U of G News

Student Print Show and Sale
2018-03-16 - 2018-03-18 | Zavitz Hall
Students from the School of Fine Art and Music Department will be showing and selling their original lithographs, etchings, relief and screen prints.
March 16 and 17 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm
March 18 12:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Zavitz Hall, Room 207

Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Engineering
2018-03-16 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Richards Building, 101 Reynolds Walk
Marv DeVries, President and CEO of Trojan Technologies, will be speaking at the School of Engineering on the topic – Water: Global Issues and Opportunities.
DeVries is a proud alumni and is pleased to be back on campus to share wisdom and insight gained during his long and illustrious career in Water Resources.
Refreshments will be provided.
Richards Building, Room 3504

College Royal Open House
2018-03-17 - 2018-03-18 | Ontario
Visit the 94th College Royal Open House, March 17 and 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with events such as barn tours, livestock shows, club displays, dog and cat shows, department open houses, lectures and more. Come see the diversity at the University of Guelph, bridging the gap between farm and city.
Learn more and see a full schedule of events at www.collegeroyalsociety.com

SES Grad Information Night
2018-03-19 17:30 - 19:00 | The Fifth, 50 Stone Road East, University Centre, 5th floor, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Interested in Grad School in Environmental Sciences? Come and see if Graduate School is for you at our informal meet and greet with SES Faculty and Graduate Students. It’s your turn to ask faculty about their research. All students are welcome.Bring a friend too. Free appetizers.

Control Academic Stress: Coping with Exam Anxiety
2018-03-20 11:30 - 12:30 | Ontario, Canada
Feeling anxious about tests and exams? In this session offered through McLaughlin Library’s Learning Services, we will discuss strategies to help you cope with anxiety while preparing for exams.
Please register in advance for this free event.
McLaughlin Library, Room 246A

Guelph Talks Research - Data: Microbes, green technology and human behaviour
2018-03-20 13:00 - 14:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
One Topic, Three Takes – Data: Microbes, green technology and human behaviour
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 colleges. Learn more about what our faculty awardees are doing.
Guelph Talks Research is a lecture series that brings together these faculty to give their take on a single topic, each from their own disciplinary perspective.
On March 20, our panel discusses “Data: Microbes, green technology and human behaviour” with:

Amar Mohanty, Plant Agriculture, OAC Research Leadership Chair
Towhidul Islam, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, CBE Research Leadership Chair
Shayan Sharif, Pathobiology, OVC Research Leadership Chair

For more information, contact stratprg@uoguelph.ca.
McLaughlin Library, Scholar’s Studio

The Art & Practice of Pruning
2018-03-20 13:00 - 16:30 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
This half-day indoor/outdoor practical workshop will teach you the principles of easy and correct pruning in the home landscape. We will cover how to choose the correct equipment and how to keep it sharp and clean. Pruning techniques will be shown and practised on a variety of shrubs and small trees. This is a very popular course, so register early! This session is presented by Arboretum horticultural staff Polly Samland.
Early Bird Fee: $55 before March 12
Regular Fee: $65
Note: If we don’t have enough registrations by the early bird deadline, the course may be cancelled. Maximum 16 adults per session.

CBSAA Speaker Night: Merritt Turetsky
2018-03-20 19:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
We invite CBS alumni to join us for an evening of networking and a fantastic presentation by Merritt Turetsky, Canada Research Chair in the Department of Integrative Biology, discussing why Canada is a permafrost nation and how it influences global climate.
University Centre, The Fifth (5th floor – formerly the Grad Lounge)

Food Science Seminar - A Scientist Walks Into a Kitchen
2018-03-21 13:00 | Rozanski Hall, 98 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
Food Science Seminar guest speaker César Vega discusses non-obvious culinary uses of garlic. For those of us with a sweet tooth, the addition of garlic to nougat, angel food cake, soufflés and mousses is nothing short of counterintuitive. It is in this, non-obvious culinary use of garlic, that the beauty of science makes us transform the kitchen into a laboratory.
Rozanski Hall, Room 102

Winter Invertebrates
2018-03-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
Knowing what to look for and where to find these hidden creatures makes cold-weather expeditions far more enjoyable. During this half-day program, we will search for goldenrod gallfly larvae and caterpillars that hide in burrs, learn how woolly bears forecast the severity of winter’s blast, and discover a great variety of other “bugs” that are surviving their most challenging season.
Register by March 13 to take advantage of the $55 early bird fee. After March 13, registration is $65 per person. Maximum 18 adults.

