A representative from Custom Protect Ear will be at UPEI on Tuesday March 27th to perform fittings for custom ear plugs which are molded to fit the individual user’s ear, providing superior hearing protection. This is a one-time opportunity for UPEI’s staff, faculty, and students to take advantage of UPEI’s discounted pricing of $109.50 + hst on the dB Blocker Classic (non-vented) ear protection. Product details can be found here.

Fitting appointment are 5 minutes in length and payment will need to be made at the time of fitting by cash, cheque or credit card (preferred). Please contact Kathryn Harrison in the Health, Safety and Environment Department at 902-566-0901 or kharrison@upei.ca to arrange a time to be fitted or if you have any questions.

The UPEI Wind Symphony will perform its final recital of the academic year on Saturday, March 24, at 7:30 pm at Park Royal United Church in Charlottetown. This has been a particularly busy and musically rewarding year for the Wind Symphony with highly successful performances throughout the Fall and Winter.

This recital will feature contemporary works for the modern wind band, with several emerging masterworks of the genre. The program will open with Pansori's Rhapsody, a virtuosic work by Korean composer Chang Su Koh. This work is imbued with Korean culture and, through Su Koh's masterful orchestration, creates innovative colours and effects. effervescent widgets, this recital's title work, is among the most rhythmically complex scores that the Wind Symphony has ever performed. Here, American Richard Drehoff Jr., creates, in musical terms, a narrative of a widget's journey through the modern manufacturing mechanism. To accomplish this, Drehoff Jr. uses repetitive ostinato passages which layer upon themselves to the point of collapse.

Percy Grainger, an Austrailian by birth but an American by choice, wrote his Children's March: Over The Hills and Far Away around 1919. Based on an original Grainger melody, it is a light, carefree work the utilizes the full symphonic resources and colour of the modern wind band. Grainger was among the first to use piano and mallet percussion as part of his works for wind band. Another featured work by an American composer is Julie Giroux's One Life Beautiful. It is an introspective work with some of the most lyrical lines. Additional works by Dimitri Shostakovich and Warren Benson will be performed.

This recital will be the final Wind Symphony performance for thirteen of its graduating students – the largest in the history of this ensemble. All have made significant contributions to UPEI, and the Wind Symphony in particular, throughout their undergraduate careers.

The UPEI Wind Symphony received the 2014 Music PEI award for Achievement in Classical Music. Under the direction of Dr. Karem J Simon, the Wind Symphony has had a progressive approach to its programming, and in reaching a wider audience. With performances throughout PEI and beyond each year, partnerships with PEI school music programs, and utilizing unique performance spaces, the Wind Symphony is among PEI's most respected large ensembles. Commissioning new compositions, featuring outstanding student and professional soloists, and showcasing masterworks of the wind band genre are all hallmarks of this ensemble. In recent years performances at Zion Presbyterian Church, St. Dunstan’s Basilica, and Park Royal United Church have attracted capacity audiences.

Tickets [$15 Adults; $10 Students] for this performance may be acquired in advance at UPEI’s music department or at the door prior to the recital. The public is cordially invited to attend. 

The Faculty of Business is pleased to present a candidate for a tenure track position in Marketing.
On Friday, March 23, at 11:30am in MCDH329 Qian Deng will be presenting on 'What Makes Products Weird? Antecedent to and Underlying Mechanism of Weirdness'.
All are welcome to attend. Please contact business@upei.ca with any questions.

Join students from HIS4050, Crusades and Crusading in a student conference as they present their research.

Topics include: crusading logistics; Christian-Muslim interaction in Spain and the Holy Land; the role of the Italian merchant city states; the children's crusade; the Assassins.

This event runs 1:30 to 5:30 pm Friday, March 23 in SDU Main Building 116. 

UPEI Career Services 
It's the time of year where students and soon to be graduates are seeking employment. Career Services posts off-campus jobs for both students and alumni. On the left hand panel, there is a 'subscribe' option, this notifies students any time a new job gets posted. We post employment, volunteer and internships that are available literally around the world! Please share with students, add to Moodle pages and social media sites!

http://www.upei.ca/experientialeducation/career-services/job-postings
 

The Faculty of Arts, Island Studies wishes to announce that Erin Rowan, a Master’s student, will be defending her thesis entitled, “Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain: Islandness, Memory, and Landscape of the Great Famine in Cahersiveen and Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland”. It will take place Friday, March 23rd, 9:00-11:00am in Rm. 335 SDUMain Bldg. All are welcome.

Management Science Candidate, Dr. Liufang (Sophia) Yao, will be giving her public presentation Wednesday, March 21, at 9:30 am, in KMB 211. Presentation title is Product Recall Timing Optimization Using Dynamic Programming. All are welcome to attend.

Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine will be on the UPEI campus to deliver information about the process of applying to medical school. Any student who has ever considered a career in medicine should attend and learn more about what is required in the application process. Students from all faculties and year levels are encouraged to attend.

This even runs from 12:00 to 1:00 pm on March 28 in room 234 of the Kelley Building.

The Department of Psychology is pleased to present the first candidate for the position of Faculty Member and Associate Director of Clinical Experience for UPEI’s new Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program. Each candidate will give two talks: the first is a simulated classroom presentation about their research and the second will outline their vision for the PsyD at UPEI.
Please join us for the following presentations:

On Tuesday, March 20 at 5:30pm, Dr. Raquel Hoersting will present her talk entitled "Cross-Cultural Mobility: Cultural Homelessness, Identity and Adaptation". The presentation will take place in HSB 106.

On Wednesday, March 21 at 10:30am, Dr. Raquel Hoersting will present her vision talk entitled "Clinical Training as an Integrative Approach: Service, Scholarly Practice, and Collaboration". The presentation will take place in MCDH 329.

