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On March 20th, 2019, to further experiment the local culture, the Public and International Relations Office took the Spring Semester International Exchange Students for dinner at the “Estabelecimento de Comidas Si Fu Chai (Ilha Verde)”, located near USJ's Ilha Verde Campus. A representative of the Office for Student and Alumni Affairs, that closely comes into contact with the students, also joined the dinner.

Students had the opportunity to try traditional dishes like “deep-fried Bombay duck with peppercorn salt”, “sweet and sour pork” and “deep-fried crab meat box”, while experiencing dining like a local.

The dinner was kindly sponsored by the Macao Foundation.

For more pictures, please click here.

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On March 21st 2019, 11 participants from the Institute of Science and Environment (ISE) and Office for Student and Alumni Affairs (OSAA) representatives took part in a seminar by Executives from the Sands Sustainability Department in The Parisian Macao.

Participants were able to discuss sustainability issues directly with the executives and learn sustainable practices by Sands (China) such as ECO360 and Green Monday.

They also learned about energy and water saving strategies that have guaranteed several accreditations and certifications to Sands' hotels (Macao Green Hotel Award, LEED Silver certificate, among others).

After the seminar, participants visited their recycling facilities, and observed the function of a food digester machine that converts food waste into non-potable water, which can then be disposed via the sewers.

Pictures provided by OSAA

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On 1 April 2019, Dr Sai Kin Lee Tsang, Antonio, Director of the Centre for Modern Languages and Delegate for Asian Affairs of the Rector of the Universidad de Burgos (UBU), Spain, visited the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) as a representative of UBU's Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation, Mobility & Cooperation.

Dr Lee met with the USJ Rector, Prof. Fr. Peter Stilwell, the Director of the USJ Public and International Relations Office, Mrs Ana Paula Mota, and Fr. Daniel Cerezo Ruiz, originally from Burgos.

Before receiving a tour of the USJ Ilha Verde Campus' facilities, UBU and USJ discussed potential opportunities for future collaboration.

Click here for more pictures of the visit.

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• 50+ enterprises
• 15+ industries
• 2000+ job vacancies

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The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) will hold the USJ Open Day on Saturday, 13^th April, 2019 from 3:30pm to 6:00pm.

Visitors will have a chance to experience USJ’s unique and diversified culture. Come and experience our vibrant campus life. Take this opportunity to:

• Know more about our facilities by visiting our laboratories, library, recreation and residential areas;
• Learn more about our programmes and exceptional education model;
• Meet our professors, students and alumni in person;
• Find out our students’ talents and enjoy their exhibitions;
• Participate in the experiments, workshops and games designed by our students and staff;
• Enjoy delicious food.

Free shuttle buses will depart every 30 minutes from 3:00 pm to 5:00pm to the campus:

• From Macao: Luso International Bank - Nam Van Branch
• From Taipa: Taipa Central Park

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On March 28^th, 2019, the Faculty of Creative Industries and the School of Business and Law of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), took an international ensemble of students, from countries including Brazil, France, Guinea-Bissau, Philippines and Portugal, for a tour of the backstage operations of “Elēkrŏn” at Studio City Macao.

This learning opportunity was made possible through the generous invitation of Melco Resorts & Entertainment (Melco). The community development initiative for “Elēkrŏn” was the first of its kind by Melco, and USJ students were lucky to be the first group to learn from Melco managers and operators at the backstage of the show. The group later enjoyed the show, as audience members, as part of a bigger group of 150 students and staff from USJ.

At USJ, we strive to provide a world class learning environment through close collaboration with industries, that bring unforgettable real-life learning experiences to better prepare students for all aspects of their careers. This is made possible by collaborating with organisations like Melco, that continue to bring dazzling international talent and entertainment opportunities to Macao by growing the offering of family and artistically orientated programmes. Moreover, students are able to make an early contact with industry providers, in this case, of the creative and entertainment industry, to gain insightful understanding of its inner workings.