Winegard Lecture in Engineering
2018-03-21 17:00 | Richards Building, 101 Reynolds Walk
Sustainability and global clean tech expert Chris Turner presents “Tracking the Global Energy Transition” at the 2018 Winegard Lecture in Engineering.
The global economy is undergoing its greatest transformation since the dawn of the industrial age as it shifts from an energy regime built on fossil fuels to one run by clean, renewable power. Award-winning author and sustainability strategist Chris Turner has been documenting this energy transition for more than a decade. His presentation combines insights from his bestselling books on the clean tech revolution, The Leap and The Geography of Hope, as well as analysis of the transition’s impact on the conventional energy economy drawn from his most recent book, The Patch. Turner explains where the energy transition leads, what our energy future looks like, and what it means for the strategic decisions businesses and organizations need to make to survive and thrive in the new energy economy.
Richards Building, Room 2529

Thursday At Noon Concert Series presents Student Soloist Day
2018-03-22 12:00 - 12:50, 2018-03-29 12:00 - 12:50 | 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

CCSAW Animal Behaviour and Welfare Seminar
2018-03-22 12:30 - 13:30 | OVC Pathobiology AHL, 419 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph, Ian Duncan will present the CCSAW Animal Behaviour and Welfare Seminar. He has been researching animal welfare since 1965 and was one of the first people to bring a scientific approach to solving welfare problems.
OVC Pathobiology AHL, Room 1800

Sex work and human trafficking: A panel discussion
2018-03-23 11:00 - 12:30 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join us for a panel discussion on sex work and human trafficking, featuring Antonela Arhin, University of Toronto and Oralia Gomez-Ramirez, Wilfrid Laurier University. This panel will be moderated by Prof. Candace Johnson, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph.
MacKinnon Building, Room 235

ART/CRAFT XL Gala and Art Auction
2018-03-24 18:30 - 22:00 | Ontario
Indulge in an evening of splendor at ART/CRAFT XL. Enjoy exquisite local fare, larger-than-life digital installations and a live art auction. This event raises funds for the Art Gallery of Guelph’s (AGG’s) artistic and educational programs.
Tickets: $125 each or four for $400. Buy online, at the AGG or by phone at ext. 58679.

Campus Day
2018-03-25 | Ontario
Join us for this full-day open house! You are invited to go on a campus tour, check out our residences, attend academic information sessions and chat one-on-one with current students, staff and faculty who are in the programs to which you’ve applied.

Master of Landscape Architecture Conference
2018-03-27 10:00 - 15:00 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
As part of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Guelph, graduate students completing the thesis portion of their degree convey their research findings at the annual MLA conference. All are welcome to attend this free event.

University of Guelph 3-Minute Thesis Final Competition
2018-03-27 13:00 | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
Want to learn more about the incredible research happening on campus? Support your fellow Gryphons and join us to watch U of G graduate students compete at the 2018 Three Minute Thesis campus finals!
3MT® is a university wide competition for graduate students in which participants present their research, creative activity, and its wider impact in three minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. The challenge is to present complex research in an engaging, accessible and compelling way, using only one slide.
Join us March 27 and watch U of G’s best compete for a spot at the provincial finals!
University Centre, Room 442

Guelph Talks Research - Food: From guts to nutrition to marketing health
2018-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Canada
One Topic, Three Takes – Food: From guts to nutrition to marketing health
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 colleges. Learn more about what our faculty awardees are doing.
Guelph Talks Research is a lecture series that brings together these faculty to give their take on a single topic, each from their own disciplinary perspective.
On March 28, our panel discusses “Food: From guts to nutrition to marketing health” with:

Emma Allen-Vercoe, Molecular and Cellular Biology, CBS Research Leadership Chair
Tanya Mark, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, CBE Research Excellence Award
David Ma, Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, CBS Research Leadership Chair

For more information, contact stratprg@uoguelph.ca.

