U of G News

ONLINE: Midwest Cover Crop Council Conference
2021-02-23 19:00 - 2021-02-25 16:00 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Soils at Guelph and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs are partnering to host this year’s virtual conference exploring connections between cover crops, soil health and people. For the keynote event, we are excited to bring to you Roger Martin, former director of the Rotman School of Management, and author of the recent book When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession With Economic Efficiency, who will talk about balancing efficiency and resilience in agriculture.
Learn more on the event website.

ONLINE - Analysis: Data Manipulation and Wrangling in R
2021-02-24 10:00 - 12:00
Before you can begin data analysis, cleaning and preparing data are hence vital skills.
This online workshop from the McLaughlin Library will teach the fundamentals of using the tidyverse package. It will cover topics including: manipulating columns and rows, filtering and merging datasets, converting to different variable types, and creating scales.

ONLINE: Waste Work in the 'Clean City': Perspectives of Women Waste Pickers
2021-02-24 11:00 - 12:15
The Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement presents Waste Work in the ‘Clean City’.
As marginalized urban workers in public spaces, women engaged in waste picking work in the informal economy offer important insights into rapidly changing urban spaces. This webinar presents findings from a study with women waste pickers in Ahmedabad, India. It highlights the impacts and implications that contemporary governance and discursive approaches to waste management and urban cleanliness have in the everyday lives of women workers in the urban margins.
Speaker: Dr.Josie Wittmer, University of Guelph
Register for this event.
