Dr. Dania Villarnovo, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "Avoiding Transfusions Reactions in Dogs: Evaluation of a Commercially Available Cross-matching Kit" on Tuesday, February 12 at 1:30 pm in AVC, Lecture Theatre "C". Everyone is welcome.

UPEI faculty will “open” their classes to staff members from February 25–March 1, as part of “Open Class Week,” a new initiative that allows interested staff to sit in on a class and learn more about a topic. Employees will also gain a sense of what students experience when taking a UPEI course and what faculty experience when teaching one. Staff members are invited to visit the Google document for a full listing of courses available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sK95BhBxwtuWiXJ9EOe96VMIymdB2uGvSu… and to fill in their name on one of the five available spaces for each course they are interested in. Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Course descriptions can be found through UPEI’s academic calendar: https://files.upei.ca/calendar.pdf Class attendance for staff members is free and no course preparation is required. The deadline to sign up for course dates is Thursday, February 21. Employees will be sent an email by the Faculty Development Office to confirm their class, time, and location. While senior management has been notified and fully support “Open Class Week,” it is highly recommended that employees advise their supervisors to prevent any scheduling concerns in their departments. For further information, please contact Gerald Wandio at the Faculty Development Office at gwandio@upei.ca.

Public talk: S. Bear Bergman on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender” Everyone is invited to a public talk by author, storyteller, playwright S. Bear Bergman, on Friday, February 8, 2013, at 5:00pm, in K.C Irving Chemistry Center 104, entitled “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender.” The talk will be followed by a question and answer period and a reception. This talk is the keynote address for the “Difficult Dialogues” student conference. For more information on Bear Bergman, please see his website: www.sbearbergman.com. This event is free and open to everyone. Please encourage your students to attend too! For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power” – a student conference Please join us February 8 and 9 for a student conference entitled “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power.” Students from UPEI and 5 other regional universities will present some of their work. We’ll also have a ‘who needs difficult dialogues’ video corner and other exhibits. The event starts Friday the 8th at 12:30pm and continues all day on Saturday the 9th. Come to some sessions, come to all sessions, help us make this a great experience for everyone involved! Free and open to everyone! Registration starts at 12:30 on Friday in Main 520 (Dawson Lounge). For more information, see the conference website at www.upeidifficultdialogues.ca or contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca

Come out to The Wave tonight for Global Trivia from 7:00-9:00 pm as part of UPEI's International Development Week. Staff, faculty, and students are all welcome. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams.

Do you have something you want students to know? The next Student Union update email will be going out on Tuesday, February 12. If you have any information you'd like included, please send it to Chelsea at vpcommunications@upeisu.ca !

Dr. Dania Villarnovo, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "Avoiding Transfusions Reactions in Dogs: Evaluation of a Commercially Available Cross-matching Kit" on Tuesday, February 12 at 1:30 pm in AVC, Lecture Theatre "C". Everyone is welcome.

UPEI faculty will “open” their classes to staff members from February 25–March 1, as part of “Open Class Week,” a new initiative that allows interested staff to sit in on a class and learn more about a topic. Employees will also gain a sense of what students experience when taking a UPEI course and what faculty experience when teaching one. Staff members are invited to visit the Google document for a full listing of courses available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sK95BhBxwtuWiXJ9EOe96VMIymdB2uGvSu… and to fill in their name on one of the five available spaces for each course they are interested in. Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Course descriptions can be found through UPEI’s academic calendar: https://files.upei.ca/calendar.pdf Class attendance for staff members is free and no course preparation is required. The deadline to sign up for course dates is Thursday, February 21. Employees will be sent an email by the Faculty Development Office to confirm their class, time, and location. While senior management has been notified and fully support “Open Class Week,” it is highly recommended that employees advise their supervisors to prevent any scheduling concerns in their departments. For further information, please contact Gerald Wandio at the Faculty Development Office at gwandio@upei.ca.

