Interested in what graduate student life at UPEI is really like? Interested in finding out what kind of graduate research is being carried out at UPEI? Join graduate students as they discuss their experiences and research in the Pit, Thursday, February 11, 6:30-8:45 pm.

This is the third in a series of “Pitnic” events happening this semester in the Library’s Pit area and is the result of a partnership between the Graduate Student Association and Robertson Library. UPEI students, staff, faculty, and the wider community are welcome!

For more Information, contact James Murphy, jamurphy@upei.ca

K & D Pratt will be on campus this week in various buildings to re-certify fire extinguishers. They will require access to all labs on campus even if the extinguishers are not due to be re-certified, as they will be installing a fire extinguisher sticker above the extinguishers. We request that everyone please assist them in gaining access where extinguishers exist.

If you have any questions, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.

The Search Committee for the Financial Mathematics faculty position in the UPEI School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences invites you to a public presentation by candidate Alexander Alvarez on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 11:30am in KMB 211. The presentation "Modelling Financial Markets beyond Black-Scholes" will be followed by a Q&A session. All are welcome to attend.

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is partnering with the Parkdale Sherwood Lions Club to host the "Wendel Clark and Friends" game at MacLauchlan Arena on Thursday, February 11. Game time is 7:00 pm.

Former NHL players attending the event include: Wendel Clark, Stephane Richer, Ron Duguay, Al Iafrate, Gary Leeman, Denis Maruk, Peter Klima, Ken Linseman, Mike Lalor, and Roy Nolan.

Panther Hockey captains Mason Wilgosh and Sam Sweet will also be on the ice, and there will be a special appearance by the Junior Panthers.

Ticket costs: $20 - Game admission; $50 - Dressing room pass (includes game admission, 20 tickets maximum each period); $80 - "Meet and Greet" (includes game admission and post-game social, maximum 100 tickets)

Proceeds are in support of Panther Sport. For tickets, contact Bruce Donaldson at 902-566-0368, or by email at bdonaldson@upei.ca.

The next presentation in the Human Biology and Environmental Sciences Seminar Series will take place on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.  Graduate student Travis McIsaac (MSc-HUB) will present the following talk: Exploring negative sport experiences as predictors of positive youth development. All are welcome.

Welcome to the feast before the fast ... Tuesday, February 9, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Pancakes and Sausages in the Chaplaincy Centre for Pancake Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday, prepared and served in collaboration with The Point, Connection Point Christian Church.

Then ... Wednesday, February 10
Ash Wednesday Masses at the Chaplaincy Centre will be at 12:05 pm and 4:30 pm. For those who are able, Ash Wednesday is a day to fast (cut out / cut back) and abstain from meat.

The summer session timetable is now available for viewing.  The following link will direct you to the first and second summer session schedules: 

https://secure.upei.ca/cls/dropbox/SummerTime.html

Registration for the summer sessions will open on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.

Yan Yan will present her Master of Education Thesis Defence on Monday, February 8 at 4:00 pm in Memorial Building, room 417. Her thesis title is "Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Large-Scale Assessments."  All are welcome. 

The campus community is invited to attend the public presentations given by faculty candidates for tenure-track positions in the School of Sustainable Design Engineering. The schedule for these presentations is given below. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.

Monday, February 8
Design and Implementation Process in Oncology Therapeutics: Gamma knife Surgery, Dr. Hosein Marzi, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Wednesday, February 10
Assessing the benefits of district energy grids in high penetration renewable energy systems, Jean Duquette, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Thursday, February 11
The integration of passive solar elements in active building systems: current research and future opportunities, Sebastien Brideau, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104

Monday, February 22
Our Changing Energy Landscape, Dr. David Bruce, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Wednesday, February 24
Designing a “Smart” Orthopaedic Implant, Brian Smyth, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Thursday, February 25
Learning from Experience: What designers can learn from service engineers, Dr. Grant McSorley, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104

Monday, February 29
Optimizing the Design of the Engineering Learning Environment, Dr. Chirag Variawa, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Wednesday, March 2
Design Synthesis & Prototype Implementation of High Performance Small-Scale Parallel Orientation Manipulators, Dr. Taufiqur Rahman, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Thursday, March 3
Intelligent Technologies for Wise Use of Agricultural Resources to Improve Crop Productivity, Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104

Monday, March 7
Title TBA, Dr. Arjun Chhetri, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Wednesday, March 9
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Research Towards a New Industry, Matthew Hall, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Kelley Building, Room 237

Thursday, March 10
Sustainable Development of Micro-Systems for Environmental and Biomedical Studies, Dr. Ali Ahmadi, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104

ALL university staff, faculty and students have access to the Tobacco Use Policy survey.

