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".

On February 19th & 20th, Dr. Emilia Bourassi will be interviewing for the open, tenure-track faculty position in small animal internal medicine in the Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC). Dr. Bourassi is currently in the 3rd, and final, year of a combined residency/MVSc. graduate program at the AVC. As part of the interview process, Dr. Bourassi has been asked to present two brief seminars; one suitable for 3rd year DVM students and the other a presentation of her research interests. TUESDAY, February 19th, 2019 12:30pm, 287N, AVC Learning Commons Treatment & Management of Hypoadrenocorticism Research & Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis Any interested faculty / staff are invited to attend. A copy of her CV and letter of application will be available from Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca).  

Dr. Jay Penney, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA will present a seminar entitled "Using iPSC-derived microglia to model mutations in the Alzheimer's Disease risk gene TREM2" on Friday, February 22 at 2:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B.  

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to Tyler Baker's MSc Thesis Defense entitled "Visual cueing: does it produce an acute improvement in turning in a Parkinsonian sample?".  Everyone is welcome.  

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held Friday, February 22nd from 3-4 pm in the "Fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). This will be a "meet and greet" discussion with our special invited speaker, Dr. Jay Penney from MIT, who will present a seminar in AVC Lecture B at 2 pm that day. All faculty, staff and students with an interest in neuroscience research are welcome.