Public talk: S. Bear Bergman on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender” Everyone is invited to a public talk by author, storyteller, playwright S. Bear Bergman, on Friday, February 8, 2013, at 5:00pm, in K.C Irving Chemistry Center 104, entitled “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender.” The talk will be followed by a question and answer period and a reception. This talk is the keynote address for the “Difficult Dialogues” student conference. For more information on Bear Bergman, please see his website: www.sbearbergman.com. This event is free and open to everyone. Please encourage your students to attend too! For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power” – a student conference Please join us February 8 and 9 for a student conference entitled “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power.” Students from UPEI and 5 other regional universities will present some of their work. We’ll also have a ‘who needs difficult dialogues’ video corner and other exhibits. The event starts Friday the 8th at 12:30pm and continues all day on Saturday the 9th. Come to some sessions, come to all sessions, help us make this a great experience for everyone involved! Free and open to everyone! Registration starts at 12:30 on Friday in Main 520 (Dawson Lounge). For more information, see the conference website at www.upeidifficultdialogues.ca or contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca

Come out to The Wave tonight for Global Trivia from 7:00-9:00 pm as part of UPEI's International Development Week. Staff, faculty, and students are all welcome. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams.

Do you have something you want students to know? The next Student Union update email will be going out on Tuesday, February 12. If you have any information you'd like included, please send it to Chelsea at vpcommunications@upeisu.ca !

Please review all of your department listings from the 2012/2013 Bell Aliant telephone book. If changes are required (departmental name change, phone number, additions or deletions) for the 2013/2014 Bell Aliant telephone book, please contact me. All change requests are to be received no later than February 14, 2013. Peggy Court, Procurement Services, mcourt@upei.ca

Do you have something you want students to know? The next Student Union update email will be going out on Tuesday, February 12. If you have any information you'd like included, please send it to Chelsea at vpcommunications@upeisu.ca !

Please review all of your department listings from the 2012/2013 Bell Aliant telephone book. If changes are required (departmental name change, phone number, additions or deletions) for the 2013/2014 Bell Aliant telephone book, please contact me. All change requests are to be received no later than February 14, 2013. Peggy Court, Procurement Services, mcourt@upei.ca

Dr. Dania Villarnovo, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "Avoiding Transfusions Reactions in Dogs: Evaluation of a Commercially Available Cross-matching Kit" on Tuesday, February 12 at 1:30 pm in AVC, Lecture Theatre "C". Everyone is welcome.

UPEI faculty will “open” their classes to staff members from February 25–March 1, as part of “Open Class Week,” a new initiative that allows interested staff to sit in on a class and learn more about a topic. Employees will also gain a sense of what students experience when taking a UPEI course and what faculty experience when teaching one. Staff members are invited to visit the Google document for a full listing of courses available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sK95BhBxwtuWiXJ9EOe96VMIymdB2uGvSu… and to fill in their name on one of the five available spaces for each course they are interested in. Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Course descriptions can be found through UPEI’s academic calendar: https://files.upei.ca/calendar.pdf Class attendance for staff members is free and no course preparation is required. The deadline to sign up for course dates is Thursday, February 21. Employees will be sent an email by the Faculty Development Office to confirm their class, time, and location. While senior management has been notified and fully support “Open Class Week,” it is highly recommended that employees advise their supervisors to prevent any scheduling concerns in their departments. For further information, please contact Gerald Wandio at the Faculty Development Office at gwandio@upei.ca.

Public talk: S. Bear Bergman on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender” Everyone is invited to a public talk by author, storyteller, playwright S. Bear Bergman, on Friday, February 8, 2013, at 5:00pm, in K.C Irving Chemistry Center 104, entitled “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gender.” The talk will be followed by a question and answer period and a reception. This talk is the keynote address for the “Difficult Dialogues” student conference. For more information on Bear Bergman, please see his website: www.sbearbergman.com. This event is free and open to everyone. Please encourage your students to attend too! For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power” – a student conference Please join us February 8 and 9 for a student conference entitled “Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power.” Students from UPEI and 5 other regional universities will present some of their work. We’ll also have a ‘who needs difficult dialogues’ video corner and other exhibits. The event starts Friday the 8th at 12:30pm and continues all day on Saturday the 9th. Come to some sessions, come to all sessions, help us make this a great experience for everyone involved! Free and open to everyone! Registration starts at 12:30 on Friday in Main 520 (Dawson Lounge). For more information, see the conference website at www.upeidifficultdialogues.ca or contact Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies, at abraithwaite@upei.ca

Come out to The Wave tonight for Global Trivia from 7:00-9:00 pm as part of UPEI's International Development Week. Staff, faculty, and students are all welcome. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams.