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About the talk 資優生雖然一般具有較高的學習能力，但也需要學校和家庭提供合適的條件讓他們發揮潛能。老師不但擔當一個教育者的角色，同時亦是引領資優生盡展潛能的促進者。學校必須為這一群高能力學生提供適切的教育機會，使他們在富彈性的教學法和學習環境下，充分發揮潛能。而資優教育正是「照顧學生多樣性」的一種策略，亦是優質教育的一環。當中可以有系統、及有方向地發掘和培育資賦優異的學生，照顧他們的學習需要。 資優教育另一個重要課題正是家長教育。因為家長在子女成長路上擔當非常重要的角色，研究發現父母的教養方式影響子女的發展和將來的成就。若家長能了解資優子女的特質，協助資優子女處理情緒問題，及掌握培育資優子女的方法, 必定對子女的學習相得益彰。 透過本講座亦同時了解香港資優教育政策及有關學校資優課程的發展，藉此協助老師在學校開展資優教育課程，讓資優生成為才華盡展、成爲出類拔萃的菁英。

Though students with giftedness have had higher learning capacities, they also need school and family to work together to bring out their potentials. Teachers do not play only the role of an educator but also as a facilitator for their potentialities. Thus, schools should provide education opportunities for this group of students with higher learning capacities so that they can realise their potentials in a learning environment signified by flexible pedagogies. Gifted education is actually a strategy that helps nurture multi-facetedness of the development of students with giftedness. It could systematically help nurture them in a decent way and take good care of their learning needs.

Parent education is one of the important factors in facilitating gifted education because parents play a significant role in children’s development. Research findings demonstrate that the parenting style is a key factor affecting children’s development and their achievement in future. If parents can thoroughly understand the traits of children with giftedness, assisting them to cope with emotional problems and master well the skills of nurturing them, it will certainly strengthen their learning capacities.

In this seminar, the speaker will share with audience the policy of gifted education in Hong Kong and the curriculum development of gifted education in school so as to assist teachers in Macau to promote the curriculum of gifted education and facilitate students with giftedness to demonstrate and maximize their talents.

About the speaker

於德智女士現為香港一所小學課程統籌主任。她於柏立基師範學院取得教育文憑，浸會大學取得教育學士學位，及於理工大學取得中文語言及文學碩士學位。 於主任由一九九九年開始接觸資優教育，2002年至2005年借調香港教育署資優教育課程發展處為課程發展主任，工作期間協助香港中、小學推行資優教育課程，並落實香港資優教育三層架構模式。2006至2008年在小學發展資優教育，並獲優質教育基金四十萬元推展課程。其後於2008至2011年聯同8 間核心小學申請二百多萬元帶領香港63間網絡學校發展資優教育。 同時，她亦曾與香港浸會大學、香港中文大學資優計劃及教育局資優教育組合作向學校老師及家長推廣資優教育。2016至2017年亦於香港中文大學賽馬會「知優致優」計劃工作。於主任從事資優教育二十多年間一直協助老師、家長認識資優教育、協助高能力的學生獲得更適切的教育。

Miss Yu is the Coordinator of Curriculum Development in a primary school. She was awarded teaching certificate in Robert Black College of Education and received her Bachelor Degree in Education in Baptist University and later was granted the Master of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature in Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

She has been working with gifted education since 1999. She was deployed the Division of Gifted Education Curriculum Development of the Education Department as Curriculum Development Officer from 2002 and 2005 during which she had assisted primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong in developing curricula in gifted education and helping realize the three tier framework of gifted education. From 2006-2008, funded by Quality Education Fund regarding HK$400,000, Miss Yu helped develop and promote gifted Education in primary schools. She had helped 8 primary schools to apply for and eventually granted HK$2 million for development of a network of 63 schools concerning gifted education.

Miss Yu had also collaborated with Baptist University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Division of Gifted Education of the Hong Kong Education Bureau to promote gifted education to teachers and parents. She has been working with teachers, parents and school professionals with regard to gifted education for over 20 years and assisting students of giftedness to be provided with more resources for their better development.

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The World Social Work Day 2019 took place on 19^th of March. For its celebrations, the Social Work Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), organised a seminar on Field Education in Social Work, on 23^rd of March (Saturday), at the Don Bosco Auditorium of USJ.

The event was hosted by the USJ Rector, Prof. Fr. Peter Stilwell, and the Dean of the FSS, Prof. Fr. Dominique Tyl. Approximately 140 people attended the activity, which was sponsored by the Macao Government’s Social Welfare Bureau, and counted with the collaboration of Caritas Macau. The activity also received support from many other organisations that helped make the event a success. Participants included social work educators and students from different academic institutions, social workers and social development practitioners who work in government and non-government agencies in Macao. 

