The event will wrap up MHW 2018, featuring a safe-listening and non-judgmental environment where various students, faculty, and staff members will share their stories and encounters with mental illness. These stories will provide us with an opportunity to learn, care, and be inspired to help ourselves and those around us living with mental illnesses, and remind us all, that relationships matter. Pub grub, kindly provided by the UPEI Student Union. All are welcome to attend!  

Title: Light at Heart - Fiber optics from laboratory to market Presenter: Prof. Caroline Boudoux Department of Engineering Physics Ecole Polytechnique Montréal Abstract: Endoscopy has changed modern medicine by allowing physicians to explore inner organs with minimal trauma. Single optical fiber endoscopes offer the potential to further increase patient comfort and increase access to remote organs through miniaturization. Current research focuses on sub-millimeter endoscopy using dedicated optical fibers for imaging large volumes of tissue. One such fiber - the double clad fiber - allows many imaging modalities to be performed simultaneously for greater diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. Double-clad fiber couplers combine the properties of single-mode fiber light delivery with the high collection efficiency provided by multimode fibers. They are used in multiple sensing and imaging applications including surface plasmon resonance, optical coherence tomography, confocal and nonlinear microscopy. Recent work from our laboratory allowed increasing their performance to quasi-lossless transmission through the single-mode core combined with >85% transfer efficiency of multimode light. This presentation will focus on novel double-clad fiber coupler designs as well as on the brief history of their commercialization. Biography: Associate professor & rookie entrepreneur, Prof. Boudoux obtained her PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program (USA) in biomedical optics in 2007. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Ecole Polytechnique (France) on coherent control applied to nonlinear microscopy before launching her laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Montreal (Canada). Her research topics range from laser-tissue interactions, to novel hardware, such as lasers and fiber optics couplers, for imaging. These couplers are used in medical institutions worldwide, in applications ranging from optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal micro-endoscopy imaging to laser coagulation. With a colleague, she founded Castor Optics Inc., a spin-off company commercializing a new line of double-clad fibers couplers in a strategic partnership with Thorlabs Inc. She is the author of Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics, a comprehensive textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well as of another textbook, written in French, on Engineering Design. She has won several teaching and research awards, including a Fulbright fellowship in 2015 to spend a sabbatical year at Stanford University. The 2018 CAP National Lecture Series is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Physicists - www.cap.ca and is hosted by the UPEI Department of Physics.

Calling all girls in grades 7-10! Go CODE Girl Day is a hands-on opportunity for girls in Grades 7 to 10 to learn about the exciting world of computer programming and software development. We will introduce and inspire girls with the skills needed to pursue interests in the fastest growing industries of technology, computing and engineering. UPEI SSDE is excited to be a participant in Go CODE Girl Day, which is an initiative that takes place at 20+ universities with Engineering programs across Canada! Registration is free but space is limited.  Click here to sign up!  

Dr. Katie Hoddinott (AVC Class of 2012) will be on-campus next week interviewing for the open, tenure-track faculty position in small animal surgery in the Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Dr. Hoddinott is in the final year of her small animal surgery residency/graduate student program at the Ontario Veterinary College. As part of the interview process, Dr. Hoddinott will be presenting a seminar. 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. Hoddinott will present on Wound Management Techniques on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 12:30 pm in Lecture Theatre ‘A’, Atlantic Veterinary College.

The UPEI Department of Music Recital Series presents "Vocal Chamber Music", featuring UPEI Music majors in performance directed by Sung Ha Shin Bouey and Stephen Bouey. The recital will now take place Friday, March 16, 2018 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI Campus. Tickets will be available at the door. All are welcome!

The Rotaract Club of UPEI meets weekly on Fridays at 2:00 pm, Robertson Library room 209 (room subject to change). Find us on facebook, all students welcome, always accepting new members! Rotaract Club is a service club that works with leaders in the community to help local organizations, develop leadership skills, and have fun serving others.

Dr. Martha Mellish, of AVC’s Equine Ambulatory Service, will give a free public workshop, entitled “A pain in the gut: Managing equine digestive issues,” on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m., in Lecture Theatre A, Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI. Horses have complex gastro-intestinal systems and can have equally complex digestive problems. The more knowledge horse owners have about these issues, the better they can understand and appropriately manage digestive conditions affecting their animals. Using a practical model, Dr. Mellish will explain the equine gastro-intestinal tract and talk about common medical conditions that can affect it. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. For information, contact (902) 566-0589.

The Atlantic Research Group on Economics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity (Argeiad), at the Saint. Mary's University, in Partnership With Upei, Epsi, Peianc and Afcc (Summerside), Will Present a Community Forum on Aging, Housing, and Diversity, at the Murchison Centre, St. Peter's Road, in Charlottetown, Pei, on March 16, 2018 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. All are welcome, and rhere Is no cost to attend. Lunch and Refreshments Are Provided. However, Rsvp Is Required by Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Please Contact 902-206-1352 (Call/text) or agefriendlycoordinator@gmail.com. The tentative agenda is as follows: 8:30-9:00: Dr. Martha Macdonald, St. Mary's University, Atlantic Research Group Oneconomics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity (Argeiad) Honourable Tina Mundy, Minister, Department of Family and Human Services 9:00-9:45: Dr. Suzanne Dupuis-blanchard, Director, Research Centre on Aging Université De Moncton, "Aging-in-place and Diversity" 9:45-10:00: Coffee Break 10:00-10:45: Panel: Bill Campbell, Community; Gordon Cobb, Acoa; Dr. James Sentance, Upei; Maitland Macisaac, Epsi 10:45-11:30: Breakout Session: Considering the Research: What Next? 11:30-12:00: Synopses From Breakout Sessions 12:00-12:45: Lunch (Provided) 12:45 – 1:00: Dr. Michael Corman, Department of Health and Wellness 1:00-1:40: David P Anderson, Vice-president Property Management, Slemon Park Corporation, "Building a Community" 2:00-2:40: Breakout Session: Community Options and Choices, Learning From Slemon Park 2:40-3:00: Mr. Maitland Macisaac, President Epsi, Vision Statement, Aging, Housing, Diversity  

The Department of Psychology is pleased to present the second candidate for the position of Faculty Member and Director of Training for UPEI’s new Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program. Dr. Butler will give two talks: the first is a simulated classroom presentation about his research and the second will outline his vision for the PsyD at UPEI. Please join us for his presentation which will take place on Friday, March 16 at 9:45 am where Dr. Stephen Butler will present "Achieving excellence: A blueprint for the PsyD program at UPEI". It will take place in Memorial Hall room 417. (Please note that this is a room change.)

**RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER** Free snacks and free Samuel's coffee & muffin voucher at this screening! Perfume War is an inspiring documentary about two friends and their unstoppable fight for world peace. Captain Trevor Greene’s mission in Afghanistan ends violently with a Taliban axe in his head. Miraculously, he survives to see his best friend Barb Stegemann, a single mom, carry on his peace mission with a new strategy – perfume. In an Art of War maneuver, she takes what the enemy loves most, the poppy crop, by purchasing rose and orange blossom oils, which pay Afghan farmers twice the income over illegal poppy. Scientists marvel at Greene’s recovery as he rebuilds his brain, while Stegemann helps rebuild in Afghanistan and Rwanda. Barb fights a retail war in stores while working to keep her company financially afloat. In a world that monetizes war, Barb needs a cavalry of business to take up her retail activist charge. A global beauty giant shows interest, but is her essential oil good enough? Will she run out of money? Will she win her perfume war? Located in the Campus Life Lounge, which is in Student Affairs (above the bookstore).