ONLINE: Brain Food Live – Welcome and Time Management During the Thesis Process
This live, online workshop will welcome you to the Brain Food Workshop series (approximately 1:00-1:30 p.m.) and then lead to the popular workshop, Time Management during the Thesis Process. Learn more about how to manage your time, set goals and work efficiently as a graduate student.
ONLINE: Library Workshop – Data Skills: Cleaning and Preparing Data with Open Refine
Before analyzing or visualizing data we've collected, it's important 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. This workshop will familiarize you with OpenRefine, a powerful data manipulation tool that cleans, reshapes and edit batches of messy and
ONLINE: Library Workshop – Data Skills: Introduction to Qualtrics – Creating Data with Online Surveys
This online workshop will use Qualtrics, an online survey software, to explore the fundamentals of survey creation. By attending, you will learn how to create a Qualtrics account, how to find and use Qualtrics tutorials and training, and how to create a basic Qualtrics survey. This workshop will also discuss methodology tips for good survey
ONLINE: Be Well Be Safe Week Keynote – Navigating Stress and Change in the Workplace
As we kick off Be Well Be Safe Week at U of G, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe will be joining us virtually with a keynote on navigating stress and change in
ONLINE: Love and Liberation – Blueprints for a BIPOC Future with Keynote Robyn Maynard
Love and Liberation is a series of workshops and discussions that centre BIPOC student experiences as we develop concrete strategies for change within and between our communities. The conference will bring together community leaders, activists and those engaged in practices of liberation who will invite BIPOC students to deconstruct current realities while providing tools and
ONLINE: Yoga Speaker Series – Panel Discussion and Q and A
May the light of the sun illuminate your mind removing all obstacles and filling your heart with love and joy your mind with pure compassionate thoughts your body with virtuous actions that raise up those around you to their highest potential Join us on your yoga mat for our final event of the Yoga Speaker
ONLINE: Thinking Spaces Speaker Series with Roger Dean
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “AI and Improvisation: Virtual Improvisers, Virtual Pianos,” a talk by Roger Dean. The event will take place on Friday, April 9, 2021, at 5 p.m. (ET) via Zoom (please note the slightly later-than-usual starting time). A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. If
ONLINE: Provost Dialogue – Budget Update
An invitation to faculty, staff and students to attend the Provost Dialogue: Budget Update Interim Provost and Vice-President (Academic), Dr. Gwen Chapman will host a public forum on the 2021-2022 Budget. This is an opportunity for the University community to ask questions regarding the current fiscal outlook. Wednesday April 7, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 1:30
ONLINE: Grad Launch 2021
Join us for the Grad Launch 2021 virtual resource fair to help you prepare for graduation! OPEN ALL DAY! Drop-in between 11:30 am. to 1 p.m. for our LIVE HOURS to chat with service representatives and find out what programs, services and benefits are available to you once you become a Guelph Grad. Each attendee
ONLINE: Royal Agricultural Virtual Experience (Spring) – Preserving and Researching Ontario’s Agricultural History with Diaries
The University of Guelph is proud to partner with the Royal Agricultural Virtual Experience Spring Session, presenting four online discussions on agri-food. Join Catharine Wilson as she takes you on a virtual tour of the Rural Diary Archive. Here you can read, search and transcribe the writings of nearly 200 Ontario diarists spanning the years
ONLINE: Royal Agricultural Virtual Experience (Spring) – Manomin Teachings
The University of Guelph is proud to partner with the Royal Agricultural Virtual Experience Spring Session, presenting four online discussions on agri-food. The Manomin Research Project aims to intensify Manomin (Zizania palustris) growth in environments altered by colonial settlement in ways that are responsive to Anishinaabe knowledge. There is a focus on crop restoration, cultural
ONLINE: College Royal Virtual Open House
ImprovLab Guelph, Ontario, CanadaCollege Royal is an annual open house that showcases the clubs, student activities and agricultural roots of the University of Guelph. It's the largest university open house event in all of North America! Join the fun at www.virtualcollegeroyal.com! College Royal is a 100 per cent student-organized and run event. This year’s team decided to
ONLINE: Winter 2021 Book Launch with Dr. Danny Pincivero
U of GH's Academic Services invites you to attend the Winter 2021 Virtual Book Launch Series event featuring Dr. Danny Pincivero, Kinesiology instructor at the University of Guelph-Humber. Join Dr. Pincivero as he provides a review and reading of his book A New Day Starts Tomorrow. The plot of this coming of age memoir-like story, hinges
ONLINE: SHINE Week – Let’s Talk Mental Health Panel
The Mental Health Panel is our highlighted event for SHINE Week! This year's panel will include students from the University who will be sharing their unique experiences with mental health, including the resources and strategies that they have found helpful. Join us for a night of important discussion and learning from a variety of perspectives.
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: 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 fitness workout! This class is open to everyone. Find more Black History Month events at U of G.
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: 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 of your mind and into full body senses. The founder and now executive director of the Global Institute of Forest Therapy, Ben now travels the
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 Hopkins. Dispatch draws from Chacon and Hopkins’ reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defence of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water
ONLINE: Publishing Your Data – Preparing Your Data for Deposit
In this online workshop from the McLaughlin Library, you will learn more about why you should publish your research data, where to publish your research data and best practices for preparing your data for sharing and preservation in the data repository. Additionally, information about the data deposit process for the Agri-environmental Research Data Repository and