Most researchers wouldn’t appreciate being called Mr. Potato Head. UPEI’s University Librarian Mark Leggott is not most researchers.

Informing the world about the dangers of sea lice in aquaculture, and discrediting an annoying piece of business jargon in Australia. Here’s a roundup of UPEI research in the news from the past few weeks.

“This is my personal opinion, and I feel it very strongly,” says Dr. Dan Hurnik, Industry Chair for Swine Research at the Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI. “We have a responsibility as researchers to create knowledge. I think that knowledge should first help the people and industry of this region.”

We don’t trust plastics. Indeed, the word itself has become a metaphor for anything cheap, disposable, or inauthentic. Dr. Michael Shaver has decided to change your mind. If all goes according to plan, he may even dispel a few misconceptions you have about chemists, too.

“We’re talking about a profession that didn’t exist before the 20^th century,” says Dr. Ian Dowbiggin, in an office overstuffed with books in the History Department in UPEI’s Main Building. “Before 1900, if you wanted advice about your marriage, you talked to your friends, your priest, or your family. More likely, you didn’t talk to anyone about it.”

 The ORD hosted another successful Research on Tap this week at Mavor's in the Confederation Centre of the Arts. More than 50 people packed the bar for a lively discussion about revenge and forgiveness.

Dr. Stacey L. MacKinnon knows how tough it is to decide between forgiveness and revenge. The Assistant Professor of Social Psychology once opted for playful revenge against her husband for a relatively minor offence — a decision she would come to regret.

 UPEI’s fall recruitment campaign included a series of TV commercials featuring the theme “UPEI is here.” One of the commercials demonstrated some of the service projects and research carried out by the Atlantic Veterinary College. After the jump, watch an extended video from that same shoot, starring three outstanding AVC students, and several enthusiastic cows.

After the jump, a couple of high-profile stories about two UPEI researchers in the latest issue of Progress Magazine and great coverage and reception for ORD’s Research on Tap.

 

“It’s one of those cases where you knew it was when, not if, the problem would arrive, and yet there was little that could be done to solve it until it became a dire situation,” explains Dr. Larry Hammell, Innovation PEI Research Chair and director of the AVC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences.

And now, the second half of last month’s Research Breakfast, as delivered by Dr. Juergen Krause, Associate Professor of Business at UPEI. Watch the video of his presentation, The art of clustering – the biotech way, after the jump.

Dr. Rick Caw thorn, Professor of Parasitologiy at AVC, delivered half of UPEI’s most recent Research Breakfast. Your chance to view the entire presentation, in case you missed it, is after the jump.