Data Visualization - Gephi Workshop
2018-06-13 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Network data is all around us, but it takes a keen eye to see the hidden structure and patterns in the data. By visualizing network data we can expose this hidden information and study it.Come to this workshop to learn how to use Gephi to create visualizations and learn about the structure of the network.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Arboretum Wednesday Night Walks - Mother Bird Knows Nest
2018-06-13 19:00 - 20:30 | J.C. Taylor Nature Interpretive Centre
Once upon a time there were three little birds. One bird made its nest out of sticks, the second made theirs out of moss, and the third made theirs out of its own saliva. Different species have unique ways of constructing their homes for different purposes. Let’s explore the incredible world of nest building and find some of these architects and their designs around the Arboretum!
$2 per person. Free for children under age 5.

Data Visualization - Tableau Workshop
2018-06-14 13:00 - 15:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Tableau is a powerful tool for creating interactive expressive data visualizations without using code. Come to this workshop to get started using Tableau.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Presentation Bootcamp: Fundamentals
2018-06-15 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Presentation Boot Camp: Fundamentals is for students who would like to learn more about presentation skills and strategies to use in academic settings.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Presentation Bootcamp: Put It In Practice
2018-06-15 13:00 - 15:30 | Ontario, Canada
The most effective way to improve your presentation skills is through practice. Presentation Boot Camp: Put It In Practice is for students who would like to practice their presentation skills.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Getting Started on Your Thesis
2018-06-18 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we provide foundational skills and strategies that will carry you through the thesis or dissertation process. 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.

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.

Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Writing the Literature Review
2018-06-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we focus on one of the most difficult parts of a thesis to write, the Literature Review.
Gathering and Reading Literature
A good thesis demands a good literature review, and that means finding and critically analyzing the key literature in your field. In this session, learn some methods for finding and evaluating the literature in order to select relevant and authoritative sources. We’ll also be discussing the use of Zotero for citation management.
Writing the Literature Review
Your literature review is a key component of your thesis or dissertation. This session will discuss how to connect the literature review to your argument, build the structure for your review, and avoid some of the common traps when writing.
Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Time Management Essentials
2018-06-19 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we address the specific time management challenges that graduate students face. Topics covered will include:

Graduate When You Want To

Long-term Planning: Learn how to predict your time to completion and use project management tools to help you meet your goals as a graduate student

School-Life Balance

Learn practical strategies to help you achieve school-work-life balance

Time Management from the Inside Out

Procrastination and perfectionism are common challenges for many graduate students. In In this session, we will identify strategies to modify or decrease unhelpful behaviours

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgement of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Data Visualization - ggplot Workshop
2018-06-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Ontario, Canada
ggplot lets you create quick, clean and professional-looking visualizations. Come to this workshop and get started creating and customizing charts and graphs.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Outlining Your Thesis + Explaining Your Research Findings
2018-06-19 13:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we analyze the common features and structures of the thesis/dissertation and then focus more specifically on the results and discussion sections.

Outlining Your Thesis

This session offers a visual mapping strategy that you can use to organize your research and writing, structure your argument logically, manage your evidence and ultimately create an outline of your entire thesis writing project

Writing Results and Discussion

This session introduces strategies that will help you describe your data and communicate the significance of your research findings

Data Visualization

A picture is worth a thousand words! It is time to explore or explain your research findings through visualizations. This workshop will introduce the data visualization process, examine the strengths and weaknesses of standard chart types, and provide an introduction to how to build these charts using Tableau software.

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Publishing and Presenting Your Research
2018-06-20 09:00 - 12:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we focus on communicating your research to a wider audience. Topics covered will include:

Disseminating Your Thesis

This session will cover what you need to know with respect to publishing and author rights, as well as the e-thesis submission process. It will help you to identify the publishing models and options available, and to understand copyright and what you should be negotiating with publishers

Presenting Your Research

Need to share your research with others? This session will introduce you to resources and strategies for visually and orally presenting your research evidence

Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384.

LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Network Kickoff
2018-06-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Ontario
Join us for lunch with faculty and staff interested in forming an LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Network at the University of Guelph. Lunch will be provided. Please register online. Location will be sent to registrants shortly after registering.

