Writing in the Sciences Workshop: Writing Research Articles
2019-09-09 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This workshop series is designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills. If you’re a graduate student working on a thesis or an undergraduate student interested in graduate-level research, these workshops are for you. Register for one session or register for all six.
This session focuses on the purpose, organization and style of academic research articles in the sciences. With reference to the principles of genre and move structure analysis, we discuss strategies for writing effective introduction, method, results and discussion sections.
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Writing in the Sciences Workshop: Strengthening Your Scientific Writing Style
2019-09-09 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This workshop series is designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills. If you’re a graduate student working on a thesis or an undergraduate student interested in graduate-level research, these workshops are for you. Register for one session or register for all six.
In this session, we discuss strategies for writing clearly and concisely. We practice revising individual sentences to reduce wordiness, improve word choice and increase clarity. For this session, you can practice on excerpts from your own scientific writing or work with our examples.
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Writing in the Sciences Workshop: Writing Literature Reviews
2019-09-10 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This workshop series is designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills. If you’re a graduate student working on a thesis or an undergraduate student interested in graduate-level research, these workshops are for you. Register for one session or register for all six.
This session focuses on strategies for organizing, drafting and revising literature reviews. We discuss how to connect your literature review to your research question, how to build the structure of your review, and how to avoid some common challenges when writing in this scientific genre.
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Writing in the Sciences Workshop: Improving Grammar, Punctuation and Mechanics
2019-09-10 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This workshop series is designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills. If you’re a graduate student working on a thesis or an undergraduate student interested in graduate-level research, these workshops are for you. Register for one session or register for all six.
This session focuses on principles of grammar, punctuation and mechanics that are of interest to students in the sciences. We discuss how to identify and correct common grammar errors, how to use punctuation more effectively, and how to avoid mechanical errors and inconsistencies.
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Writing in the Sciences Workshop: Paraphrasing Effectively and Writing about Tables and Figures
2019-09-11 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This workshop series is designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills. If you’re a graduate student working on a thesis or an undergraduate student interested in graduate-level research, these workshops are for you. Register for one session or register for all six.
This session focuses on working with visuals and sources in your writing. We discuss how to integrate sources effectively without plagiarizing and how to use visuals appropriately and ethically.
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Smoking Cessation Peer Support Group
2019-09-12 12:00 - 13:00 | University Centre, 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Drop by to speak with U of G community members and a quit coach to talk about challenges and successes on the road to becoming smoke-free. Sessions run Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m., Sept. 12 to Oct. 17, in University Centre, Room 442. For more information, email smokefree@uoguelph.ca.

Arboretum: Ecopsychology
2019-09-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Arboretum, 250 Arboretum Road, Guelph, N1G 2W1
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in an eight-week program that explores the principles of Ecopsychology and Eco Art Therapy. Walking through this program, participants gradually gain a deeper sense of self-value, one’s relationship with nature, and a desire to engage with Nature as a trusted and valued aspect of one’s own life.
The Ecopsychological focus here will be to open yourself to direct experiences within nature and rely on a reciprocation of experiences where you will allow Nature to gently guide your awareness through your senses. You will be challenged to learn from Nature’s wisdom in the absence of words and languages and simply rely on your non-language based senses. You will be amazed by how and what Nature reveals to you through such an approach. You will discover how Nature truly exemplifies ‘unconditional love,’ and how we can take lessons for our own lives.
In each session, participants will be introduced to new concepts that they will then apply to practical activities, then reflect both collectively and individually. This course will also explore Eco-Art activities that go beyond the barriers of artistic techniques. Participants will create pieces that they are truly proud of because of the deep experiences and meaning those pieces of art hold.
Guest Instructor: Memona Hossain
Registration
Early Bird Fee: $195 by Sept. 4.
Regular Fee: $210
Note: If we don’t have enough registrations by the early bird deadline the course may be cancelled. Maximum 16 adults.