Distinguished guests included Mr. Wu Feng, representative of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao SAR, Ms. Dorothy Tang Kit Fong, representative of the Macao Government’s Social Welfare Bureau, Mr. Philip Yuen Chi Hoi, representative of Caritas Macau, as well as Executive Members of the Correctional Services Bureau, the Association of Parents of the People with Intellectual Disabilities of Macao and the Lar São Luís Gonzaga.

It was an honour to have scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao, sharing their valuable opinions in the seminar.

Their contributions helped reinforce the importance of enhancing the quality and professional competence of the social work field education in Macao, as well as explored the possibility of their implementation.

For more pictures of the event, please click here.

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The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) has a deep, rich, and longstanding partnership with Fu Jen Catholic University (FJCU), in Taiwan.

This relationship has served as the foundation for initiatives in Taiwan by USJ's Department of Social Work, as USJ has an agreement of cooperation with FJCU, providing - and taking part in - exchange opportunities for students, as well as for faculty.

On Saturday, March 24, 2019, Prof. Fr. Dominique Tyl, the Dean of USJ's Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), and Prof. Helen Liu, Professor of USJ's FSS, met with Prof. Kuo, Professor of FJCU's Department of Social Work, to further discuss mobility opportunities.

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On Thursday, March 14th 2019, the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) had the honour of receiving Ambassador Paulo Cunha Alves, Consul-General of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong, for a courtesy visit to USJ's Ilha Verde Campus.

The Ambassador, in his first visit to the USJ's new campus, was welcomed by the Rector, Prof. Fr. Peter Stilwell, the Acting Vice-Rector, Prof. Rochelle Ge, and the Director of the Public and International Relations Office, Mrs. Ana Paula Mota, before touring the campus facilities and meeting some of our senior management and academic staff members.

This visit comes in the sequence of a long tradition of close relationships with the Portuguese Consulate in Macao, which USJ greatly cherishes and holds in high regard.

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The Symposium of the Ricci Institutes of Macao and Taipei for 2019 is meant to spark serious discussions in China and Southeast Asia over the role of China’s wisdom traditions in promoting moral leadership in business and the professions.  These traditions — as recognised in China’s Constitution, namely, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, and Islam — converge in supporting moral excellence through the teaching and practice of various forms of religious observance: prayer, study of sacred texts, performance of religious rituals, and spiritual self-cultivation or contemplation.  We will use the term “Contemplation” to cover forms of meditation or spiritual practice that include those grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition but also in other wisdom traditions contributing to our deepening appreciation for spirituality, to designate the focus of this year’s conference.  Though China’s wisdom traditions differ among themselves in their metaphysical assumptions — that is, the reality of God and the nature of humanity’s relationship to it — they seem to converge in a number of ways they respond to the depth dimension of human experience. It has been one of the great insights of the founder of the Taipei Ricci Institute, Fr. Yves Raguin S.J. (1910-1998) to explore the importance of Contemplation not only as a path to enrich the Christian faith journey but also as a privileged door to enter in dialogue with other religions especially with Buddhism and Daoism.

Date: Thursday and Friday, October 17 and 18, 2019 Venue: Don Bosco Auditorium (University of Saint Joseph, Macao)

