peaker: Tessa McBurney, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Title: Deciphering the Bat Signal: Evaluation of Mobile Acoustic Transect Surveys on PEI

*This event was rescheduled from Friday, February 8. Come join us at an OPEN HOUSE for the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre as we welcome our newest member Lynne Fraser, Nurse Practitioner. The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre has expanded its hours of operation and will be open five days per week on a year-round basis. The Centre is also providing care to faculty, staff, and immediate family (spouse, partner, and children). Join us from 1:00 - 2:30 pm on Friday, February 15, 2019 at the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre on the second floor (north) of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the bookstore). Tea/coffee and finger foods will be served! All are welcome!

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defence by Brittany Jakubiec titled "Out of the Box: Queerying Identity Development for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Prince Edward Island". All are welcome to attend Brittany's public presentation, taking place on Tuesday February 26, 2019 from 2:00 - 2:30 pm in the Irving Chemistry Centre, room 104.

Join us Wednesday, March 13th for this year's Career and Summer Job Fair! This event is free to attend for all post-secondary Students, and offers a great opportunity to meet with employers and recruiters to start networking, find a summer job, or kick start a career. Be prepared to present yourself professionally. The event will take place in MacMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and will run from 10:30am until 3:00pm with a storm date on Thursday, March 14th. This year's fair will be co-hosted by UPEI Career Services and the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering and will feature employers from various industries across PEI and the Maritimes.  For more information and to see what organizations will be present at this year's fair, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/upei-career-and-summer-… If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at careerfair@upei.ca  

The topic for this week's Graduate Seminar in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is "Networking with Purpose", given by Dr. Amy Hsiao, FSDE Graduate Studies Coordinator based on a National Initiative on Capacity Building and Knowledge Creation in Engineering Leadership (NICKEL) workshop. While the topic will be focused for FSDE graduate students, all are welcomed to attend.

Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize! Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25.  Enjoy the game!

All fathers and mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers, and anyone who cares for children is invited to a series of Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars. There are three sessions, and the first (rescheduled from February 13th due to weather) is on Wednesday, February 20th at 7:00 in the evening, at the Murphy Community Centre on Richmond Street in Charlottetown. The first week’s topic is “The Power of Positive Parenting”. Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology, is the presenter. Sessions are free, and childcare is available. Visit triplep-parenting.net for more information and to sign up in advance for free childcare during the session. Every dad and mom and other person caring for a child age 2-12 is welcome.

Speaker: Enooyaq Sudlovenick, Pathology and Microbiology Title: A mixed methodology: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and serological survey of harvested Ringed Seals in Iqaluit, NU and Speaker: Elena Yan, Pathology and Microbiology Title: Development and validation of multiplex PCR based diagnostic procedures for detecting eight viruses and one viroid in potato nuclear stocks  

Next article to be discussed at the Animal Welfare Journal Club is: Fawcett A, Mullen S, McGreevy P. 2018. Application of Fraser's"Practical" Ethic in Veterinary Practice, and its compatibility with a "One Welfare" framework. Animal 8, 109; available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071015/ All welcome!

All are invited to attend a special Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Graduate Research Seminar, on Friday, February 22, at 12 noon, in SDE 202. Dr. Atul Pathak from Biovectra will be speaking on "An Emerging Paradigm in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry".