On Friday, March 6th, the Improve Life Challenge will return to the University of Guelph to challenge students from across campus to work with community partners to develop solutions to real-world problems. This year, interdisciplinary student teams will work with one of nine community partners under the theme of Hack the Farm: Designing Solutions forContinue reading "The Improve Life Challenge Returns"

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Get ready Guelph, because the Pint of Science Guelph team is gearing up for Pint of Science 2020! Given the demand for last year’s event, we are aiming to make this one even better – so be sure to save the week of May 11th for a series of exciting and engaging talks by students,Continue reading "Pint Of Science Guelph 2020 Speaker Recruitment"

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Last summer while I was in the final few months of my first-ever sabbatical, I decided to set out some goals to hopefully help me better manage my life-work balance. Given that I was then about to return to campus with three courses to teach, I decided it was both important and necessary to setContinue reading "A Life-Work Balance Review"

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As I mentioned in my previous post, I am extremely grateful that I get to work with the group of nerds that I do. They are intelligent, passionate, and driven humans who excel academically and as community-engaged citizens. And they are constantly teaching me and challenging the ways in which I view and understand theContinue reading "Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Announced"

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This week I will upload the final grades for the courses I taught this semester. I will also host the last of my meetings with my grad students, and attend my final committee meetings of 2019. And when I close my office door for the last time this year, I’m going to saunter home feelingContinue reading "Academic List-O-Gratitude 2019"

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Last May I had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of people both locally and at a national level to bring Pint of Science to Guelph for the first time. While I expected it to be well received, I was absolutely blown away by the response of the community. For those not inContinue reading "Pint Of Science Guelph Returns"

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In slightly less than two weeks I’ll have the opportunity to chat with the Guelph Knowledge Translation & Transfer (KTT) Community of Practice. In particular, I’m going to be chatting about my observations and experiences delivering hackathons over the years; how they’ve changed, and how the awesome team I get to work with have helpedContinue reading "Hacking Hackathons"

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Over a year ago I was, as is often the case, running between meetings on campus. I can’t remember exactly where I was going or what the meeting was about, but I do remember checking my email on my way from wherever I was to wherever I was going. It was then that I learnedContinue reading "Thank You"

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Congratulations to Nic Durish, MSc Computer Science student, who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2018/2019 School of Computer Science Teaching Assistant Award. Nic was nominated for his continued contributions to teaching, learning, and leadership in the School. I have had the pleasure of working with Nic for many years now – bothContinue reading "Congratulations Nic"

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