Brief for Submission  With this call for papers we invite submissions that focus on a particular aspect of Contemplation, Mission and Martyrdom particularly in the Ignatian tradition, i.e. what it is, and how the opportunities for cross-cultural exchange and communication related to becoming “Contemplative in Action” might be understood and responded to by scholars, entrepreneurs, business leaders, as well as students, faculty, netizens, and others learning through social media.  What can we learn from the historic experience of those who put Contemplative silence at the core of their being and action?  How might a mission which is genuinely rooted in local cultures not only be enriched through Contemplation but also contribute to new approaches to mission. How do Martyrdom and the blood of martyrs through the centuries help to frame an action-oriented mission which is freed from sectarian concerns but is designed to advance the common good and enhance our capacities for moral leadership and social responsibility? We encourage papers that reflect on the contributions made by the spiritual and wisdom traditions focused on Contemplative practices that flourished along cultural cross-roads including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.What is the impact of contemplative traditions on our understanding of the terms of Mission and Martyrdom? We are looking for papers that bring together theory and practice, research studies and case-based papers that address the intrinsic link between Contemplation, Mission and Martyrdom.  We welcome both careful empirical studies and thoughtful and well-developed conceptual work that explore this topic. Empirical studies should be supported by rigorous qualitative or quantitative data analysis. Conceptual work should be clearly grounded in the existing literature. Practitioner papers are welcomed to contribute to our understanding of effective teaching and learning, through research, reports and case studies that address any of the questions suggested here, or others that they believe should be addressed. Submitted papers should have the potential to make a significant contribution both to action-oriented educational and academic literature and/or organisational development in order to qualify for inclusion in the Conference. Accepted papers for the Conference will be considered for publication in the MRI Journal.

More information

 

Submission Dates Please submit papers or an abstract of 500-700 words for consideration to Brian Chao, at mrijournal@riccimac.org, by 27 April 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 29 June 2019, and at that time will be given a “Style Sheet” with instructions, on the length of the paper, formatting, the use of APA guidelines, and other technical details. The final deadline for papers is 1 October 2019.

Academic Committee Stephan Rothlin SJ, Macao Ricci Institute Jaroslaw Duraj SJ, Macao Ricci Institute Thierry Meynard SJ, University of Sun-Yat-Sen, Guangzhou, China & Macao Ricci Institute Olivier Lardinois SJ, Taipei Ricci Institute Franz Gassner SVD, Religious Studies Department, University of Saint Joseph Yang Hengda, Renmin University of China, Beijing Zhou Shoujin, Peking University Edmund Ryden SJ, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei Mike Thompson, Gustavson Business School, University of British Columbia Dennis McCann, Rothlin Ltd. Research Department

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One Hundred Years ago, Pope Benedict XV called for the missionary activity of the Church to be carried out in future by missionaries from the very countries and cultures being evangelised. This was welcomed by many and resisted by some, but was surely the cornerstone of the Church’s evangelising efforts for a century. To mark this centenary, the Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph presents a lecture series exploring the history, theology and impact of this teaching, contained in Pope Benedict XV’s document Maximum Illud.

To mark this centenary, the Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph presents a lecture series exploring the history, theology and impact of this teaching, contained in Pope Benedict XV’s document Maximum Illud.

Admissions free Lectures will take place at 6:30PM in the Gratia Hall, Seminário de São José, Largo de Santo Agostinho, Macau.

Lectures will be in English but outlines will be available in Chinese at the beginning of each lecture and full lecture texts available in English and Chinese at the end of each evening.

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On Tuesday, 26^th February, FRS USJ alumnus, Andrew Leong (Chin Hei Leong) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Biblical Studies at K. U. Leuven.  Andrew, who is originally from Macao, was one of the first graduates of the Faculty of Religious Studies and will return to Macao to join the faculty at the beginning of the next academic year.

Congratulations, Dr Leong: the Faculty and University are immensely proud of your achievement!

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On February 19th, USJ hosted the Orientation for International Exchange, where all new international exchange students in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2018-2019 had the chance to get to know each other, find out more about some of the USJ services available to them, as well as basic information on Macao and the city’s attractions.

The event was organised by the Public and International Relations Office, the Office for Student and Alumni Affairs, and sponsored by Macao Foundation.

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The speaker studied Civil Engineering in the early 1980s, and had worked as an intern in MTR (Mass Transit Railway) construction site. Therefore, he has some close encounters of the theory and practice of STEM. And he also realises the importance of STEM for social and economical development. After ten years of frontline teaching since graduation, he went back to university to teach and conduct research on curriculum issues and teachers’ professional development. Through this journey, he gained fruitful experience in educating people, and recognised the importance of values education in modern civilised societies. Because of these professional qualifications and experiences, the speaker often ask himself this question, “Are we stressing too much on STEM education, but neglecting the cultivation of individual’s values?’. The speaker will share with the audience, particularly school teachers, his experience in this public lecture.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Prof. Tang Kwok-Chun is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also an Honorary Professional Consultant of the Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was born in Macao, and received his primary, secondary and tertiary education in Hong Kong. After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Hong Kong in 1983, he started to teach mathematics in a secondary school and coordinated extracurricular activities. In 1993, he left his frontline teaching post and pursued his PhD study at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. After earning his PhD degree in 1999, he joined the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. He was the Principal Lecturer of the Department when retired in 2010. His publications include:《香港近半世紀漫漫「小學數教路」：現代化、本土化、普及化、規範化與專業化》and《澳門數學課程評估報告》.

