Intro to R and RStudio Workshop Part 2
2019-06-06 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. This workshop will introduce you to the dplyr package which makes tabular data manipulations easier by using a set of functions to extract and summarize insights from your data. The tidyr package works well with tidyr to quickly convert between different data formats (long v. wide) for graphing and analysis.
We highly recommend beginning with Intro to R and RStudio Part 1 as this workshop builds upon the material presented in Part 1. This is not an introductory workshop.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop. The laptop will need to have the latest versions of R and RStudio installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Opening Up the World of Data
2019-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 | 10C Shared Space, 42 Carden Street, Guelph, ON, N1H 3A2
Data can empower your organization to create stronger proposals, develop evidence-informed programs and demonstrate impact. However, it can be difficult to know where to find it and what to do with it. McLaughlin Library has partnered with the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute and 10C Shared Space to create this three-hour introduction to data workshop.
In this workshop, you will learn some of the basics of data, including data management practices (backups, sharing data and licensing), data cleaning, data visualization and data analysis.
There will be a hands-on portion of this workshop, so we encourage you to bring your laptop. Registration for this event is required.

Intro to SAS Workshop Part 1
2019-06-11 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and clean data, and generate descriptive, exploratory and simple inferential statistics.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty, and staff with minimal to no knowledge of SAS. A basic understanding of statistics would be an asset.
For this session, we will be using the SAS University edition. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with SAS University edition installed on it.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Intro to SAS Workshop Part 2
2019-06-11 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours, you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and clean data, and generate descriptive, exploratory and simple inferential statistics.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty and staff with minimal to no knowledge of SAS. A basic understanding of statistics would be an asset.
For this session, we will be using the SAS University edition. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with SAS University edition installed on it.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Can Future Needs be Met Sustainably? Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Oxford Physics
2019-06-12 10:00 | MacNaughton Building, 482 Gordon Street
U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk “Can Future Needs be Met Sustainably?”
Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly, driven by rising living standards in developing countries. Decarbonisation is imperative to reduce air pollution, rebalance relations between oil producing and importing countries and moderate climate change. However, scenarios that meet the International Panel on Climate Change’s goal of net-zero emissions in the second half of the century all involve heroic technical, economic and political assumptions.
His presentation will focus on ‘stubborn’ (especially hard to decarbonise) sectors, which include heat, aviation and shipping. While examining the global outlook and commenting on the situation in Canada, he will illustrate some of the changes that total decarbonisation will require in the case of the UK.

Science Diplomacy: Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics
2019-06-12 14:00 | MacNaughton Building, 482 Gordon Street
U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk “Science Diplomacy”.
Science Diplomacy is a term that has come to be used to describe almost all activities that involve both science/scientists and international relations/politicians/diplomats. In his presentation, Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith will discuss examples, successes and failures of:

Science in diplomacy

Science supporting international political objectives
Science helping meet global technical challenges

Diplomacy for science
Science for diplomacy

He will also discuss the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) project, which is bringing together scientists from across the region.

Join us for the 2019 Chappel Memorial Lecture
2019-06-12 16:00 - 17:00 | OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, 25 McGilvray Street
The 2019 Chappel Memorial Lecture presents Dr. John Hogenesch, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the Divisions of Human Genetics and Immunobiology.

The Hogenesch lab has led in research into the transcriptional outputs of the clock in animal models and humans. This work is leading to a wealth of new opportunities in circadian medicine and has spurred community contributions, such as the public databases the Gene Atlas and Gene Wiki, CircaDB, and algorithms, including JTK, PSEA, MetaCycle, and CYCLOPS.
The Chappel Memorial Lecture was established in 1988 through an endowment by Dr. Clifford Chappel. Since that time, internationally renowned researchers have been invited to the University of Guelph to summarize their research and career progression to inspire those engaged in, or considering, graduate studies in biomedical research.
OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, Room 1714

Intro to R and RStudio Workshop Part 3
2019-06-13 09:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop you will learn how to recognize the issues that reproducible research helps address. Then you will learn the important roles of documentation, sharing, automation and organization in making research reproducible. You will be introduced to tools (R/RMarkdown/Git and GitHub) that can be used to make your research reproducible.
This workshop is for individuals who conduct statistical analysis. Advanced knowledge of R is not needed, but some familiarity with R is needed.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop. The laptop will need to have R and RStudio installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Tracking a Silent Epidemic: Targeted Espionage Against Civil Society
2019-06-13 13:30 | Richards Building, 101 Reynolds Walk
Public presentation by honorary doctorate recipient Professor Ronald Deibert, Director of Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
While the Internet and other digital media offer enormous practical benefits to large segments of society, they also create new and unforeseen risks. Over the last decade, the Citizen Lab (based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy) has tracked a growing wave of digital espionage against civil society, including journalists, human rights advocates, academics, lawyers and humanitarians. This wave of attacks is the product of several underlying causes: the spread of authoritarian practices; the emergence and growth of unregulated commercial surveillance technologies; and a lack of capacity and resources across civil society to defend themselves. Should these attacks continue to spread, they could lead to a crisis of democracy. In this presentation, Prof. Deibert will outline several prominent case studies from Citizen Lab’s targeted espionage research before addressing what might be done to mitigate the problems outlined.

