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

Please call 902-628-4308 Research Services or email researchservices@upei.ca to make an appointment to speak with him.

Come and check out the artistic talents of AVC’s students, faculty, and staff at the fifth annual AVC Art Show/Auction and Coffee House on Friday, March 23, in The McCain Foundation Learning Commons. The art show and auction takes place from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, and the coffee house, featuring live entertainment, from 4:30-6 pm A portion of the proceeds from the art auction will be donated to CAT Action PEI. The Class of 2020 is organizing this free event.

The next UPEI on-site training session in animal use and care will be held on:

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
AVC - The McCain Foundation Learning Commons Rm 286 B & 286C N

This will be a 3 hour training session with handouts, based on CCAC Recommended Syllabus (exam included).  The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) requires that all personnel involved with the use of animals in research, teaching, testing and service take this course.  (A refresher course is required every 5 years). Please notify Sherri Pineau by e-mail at animalcare@upei.ca by 12:00 noon on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 if you will be attending this session and also indicate that you are a grad student and the name of your supervisor.

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 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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.