On March 13 at 3:00 pm in  Leacture Theatre A at the AVC:

• Enooyaq Sudlovenick, Pathology and Microbiology will present a seminar titled, Pathogens and heavy metals in harvested ringed seals in Iqaluit, NU.
   
• Zacharie Maw, Biomedical Sciences will present a seminar titled, Stimulation of silent natural product biosynthesis using surface-active molecules in marine Streptomyces.

For more information, please email sacorn@upei.ca.

Our Plastic World: The Breakdown

Three informative speakers will give insights into different aspects of plastic waste and the challenges we face; a panel discussion will follow. Speakers include:

• Dr. Nino Antadze, Environmental Studies, UPEI
• Heather Myers, Disposal Manager, Island Waste Management Corporation
• Dr. Tony Walker, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University

March 6 at 7:00 - 9:00 pm in the Duffy Science Centre, room 135. Please contact Dr. Caroly Brown for more information, hcpbrown@upei.ca.

All are welcome!

UPEI Fitness has a number of new sessions with yoga, kettlebell and cycle classes. Please click here  for more details on start dates, cost and class descriptions.

To pre-register for any of these programs, please visit Panther Central desk at the Sports Centre.

For more information contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Business is pleased to present a candidate for a tenure track position in Marketing.

On Wednesday, March 7th at 8:30am in MCDH 329 Mariam Humayan will present on "Satoshi is Dead. Long Live Satoshi: The Curious Case of Bitcoin's Creator."

All are welcome to attend. Questions may be directed to business@upei.ca.

In conjunction with International Women's Day, join students in History/DSJS: Women, the Law, and Civil Rights in Canada for an open class to which all are invited.

UPEI Elder in Residence, Judy Clark, will offer her reflections on First Nations women and civil rights in recent history. The class will be held Thursday, March 8, 11:30-12:45, in McDougall 243.

For further info: shmyers@upei.ca

Curious about experiential learning? Wondering what it means in different classrooms and disciplines?

Experiential learning is a hot topic in education these days. Bring your lunch and join faculty from across campus for a fun showcase of 5 minute Lightning Talks on some of the various experiential opportunities and learning experiences that UPEI classrooms offer. There will be coffee, and a gong to keep things moving! 

Join us from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm on March 7 in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge.

All are welcome! Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.

Need a stronger resume? Want to help your students succeed in finding work? Students can drop-in for a one-on-one resume review with Career Services staff, anytime between 10:00-2:00 in the Pit, Robertson Library, on the following dates:

• Thursday, February 15
• Thursday, February 22
• Thursday, March 1
• Monday, March 5

Resumania has been planned in conjunction with the 2018 Career and Summer Job Fair, taking place Wednesday March 7 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm in McDougall Hall.

Are you a coffee addict, then why don’t you java jive down with Vagabond Productions on our newest show Fresh Brewed Tales from the Coffee Bar by Henry Meyerson. The show is a series of eleven short plays that showcase various situations that are only similar in one way: they all take place in a coffee shop. These scenes range from absurd to more realistic; the one thing all these scenes have in common aside from setting is they are all hilarious.

Since it is important to vary up scenery from time to time, Vagabond is stepping out of the Faculty Lounge and into the world of coffee. Receiver seemed like the perfect place to stage this show. With this play taking place in a coffee shop, the production will truly bring audiences into the world of the play. Each scene in Fresh Brewed is wildly different from the next, which means the only thing you can be sure about in this show is there will be laughs aplenty.

The play runs March 5 to 10 at Receiver Coffee, located at 128 Richmond Street. The doors open at 7 pm for a 7:30 pm start. Admission is pay what you can. Seating is limited, with no presale tickets, so come early and enjoy a coffee before the show to guarantee yourself a seat. The play contains adult language and mature themes; viewer discretion is advised. For more information, you can contact Vagabond Productions at gdoran@upei.ca or call 902-566-6013.

Have you enjoyed watching the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea? Here is another fantastic opportunity for you to enjoy knowing more about Korean culture!

The UPEI Faculty of Arts, Asian Studies Program, and its Korean Studies Project are pleased to announce the following special public talk by the first invited speaker of our new Asian Studies International Seminar and Korean Studies Speaker Series:

Professor Don L. Baker from the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, will deliver a presentation called “From the Mountains into the Cities: The Transformation of Korean Buddhism in the Twentieth Century” on March 8 from 2:30 to 3:45 pm in the Faculty Lounge (room 201), SDU Main Building.

As the first of our international seminar and speaker series, this is a wonderful lecture topic for understanding the religious-cultural transformation of Buddhism in modern Korea under the influence of Japan, changing Korean values, Christianity, and Western ideas.

Everyone is invited to attend! For further information and details, click here to view the UPEI Event Calender listing.

Free snacks and a free Samuel's 'coffee & muffin' voucher at this screening in the Campus Life Lounge! Come watch Perfume War in the Campus Life Lounge, Thursday, March 8, 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, W.A. Murphy Student Centre - Student Affairs.