Participants do not need to use gmail to access the survey, but are required to login to the Shibboleth single sign-in service (same as is required to access library research services from off-campus). This step ensures that only participants with an active UPEI account have access to the survey.

Everyone can access the survey at https://goo.gl/Ojpf26 until end of the day on Friday, February 5, 2016. It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus Committee and UPEI Student Union homepages.

Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. The Healthy Campus Committee appreciates your input. If you have any concerns about survey access, please contact the ITSS Help Desk for assistance.

We invite all students, staff and faculty to complete our survey for your chance to win one of three $50.00 Bookstore gift cards. Submission deadline is Friday, February 5th. We appreciate your feedback!

Survey link: upei.ca/bookstoresurvey

For more information, contact Kevin Rogers, UPEI Bookstore Manager at 902-566-0380 or kerogers@upei.ca

Walaa Nasry, Pathology and Microbiology will present a seminar called "Investigating the relationship between inflammation and CD147 in human and feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) using immunohistochemistry" on Tuesday, February 9 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre C.

Everyone is welcome.

The Atlantic Association for Research in Mathematical Sciences Collaborative Research Group invites the campus community to a seminar entitled "Sets of sums and sums of sets" that will be livestreamed from Acadia University. The presenter is Dr. Franklin Mendivil, a faculty member in Acadia's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a member of the AARMS CRG. The live "webinar" will take place on Friday, February 5 at 2:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B.

Abstract: Given a list of numbers, what do you get when you look at the set of all possible sums of parts of the list? It turns out that many times you get a set with interesting fractal structure. In this talk we will introduce this idea and explore the geometric structure of the resulting set of sums. We will also discuss generalizations to 2D (and higher) and present many examples. This framework of “sumsets” is a nice method.

For more information, contact Dr. Shafiqul Islam at sislam@upei.ca

A reminder that the Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching has a new website and blog: projects.upei.ca/scent.

Every 12 days or so, the blog will reprint an article related to this winter's theme on "academic freedom, pedagogy, and curriculum"--and invites colleagues from across the campus community to read the short piece and comment on it! Let's get a conversation going what is involved in this issue and about how it affects us all in what we do here everyday. The next article will be posted next week.

For more information: Ann Braithwaite, Chair of SCENT, abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, fdo@upei.ca
 

We invite all students, staff and faculty to complete our survey for your chance to win one of three $50.00 Bookstore gift cards. Submission deadline is Friday, February 5th. We appreciate your feedback!

Survey link: upei.ca/bookstoresurvey

For more information, contact Kevin Rogers, UPEI Bookstore Manager at 902-566-0380 or kerogers@upei.ca

The tobacco use survey has been extended until Friday, February 5, 2016. After logging into your @upei account using the Shibboleth single sign-in service, you can access the survey at https://goo.gl/Ojpf26. It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus Committee and UPEI Student Union homepages.

Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. The Healthy Campus Committee appreciates your input.

PhD candidates in Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences, Wael Alsaedi, MSc and Mark Nabuurs, will each present a seminar on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm. Wael Alsaedi's presentation is entitled “Decomposition Kinetics of Nanocomposite Materials" and Mark Nabuurs's presentation is entitled "Identification of Biopesticide Candidates for the Control of Agricultural Pests and Pathogens in Major Canadian Crops".  The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.

All are welcome!

Wednesday, February 3
7:00 pm (W) Hockey @ MtA

Friday, February 5
6:00 pm (W) Basketball @ StFX
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Acadia
8:00 pm (M) Basketball @ StFX

Saturday, February 6
2:00 pm (W) Basketball @ StFX
4:00 pm (M) Basketball @ StFX
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Saint Mary's

Sunday, February 7
6:00 pm (W) Hockey vs DAL

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is partnering with the Parkdale Sherwood Lions Club to host the "Wendel Clark and Friends" game at MacLauchlan Arena on Thursday, February 11. Game time is 7:00 pm.

Former NHL players attending the event include:

• Wendel Clark
• Stephane Richer
• Ron Duguay
• Al Iafrate
• Gary Leeman
• Denis Maruk
• Peter Klima
• Ken Linseman
• Mike Lalor
• Roy Nolan

Panther Hockey captains Mason Wilgosh and Sam Sweet will also be on the ice, and there will be a special appearance by the Junior Panthers.

Ticket costs

$20 - Game admission
$50 - Dressing room pass (includes game admission; 20 tickets maximum each period)
$80 - "Meet and Greet" (includes game admission and post-game social; maximum 100 tickets)

Proceeds are in support of Panther Sport. For tickets, contact Bruce Donaldson at 902-566-0368, or by email at bdonaldson@upei.ca.