Arboretum: Hawks Workshop
2019-09-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Arboretum, 250 Arboretum Road, Guelph, N1G 2W1
This workshop will help you develop your skills in identifying migrating hawks, falcons, vultures, eagles and osprey. Through a wide variety of hands-on activities, you’ll learn about plumage, body shape, foraging techniques, flight patterns and migration times of 15 species. An information booklet will be provided.
Arboretum Naturalist: Chris Earley, author of Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America.
Registration
Early Bird Fee: $80 by Sept. 5.
Regular Fee: $90
Note: If we don’t have enough registrations by the early bird deadline the course may be cancelled. Maximum 18 adults.

Data Basics Workshop
2019-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Ever wonder what sort of data you will be dealing with? Do you find yourself lost when it’s time to prepare your data for analysis?
In this workshop, you will be introduced to the different types of data you can collect or create as well as the various ways you can collect, describe and visualize your data before data analysis. You will also be introduced to the different ways you can make inferences about your data when you’re finally ready to analyze it. This workshop is intended for those who are going to be involved with research or academic projects and want to tackle their data from the very beginning.
Register online.

Broadband to the Farm and the Politics of Rural Connectivity in America
2019-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Hear Prof. Christopher Ali, Media Studies (University of Virginia) discuss his current research project, Farm Fresh Spectrum: Rural broadband and the future of connectivity. Ali’s research examines the complicated terrain of rural broadband policy in the United States. Farm Fresh unpacks the politics of broadband policy, asking why millions of rural Americans lack broadband access and why the federal government, and large providers, are not doing more to connect the unconnected. It explores different business structures, focusing on the importance of co-operatives to provide rural broadband. It contemplates the technologies of rural broadband—from the “future proof” fiber, to the tried-tested-and-true digital subscriber line (DSL) and the rollout of the advanced cellular networks of 4G, LTE, and 5G. It examines the uses of rural broadband, focusing on precision agriculture. Finally, it analyzes the policies of rural broadband, interrogating issues of regulatory jurisdiction, authority, legitimacy, and subsidy.
This seminar is organized by the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) Speaker Series and R2B2 Project with the support of Food from Thought, a partnership of the University of Guelph and Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

Introduction to Git and GitHub Workshop
2019-09-18 10:00 - 11:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Learn about Git and GitHub and how you can use them to collaborate on research projects, write computer code, backup data and create a website.
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Powley Day Flag Raising
2019-09-19 10:00 - 11:30 | University Centre, 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
U of G’s Powley Day programming starts at 10 a.m. in front of the University Centre and includes:

Remarks from the Grand River Métis Council President and Aboriginal Resource Centre Staff
Raising of the Métis Flag

Following the formal program, all are welcome to visit the Aboriginal Resource Centre in the Federal Building for coffee, tea, snacks and conversation. Members of the Grand River Métis Council will be present.

Data Skills Workshop: Getting Data - Open Data
2019-09-19 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this interactive course you will discover, use and describe the benefits of open data. You will learn how you can use open data in your research. This workshop is for anyone that has little to some knowledge about open data. At the end of the workshop, you will know how to access free data after your academic career and be knowledgeable about working with it!
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Academic Writing Style Workshop
2019-09-19 13:30 - 16:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Attend this free library workshop to improve your ability to write academically.
Topics covered will include:

Writing cohesive paragraphs
Crafting and connecting effective sentences
Eliminating wordiness
Improving clarity

Open to all graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, faculty and staff.
Register online.

Soils at Guelph Launch
2019-09-19 14:00 - 18:00 | Science Complex, 488 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join us for an open house celebrating the official launch of a new U of G initiative promoting sustainable soil management. The open house will be followed by a tour of the Soil Health Interpretive Centre at Elora, showcasing cutting-edge research and knowledge mobilization activities.

Hopper Lecture: Gandhi, Environmentalism, and the World Today
2019-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | University Centre – Peter Clark Hall
Join us for the 2019 Hopper Lecture, presented by writer and historian Ramachandra Guha. Guha is the winner of the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian studies. He is also the author of Times of London Book of the Decade, India After Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi is known for having led the Indian struggle for freedom, for promoting inter-faith harmony and for inventing the techniques of non-violent civil disobedience.
It is less well known that he was also a precocious environmentalist. This lecture will explore the contours of Gandhi’s environmental thought and its resonances in India and the world today.
This lecture is part of the World in 2030 event series.
Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in honour of its first president, David Hopper.