SOFAM presesnts MFA Open Studios
2018-03-28 14:00 - 20:30 | Ontario
The annual MFA Open Studios offers a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of one of Canada’s premier art programs and a chance to chat with the artists about their work.
Two sessions: 2:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Blackwood Hall, Fire Hall and Alexander Hall. Shuttle bus runs between locations.
Look for the directional volunteers in the green toques.
Free tour, everyone welcome.

Graduate Students Association Annual General Meeting
2018-03-28 17:00 | 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
2018-03-28 17:00 - 20:00 | 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 environments more resilient and sustainable? Please join us for the annual Hammond Lecture and panel discussion on creating a resilient world – the new path to sustainability. Bring your questions!
Richards Building, Room 2529

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art: Tom Sachs "Bricolage and Ritual In The Sculpture"
2018-03-28 18:00 | 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 funny, and utterly captivating.
TOM SACHS (b. 1966, New York) is a New York-based sculptor known for work inspired by icons of modernism and design. Using modest studio materials, he creates parallel universes incorporating semi-functional sculpture, sometimes deployed by the artist and his studio assistants for interactive projects, as in Nutsy’s (2001-3) and Space Program (2007, 2012, 2016-17). Sachs has been described as “the Lenny Bruce of contemporary American art: uncompromisingly, wickedly funny, and whiplash smart”. His wit runneth over in all directions and in all mediums.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre George Pompidou, Paris; and the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo among others. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2017-18), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2016-17), Noguchi Museum, New York (2016), the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2016), and the Contemporary Austin, Texas (2015). His film, A Space Program, released by Zeitgeist in 2016, offers viewers a glimpse into the artist’s studio practice, philosophy, and the narrative surrounding his 2012 project with Creative Time at the Park Avenue Armory.
Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:
2:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.
Open Studios 2018 features work by graduate candidates: Andrew Buszchak, Aidan Cowling, Sarah Davidson, Cassandra Ferguson, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Jessica Jang, Brennan Kelly, Jackson Klie, HaeAhn Kwon, Deirdre McAdams, Megan Moore, Emily Moriarty, Walter Scott, Xiao Xue.
We will also showcase work by our fourth-year Specialized Studio undergraduates: Bronte Beggs, Nora Downer, Mackenzie Duncan, Shelby Edwards, Cherie Englehart, Richelle Forsey, Felicity Jones, Emily Lalonde, Rebecca Payne, Kayathry Ratnasabapathy, Theodora Smit, Leonard Walsh.

A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 12:30 p.m. and leave the University of Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m. Reserve a seat on this bus.
A free shuttle service between Open Studio buidings is available between 2:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Volunteers will be available to provide directions and assistance. Volunteers will be wearing kelly green toques.

Press contact: Sandra Sabatini Ph.D., sabatini@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53869; Jessica Jang, graduate student coordinator, jjang@uoguelph.ca; John Kissick, faculty coordinator, jkissick@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53191.

School of Environmental Sciences Lunch & Learn Series: Climate change and Ontario’s agri-food sector - OMAFRA’s perspective
2018-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 | 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

2018-19 U of G Budget Town Hall
2018-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 | University Centre – Peter Clark Hall
On April 2, Charlotte Yates, provost and vice-president (academic) will host a forum for faculty, staff and students on 2018-2019 budget assumptions. The University community will have the opportunity to ask questions about the current fiscal outlook.
University Centre, Peter Clark Hall

19th Century Conflict in Rural Ontario: Retribution or Reconciliation?
2018-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 | 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 conflict resolution before the advent of police forces and first response teams.
Lunch is provided. Registration required by March 28.

Stress Less for Tests Workshop
2018-04-03 17:30 - 19:00 | 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

Design Day in Engineering
2018-04-05 08:30 - 16:30 | 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
Smart Technologies
Industrial Systems Design

Students will also showcase their 3-D printed toy designs and fourth year capstone projects.

Guelph Talks Research - Perspective: From space to waste to art
2018-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 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 colleges. Learn more about what our faculty awardees are doing.
Guelph Talks Research is a lecture series that brings together these faculty to give their take on a single topic, each from their own disciplinary perspective.
On April 5, our panel discusses “Perspective: From space to waste to art” with:

Ed McBean, School of Engineering, CEPS Research Leadership Chair
Alexandros Gezerlis, Department of Physics, CEPS Research Excellence Award

For more information, contact stratprg@uoguelph.ca.
Summerlee Science Complex, Atrium
