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Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
The Senate Honours and Awards Committee invites nominations for honorary degrees, the highest honour bestowed by the University. Details about the call for nominations, including the submission deadline, award guidelines and the nomination form, can be found on the University Secretariat website. For more information regarding the nomination process, contact Genevieve Gauthier, associate university secretary,
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PhD Thesis Defence: Hanny Elsadr
PhD Thesis Defence: Hanny Elsadr
Hanny Elsadr, a PhD candidate in the Department of Plant Agriculture, will defend his thesis on "A Genome-Wide Association Study of Flowering and Fruit Quality Traits in Peach." Time: 1 p.m. Location: Crop Science, Room 202
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PhD Thesis Defence: Kaila Fadock
PhD Thesis Defence: Kaila Fadock
Kaila Fadock, a PhD student in chemistry, will defend her thesis on "Aryl-Deoxyguanosine Probes: Application in G-Quadruplex Forming Aptamers." Time: 2 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511
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Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
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COESP Summer Seminar
COESP Summer Seminar
The College of Biological Sciences Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice (COESP) Summer Seminars address red-button issues identified by the CBS community. The first workshop deals with lesson planning using BOPPPS, led by Prof. John Dawson, COESP director. The workshop is open to everyone. Time: noon Location: Summerlee Science Complex, Room 2315
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Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
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Wednesday Night Walks
Wednesday Night Walks
You never know what kind of creepy crawlers you'll stumble upon at home. Do you know what lurks on your windowsill, under old shelves and behind drawers? How have these creatures among many others adapted to the arrival of humans? Become a hunter at the J.C. Nature Interpretive Centre, and by the end of the
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Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
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Wednesday Night Walk Presents “Arboretum Wars”
Wednesday Night Walk Presents “Arboretum Wars”
Believe it or not, ongoing battles occur between many species at the Arboretum, which can sometimes damage surrounding ecosystems. Who would’ve thought the Arboretum would be such a war zone? Disease, parasites and parasitoids, theft and thrift -- there’s a lot of action that goes down here at the Arboretum (and in your backyard)! Location:
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Office 365 Migration
Office 365 Migration
Email for faculty, staff and grad students on the Guelph campus will be migrating to Office 365 this weekend. Take some time to check out the pre-migration checklist and be sure you’re ready.
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Nominations Open for Honorary Degree Recipients
Office 365 Migration
PhD Thesis Defence: Jadwiga Lyczko
PhD Thesis Defence: Jadwiga Lyczko
Jadwiga Lyczko, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis on “'Soft' Mass Spectrometry in Drinking Water Analysis Using Differential Ion Mobility Spectroscopy." Time: 1 p.m. Location: Science Complex, Room 1511
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Leadership Lecture Series in Engineering
Leadership Lecture Series in Engineering
Prof. Marius Henkel, visiting from the University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, and the Department of Bioprocess Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany, will present "Model-based Concepts in Bioprocess Engineering: Design, Optimization and Control." Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Richards Building, Room 3504
Writing Tune-up: Day 1 of 2
Writing Tune-up: Day 1 of 2
This two-day Writing Tune-up: Grammar series is open to graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff at the University of Guelph and the public. You may attend the second day without having attended the first. This session will cover the following topics: - Structuring sentences: a review of sentence structure and parts of speech (recognizing
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Writing Tune-up: Day 2 of 2
Writing Tune-up: Day 2 of 2
This two-day Writing Tune-up: Grammar series is open to graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff at the University of Guelph and members of the public. You may attend the second day without having attended the first. This session will cover the following topics: - Correcting common grammar errors: avoid some of the common pitfalls
Wednesday Night Walk Presents “Insect Inspectors: Beetle Mania”
Wednesday Night Walk Presents “Insect Inspectors: Beetle Mania”
Beetles, also known as “Coleoptera,” meaning “sheathed wings”, are the largest of the four insect groups. One out of every four living things identified is a beetle, and they’re everywhere! Let’s "scavenge", “dive” and “rove” through the Arboretum for these six-legged friends. What will you find in the Arboretum tonight? Location: J.C. Taylor Nature Interpretive