Events Archive
Speaker: Dr. Joel Ross, Faculty of Science
Title: Synaptic dysfunction in human neurons with autism-associated genetic variants
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…
The next event in the series being presented by the Faculty Development Office and the Indigenous Education Advisory Circle’s faculty development committee will occur on Tuesday, February 26, from 2:30-3:30 in SDMB 201 (Faculty Lounge). Gerald Wandio will facilitate a discussion of the article "…
The Faculty of Education would like to invite you to a public
presentation by Dr. Andre P. Grace, The Comprehensive Sexual Health of Canadian Youth: Employing the Comprehensive Health Education Workers Project to Emphasize Education and Intervention.
Are you interested in submitting a story for Grain Magazine's Indigenous Writers and Storytellers Issue (www.grainmagazine.ca/indigenous-writers-and-storytellers-issue) but are having issues making your story sound just right? Well, the Mawi'omi Centre will be hosting a writing workshop on…
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…
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…
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/…
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus
community to a presentation by Sarah Hewko (Applied Human Sciences) entitled: "The early retiree divests the workplace: Quantitative analysis of retirement decision-making among health professionals".
Everyone is…
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".
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,…
The UPEI Climate Research Lab will host an information session on new Canadian drone regulations on February 20 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in room 235 of UPEI’s Robertson Library.
The event features Roger Smith of Transport Canada and the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) Task Force. The new…
This year Vagabond Productions takes its audience back to the Renaissance, but not for a visit with the familiar playwright you might expect. It isn't very often directors and theatre troupes venture into the realm of the Renaissance without Shakespeare being involved in some respect. This year,…
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 Island Lecture Series February lecture is Tuesday, February 19, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Island Studies master’s student Emerald Naylor speaking about her research in Hawai’i.
“More than sun and pineapples: A look into the culture…
Speaker: Enooyaq Sudlovenick, Pathology and Microbiology
Title: A mixed methodology: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and serological survey of harvested Ringed Seals in Iqaluit, NU
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Speaker: Elena Yan, Pathology and Microbiology
Title: Development and validation of multiplex PCR based…
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…
The Women's team take the court at 6:00 pm while the Men's team are on at 8:00 pm, both against Acadia. For more info, visit gopanthersgo.ca.
The Women's team take the court at 6:00 pm while the Men's team are on at 8:00 pm, both against Acadia. For more info, visit gopanthersgo.ca.
This winter we will be reading and discussing "Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island" (2016). Our discussions will probe into past and present environmental changes on PEI, and how and why the Islanders are particularly sensitive to environmental issues and enmeshed in…