All are welcome to attend.

The Faculty of Arts, Island Studies wishes to announce that Erin Rowan, a Master’s student, will be defending her thesis entitled, “Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain: Islandness, Memory, and Landscape of the Great Famine in Cahersiveen and Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland”. It will take place Friday, March 23rd, 9:00-11:00am in Rm. 335 SDUMain Bldg. All are welcome.

Join students from HIS4050, Crusades and Crusading in a student conference as they present their research.

Topics include: crusading logistics; Christian-Muslim interaction in Spain and the Holy Land; the role of the Italian merchant city states; the children's crusade; the Assassins.

This event runs from 1:30 to 5:00 pm on March 23 in room 116 of UPEI's SDU Main Building. All are welcome.

Island filmmaker John Hopkins will be on the Island to introduce his multi-award-winning film, Bluefin, at UPEI on on March 25. Filmed in the “tuna capital of the world”, North Lake, PEI, the documentary explores the baffling mystery of a sudden abundance of tuna off the shores of eastern Prince Edward Island, despite scientific assessments claiming tuna stocks are substantially depleted.

With stunning cinematography, Hopkins documents this mystery, exploring the complex issues at the heart of the story. Underlying the documentary is a shared and passionate concern for the fate of the giant bluefin tuna. The film has received rave reviews from audiences around the world, and has been awarded prizes at the 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the 2017 International Ocean Film Festival, and the 2016 Lunenburg DocFest.

This screening is being hosted by the UPEI Environmental Society and Save our Seas and Shores PEI and Cinema Politica Charlottetown. More information can be found on the Cinema Politica Charlottetown Facebook page.

Mr. Steve Jreige, Knowledge Mobilization Analyst with the Public Health Agency of Canada is on campus March 21 and 22.

March 21, he will host a presentation on how to integrate KM into your research at 10:00am in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building, followed by 1/2 time slots for meetings with any interested faculty.
Please call 902-628-4308 Research Services or email researchservices@upei.ca to make an appointment to speak with him.

Learning is an action that only the student can own and control. As an instructor, what can be done to help support the development of student core skills, like learning how to learn? In this workshop, instructors will be introduced to three key skills that contribute to more efficient and effective learning. Those skills are how to take quality notes, how to read for learning, and how to study effectively. This information instructors can take away and share with their students. Offered by the E-Learning Office, this workshop will take place on March 26th from 10:00 to 11:00 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

One of the biggest challenges in a workplace is to understand the dynamics of how people work together. In today’s workplace the ability to identify team dynamics and understand positive and negative outcomes is a key component to building successful teams.
This two-day course will explore team dynamics using guided role play, exercises and practice sessions, you will discover:
• five stages of team development;
• how to identify communication problems;
• how to maximize performance;
• strategies for managing conflict;
• decision-making strategies;
• how to create a shared vision for success

This event runs March 22 and 23. Contact Koren at sdl@upei.ca for information.

2018 graduates mark your calendars! This is an event not to be missed! Celebrate the last day of classes, de-stress before exams, grab a bite, take a selfie with the 2018 sign, win some awesome door PRIZES, and just have some FUN with entertainment by Ryan Merry.

One lucky student will WIN our GRAND PRIZE DRAW* for $1.000 CASH - sponsored by TD Insurance
*Only 2018 Grads eligible to win and must be present at time of draw

Hosted by your UPEI Alumni Association
Panthers for Life!

Title: Substrate-product Analogues as Inhibitors of Racemases and Epimerases by Stephen L. Bearne, Dalhousie University, March 21, 2018 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Research Centre, Room 212.

Abstract
Rational approaches for the design of enzyme inhibitors furnish powerful strategies for developing pharmaceutical agents and tools for probing biological mechanisms. I will present a new strategy for the development of gem-disubstituted substrate-product analogues as inhibitors of racemases and epimerases. Some of these enzymes, such as glutamate racemase, serine racemase, and alpha-methylacyl-coenzyme A racemase (AMACR) are targets for the development of therapeutic agents. As one example, I will discuss the development of inhibitors of AMACR, using the Mycobacterium tuberculosis enzyme as a model. The human enzyme is a potential target for the development of therapeutic agents directed against prostate cancer. AMACR binds N,N-dialkylcarbamoyl-CoA substrate-product analogues with affinities that exceed that of the substrate by ~250-fold and that are proportional to the hydrophobicity of the alkyl groups. Overall, the results reveal that gem-disubstituted substrate-product analogues can yield extremely potent inhibitors of an epimerase with a capacious active site.

All are welcome.

Interested in working in the healthcare sector? Then you will not want to miss this event!

On Wednesday, March 21st, the UPEI Pre-Med Society will be hosting a “Health Career Conference” in Don and Marion McDougall Hall (Room 242) from 6:00-8:00pm. The theme of this evening is “Informing the Next Generation of Healthcare Workers” and the conference will showcase different health professions, shed light on current healthcare issues, and educate students and community members interested in a career in healthcare about the realities of working in the healthcare system.

There will be four exciting presentations by influential healthcare workers that you won’t want to miss if you are considering working in the healthcare system.
6:00-6:30 – Sheila MacLean – Health Recruitment
6:30-7:00 – Roseanne Sark – Aboriginal Health
7:00-7:30 – Dr. William Montelpare -- Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research
7:30-8:00 – Dr. Kim Critchley the current Deputy Minister of Health and Wellness for PEI
Full descriptions of each presentation are included on the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/584197705381855

This event is open to anyone in the community. Admission is by donation and proceeds will be split between the 22nd Annual QEH/Eastlink Telethon and a local family in need (TBA). For more information contact us at upeipremed@gmail.com.

The Open Café event scheduled for Wednesday evening in the Robertson Library has been cancelled. Our apologies for any inconvenience.