G that challenges students to think beyond volunteering and charity as a means to have a positive impact in our communities. Over the course of the W18 semester, interdisciplinary teams of students addressed specific challenges identified by community-partners using tools and

Warbler Workshop Level I

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

Learn about the plumage, song and behaviour of warblers. Investigate habitat requirements and timing of migration. Registration: Early bird pricing before April 3 is $75 per person. Pricing after April 3 is $85 per person.  If you also register for the Warbler II workshop, the early bird pricing is $125 per person for both Level

Guelph Talks Research – Relationships: Conflict, re/conciliation and the tree of life

University Centre Ontario, Canada

One Topic, Three Takes - Relationships: Conflict, re/conciliation and the tree of life Join us as we bring apples and oranges together. The University of Guelph is one of Canada’s top comprehensive research-intensive universities and scholarly excellence is at the core of our mission. We celebrate this excellence with University Research Awards which span all

Warbler Workshop Level II

Arboretum Centre 200 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, Canada

This workshop covers 15 less commonly seen southern Ontario warblers which are not covered in the Level I Warbler Workshop. Registration: Early bird pricing before April 3  is$75 per person ($125 for both Level I and Level II). After April 3, pricing is $85 per person.

OVC Alumni Hockey Tournment

Athletics Centre 150 Reynolds Walk, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Join us as OVC alumni, faculty and students come together for this longstanding tradition! Enjoy a few fun games of hockey while catching up and reminiscing with former classmates and faculty members and networking with current OVC students. Eligible OVC students include DVM, Graduate, PhD, Interns and Residents. Bring your families! There will be a

PhD Defence: Jennifer Foster

Jennifer Foster, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Plant Agriculture, will defend her thesis on Epidemiology and management of foliar diseases in asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). All are welcome. Crop Science, Room 202

4th Year BLA Integrative Design Studio Exhibit 2018

Our 4th year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture students will be holding a public display of their final design projects for the Integrative Design Studio course. These projects were supervised by Profs. Sean Kelly and Maurice Nelischer.  All are welcome to attend.