Take part in the UPEI Campus Job Fair on Thursday, March 5 from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm in Schurman Market Square and Louis W. MacEachern Market Street, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The Campus Job Fair is an event which lets students explore on campus employment opportunities and allows departments to showcase jobs they offer students. The goal of the Campus Job Fair is to increase student awareness of the opportunities on campus and provide UPEI departments, intending to hire students, with a pool of qualified candidates! For more information, contact careerservices@upei.ca.

Come out and support the UPEI Panthers swim team during their fourth swimming competition this weekend at the CARI pool beginning on Saturday, January 17 at 4:00 pm. Racing begins Sunday at 10:00 am. Admission is free. A reception and competition naming ceremony will take place at 3:00 pm in the CARI lobby to honour long time swimming coach, Dave Mills. Community members who had the privilege to have known Coach Mills are invited to join. Light refreshments will be served.

Join hundreds of UPEI students as they fight against cancer at the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life on Friday Friday, January 30, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 12:00 am at the Chi-Wan Young Sport Centre. Visit www.relayforlife.ca to register your team or make a donation. For more information, contact Christian Gallant at cgallant@pei.cancer.ca.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology has two candidates for Adjunct Graduate Faculty who will be presenting on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:30 am and 11:15 am in Room 287N, AVC McCain Learning Commons. The first candidate is Huimin Xu, Research Scientist, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. His seminar is titled "Regulatory Testing of Potato Viruses - Situation Today and Future Development." His seminar will start at 10:30 am. The second candidate is Tiago Hori, Post Doctoral Fellow, with the Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada. His seminar is titled "Bioinformatics: Powering Discovery From Genomics Data" and will follow at 11:15 am. Everyone is welcome.

Skills PEI will be on campus on Wednesday, January 21 from 9:00 am-3:00 pm in the W.A Murphy Student Centre and the Robertson Library to provide information on their Career Prep and Graduate Mentorship Programs. The Career Prep program is an initiative designed to help students (who are graduating this year or next year) find jobs in their field of study. The Graduate Mentorship Program is an initiative designed to help post-secondary graduates find valuable work experience and mentorship opportunities in their field of study. For more information, please email careerservices@upei.ca.

Join Dr. Carolyn Peach Brown and Dr. Donald Wagner for two presentations as a part of UPEI's International Development Week on Monday, February 2 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Dr. Brown's presentation, entitled “Forests, People and Development in Cameroon,” will begin a discussion about the role of local institutions and community forest management in the Congo Basin forest of Cameroon. Dr. Wagner's presentation, entitled “Microfinance in Uganda and South Africa,” will explore how microfinance is used as an economic development tool in Uganda and South Africa. The presentation will look both at some of the successes and challenges. Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee!

Join us for the IRO open house during International Development Week! Mix and mingle with your IRO team, enjoy some snacks, play some games, and have the chance to win one of several door prizes!

SPEAKER: Dr. Melanie Buote, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Investigating the pathogenesis of Bitter Crab Disease in Snow Crabs (Chionoecetes opilio).

Join UPEI students Jayoda Tennekone and Rhyanne Beatty for two presentations as a part of UPEI's International Development Week on Tuesday, February 10 at 11:30 am in the Robertson Library's PIT. *This presentation has been rescheduled from Tuesday, February 3. Jayoda will give a presentation entitled "Improving International Relations in Your Own Community: Learning From the Diverse People Around you," followed by Rhyanne's presentation entitled “How to make a difference through the study of languages.” Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee!

Join Dr. Shauna Richards and Dr. Crawford Revie for two presentations as a part of UPEI's International Development Week on Wednesday, February 4 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Dr. Richards presentation, entitled “Improving Dairy Farming in Kenya,” will focus on her research on cow nutrition. She hopes to improve the production of smallholder dairy farms and provide a possible pathway out of poverty for farmers and their families. Additional research goals are to improve cow welfare which will also lead to improved dairy production and better living conditions for cows. Dr. Revie's presentation is entitled “What relevance does Big Data have to health care in developing economies?” It seems 2014 was the year of Big Data with an increasing appreciation that the scale and shape of our digital landscapes are rapidly changing. However, in many low middle income country settings, the availability of data to address key questions and enhance capacity to bring about change is limited at best. Some of these data gap issues will be explored in a new project on the use of smart-phone and Cloud technologies to improve disease diagnosis, surveillance and treatment of cattle in rural Ethiopia. Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee!