All are welcome to attend UPEI's 3 Minute Thesis competition, where graduate students will present their research in 3 minutes or less. The competition will take place on March 19 at 6:30 pm in the Health Sciences Building, room105. All are welcome to attend. Come support UPEI graduate students and enjoy hearing about diverse research studies happening on campus. If you have questions, you can email Colleen Gallant at cgallant@upei.ca. 

Alaina Roach O'Keefe will deliver her PhD Defence presentation "Remixing Digital Play in the Early Years: Learning Stories from the Nested Ecology of One Family" on March 16 at 10:00 am in AVC 286N. All are welcome to attend! Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.

Speaker: Anna Kuznetsova, Biomedical Sciences Title: Temperature dependent regulation of natural products biosynthesis in Arctic actinomycetes Speaker: Ashley McKibbon, Pathology and Microbiology Title: Identification of virus-host receptor(s) for Atlantic salmon bafinivirus, a coronavirus of fish.

The UPEI Department of Music will hold a Directed Studies Recital featuring Johanna Vessey, clarinet and Frances McBurnie, piano at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Admission is FREE

The UPEI Department of Music will hold Junior Recitals featuring Taylor Poirier, saxophone, Frances McBurnie, pianom and Ryan Drew, percussion. Admission is free.

The Faculty of Business is pleased to present a candidate for a tenure track position in Marketing. On Friday, March 23rd, 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.

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.

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

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.

Our last soup event for the semester is Tuesday March 20 2018. This month our Soup for the Soul event will be hosted by the UPEI 4th year Quantity Food Production Class and features chicken noodle and vegetarian pizza inspired soup!