Data Skills Workshop: Part 1 - Intro to R and RStudio
2019-09-23 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
R is an open-source software environment for data manipulation and statistical analysis. Used in a variety of disciplines, R has become a popular tool because of its power, flexibility and active community. Join us as we teach the R language fundamentals and basic syntax, major R data structures and generate basic statistical analysis.
No programming skills are required for this workshop, just an interest and desire to learn. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop.
Before attending the workshop, please complete the following:

Download and Install R

Windows User: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
Mac User: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

Install RStudio Desktop: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
What is R used for? Introduction to RStudio basics (5 min): https://youtu.be/SWxoJqTqo08?t=26s

Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop. Please ensure you follow account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class, we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during the class time. If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.
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FREE: Fall Equinox Day of Yoga Fun Event
2019-09-23 11:30 - 13:30 | Johnston Green
The U of G Classical Yoga for Total Health and Awareness group is celebrating the Fall Equinox by holding a FREE yoga class for the U of G campus! Opening remarks by Carrie Chassels, Vice-Provost (Student Affairs) at 12 noon.
Fall Equinox is a very special time in nature, as it is a transition, preparation, and balancing point as night and day become equal. It is a natural invitation to turn toward the light within, to allow for introspection in preparation for the slower, darker, and colder months to come.
Let’s take this time to rebalance, nourish ourselves, rest, restore and release anything not serving our purpose, so that we can enter the rest of the year re-energized and bring clarity and focus in the mind.
This event is open to all students, staff and faculty at U of G, and is a time to build community and practice together at this special time of year.
Please join us! Find out more.
This event is sponsored by the U of G Wellness@Work grant.
The Classical Yoga for Total Health and Awareness group also holds FREE Classical Yoga and Meditation classes on campus every Tuesday at lunchtime. For more information, please visit Classical Yoga and Meditation.

Managing Data Workshop - Research Data Management
2019-09-23 13:00 - 14:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Every researcher begins a research project by formulating a question and devising a methodology in which to undertake the project.
What if you began your project with a plan detailing the actual mechanics of what needs to be considered during every step of the project: from data collected during the initial stages through to data preservation when your project has been completed? What do you need to do to keep your project moving forward, on time, on track and without major incident?
Join us as we review the basic steps involved in Research Data Management Planning.
Register here.

United Way Kick-Off Barbecue
2019-09-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Branion Plaza, Branion Plaza, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
Join us for a barbecue in Branion Plaza to celebrate the start of U of G’s 2019 United Way campaign!

$5 combos for lunch: hotdog, corn on the cob, drink
$5 combo for dessert: apple crisp, U of G Food Sciences vanilla ice cream, drink

FREE popcorn and cotton candy! Live music from Kyle Mackie and The Flying Pants!
All proceeds go to support your local United Way.
Cash and student/staff cards accepted
Vegetarian and vegan items available

Dial Down University Stress and Anxiety Workshop
2019-09-24 17:30 - 18:30 | University Centre, 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Learn about the most common anxiety escalators (including a couple of surprising ones), along with practical, proven tips and strategies that you can use to decrease stress and anxiety.
This free, one-hour workshop for university students meets from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. and is provided by the Stress Management Clinic.

P4E Career Fair
2019-09-25 10:00 - 15:30 | RIM Park, Waterloo
You don’t want to miss this Career Fair…it’s the largest of its kind in the country!!
Students from all disciplines and across all semester levels are welcome to meet with over 285 employers from diverse sectors!

Network with potential employers, investigate and research career options and obtain information on opportunities, salary expectations, corporate cultures, job requirements and industry trends.
Bring your U of G student or alumni ID card. Only students and alumni from a degree/diploma program at Conestoga College, University of Guelph, University of Waterloo or Wilfrid Laurier University will be admitted. There is no cost for admission.
Free shuttle buses to and from RIM Park, leaving from the front of the UC every 30 minutes
​Free professional headshot photos
Don’t forget to bring printed copies of your resume and dress to impress!