講座關於：

講者於1980年代初在大學修讀土木工程，亦曾於香港地鐡（港鐡前身）地盤實習，對STEM的理念與實踐有點具體認識，亦明白STEM對社會建設及經濟發展的重要性；畢業後從事前線教育工作十年後,  他重返大學從事課程研究及師資培訓工作，故對教書育人有一定的體驗感受，亦明白良好價值教育對文明社會的重要性。正是這些學歷與經歷，驅使講者不時思考這個問題：「我們是否偏重STEM的推動而忽略價值觀的培養？」故希望透過這個講座與出席學者及教師作經驗分享及交流。 關於講者： 鄧國俊教授，現為香港浸會大學教育學系特邀副教授及香港中文大學教育學院榮譽專業顧問。澳門出生，在香港接受小學、中學及大學教育。1983年香港大學土木工程系畢業後，於一所中學任教數學，並統籌課外活動。1993年離開前線教育崗位，於香港大學教育學院修讀哲學博士。1999年取得哲學博士學位後，加入香港浸會大學教育學系，2005年晉升為副教授，2010年退休時為學系首席講師。著作包括《香港近半世紀漫漫「小學數教路」：現代化、本土化、普及化、規範化與專業化》及《澳門數學課程評估報告》。" ["post_title"]=> string(52) "Public Lecture: Thinking of Education: STEM and PATH" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(43) "public-lecture-thinking-education-stem-path" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 13:03:47" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 05:03:47" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(53) "https://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=17511" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [16]=> object(WP_Post)#3791 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(17492) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-02-25 16:27:57" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-02-25 08:27:57" ["post_content"]=> string(2395) "

The event promoted community engagement amongst Residential Hall residents and the USJ community, and was co-organised by the Residential Hall Office (RHO), the Office for Student and Alumni Affairs (OSAA) and the Public and International Relations Office (PIRO). Vice-Rector Professor Álvaro Barbosa and staff members from the three organising offices were present at the dinner, which was kindly sponsored by the Macao Foundation.

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A delegation from the "Macau China Nation Cultural Innovation Association", led by the President of the Association, Macao SAR Legislative Assembly member Ms. Song Pek Kei; the Executive Director, Ms. Ding Xiao; and the Vice-President, Ms. Pun Qiu Ting; visited the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) on February 21st, 2019.

The delegation was received by Vice-Rector Professor Álvaro Barbosa to explore possible collaborations with the University to enhance the development and exchanges between the creative cultural industries in Macao and the Greater Bay Area.

The visit was a culmination of prior collaborations between the association and USJ on a number of events, which featured experience-sharing by high-profile industrial designers and Hollywood movie producers with students, respectively, of the USJ Design and newly created Digital Cinema programmes. President Song emphasised that the purpose of the association was to create a platform for the collaboration and diversification of the creative cultural industry of Macao. She believes that this is done through collaboration between the industry and universities in order to create a sustainable ecosystem, which then benefits both students and the society.

Apart from bringing experts in the field of creative industries from around the world to Macao and the region, the association has launched the Macao-Shenzhen Design Week, which has been running for three consecutive years to showcase the work of designers from Macao and Shenzhen. The competition features high-caliber judging panels from the IFF and Red Dot Design Competition judges, which facilitates a venue for the designers to showcase their work in an international setting.

Furthermore, members of the association have set up various outlets in Sands China Limited and Nam Van Lake, and plan for other outlets in the Galaxy Macao. These outlets are a possible venue in which students’ products and/or creations can be showcased and maybe marketed to promote local talent and products. In addition, these outlets can be managed by students under a mentorship/internship programme, where both business students and creative industries' students may gain first-hand experience in the management of creative industries-related activities in a real life setting.