Data Visualization - Voyant Tools Workshop
2018-06-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Ontario, Canada
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment that allows you to do a number of straight-forward text analysis functions, including word counts, tag cloud creation, colocation, and word trending.
Come to this workshop to learn about Voyant Tools—a web-based text reading and analysis environment.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Arboretum Wednesday Night Walks - Inspector Wildlife
2018-06-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Ontario
Often, we go on hikes and there’s no wildlife to be seen. Where are all the porcupines, coyotes and owls? With a bit of detective skills, you’ll begin to see that wildlife are leaving evidence everywhere they go! Put on your thinking caps as we link together these clues to discover which animals have been in the area!
$2 per person. Free for children under age 5.

Data Visualization - Geographic Information System Workshop
2018-06-21 09:00 - 11:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS): a software program for working with maps and geographic data. A GIS allows you to work with any data that you know a location for (e.g., addresses, latitude/longitude, census locations, a name of a place, etc.). ArcGIS is available on all the Library computers, also by download to the University community.
Come to this workshop and learn how to navigate ArcMap, about different kinds of GIS data, how to add data to a map, about basic symbology and labelling, and how to filter data, calculate new data and map it.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Alumni Weekend 2018
2018-06-22 - 2018-06-24 | Ontario
There’s lots to see and do on campus during Alumni Weekend! Whether you are part of a celebration or reunion year, or just feeling a bit nostalgic, you are invited to join fellow grads for the University of Guelph alumni event of the year.
Register today!

SummerFest on the Green
2018-06-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Ontario
Kick off your summer with the University of Guelph at SummerFest on the Green!
Sunday, June 24, 2018
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Johnston Green
At College and Gordon
Live Music | Food Trucks | Beer Garden | Fun stuff to Do | Free Admission | Everyone welcome
Featuring performances by: Hollerado, Splash’N Boots, Brave & Crazy and White Pine Dancers
Learn more at http://uofgsummerfest.ca

Arboretum Wednesday Night Walks - It's Getting Hot In Here
2018-06-27 19:00 - 20:30 | J.C. Taylor Nature Interpretive Centre
Climate change is a hot topic being passed around these days but are we being directly affected even though we’re not in the Arctic or near an ocean? Discover how climate change is affecting plant and wildlife in the Arboretum and find out what you can do to help!
$2 per person. Free for children under age 5.

Art Gallery of Guelph Book Launch and Reception
2018-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Canada
Join the Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG) for a reception marking the launch of a new publication, Furniture, featuring the work of Toronto-based artist Gord Peteran. The launch and reception will take place at the AGG at 7 p.m. Refreshments will served. Books will be available for purchase.

Deadline to Drop Courses
2018-07-06 | Ontario
The deadline to drop 12-week summer 2018 courses is 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 6 (the fortieth class day) for undergraduate students on the Guelph campus and all associate diploma and graduate students.
For Guelph-Humber students, the deadline to drop 12-week Summer 2018 courses is 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 3. The drop deadline for 6-week courses in Session II is July 30.
Courses can be dropped using WebAdvisor.

Tree Identification Workshop at the Arboretum
2018-07-17 09:00 - 16:00 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
This program will refine your skills at identifying trees in Ontario. The focus will be on learning important identification characteristics. Difficult groups such as the cherry, oak and walnut families as well as the easier groups such as ash and maple will be explored. The afternoon will be spent outside, identifying trees in the forest as well as young cultivated trees with their Eurasian counterparts in the World of Trees collection. Bring your field guide and binoculars.
Presented by: Arboretum director Shelley Hunt.
Early Bird Fee: $75 per person by July 9.
Regular Fee: $85 per person.
Note: If there aren’t enough registrations by the early-bird deadline, the course may be cancelled. Maximum 16 adults.

Shrub Identification Workshop at the Arboretum
2018-07-18 09:00 - 16:00 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
Neither great trees nor a carpet of bloom, the often overlooked but ecologically important shrubs and vines in our landscape will be the focus of this workshop. Fresh specimens and an easy to use key for shrubs will be used. We will be outdoors for half of the day discovering southern Ontario’s native and naturalized shrubs at the Arboretum. Bring a magnifying glass.
Presented by: Arboretum horticulturist Sean Fox
Early Bird Fee: $75 per person by July 10.
Regular Fee: $85 per person.
Note: If we there aren’t enough registrations by the early-bird deadline, the course may be cancelled. Maximum 16 adults.

