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The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) is the only Higher Education institution in Macao that has CPLP Consultative Observer status.

  CPLP Consultative Observer Status granted to USJ We are pleased to announce that the XXII Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), held in Brasilia on July 20, approved a Resolution in which it granted CPLP Consultative Observer status to the University of Saint Joseph. USJ is proud to have received this distinction and sees in it a step taken in Macao to deepen academic relations between China and the Portuguese-speaking world.   Macao, 26 July 2017 Prof. Peter Stilwell Rector ###  

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  Estatuto de Observador Consultivo da CPLP concedido à USJ Temos a satisfação de anunciar que a XXII Reunião Ordinária do Conselho de Ministros da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP), que decorreu em Brasília no passado dia 20 de julho, aprovou uma Resolução em que concede a categoria de Observador Consultivo da CPLP à Universidade de São José.  A USJ orgulha-se de ter sido assim distinguida e vê na atribuição desse estatuto mais um passo dado em Macau na incrementação das relações académicas entre a China e o mundo de língua portuguesa. Macau, 26 de julho de 2017 O Reitor Prof. Peter Stilwell ###  

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  聖大獲葡萄牙語國家共同體顧問觀察員資格 本年七月二十日，在巴西利亞舉行的第二十二次葡萄牙語國家共同體部長理事會常會通過了一項決議。我們很高興宣布，聖若瑟大學被賦予葡萄牙語國家共同體顧問觀察員的資格。 聖大為此感到非常榮幸，這為澳門在加深中國與葡語國家之間的學術關係引進一大步。 二零一七年七月廿六日，澳門 蒒沛德教授 校長 ###  " ["post_title"]=> string(48) "CPLP Consultative Observer Status granted to USJ" ["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(45) "cplp-consultative-observer-status-granted-usj" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-07-09 15:41:36" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-07-09 07:41:36" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(50) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=news&p=11865" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "news" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [4]=> object(WP_Post)#3759 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(11851) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-07-24 12:43:38" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-07-24 04:43:38" ["post_content"]=> string(1515) "During 9th - 13th July, 2017, the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law held its 30th International Conference in Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, USA.  ISRCL is an association of senior judges, prosecutors, lawyers, executives of police forces and correction services, and professors of law and criminal justice in many countries. 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Embora remontando ao século XVI, essa produção não recebeu até há pouco tempo a devida atenção crítica, ainda que possua um vasto acervo de cartas, sermões, romance, conto e poesia, sobretudo ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX. Depois da integração no estado indiano, em 1961, esta tradição foi caindo no ocaso. Trata-se de um arquivo enorme mas frágil, que precisa de ser identificado e digitalizado. Esta conferência visa propor algumas linhas de leitura para o entendimento dessa literatura. Propomo-nos pensar o seu incerto estatuto, bem como a sua natureza periférica em vários sentidos. Urge também mapear o que nesse espaço literário periférico seria comum à produção literária de Macau em língua portuguesa, pois Goa guarda marcas óbvias da administração colonial que a ligou a Macau. O aspecto propriamente literário, em língua portuguesa, dessa relação é porém uma dimensão a que ainda não foi dada a devida atenção, menos ainda de um ponto de vista comparativo.   About the Speaker Licenciado Estudos Portugueses (2005), Mestre (2009) e Doutor (2014) em Estudos Comparatistas pela Universidade de Lisboa. No âmbito do Doutoramento trabalhou a questão do orientalismo em Camilo Pessanha, Fernando Pessoa e outros poetas. Actuou como docente na Faculdade de Letras da U.L. e nesta instituição é membro do Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (2009-2014). Pós-doutorado, com bolsa da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, acerca de Goa e de Macau na Literatura de língua Portuguesa do século XX, desenvolvido nos anos de 2014-2017 na Universidade de São Paulo, onde atua como docente na pós-graduação e na extensão universitária. Trabalha nas áreas de Literatura Portuguesa e de Literatura Comparada. Tem os seguintes interesses de pesquisa: literatura portuguesa do Fim-de-século ao Modernismo, poesia em língua portuguesa do século XX, Oriente e orientalismo na literatura portuguesa e literaturas de Goa, Macau e Timor em língua portuguesa. Nestes campos publicou artigos e preparou volumes de ensaios, dossiês temáticos em revistas e uma antologia temática. Organizou ainda eventos científicos internacionais em Portugal e no Brasil. Autor do livro de poesia "Voltas do Purgatório" (Lisboa: Língua Morta, 2015)." 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The Future is Now - USJ MCM Students’ Work Exhibition Opens on Monday

The University of Saint Joseph’s Master of Communication and Media (MCM) students are exhibiting their work “The future is now” on 19th June 2017 (Monday) at Creative Macau, the Center of Creative Industries from 19:00 to 22:30 for one special evening.

The exhibition covers the areas of Audiovisual, Multimedia, Infographics and Media Law. The event aims to both share a sample of the MCM creations with the local community and to leverage individual motivation to engage further in the realm of creativity.

The Masters of Communication and Media programme at USJ, is already a local academic reference in terms of combining vision, innovation, and tradition. Currently, 10 students are participating in the programme, which will be completed in the academic year of 2017-2018. The USJ Faculty of Creative Industries and the Center for Creative Industries have a long standing of cooperation with the intent of supporting Macau Special Administrative Region in its cultural, artistic and communicational diversification efforts.

The exhibition is open to the general public for free. Public as well as media representatives are cordially invited to the open ceremony at 7pm at Creative Macau, G/F Macau Cultural Centre Building, Xian Xing Hai Avenue, Macau.

