The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday, January 12, 2018 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend. For a copy of the paper to be discussed please contact Joel Ross: pjross@upei.ca or Andy Tasker: tasker@upei.ca.

All members of the University community are invited by the Office of the President, Development and Alumni Engagement, Student Affairs, and Bell Let's Talk to a special announcement about mental health on campus on Wednesday, January 17 at 10 am in the McCain Foundation Learning Commons.

Are you interested in a job with Parks Canada? Curious about what jobs they offer? The Parks Canada job application deadline is coming up! Parks Canada will be hosting an employment info booth on Wednesday, January, 17 from 11:00 am-2:00 pm in the Robertson Library Breezeway. All students welcome! Storm date: If the University is closed due to a storm on the January 17, the booth will be held on Thursday January 18 (same time and place).

Chemistry PhD Student Leon Liang will give a Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences Seminar Presentation on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 in Duffy Research Centre Room 212 at 12:30 pm. The title of his presentation is "Natural Product Discovery through a Co-culture Mimic Methodology".

UPEI is one of the latest universities to join SHAD (shad.ca), an award-winning national enrichment program that brings top high school students from across Canada to 16 university campuses across the country every July. The first SHAD UPEI program will take place from July 1-27, 2018, and we will be hosting 48 students with diverse interests in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and entrepreneurship. A keystone feature of the program is the Design-Entrepreneurship (DE) project, which requires participants to work in teams to design a new product that solves a problem corresponding with a centrally chosen theme. During the four weeks, SHADs participate in a jam-packed schedule with lectures, workshops, recreation, and DE project time. We’re looking for faculty, staff, students and community leaders, who are interested in helping with SHAD UPEI. Commitments can be small or large: delivering a seminar on a relevant topic that you’re passionate about; leading a workshop or tour; mentoring the students on their DE projects for a few hours over the course of the program; or living in residence with the students as a paid member of the SHAD team. If you’re interested in finding out more about the opportunities, please join us for an information session, or contact Kaaren May, Program Co-Director, at kmay@upei.ca. You could also visit upei.ca/shad for the latest updates.

Bernard Haché, NSERC Research and Innovation Development Officer, will be giving a presentation focusing on NSERC Engage Grants and their strategic use.  The presentation will take place on Thursday, January 18 from 11:30 to 12:20 in the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering, Room 306.

UPEI offers a wide range of well-tested professional education and career development programming. Our next course is Creating a Workplace of Respect and Trust. For more details on this course please visit our webpage. Click here to view a complete course calendar. For more information on any of our course offerings, please call (902) 628-4394 or email sdl@upei.ca.

The Island Lecture Series is back with a new slate of speakers. On Tuesday, February 13, Island filmmaker/photographer Will Beckett brings his childhood fascination with prehistoric life to the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, starting at 7:00 pm. He will speak about the adventures behind his upcoming Web documentary series, Prehistoric PEI. Will has spent the past three years making the first ever documentary about Prince Edward Island’s little-known prehistoric past — a journey that’s taken him as far as Philadelphia, PA, in his quest for an answer to the question: where have all of PEI’s fossils gone?! In 1845, a farmer unearthed one of Canada’s very first fossils in New London, PEI. Islanders still find fossils of plants and animals embedded in cliffs, lying openly on the beaches, and buried under the soil. The public seldom hears about these discoveries, and even more rarely do they get a chance to see them unless they visit museums in Ontario or Nova Scotia. PEI’s fossils paint a fascinating picture of a time long before the dinosaurs when the land teemed with a variety of life — echoes of which remain with us even today. Will’s lecture covers the inspiration for, and the information around, the documentary and the discoveries he’s made along the way. He’ll also offer a sneak peek of some of the footage, along with a brief, tantalizing glimpse of what Prince Edward Island looked like around 290 million years ago. Originally from St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia, Will Beckett now lives in Charlottetown. He’s worked as a crew member on TV projects like CBC’s The Songs of Gene MacLellan and The Stats of Life. He’s also acted in commercials, and appeared in a hilarious bit part in the Island-produced feature film, Kooperman. Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend! Watch for another lecture about islands – near and far – March 20. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

Please join us for our first Theology on Tap of 2018! Dr. David Sabapathy will speak on “The Unexamined Life of Public Health.” Presented by the SDU Institute of Christianity and Culture, 25 January 2018, at 7:00 pm in the Pourhouse at 189 Great George Street.  All are welcome!

The UPEI School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences invites prospective students and their parents to an Open House on Saturday, January 27, 2018 (storm date February 3) from 10 am to 12 noon at the Cass Science Hall. Learn more about how UPEI's traditional and emerging programs in mathematical and computational sciences can lead to fulfilling and high-earning careers. FEATURING: » Short demonstrations/presentations about some fun mathematics and computer science topics » Information on UPEI admissions and scholarships » Tours of UPEI and SMCS facilities » And more! Sign up to attend the event on the @UniversityofPEI Facebook page!