Professional Staff Association Annual Kick-Off Lunch
2019-09-25 11:45 - 13:15 | University Centre – Peter Clark Hall
All Professional and Managerial employees are welcome to attend the PSA kick-off lunch. Join us for P&M networking, buffet lunch and PSA updates for 2019-20.
Vegetarian and gluten-free options will be available.
Please RSVP for catering numbers by Thursday, September 19 to psa@uoguelph.ca.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Developing your online scholarly identity workshop
2019-09-25 13:00 - 14:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Learn which sites for academics are worth your time (academia.edu, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Twitter and more), how to keep track of your publications, what altmetrics are and how they work, and how to set up and use researcher identifiers such as ORCID iDs.
Register online.

Fall in Love with Books at the Library
2019-09-25 13:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join us for Fall in Love with Books at the library on Sept. 25! Bring your cozy vibes, your pumpkin spiced lattes and your best-knit sweaters and browse some of our favorites from the library’s Gryph Reads collection.
This year, we are teaming up with the Guelph Public Library to educate people on library resources in the community. The Guelph Public Library is co-hosting this event and will be available to discuss their services, events and collections. What else? The Guelph Public Library is also going to be signing up students for their own public library cards! Bring proof of your Guelph address (anything that displays your name and address will work) and get signed up for your own public library card on the spot!
Registration is not needed and everyone is welcome!

Data Skills Workshop: Cleaning and Preparing Data - OpenRefine
2019-09-26 10:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Good data is like a good turkey dinner: you need to clean and prepare it before you can enjoy it properly. What? I have to clean and prepare my data?! This workshop will teach you how to use the free open-source tool, OpenRefine, to get that messy data in order.
You will learn how to:

Import data
Standardize data
Filter, split, replace, and extract data
Manipulate textual data
Understand the ethics of cleaning data

Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with the latest version of Open Refine installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop. Please ensure you follow account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class, we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during the class time. If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.
Register online.

Arboretum: Shinrin-Yoku Walk
2019-09-26 11:00 - 14:00 | Arboretum, 250 Arboretum Road, Guelph, N1G 2W1
The newly launched Canadian Chapter of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides is proud to hold one of its first high-profile walks in Canada at the Arboretum. Forest Therapy originated from Japan’s Shinrin-Yoku, which literally translates into“forest bathing” (taking in the air of a forest). It is a gentle way of moving mindfully through nature.
Led by experienced guide Ben Porchuk, the walk will open your senses and connect you to different ways nature can help align and heal you.
Guest Instructor: Ben Porchuk
Registration:
Early Bird Fee: $60 by Sept. 18.
Regular Fee: $70
Note: If we don’t have enough registrations by the early bird deadline the course may be cancelled. Maximum 20 adults.

Anxiety Workshop: Skills and Strategies
2019-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | University Centre, 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
Learn practical techniques, new tips and information on how to respond to the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety.
This skills program meets weekly on Thursdays at noon for three sessions.
The fee is $10 for U of G students, $30 for members of USW Local 4120 and $60 for all others.

Excel Workshop (Intermediate)
2019-09-26 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this intermediate-level MS-Excel workshop, learn how to use a variety of functions and nested formulas to manipulate data, summarize data using pivot tables, and merge data from different worksheets using the VLOOKUP function.
Need a basic refresher? This one-hour introduction to Excel from LinkedIn Learning.com will adequately prepare you for the session.
Please bring a laptop for your own use during the workshop with Microsoft Excel installed.
Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop. Please ensure you follow account creation or software installation instructions. Out of courtesy to the class, we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during the class time. If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.
Register online.

Brain Food Workshop: Getting Started on Your Thesis
2019-09-27 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this Brain Food workshop session, we provide foundational skills and strategies that will carry you through the thesis or dissertation process. Please bring your laptop, if possible.
Topics covered will include:

Managing the Thesis Process: We discuss goal setting and time management strategies to keep you motivated throughout your graduate degree
Formulating Your Research Question: Your research question forms the basis of your research project. In this session, we discuss how to formulate an effective research question and how to use it to guide and inform your thesis or dissertation from start to finish
Working with Data: With so many ways to obtain data it’s difficult to make sense of it sometimes. Come to this workshop to learn techniques on how to start working with your data and better answer your research question.

Register online.