Representation in the Queer Community: Pameka Dedman
2019-06-14 14:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Stop by the library and listen to this academic talk about the importance of queer representation in the media and in social relations, in regard to autonomy and identity. This talk is given by Pamela Dedman, University of Waterloo PhD candidate in feminist philosophy.
Registration is encouraged for this event, but walk-ins are welcome!

2019 Real Estate and Housing (REH) Alumni Golf Tournament
2019-06-18 12:30 - 20:45 | Ontario, Canada
Connect over an 18-hole game of golf and dinner with fellow grads and colleagues who support U of G’s Real Estate and Housing (REH) program!
Individual or group registration available. Golfers will have the opportunity to win prizes. Dinner-only options are also available for guests.
Register online.

Intro to NVivo Workshop
2019-06-19 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by QSR International. In this workshop, we will work cover topics such as bringing in sources, creating nodes, coding and running queries.
This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty and staff with minimal to no knowledge of NVivo. A basic understanding of statistics would be an asset
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with the latest version of NVivo installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Graduate Teaching Community: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Journal Club #3
2019-06-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Day Hall
Join us for the third summer meeting of the Graduate Teaching Community (GTC) Journal Club. We will discuss a recent teaching publication related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. If you missed the previous meetings, don’t worry! We will send registered participants an email with the paper in advance. Please read the paper and bring questions, comments or critiques. Bring your lunch. We look forward to discussing with you.
Register online.

41st Guelph Sexuality Conference
2019-06-20 - 2019-06-21 | Rozanski Hall, 98 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
The 2019 Guelph Sexuality Conference centers on the theme “Redefining Relationships and Sexual Health”.
In the last few years there have been extraordinary advancements and discoveries in our understanding of sexual health, sexual well-being, sexuality, and relationships. During this years conference we seek to explore recent innovations in applied practice, decolonizing sex and sexuality, health, relationships, research, sexually transmitted infections and social justice. In addition, we plan to explore the implications of these innovations in our lives, our work, and our communities.
Learn more and register online.

HAFA/HFTM's 50th Anniversary Celebrations
2019-06-21 - 2019-06-23 | Ontario, Canada
Help us Celebrate 50 Years of Excellence!
The University of Guelph’s School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA)/School of Hospitality Food and Tourism Management has developed incredible leaders in the hospitality, food and tourism industry over the past 50 years. Help us celebrate our collective accomplishments and look to the future of U of G’s School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management.
We hope you can join us. To register, please visit the Event’s Page.

Alumni and Reunion Weekend 2019
2019-06-21 - 2019-06-23 | Ontario, Canada
The biggest alumni event of the year is fast approaching! Alumni and Reunion Weekend is a fantastic time whether you are part of a celebration or reunion year, or just feeling nostalgic for some good old U of G. You’re INVITED! Feature events include Craft Beer Tasting, Alumni Awards of Excellence Gala, President’s Milestone Lunch and more!

Celebrate International Day of Yoga with Classical Yoga for Total Health & Awareness
2019-06-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Johnston Green
This event is free for everyone. All are welcome to attend. No previous yoga experience is required.
Join us on Johnston Green to Celebrate International Day of Yoga (IDY). Take part in a free Classical Yoga for Total Health & Awareness session from noon to 1 p.m.. Together, we’ll align with the global energies of IDY and the summer solstice. The Classical Yoga practice will be followed by a bring-your-own-lunch yoga picnic from 1 to 2 p.m.
Please bring a yoga mat, a non-plastic water bottle and picnic lunch. Have fun!
Classical Yoga is not only about Asanas (postures), it is also about deeply exploring the breathing, meditative and relaxation dimensions of this practice. This integrated approach moves the practitioner toward balance in all aspects – mental, emotional, physical, social and ecological – of his or her being. By practicing these Asanas, Pranayama, Meditation and Relaxation (and Mudras) techniques an inner awareness develops that gradually carries over into the daily life of the practitioner.
Regular Classical Yoga practice will help improve health, flexibility, strength and lead to a balanced, connected (improved relationships), focused, creative (successful), peaceful and joyful life.
U of G’s Classical Yoga for Total Health and Awareness Program celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. It was originally started by professor emeritus and Order of Canada recipient O.P. Dwivedi. A series of events will be held throughout the year to mark the 10th anniversary, exploring the power and positive relationship of yoga and mental health in the context of life in the 21st century. Events will be shared through https://uoguel.ph/idy2019.
This event is sponsored by U of G’s Wellness@Work grant program.

