Events Archive
Arteries, Movie Trailers, and Wedding Cakes:
Crafting the Perfect Course Syllabus
Presented by:
Elizabeth Wells, Music, Mount Allison University
Shannon Murray, English, UPEI
So much depends upon the course syllabus: or so it seems. Whether it represents our hopes and dreams or our bad past鈥�
SPEAKER: Elizabeth O'Neil, Pathology and Microbiology
TITLE: The balance to prevent - Urinary tract infections in cats and dogs
By Visiting scholar Dr Linda Price, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Date: Thursday March 18, 2010
Time: noon 鈥� 1PM
Location: Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI
Dr Price is writing a book on family farming, belonging, stress and change which鈥�
SPEAKER: Carolyn Legge, Pathology and Microbiology
TITLE: Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Juvenile Toy Manchester Terriers
Research on Tap discusses 鈥淔ries with that? Are school nutrition policies the solution to childhood obesity?鈥�
The kids are overweight because of hot dogs and garlic fingers at school? What about triple-stacked burgers at fast food restaurants? Rink fries.....? Let鈥檚 face it: the kids have an鈥�
SPEAKER: K. Fraser Clark, Pathology and Microbiology
TITLE: Garnering insight into crustacean immunity through transcriptomic profiling in lobster
The next session of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Management course begins April 1, 2010. The dates for this Spring session are April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 and May 6, 13 and 27. The full-day retreat day will be Saturday May 8th. The location for the course will be Mount St. Mary's, Thursday evenings鈥�
Visiting chemist to give public talk on 鈥榞reen鈥� plastics
You can鈥檛 spin a two-litre pop bottle in the modern world without hitting another piece of plastic. Plastics are cheap to produce, lightweight, and are strong and flexible enough to be used in millions of applications. However, most are made鈥�
"Bringing Chemistry to Life"
Presented by: Dr. Nola Etkin
In a project designed to engage students' imagination and creativity, groups of students were asked to act out or otherwise creatively present a chemical reaction. What did they come up with? Did they rise to the challenge? How much did鈥�
The students in the UPEI Executive-style MBA Program's Biotechnology stream invite the public to their presentations on "Biotech Areas in PEI ", as part of their Commercialization of Biotechnology and Innovations course. The presentations will include an evaluation of the topic and potential future鈥�
Join us for an award and paper presentation, as we honour the three most outstanding paper submissions from our Global Issues students, Tuesday, March 30 at 6:00pm in McDougall Hall, Room 242.
Two of the primary aims of Global Issues 151 are to examine the changing character of the modern鈥�
The students from this year's Theatre Studies 244 class will be presenting monologues from a variety of Canadian plays. Come out, on March 27, and support the future performers in the Theatre Studies Program. The event begins at 7:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge in Main. Admission is a donation of鈥�
SPEAKER: Kylie Muio, Pathology and Microbiology
TITLE: Identification of Novel Up-Regulated Virulence-associated Proteins in Streptococcus iniae using Quantitative Proteomics
SPEAKER: Afaf Arara, Pathology and Microbiology
TITLE: The Reid-Index in Healthy Cats
Faculty Time
Hosted by the Webster Centre
Main Building Faculty Lounge
All faculty and sessional instructors are invited to celebrate the end of the month with colleagues at Faculty Time. Enjoy the food and a complementary drink, courtesy of your hosts, Barb Campbell and the Webster Centre staff鈥�
By Distinguished Professor and IIS Research Associate Dr Mark Lapping from the University of Southern Maine
Date: Thursday March 18, 2010
Time: noon 鈥� 1PM
Location: Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI
Professor Lapping of the University will give a public鈥�
SPEAKER: Janet Saunders, Biomedical Sciences
TITLE: Validation of Co-oximetry For The Measurement of Methemoglobin in Fish
SPEAKER: Michelle MacPhee, Biomedical Sciences
TITLE: Optoacoustic Imaging of a Prostate Cancer Model
Challenges and Opportunities: the next 25 years 鈥� a public event to engage Islanders in the process of planning for the Island鈥檚 future.
Location: Carrefour de l鈥橧sle-Saint鈥慗ean (5 Acadian Drive, Charlottetown)
A panel of local and regional speakers will identify current strengths and future鈥�
