Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Impostor Phenomenon for Graduate Students and Upper Year Undergrads
Do any of these words resonate with you: procrastination, perfectionism, and/or impostor phenomenon? Come to this workshop to learn more about how to manage some of the most common experiences that graduate students have. Learn practical skills and strategies to help you reduce procrastination and understand how perfectionism and the impostor phenomenon may affect your
Open Scholarship and RDM Brown Bag: Negotiating Publishing Contracts
Negotiating Publishing Contracts expands on material covered in Navigating Academic Publishing, but it is not a prerequisite. In this session, you will learn more about your rights as an author, and will develop skills you can use when negotiating your academic publishing contracts. We will look at sample contracts together as well as suggested language
Project SOY Plus: Information Session
Join us for an information session on the Project SOY Plus competition! This historic U of G competition empowers students to unleash their creativity and innovation through two streams: Project and Creative. If you're interested in learning how to turn your ideas into impactful solutions, sharing your creative concepts, or looking for more details about
Outlining Your Thesis (in-person) – Thesis Writing Workshop Series
Establish a roadmap for your thesis and make the most of your writing time by creating an outline. In this session, students will explore different options for structuring their theses and access resources for organizing their projects. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.
Call for Participants: “Open Sessions” with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (Padua, Italy) – IICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence Fall 2024 (ImprovLab)
ImprovLab Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence "Open Sessions" When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 3 to Oct. 22 (Six Workshops) Where: ImprovLab (108 MacKinnon Building) Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Who: Ages 16 and up—all skill levels and experience welcome! Cost: Free! Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (Padua, Italy), IICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence for the Fall 2024 season, invite you to
Better Sleep Program
Learn proven, drug-free strategies to fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, decrease insomnia, and get more energy from sleep. Go at your own pace through each lesson in this special online, on-demand, five-session sleep program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic. You have lifetime access to the lessons
Creative Writing Series: Writing Stories: Redefining Narrative Structure
Try something new with this experimental short story workshop! Using shapes in nature as inspiration, you will draw and diagram a structure for your own story using coloured pencils and markers. Please brainstorm a story idea that includes a character and problem/basic plot before the workshop so we can jump right into developing the narrative
Gryphon Football Game vs. Windsor
October 5, 1 p.m., Guelph vs. Windsor, Alumni Stadium * Think Pink/ Senior Night The last regular season home game for Gryphon Football will take place on October 5 and will be the Think Pink and Senior Day game for the Gryphons. Gates open at 11:30 a.m. with lawn games, and food trucks available at
Make-a-thon
Calling makers of all ages and stages! Join us at the Art Gallery of Guelph for an afternoon of creative activity using the simplest of materials: paper, glue, and scissors. Projects are inspired by the artwork currently on view by artist Justin Favela who uses everyday materials to ingeniously to “make something out of nothing,”
START Skills – Midterm Study Skills
Have midterms coming up? Don't know how to study for them? Join the START Team and The Library for our workshop on midterm study skills. This workshop will cover some helpful tips and tricks to improve your studying! *This is a hybrid workshop - you can either attend in-person or online. In person will be
Graduate Accountability Group – Online
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThe Graduate Student Accountability Group provides a welcoming, safe and productive online space for graduate students to do their work. The group is facilitated by a learning specialist and is designed to help you identify small goals and accomplish them during short work periods. Comments from previous participants: "The group is a great way to
Open Scholarship and RDM Brown Bag: Research Data Deposit: Best practices in preparing data for deposit
Are you considering depositing your research data in the University of Guelph Research Data Repositories (housed in Borealis, The Canadian Dataverse Repository)? In this brown bag, participants will learn about
Call for Participants: “Open Sessions” with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (Padua, Italy) – IICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence Fall 2024 (ImprovLab)
ImprovLab Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence "Open Sessions" When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 3 to Oct. 22 (Six Workshops) Where: ImprovLab (108 MacKinnon Building) Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Who: Ages 16 and
Writing Tune-Up: Style
Have you ever written a sentence or paragraph that was grammatically correct, but just didn't sound great? Issues with style may be holding you back. Join us to learn about
Intro to GIS using ArcGIS Pro: Data Skills
In this workshop we will learn how to navigate ArcPro, kinds of GIS data, how to add data to a map, basic symbology, and labelling, how to filter data, and
Putting the Transfer in Transferable Skills
This workshop for transfer students is a collaboration between Student Experience and Writing & Learning Services in the Library. This workshop focuses on strategies that will allow you to: Identify
Creative Writing Series: Writing Stories: Description through Character
Experience the world through a character’s point of view using the principles of cartooning! Through this hands-on workshop, you will find out what cartoons can teach us about describing settings
Presentation Skills for Graduate Students and Upper Year Undergrads
Would you like to learn more about presentation skills and strategies to use in academic settings? The workshop for graduate students will offer strategies and information for academic presentations, including:
Hopper Lecture 2024 – Restless Earth
In this talk Nanjala Nyabola gives insight and stimulates thought around the language and metrics that will define our digital future. As our world becomes increasingly digital, digital-rights advocates often
Open Scholarship and RDM Brown Bag Series: Depositing Your Research Data in a Repository
Sharing your data improves your visibility as a researcher, increases citations for your publications, gives you recognition for your work, attracts new collaborations, and most importantly allows for reproducibility and