Past Events

Our Associate Director, Emmanuelle Arnaud, is looking for feedback on the current graduate course offerings.  The following meeting has been set up:  Wednesday Nov 18 (ALEX265) 10:00-11:00am​ If you can come and share your views at one of these meetings, it would be greatly appreciated!  

Presentation Time: 10:00a.m. Presenter: Dylan Bowes Presentation Title: Food Web Structure in Subarctic Lakes Surrounding the Meliadine Gold Mine ******************************* Presentation Time: 10:30a.m. Presenter: Kaelyn Hunter Presentation Title: Sustainable Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Phenology and Chemical Control in Ontario ******************************* Presentation Time: 11:10a.m. Presenter: Sandeep Shunmugarajah

Imagining Futures: A Conversation & Concert : November 14, 2015, 7:00pm at the River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich Street Tickets: $15 adults/$10 students. Get your tickets here.

The next SES Fall Seminar Series will feature Guest Speaker Dr. Chris Cutler from Dalhousie University, presenting his research ‘When poisons stimulate insects: the occurrence and significance of  insecticide-induced hormesis’ Join us this Friday, November 13 from 3:30-4:30pm in Alexander Hall Room 218. All are welcome to attend!

The 2015 Guelph Lecture -- On being Canadian will serve as the centerpiece to the Spur Guelph Festival three-day event as it explores new possibilities that we can imagine as Canadians. Speakers include Jaron Lanier (new horizons for the Internet age) and Lee Maracle (writings from residence at a nature reserve).  This Event will take place Friday, November 13, at the River Run Center in Guelph.

The 13th Annual Ontario Pest Management Conference on the Convergence of Food Security and Sustainable Pest Management will take place on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at Victoria East Golf Club, 1096 Victoria Rd. S., Guelph, ON. Speakers include Dr. G. Christopher Cutler, Dalhousie University  and Dr. Peter H. Sikkema, University of Guelph - Ridgetown Campus Registration opens August 24th!

Join us this Friday for our Fall Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Dr. Alfons Weersink from the Dept. of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Guelph. He will be presenting "Agri-Environmental Policy- Complications and Options" on Friday, November 6 from 3:30 to 4:30pm in Alexander Hall Room 218. We hope to see you there!

The second 2015/16 IDS speaker series event, featuring Dr. Tad McIlwraith, will take place November 6th 2015 at 3:30pm in the Richards Building (RICH) 2529.

Please join us as we celebrate the 10th year of the Campus Author Recognition Program. This year we will be joined by Thomas King, celebrated author and Professor Emeritus, who will be reading an excerpt from his book, The Back of the Turtle , for which he was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2014. 

 The National Field Exhibition and tour on woody biomass harvest and utilization will include presentations/exhibits by researchers, developers, and biomass specialists showcasing high-yield afforestation, biomass production and agroforestry management regimes, operational practices, commercial harvesting technologies, and climate change adaptation option