As a part of #ITSTARTS week, we continue the conversation around diversity and understanding. Join us over the lunch hour to hear from individuals who have worked with newcomers or in the immigration sector. They will speak about how their work has impacted them personally, and their community.

Register today at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/9B7Tb40oQYCGs9rXg15Zew#/registration.

This lunch and learn panel discussion will host guest speakers who are Newcomers to Canada. They will speak about their transition to this country, the challenges they faced, and success celebrated since arriving here. We will end the session with a Q&A and our guests will take questions from the audience.

Register today at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/40oICL5URTaHYq9NtXAMQw#/registration. 

The Lakehead Town & Gown brings Orillia faculty together with members of the surrounding community. Meetings occur monthly to discuss topics of broad interest—such as AI, education, loneliness, and citizenship—and have easy but engaged conversation. The group is co-run by Ryan McVeigh, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Anderson Charters, retired publisher and champion of Lakehead’s Orillia campus. This session will be on creativity. 

Please join us for Theresia Bedard's PhD dissertation proposal defense.

Title: Giving Victims a Voice: Understanding the Impact of Psychopathy Through Listening to Victims’/Survivors’ Stories

PhD Supervisor: Dr. Beth Visser

Second Reader: Dr. Dwight Mazmanian

GSC Rep: Dr. Aislin Mushquash

Please contact admin.psych@lakeheadu.ca for Zoom link and passcode

Lakehead University Community Legal Services (LUCLS) is hosting a FREE summary legal advice clinic for Lakehead students on Tenant Rights. Bring your lease and ask your questions! Appointments preferred. Please use the QR code in the poster to register.

Zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. This session will provide an overview of how Zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

After attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use Zotero to:

• save time with the research process
• create better citations and bibliographies
• organise all the books / articles you find during the research process
• use advanced features in Zotero

Note: This session will be held online via Zoom. A confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

Please join us for Dr. Patrick Lenz's talk "Combining wood anatomy, dendroecology and genomics to improve the adaptive potential of reforestation seedlings".

Patrick Lenz is a research scientist in forest genetics at the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada. His current research focuses on the development of genomic tree breeding tools to speed up the selection of planting stock with improved growth, wood quality, and resilience in the context of climate change. Some of his top priorities include the research on resistance traits to climate anomalies to better understand their role in adaptation and breeding opportunities. 

Presentation will be by Zoom at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824. The session will also be streamed in Braun Building room BB1054. 

Please join us for Dr. Doug Reid's presentation "Boreal silviculture research at the Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research" in Braun Building room 1054.

Dr. Reid (BSc and PhD, University of Alberta) is the Science Coordinator and Boreal Silviculture Research Scientist at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research in Thunder Bay. His research work has covered a broad range of topics from tree physiology to caribou habitat interactions, and currently focuses on remote sensing approaches to monitoring regeneration and silviculture. 

Zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. This session will provide an overview of how Zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

After attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use Zotero to:

• save time with the research process
• create better citations and bibliographies
• organise all the books / articles you find during the research process
• use advanced features in Zotero

Note: This session will be held online via Zoom. A confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

Develop practical knowledge and search skills for library research in Education at the graduate level. This session is
offered online via Zoom. During this session you will learn about the different types of information resources specific to Education, how they can be located, and how to develop search strategies to use with these search tools. You will also learn about resources available to assist you with APA 7 citation and you will be introduced to Zotero, a citation management tool.

By the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• understand information resources that are available for researchers in Education.
• identify peer-reviewed and scholarly sources.
• learn to find Education search tools and develop search strategies using these search tools.
• locate APA 7 Citation resources to help you to cite.

Note: this session will be held online via Zoom. A confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.