Brutalism at Guelph
2019-06-21 15:30 - 16:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join the library for the launch of our newest exhibit Brutalism at Guelph: Concrete in a New Light.
This exhibition highlights Brutalism—an architectural style that rose to popularity during the 1960s—and the impact it had at U of G. The exhibit will explore what we can learn from this building style, and how its attitude may inform our campus evolution.
Everyone is welcome at the launch!
Register online.

Public Presentation by candidate for Dean, Lang School of Business and Economics - Candidate #1
2019-06-24 09:00 - 10:00 | Macdonald Hall
A schedule for public presentations by the two short-listed candidates for the position of Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics has been established as follows:
Candidate #1
Monday, June 24 – 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Macdonald Hall, Room 149
Candidate #2
Wednesday, June 26 – 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Macdonald Hall, Room 149
Meetings will be scheduled with the college chairs/directors, faculty, staff, students, alumni and VPAC. The public presentations and question sessions for all candidates will be recorded and made available on the Decanal and Other Academic Searches website. You will need a uoguelph.ca email address to access this site.
The committee invites written comments as part of this search. Comments should be directed to Provost Charlotte Yates either by regular mail or email to provost@uoguelph.ca by July 11, 2019. Your comments will be dealt with in strict confidence.

Public Presentation by candidate for Dean, Lang School of Business and Economics - Candidate #2
2019-06-26 09:00 - 10:00 | Macdonald Hall

Intro to Text Analysis Part 1 Workshop
2019-06-26 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Are you interested in uncovering patterns across vast amount of textual information? Come to this workshop to learn about distant reading techniques that address word count and location. Attendees will get hands on experience exploring entry level tools such as Google Ngram, Voyant, and AntConc.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with AntConc installed on it.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Presentation and Q&A: World Food Prize Winner Dr. David Nabarro
2019-06-26 09:00 - 22:30 | War Memorial Hall, 390 Gordon Street, Guelph
The Arrell Food Institute hosts Dr. David Nabarro for a free presentation and Q & A session. Registration is required.
Dr. Nabarro is Professor of Global Health at the Imperial College London and supports systems leadership for sustainable development through his Switzerland-based social enterprise 4SD. He is co-facilitator for the Climate Action Summit in September 2019, advisor at the Global Commission on Adaptation in Rotterdam, and curator of the Food Systems Dialogues. Dr. Nabarro secured his medical qualification in 1974 and has worked in over 50 countries – in communities and hospitals, governments, civil society, universities and in United Nations (UN) programs.
Dr. Nabarro worked for the British government in the 1990s as head of Health and Population and director for Human Development in the UK Department for International Development. From 1999 to 2017, he held leadership roles in the UN system on disease outbreaks and health issues, food insecurity and nutrition, climate change and sustainable development. In October 2018, Dr. Nabarro received the World Food Prize along with Lawrence Haddad for their leadership in raising the profile and building coalitions for action for better nutrition across the Sustainable Development Goals.

Decolonizing Body Positivity
2019-06-26 10:00 - 11:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
What messages do we send through the language we use about food, appearance and our own value? This workshop has the intention of deconstructing what “body love, acceptance and positivity” mean in the context of the individual, community and culture in which we exist. Participants will leave able to recognize forms of body oppression and develop tools to navigate through them.