Perfume War is an inspiring documentary about two friends and their unstoppable fight for world peace...Click here for full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.

Are you familiar with Open Educational Resources but want to learn more? Are you curious about the ways that you can self publish? The Robertson Library offers tools and software for students and faculty to help them write and publish their own research.

Join Meghan Landry and Kim Mears from the Robertson Library as they discuss self-publishing in the context of Open Educational Resources Week from March 5-9, 2018.

They will introduce faculty and students to Pressbooks, a software that allows users to upload or write their own material and publish it in a variety of accessible formats, such as a webbook, PDF (for print), PDF (for digital distribution), ePUB, MOBI, XML, and more. If online books are not your thing, the Library also has the capability of printing book material.

This event will take place on March 7 from 9:30 to 10:00 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Questions may be sent to Meghan Landry at mllandry@upei.ca.

A new capability in Moodle makes it possible to create scannable paper tests using your Moodle question bank. If you've been using multiple choice tests in your face-to-face class, this can help you save some grading time.

The E-Learning Office will demo the process of how these sheets work and how they're graded. If you're interested in attending, please register here.

If you cannot attend during one of these times, please feel free to email jbhogan@upei.ca to set up a time that works for you.

Grab a slice of our 550 Pizza for lunch at Samuel's Cafe as well as the AVC Cafe! Topped with Glasgow Glen Farm's gouda cheese and your choice of pepperoni, veggie, and a different featured pizza every week, you can enjoy a huge slice on its own or pair it with a combo.

For our menus, hours, and dining locations, please click here.

This semester, the UPEI School of Sustainable Desing Engineering is developing and executing a project that will include the launch and recovery of 16 x 350g weather balloons with our first year engineering students. 

The project aims to allow the students to plan an experiment collecting data from weather balloons, such as temperature, pressure, image and location. This is an exciting proposition for the students who will breathe life into this assignment.

You are invited to join us on Monday, March 5, 2:30 pm at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering, room 128B for a pre-launch exhibition of the payloads of our near Space Exploration project.

For more information, click here to view the UPEI Events Calendar listing.

Studio 1 Labs – Partnering with academic researchers:

Dr. Olivia Lin and Edward Shim co-founders of Stuido 1 Labs will present on the Fabric Sensor Technology that integrates AI learning they are developing and validating with the perspective of partnering with academic researchers. The company has been supported by funding across all levels of government, supercomputing power from industry, and a number of academic institutions. At UPEI, Studio 1 Labs is collaborating with SSDE’s Dr. Nadja Bressen and AVC’s Dr. Catherine Creighton for clinical studies with animals.

This event will take place Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 pm in the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering (Room 205). Please click here to register, space is limited.

Refreshments will be provided!

Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences Seminar Program – Winter Semester 2018

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 12:30 pm in the Duffy Research Centre (Room 212), Student Presenter Hope Igboeli will present “Discovery of a new polyketide via co-treatment with an epigenetic modifier and an osmotic stressor".

All are welcome to attend!

“Death on the Miramichi: Community Responses to Sick Immigrants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick”

Early in the shipping season of 1847, an unanticipated immigrant ship arrived on the Miramichi River, at Chatham. The Looshtauk ought to have gone to Quebec City, but fate intervened in the form of a devastating typhus epidemic. There weren't enough crew left standing to navigate the St. Lawrence by the time the Atlantic had been crossed, so Chatham became the ship's final destination. In this public talk, Dr. Lisa Chilton explores how the people of Chatham and beyond responded to the arrival of a ship carrying death in their midst as an entry point for a discussion about relations between host communities and newcomers in nineteenth-century Canada.

All are welcome to attend March 14 at 7:00 pm in SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge (Rm. 201). Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.

UPEI is pleased to welcome one of this year’s Canada Gairdner International Award laureates, Dr. Lewis Kay, to present his seminal research.

Dr. Kay’s groundbreaking discoveries in molecular biochemistry and medical imaging science have advanced knowledge in protein structure and function, giving a deeper understanding of diseases and potential therapies.

He is recognized for his role in developing modern nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy which is used to study the structure and dynamics of large molecules like proteins. 

Dr. Kay will deliver his lecture to the campus community on Monday, March 5 from 10:45 am to 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge (Rm.201), SDU Main Building.

CLICK HERE to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar! All are welcome!

The UPEI Multicultural Song Circle meets every Tuesday in SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge from 4:30 - 5:30. This is a non-audition singing group that shares songs of the many cultures and countries on the UPEI campus for fun, friendship,relaxation, and music-making.

All students, staff, faculty and community are welcome. Come when you can!

Join us Wednesday, March 7 for this years Career and Summer Job Fair!

This event is free to attend for all UPEI Students, and offers a great opportunity to meet with employers and recruiters to start networking, find a summer job, or kick start a career. Be prepared to present yourself professionally.

The event will take place in Schurman Market Square and Louis W. MacEachern Market Street in Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The event will run from 10:00 am until 2:00 pmon March 7 (storm date on Thursday, March 8).

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at careerfair@upei.ca!