External Seminars and Lectures

Science Moves: Dancing An Experiment with Scientists. Please see the attached poster. 

Tuesday, May29, 2012 7pm @ Guelph Youth Music Centre. Free Admission.* All are Welcome

Title: "Biopreferred: Creating New Markets for Biobased Products" Speaker: Ron Buckhalt Manager, BioPreferred® program, USDA/Agricultural Research Service, Washington, DC

When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 6 pm, followed by Reception at 7 pm Location: OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, Rm1714, University of Guelph

SPEAKER: Lorraine Roy, This Friday April 13, 2012. LOCATION: The Arboretum, Auditorium
TIME: 3:00 pm. Everyone welcome.  Abstract and Info. Attached.

CRC, Professor Biochemistry, Director, Advanced Bioimaging Centre, University of Toronto
"So what is the real function of chromatin?"  12:30 pm  ANNU 156. Host: Dr. Cezar Khursigara PDF attached.

Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar is currently the Director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to this position, he served as the Deputy Administrator for Natural Resources and Agricultural Systems with Agricultural Research Service (ARS), of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2006-2008, after 20 years of service with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Dr. Asrar is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Distinguished Executive Award (2002), an elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (2001), and IEEE (2000). It will be a privilege to have such a distinguished scientist speak to us on Thursday.

Title: Extreme Weather Conditions in a Changing Climate

SPEAKER: Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, Director
World Climate Research Program (WCRP), Geneva, Switzerland

LOCATION: Room 202 – Crop Science

TIME: 11:00 am

DATE: Thursday, April 5, 2012

Abstract and more details are included in the attached file. 

This year’s Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference looks at the past, present and future of teaching and learning. To get you in the spirit of the conference’s 25th anniversary year, make sure to watch a series of podcast interviews created especially with five of our 3M Teaching Fellows:
• Trev Dickinson, Dana Paramskas and Fred Evers discuss the changing landscape of teaching and learning overthe past 25 years;
• Provost Maureen Mancuso talks about the present classroom; and,
• President Alastair Summerlee looks at the future of teaching and learning.

To view, visit http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/tli/podcasts.html .PDF attached.