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About the Talk

Fluorinated compounds have unique properties, and their synthesis was a major technological advance of the twentieth century in the field of organic chemistry. The introduction of the C-F bond in organic compounds has led to the development of new compounds with a wide range of industrial applications. However, such advances also led to the introduction into the environment of previously non-existent molecules with which ecosystems have to cope in order to maintain their equilibrium. Conventional wastewater treatment plants are not equipped to remove many of such compounds, and occurrence from diffuse pollution is difficult to tackle. Since microorganisms are the major decomposers of organic matter in ecosystems, it is important to understand the capabilities they possess to deal with these new entities - what do we know about the biodegradation of these molecules? What resources exist to enhance the biological processes of degradation of these molecules and to mitigate the potential harmful effects that these compounds can exert on the environment and health? Taking as starting point the synthesis of ​​fluorinated compounds, with applications ranging from agrochemicals to the pharmaceutical industry, and their introduction into the environment, this session intends to present the potential of microorganisms to degrade these molecules and how these molecules may affect wastewater treatment, emphasising the applicability of some biological technologies for attenuating its accumulation and persistence in the environment.

About the Speaker

Paula Castro is Full professor at UCP-ESB. She holds a degree in Food Engineering (UCP-ESB), a PhD in Biochemical Engineering (UCL, London), and Habilitation in Environmental Science and Engineering (UCP-ESB). She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of environmental biotechnology, having coordinated several national and international projects, and projects with industrial partners. She has supervised/co-supervised 17 PhD concluded thesis and has more than 170 publications in indexed peer reviewed international journals. Research areas of interest include pollutant biodegradation, wastewater treatment and valorisation, and development of sustainable practices for soil re-qualification and agriculture and forestry.

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On 25 to 29 May 2017, Prof. Vincent Yang, Pro-Rector of University of Saint Joseph, took a delegation of 28 delegates, including professors, staff members and representatives of the USJ Alumni Association (AAUSJ) and the USJ Students’ Association (USJSA) to Jiangsu for a Chinese cultural tour.

Among the delegates were Prof. Alan Baxter, Dean of Faculty of Humanities; Prof. Ana Correia, Dean of School of Education; professors; staff; Mr. William Un, President of AAUSJ; Mr. Addy Chan,  Vice-Chairman of AAUSJ; Mr. Lo Kai Chon, President of the USJSA;  executives of the AAUSJ; and representatives of the USJSA.

Ms. Cen Jiayi, Assistant of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region accompanied the delegation and provided guidance during the tour while the Division for International Cooperation & Exchange of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education warmly received the delegation and coordinated the tour.

In Jiangsu, the delegation participated in four round table meetings with the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing Normal University and Jiangsu University. The hosts gave presentations on the history, status quo and plans of development of higher education in Jiangsu. The hosts and guests also had discussions to explore possibilities of cooperation in teaching and research between USJ and Jiangsu.

In addition, the delegation visited the Jiangsu and Macao Cooperation Park, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, Nanjing Fuzimiao and also Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum.

The delegates gave high remarks to Jiangsu's significant achievements and rich experience in developing internationalized higher education and thank the Division of International Cooperation of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education and the Liaison Office of the Central Government of China in Macau SAR for their thoughtful arrangement and guidance during the trip. The Bank of China Macau Branch is gratefully acknowledged for its generous sponsorship to the students who participated in this tour.

Flickr album here

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The GABAAR is a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel which consists of 5 subunits with the most common receptor formed by two α, two β, and one γ subunits.  19 genes code for these subunits, allowing for huge heterogeneity of GABAAR expression throughout the brain. Activation of GABAARs lead to a decrease in neuronal membrane potential via the influx of chloride ions, thus inhibiting the firing of an action potential. A specific GABAAR subtype that consists of the α5 subunit is focused in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the key centre for learning and memory and is especially essential for the formation of spatial and episodic memory. In particular, the hippocampus is involved in neurodegenerative diseases that result in dementia, as well as short-term memory loss caused by anaesthetics, many of which directly activate GABAARs. Major efforts were made to target α5 GABAAR to enhance cognitive performance by blocking receptor function.  Mounting evidence suggests that reducing the activity of α5 GABAAR can enhance learning and rescue memory defects in animal models.  In this talk, the cognitive enhancing effects of GABAA α5 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) in a Huntington’s disease mouse model will be discussed.  In addition, findings related to memory loss due to anaesthesia and how this can be rescued GABAA α5 NAMs will be presented.   About the Speaker Olivia graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an Honours degree in Biomedical Science. She completed her PhD in the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the mechanisms of peptide release from neuronal dendrites. In 2012, Olivia joined a drug discovery project funded by GlaxoSmithKlein at the University of Dundee to investigate the effects of compounds designed to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease.  In 2016, she embarked on a project funded by the Wellcome Trust and supported by AstraZeneca to search for GABAA α5 NAMs to enhance cognitive performance in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease. Olivia uses in vivo and in vitro approaches for her studies.  Using a transgenic model for Huntington’s disease, she is able to study cognitive decline as the disease progresses and measure memory impairment using different behavioural paradigms.  Drug effects were also quantified using confocal imaging techniques and biochemistry approaches.   In addition, an in vitro correlate of learning and memory in the form of long-term potentiation is used to study the effects of GABAA α5 NAMs on neuronal synaptic plasticity." 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This theme is especially important for frontier markets, typically unable to attract conventional investors, but also very important to investors, as it offers impressive opportunities."

-- Prof. José Alves, Dean of the School of Business

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