Wednesday, February 6 at 7pm Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI We have two speakers for the evening: Dr. Lisa Chilton and Genevieve MacDonald will give us complementary visions of nineteenth-century Canadian health care. All are welcome, and the descriptions of the talks are below. For more information, contact Shannon Murray at smurray@upei.ca or 566-0404. __________ "Sex Scandals, Sectarianism, and Skulduggery on the Ward: Hospital Life in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec City" Lisa Chilton In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Quebec Marine and Emigrant Hospital was considered one of the most desirable medical institutions for doctors' affiliation in the British Empire. Aspiring doctors from across North America fought to gain poorly paid and voluntary positions at the the Marine and Emigrant Hospital, because it provided unique opportunities for medical/surgical practice and observation, and because it boasted the educational leadership of some of the continent's most innovative and skilled practitioners. But, the Marine and Emigrant Hospital was not known solely for its impressive staff and (sometimes) impressive medical record. It was a poorly managed, inadequately funded institution, situated within a socially volatile colonial context. Relationships among the hospital's medical staff and members of the larger community of Quebec's doctors were often tense and at times openly antagonistic, with the result that between the mid-1840s and the mid-1850s the hospital became the focus of a series of very public scandals, involving malpractice suits, large-scale graft, coerced death-bed conversions, and sexually explicit slander and counter-slander details of which were recorded in hundreds of pages of witness statements, commissioners' reports, privately published open letters and memoirs, and newspaper accounts. In this paper, I offer a brief tour of the Marine and Emigrant Hospital and the social world its inhabitants constructed within it, as seen through the various documents they left behind. “Shun Not the Struggle: Cecily Jane Georgiana Fane Pope, 1862-1938" Genevieve MacDonald Prince Edward Islander Georgiana Pope is deserving of continued recognition for her significant contributions to the practice of nursing, which include her founding of military nursing in Canada, her establishment of a school of nursing in Washington, and her pioneering (along with Mary Rogers) of the practice of what is now called “affiliation” for student nurses. Born in 1862, Georgiana Pope was the first nurse in Canada to receive the Royal Red Cross, awarded for “special devotion and competency in ... nursing duties.” Matron Georgiana Fane Pope devoted her life to the service of others. Of her 34 years as a graduate nurse, she devoted 13 to civilian nursing and the other 21 years to military nursing. While a civilian nurse, she was a leader both in the supervision of nurses in hospital and in the teaching and direction of nursing students. She was responsible for achieving military rank and pay for nurses in Canada, which became the first country in the world to grant rank to women.

The Department of Pathology & Microbiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College invites you to attend two seminars given by Dr. Gabriele Rieder from Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria on February 14 and 15, 2013. Dr. Rieder is a candidate for a faculty position in bacteriology and is presenting her teaching seminar entitled “Bacterial Morphology: Structure and Function" at 10:30 am in AVC Lecture Theatre B on Thursday, February 14. Her research seminar is scheduled for Friday, February 15 at 10:30 am in AVC Lecture Theatre B and is entitled ” Helicobacter pylori - Foe or Friend?" Everyone is welcome! Rita Saunders, Administrative Assistant Pathology & Microbiology 566-0857

Career Services will be hosting a Community Connector Volunteer Fair on Wednesday, February 6 from 11 am-2 pm in the breezeway of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The organizations attending include: Heart and Stroke Foundation CNIB Cat Action Team Special Olympics United Way of PEI AIDS PEI Canadian Cancer Society For more information, email maxmaclean@upei.ca See you there!