Supporting Digital Literacy with the Library's Media Studio
2018-07-18 13:30 - 14:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Digital media assignments, such as podcasts, digital stories and live-action videos, can help students develop much needed digital literacy skills. Creating digital media assignments and embedding digital academic skills content into your course can enrich the learning experience of students.
In this workshop you will explore opportunities for digital literacy and media creation in the classroom, including customized, in-class instruction.
You will also tour the library’s new Media Studio and understand how the library’s learning and curriculum support team can support course instruction and assignment help using library help guides and instructional videos. Finally, you will explore consultation services for the collaborative development of digital literacy activities, assignments, learning outcomes, and assessment tools.
Staff will be available for consultations after the workshop.
McLaughlin Library, Room 246

Creating Video and Audio Clips for the Classroom
2018-07-23 10:00 - 11:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Video and audio clips can help to make the classroom learning experience more engaging. Creating custom video and audio clips with library resources is easy and can bring classroom topics to life.
In this workshop you will:

Understand how to use copyright-protected works in the classroom
Understand the different types of copyright and know where to find more information
Use library resources to gather digital media for the classroom
Create video clips
Create playlists

McLaughlin Library, Room 032

Writing Tune-up: Grammar - Day 1
2018-07-24 09:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Day 1 of this two-day writing workshop will focus on structuring sentences, using verbals and modifiers and punctuating sentences. Although you can attend either day of the Writing Tune-Up: Grammar workshop, it is recommended that you attend both days.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Writing Tune-up: Grammar - Day 2
2018-07-25 09:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Day 2 of this two-day writing workshop will focus on correcting grammar errors, avoiding errors of misuse and going beyond basic grammar. Although you can attend either day of the Writing Tune-Up: Grammar workshop, we recommend attending both days.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Art Gallery of Guelph's Picnic in the Park
2018-07-29 11:30 - 13:30 | Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Canada
Families are invited to the AGG’s Sculpture Park for an afternoon of free art-making, games, and fun inspired by the season. Craft stations, games, ice cream, PokéStop lures and more! Pack a picnic lunch and blanket, and dress for mess. Complimentary ice cream courtesy of the Ontario Agricultural College’s Department of Food Science.

Supporting Digital Literacy with the Library's Media Studio
2018-08-08 10:00 - 11:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Digital media assignments, such as podcasts, digital stories and live-action videos, can help students develop much-needed digital literacy skills. Creating digital media assignments and embedding digital academic skills content into your course can enrich the learning experience of students.
In this workshop you will explore opportunities for digital literacy and media creation in the classroom, including customized, in-class instruction. You will also tour of the library’s new Media Studio and understand how the library’s learning and curriculum support team can support course instruction and assignment help using library help guides and instructional videos. Finally, you will explore consultation services for the collaborative development of digital literacy activities, assignments, learning outcomes and assessment tools.
Staff will be available for consultations after the workshop.
McLaughlin Library, Room 246

PhD Thesis Defence: Christopher Jordan-Stevens
2018-08-09 10:00 - 12:00 | MacKinnon Building, 87 Trent Lane, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
On Aug. 9, Christopher Jordan-Stevens, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, will defend his thesis on “Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity.” His co-advisors are Karen Houle and Jeff Mitscherling.
MacKinnon Building, Room 346

Zumba at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute
2018-08-10 12:00 - 12:45 | Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, 17 University Ave. E., Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Do you like to dance? Join the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) for four free outdoor Zumba® classes this summer! These classes are for all ages and abilities and will be taught by a certified Zumba® instructor.
We had a blast at the classes in June and July, and are looking forward to the next class on Aug. 10 at noon on the lawn behind CESI at 17 University Ave. E. If you’re not able to join us right at noon, come by whenever you can – we will be dancing until 12:45 p.m.!
It’s looking like it will be a nice, sunny day, so wear comfortable shoes, bring a water bottle and come ready to dance! There will be a chance to win prizes for participation.
