Robertson Library would like to hear from UPEI students! What do you need? What do you want? Join us for FREE pizza on Monday, November 19th in the Library LINC, Room 265, from noon – 1 pm. There will be a brief survey and a Q&A group discussion. All UPEI students are welcome! Pizza while supplies last.

All are welcome to attend this week's FSDE Graduate research seminar on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 12:00pm in FSDE 212. This week's presenters are: Rodolfo Nino-Esparza – MSc Student with his title, "Development, validation and application of a fully automated portable and smartphone-operated saliva-based cortisol biosensor" and Kendrew Larkin - MSc Student with his title, "Residual Stress Characterization for Rapid Part Production Using DMLS Additive Manufacturing."  

Join the UPEI Faculty of Nursing and Graduate Studies coordinator, Dr. Janet Bryanton, for a Master of Nursing Open House on Thursday, November 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in room 106 of UPEI’s Health Sciences Building. Talk with current Master of Nursing students to hear about their journeys in the program, tour the building, and have your questions about admissions answered. All nurses in PEI are invited to attend.

The Island Lecture Series December lecture is Tuesday, December 11, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Dr. Kate Bevan-Baker speaking about “Space and Place in Musical Identity on PEI: A Sonic Habitus.” A culture is often defined by its music, language, and traditions that are passed down from one generation to the next. This lecture maps out Irish sonic territories across PEI and explore the musical place and mobility of the music's performers and listeners. Traditional music plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of lifeworlds of Irish settlers and their ancestors. Drawing primarily from Pierre Bourdieu's celebrated Habitus theory, this lecture explores the importance of investigating traditional music within the cultural lifeworlds of its performers in order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of PEI's unique soundscape. Focusing on cultural memory and a collective sense of place, migration history from Ireland to PEI is also explored, concentrating on ethnic fade and the recent surge of musical hybridity and transculturation that presently exists.  Newfoundland-born Kate Bevan-Baker holds violin performance degrees from Memorial and McGill Universities, and a PhD specializing in Irish Music on PEI from Concordia University where she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholar. She was the winner of Concordia University's Doctoral Thesis Defense Award in 2018, and the recipient of the inaugural Rhona Richman Kenneally Award for the top PhD paper at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies conference in 2018. Kate’s music performance career has taken her to Russia, across Canada twice with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, to China for the 2010 World Expo with rock band Hey Rosetta!, the 2010 JUNO Awards performing with Michael Bublé, as well as playing with symphony orchestras and chamber groups across Canada. She has been featured on many nationwide radio and television broadcasts, and can be heard on over thirty CDs, videogame, and movie soundtracks. Kate currently teaches at the Siamsa School of Irish music in Montréal, lectures at Concordia University at the School of Irish Studies, and balances an active performance and teaching schedule.  Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. The next lecture is scheduled for January 15, 2019. Mark your calendars!  For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

Speaker: Chidozie Okoye, Biomedical Sciences Title: Effect of Environmental Stress on Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism and Oxidative Stress Response in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)  

The annual UPEI Global Village Multicultural Festival takes place on Saturday, November 17 at 6:00 pm in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre at UPEI. The Global Village Organizing Committee is excited to invite to the community to celebrate the diversity and friendship of our beautiful island by attending this free event. The festival brings together various ethno-cultural groups and community organizations in an effort to build a more comprehensive working model of the area’s cultural mosaic. To celebrate this rich heritage, UPEI students host an annual multicultural festival to gather cultural representation from the university and PEI. The Global Village is an exciting opportunity to bring domestic and international students and community members together to collaborate, promote, explore and learn about each other’s cultural background in an interactive and engaging way. “Not everyone has the opportunity to go out and see the world, so it’s nice to be able to bring a little bit of the world here for everyone to enjoy,” said Russell Kleinveldt, one of the members of the Global Village Organizing Committee and an international student from South Africa in the Master of Education program. This September, the number of international students enrolled at UPEI is the highest in its history, amounting to just over 25 per cent of the student population. There are more than 70 countries represented in the international student body at the university. For more information on the UPEI Global Village, please contact Nouhad Mourad at the International Student Office at nmourad@upei.ca or (902) 566-6092.

Suicide impacts campuses and communities everywhere, and UPEI is no exception. ‘Make It Public’ aims to raise awareness and encourage conversation through personal stories. The event will be led by student speakers, and will feature live music by students from the Holland College School of Performing Arts. Free food. All are welcome. 

For the second time, the pinnacle of motorsport, the Sustainable Alternative Novel Design Intramural (SANDI) Race of First Year, will be held at the Mount Academy on Monday, November 19 at 12:30 p.m. (weather permitting). This year's contest includes a speed race, slalom, and Concours competition.  Come join us and cheer for your favorite team! We are counting on your support!

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defence by Olive Bryanton.  Olive will be defending her dissertation titled "Pioneers in Aging: Voices of women 85 years and older aging in place in rural communities".  All are welcome to attend Olive's public presentation, taking place on Friday November 23, 2018 from 2:30 to 3:00 pm in Duffy Research Centre room 212 building #28- the building beside AVC building (not the Duffy Science Centre).

Singers and actors alike will reflect on challenges like reconciliation, sustainability and taking action, with a particular focus on PEI. Sirens will be joined by the Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors in the PEI premiere of “Sorrow Song for Whales,” a work by Canadian composer Jeff Enns, with lyrics by PEI’s Poet Laureate Deirdre Kessler. Kessler based her lyrics on a Mi’kmaq legend as told by Elder Matilda Knockwood Snache. The song tells a parallel story to the original legend, and contemplates the plight of whales and our shared responsibility to the earth. This work was created with the support of the Government of Prince Edward Island’s Arts Grant programs. The concert will also feature the world premiere of “Thee,” a new work by Island composer E.K.R. Hammell, based on a text by L.M. Montgomery. “Thee” is a reflection on heartbreak and the value of shared personal experiences.