Executive Director Ms. Ding also explored the idea of co-creating a Centre for Product and Design, where USJ and the association would achieve synergies in bringing the best of Mainland China, Portuguese-speaking Countries and Europe to collaborate in the research, design and incubation of new products and talent, benefitting the creative cultural industries of Macao via industry and university collaboration.

Professor Álvaro Barbosa welcomed the ideas and will explore possible collaborations opportunities between USJ and the association. He agrees that USJ can add value to the development and promotion of the creative industries of Macao, through mutual collaboration, especially in the realm of linkage between Portuguese-speaking Countries and the industry of China. In fact, the Faculty of Creative Industries was originally created with the goal of assisting in the development of the industry in Macao. This is evident in the selective programmes launched by USJ in recent years, such as the Design, Architecture and Digital Cinema programmes. The University is also planning to launch Cultural and Arts' Management programmes in conjunction with the School of Business and Law, along with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, to complement the programmes already in place.

The delegation took a short tour of the Faculty of Creative Industries and gave high praise to the work that USJ has done in the area of supporting the development of the creative industries in Macao, looking forward to collaborations between the University and the association in the near future.

For more pictures, please click here.

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About the talk

The lecture will discuss the Syngnathids form a truly unique family of teleost fish that encompasses pipefishes, seadragons and the iconic seahorses. Apart from obvious genetical, morphological and behavioural similarities, all syngnathids share an unique character that sets them aside from all other taxa, aquatic or terrestrial: male pregnancy. During development, the male’s brood pouch not only provides the embryos with protection and osmoregulation, but it also allows for the exchange of nutrients between parent and offspring, as well as trans-generational immune priming. The syngnathid brood pouch can thus be viewed as a structure analogous to the mammalian uterus and the intimate relationship formed between father and offspring sets the stage for selection to operate. Some of his most recent findings which led to the discovery of a new post-copulatory sexual selection mechanism (the “Woman in Red” effect) where pregnant pipefish males, at the sight of a sexier female, can curb ongoing pregnancies, will be presented in the lecture.

Apart from male pregnancy, some syngnathid species also display sex-role reversal (i.e., females actively compete for male access while males tend to be the choosier sex). This uncommon characteristic has converted sex-role reversed pipefish into extensively used mirror-like model species to address questions related with sexual selection. I will present some of our own results with pipefish, from showing how sex roles are not fixed and can be quickly adjusted according to social surroundings, to depicting the dynamic nature of sexual selection, whose intensity is prone to fluctuate both seasonally and spatially. I will also show how we discovered, in the worm pipefish, an inverted lek mating system, the first ever described in the aquatic environment.

Even though sexual selection is an extremely active research area, its precise impact on adaptation to anthropogenic change remains unresolved, with conflicting evidence emerging from the very few existing studies. Thus, I will also talk about our own approach to understand the role of sexual selection in evolutionary responses to environmental perturbation, namely by using genomics to definitively address the impact in adaptation to climate change (patterns of mating, sexual traits expression, phenotypic condition, genetic variance and, ultimately, survival of local populations).

About the speaker

Nuno Monteiro is currently a researcher at CIBIO/InBIO, a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, and an invited professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. He completed his degree in Biology in 1996, followed by a MSc in Applied Ecology (2000) and a PhD (GABBA Program) in Biology (2005). His research focuses mainly in questions related with behaviour and evolution, and he has a special interest in all subjects dealing with sexual selection. His extensive work with syngnathids (a fish family that comprises seahorses, pipefish and seadragons) stems from the interest in understanding the selective processes operating during and/or after sexual reproduction. Due to his large body of published work, mainly on pipefish, he is now a IUCN specialist for the SPS group. Some of his ongoing research include projects dealing with the conservation genomics of endangered syngnathid species and the understanding of the impact of sexual selection in adaptation, under a climate change scenario.

For pictures of the public lecture, please click here.

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“Shine” by Alina Garcia, Year 3 Fashion Design Student was honoured to be one of the finalist garments showed in the “Reflective Surface Section” during the WOW – “World Of WearableArt” Opening Night 2018 at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand. The design competition features entries from more than 40 countries, and more than 60.000 people attended throughout the three-week show. Furthermore, her piece has been chosen to display in the museum of New Zealand, and other venues, for 15 months.

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