Campus Notices
As you probably noticed, the Student Union elections were in full force
throughout the month of February. The results have now been approved by our
Student Union Council and are therefore official. For those of you who are
curious about the newly elected/hired Student Union executive, they are:
President: Anastasia Smallwood
Executive Vice-President: Travis Gordon
Vice-President Activities: Matthew Rice
Vice-President Communications: Ryan McCarvill
Vice-President Finance: Daniel MacDonald
Please be aware that this group does not begin their term until May 1, 2013.
Please see upeisu.ca/executives for the most current information.
Thank you for your interest!
Kate VanGerven
Sheldon Opps, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Physics,
will be giving a seminar talk entitled "You Can't Catch Me: The effects
of confinement and landscape fragmentation on predator-prey dynamics"
on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in Duffy Room 204.
Everyone is welcome.
The Faculty of Education's International & Indigenous Specializations
dinner and silent auction will be held this Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Pond Street. There's a great
program scheduled, many wonderful items for the silent auction and an
international buffet representing 7 countries!
Contact: Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or 894-2813 for further information or tickets.
Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown
Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems
Date: Friday, March
Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant
Biology Department and
Environmental Studies Program
phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology
UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood
pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is
free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute
appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.
The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents
Dr. Sara Diamond
OCAD University
This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation.
Tuesday, February 26
3:30 to 4:30 pm
Duffy 202
About the Series:
The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information.
Daisy MacAusland
Administrative Assistant
Physics Department
dmacausland@upei.ca
Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown
Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems
Date: Friday, March
Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant
Biology Department and
Environmental Studies Program
phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology
UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood
pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is
free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute
appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.
The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents
Dr. Sara Diamond
OCAD University
This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation.
Tuesday, February 26
3:30 to 4:30 pm
Duffy 202
About the Series:
The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information.
Daisy MacAusland
Administrative Assistant
Physics Department
dmacausland@upei.ca
Sheldon Opps, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Physics,
will be giving a seminar talk entitled "You Can't Catch Me: The effects
of confinement and landscape fragmentation on predator-prey dynamics"
on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in Duffy Room 204.
Everyone is welcome.
The Faculty of Education's International & Indigenous Specializations
dinner and silent auction will be held this Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Pond Street. There's a great
program scheduled, many wonderful items for the silent auction and an
international buffet representing 7 countries!
Contact: Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or 894-2813 for further information or tickets.
Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown
Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems
Date: Friday, March
Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant
Biology Department and
Environmental Studies Program
phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology
UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood
pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is
free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute
appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.
The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents
Dr. Sara Diamond
OCAD University
This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation.
Tuesday, February 26
3:30 to 4:30 pm
Duffy 202
About the Series:
The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information.
Daisy MacAusland
Administrative Assistant
Physics Department
dmacausland@upei.ca
Sheldon Opps, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Physics,
will be giving a seminar talk entitled "You Can't Catch Me: The effects
of confinement and landscape fragmentation on predator-prey dynamics"
on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in Duffy Room 204.
Everyone is welcome.
The Faculty of Education's International & Indigenous Specializations
dinner and silent auction will be held this Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Pond Street. There's a great
program scheduled, many wonderful items for the silent auction and an
international buffet representing 7 countries!
Contact: Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or 894-2813 for further information or tickets.
At the next Research on Tap, raise a toast to alcohol. Dr. Richard Kurial,
Professor of History at UPEI, will lead a discussion entitled "From whence all
good things flow: how alcohol built the West." The event begins at 7 pm,
Tuesday, March 5, at The Pourhouse (above The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse
in Charlottetown).
“I don’t deny the social price that many pay for alcohol,” said Dr. Kurial,
“but it is minor compared with the economic, social, and technological
benefits we have enjoyed because of drinking.”
Dr. Kurial argues alcohol provided the creativity and willingness to take
risks that were required to innovate and build the world we live in today.
Research on Tap is a series of public discussions with UPEI researchers.
For more information, contact Dave Atkinson at (902)620-5117, or
datkinson@upei.ca.
One of the most discussed recent trends in education is the Massive Open
Online Course, or MOOC. This model of free and open university courses is
now offered by education giants such as Stanford and M.I.T., and has strong
early connections to UPEI....
Read the rest of the story here:
http://research.upei.ca/blogs/2013/02/21/what-mooc-100k-people-want-know
You are invited to attend the Department of Economics Speaker Series for a presentation by Patrick de Lamirande, Assistant Professor at the Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University on Friday, March 1 in Memorial Hall Room 215 at 2:30 pm on the topic: "Winners and Losers Under a Capped Assessment Program: The Case of Nova Scotia"
Any questions, please contact the Department of Economics at 566-0370.
On Tuesday, February 26, the UPEI Men's Hockey team
will face the UNB Varsity Reds in Games #3 and #4 of Subway AUS Men's
Hockey Semi-finals at MacLauchlan Arena. Start time for the game is 7:00
pm.
For Panther fans who don’t have tickets but want to experience hockey
playoff action and ‘cowboy' spirit, UPEI Athletics and Recreation, in
partnership with The Wave, has opened the Molson Saloon. Opening at 5:00 pm
and accessible via the CARI Complex lobby for those aged 19 and older, the
saloon is located on the third court of the gym and will feature the live
AUStv webcast of the games on an eight-foot 'big screen'.
Admission to the saloon is $5/per person but is free for game-ticket holders who want to
drop in before game-time or during intermissions.
GO PANTHERS GO!
For more information, contact:
Ron Annear
Athletics and Recreation
(902) 566-0991
annear@upei.ca
