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Please review the new guidelines for establishing conference and special purpose accounts through the Accounting office: Accounts that are currently active or have open registrations will continue as is. Any new requests for accounts or conference registrations will follow these new guidelines. Any questions can be directed to Deidre Smith, Accounting Manager, dasmith@upei.ca, 566-0470.

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.

17吃瓜 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 17吃瓜 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 鈥淔rom 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

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

17吃瓜 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 17吃瓜 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 鈥淔rom 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

17吃瓜 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 17吃瓜 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 鈥淔rom 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 17吃瓜, 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). 鈥淚 don鈥檛 deny the social price that many pay for alcohol,鈥� said Dr. Kurial, 鈥渂ut it is minor compared with the economic, social, and technological benefits we have enjoyed because of drinking.鈥� 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 17吃瓜 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 17吃瓜.... Read the rest of the story here:

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.