Intro to Text Analysis Workshop Part 2
2019-06-26 13:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Are you interested in uncovering patterns across vast amount of textual information? Come to this workshop to learn about distant reading techniques that address word count and location. Attendees will get hands-on experience exploring entry level tools such as Google Ngram, Voyant and AntConc.
Part Two of this workshop series will introduce more complex concepts such as named entity recognition, sentiment analysis and topic modelling. Participants will explore tools such as Lexos, NER and Topic Modelling Tool.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with Stanford Named Entity Recognizer and Topic Modelling Tool installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Gender Pronouns and Teaching
2019-06-28 12:00 - 13:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Please join us June 28 to kick off the Office of Teaching and Learning’s Instructional Inclusivity Seminar Series!
Office of Teaching and Learning Presentation and Discussion:
June 28, 1969. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (two trans women of colour, drag queens and LGBTQ activists and heroines) threw the first brick (Johnson) and the first bottle (Rivera) during a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village that ignited the Stonewall riots and ushered in the revolution that we now commemorate and celebrate each June as Pride. On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, join educational developer Tommy Mayberry as she presents her talk “Gender Pronouns and Teaching” with the University of Guelph campus and community.
Session Abstract:
We’ve all done it. Said the wrong pronoun, used the wrong name, and/or otherwise referred to someone in some sexed/gendered way and immediately wished we could take it back. (And, guess what? We are all going to do it – we’re all human; we all make mistakes.) So, how can we as instructors forestall these mistakes in our teaching practices and activate in ourselves an inclusive ideology for gender and sexed identities in our classrooms? In this session, we’ll start with some grammar and linguistic history to identify where these words come from in our language and how they work (and don’t work), and then we’ll discuss impacts and impasses of privilege and inclusivity to get us into some strategies for positive engagement with gender pronouns and teaching.
Register here: http://reg.opened.uoguelph.ca/?event_id=2615
Tommy’s Bio:
Tommy Mayberry (he/she/they) is an Educational Developer in the Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) and Co-Chair of the QUofG Network at the University of Guelph. As an academic drag queen, Tommy works and researches from an embodied standpoint to explore, both individually and intersectionally, gender, pedagogy, performance, language, social media and reality TV (to name but a few) and has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, the most recent of which is the University of Guelph’s Learning Enhancement Fund (LEF) for “The Science Library Project/Le projet de bibliothèque scientifique” (2019-2020). Tommy’s partner is experimental digital media artist Tommy Bourque (together, they’re “the Tommies”), and their family is complete with their 13-year old Pekingese-Chihuahua, Sam.

Gryphons at the Jays Game
2019-07-04 17:00 - 20:00 | Ontario, Canada
Join your fellow alumni for a pre-game reception and cheer on the Jays as they face the Boston Red Sox!

Friday Noon Hour Garden Walks
2019-07-12 12:15 - 13:15 | Arboretum, 250 Arboretum Road, Guelph, N1G 2W1
Join Arboretum gardener Cael every other Friday at 12:15 p.m. for a tour of the Arboretum gardens. The tour will begin at the Hales McKay shelter (at the edge of the main Arboretum parking lot by the Arboretum Centre). Each tour will be different and could feature topics such as the exploration of the Gosling Wildlife Gardens, the art of Japanese gardening, elements to create a formal garden or the Arboretum Centre and its surroundings.

Arboretum: Mushrooms Through Summer and Fall Workshop
2019-07-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Arboretum, 250 Arboretum Road, Guelph, N1G 2W1
Explore the mysterious, weird and wonderful world of fungi! The course is open to students of any skill level, with the assumption that most will be beginners. Past courses have been taught in October, when mushrooms are most abundant. However, this year the course will focus on the seasonal changes in mushroom diversity. The course will be divided into five Saturday morning forays about a month apart on the following dates:

July 13
August 10
September 21
October 19
November 9

Participants may sign up for one, more or all forays. However, if you want to take more than one, it is recommended to spread them out in order to see the greatest diversity. The morning foray will be followed by an identification session. A species list will be compiled for each foray and a combined foray list will be sent to all interested participants. Please bring a collecting basket of some sort. You are encouraged to bring a field guide, such as George Barron’s field guide, Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada as well as a digital camera and jump drive for sharing photos.
Guest Instructor: Tim Myles.
Registration
Early Bird Fee: $50 PLUS a $10 fee per transaction by July 5 (Note: You can register for multiple workshops and/or multiple people in one transaction so you only pay the $10 once).
Regular Fee: $60 plus transaction fee.
Note: If we don’t have enough registrations by the early bird deadline the course may be cancelled. Maximum 16.
Note: There are 5 “Mushrooms through Summer and Fall” workshops offered in 2019 on the following Saturdays: July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 21, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9.

Intro to Programming with Python Workshop Part 1
2019-07-16 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Interested in using Python but don’t know where to start? Join us for a hands-on, two-part workshop for folks with little experience programming.
Part 1 will cover the basics of working with data in Python. We’ll cover reading-in data from an external source followed by some simple manipulation and analysis using the built-in capabilities that are provided by base Python language and the pandas library.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with Anaconda – Python 3.7 and Pycharm – Community Edition installed on it.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.

Intro to Programming with Python Workshop Part 2
2019-07-16 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Interested in using Python but don’t know where to start? Join us for a hands-on, two-part workshop for folks with little experience programming.
Part 2 will go beyond the built-in. Participants will learn to iterate over data with loops, use conditional logic to make decisions on the fly and write reusable code with functions.
We highly recommend attending Part 1 of this workshop.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with Anaconda – Python 3.7 and Pycharm – Community Edition installed on it.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.
