Come celebrate with us, Friday, January 20, as we launch nine new books from UPEI's faculty of arts. The event is in the Faculty Lounge of Main Building from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. UPEI's faculty of arts has a vibrant writing culture and community. This event celebrates nine new books from seven authors and editors. The titles include: Deadly fever: Racism, Disease and a Media Panic (Fernwood Publishing), by Dr. Charles Adeyanju Extreme Heritage Management (Berghahn Books, Island Studies Press), edited by Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino Island Future: Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific Region (Springer), edited by Baldacchino and Niles The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society (Cambridge Univeristy Press), by Dr. Ian Dowbiggin The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political Thought (The University of Missouri Press), by Dr. Peter Koritansky Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Punishment (The Catholic Univeristy of America Press), by Dr. Peter Koritansky Immigration in Small Urban Centres: Vibrant Communities of Atlantic Canada (Metropolis), by Dr. Wimal Rankaduwa (and Dr. Anther H. Akbari) Creating the Chupah: The Zionist Movement and the Drive for Jewish Communal Unity in Canada, 1899-1921 (Boston: Academic Studies Press), by Dr. Henry Srebrnik Albert Camus' Critique of Modernity (Columbia: University of Missouri Press), by Dr. Ron Srigley

UPEI Chinese Knot Club---Overseas Chinese Student Association are putting on events to celebrate the Chinese New Year. This year celebrates "The Year of the Dragon." Events include: authentic Chinese cuisine, snacks, songs and dance, traditional Chinese musical instrument performances, short play, interactive activities and prizes! Event runs from 7-10 pm

SPEAKER: Robert Deziel, Department of Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Neuroplasticity and recovery of cognitive function following focal ischemia in the rat.

Would you know what to do if a cut on your dog's leg was bleeding badly? Hosted by AVC Community Practice Veterinarian, Dr. Kathy Ling, this workshop will provide basic information on how to recognize and care for emergencies and injuries in dogs and cats. Participants are asked to bring a stuffed animal to practice on. This event is part of AVC's Community Workshop Series.

UPEI has just completed its second year of a completely revamped, university-wide required course for all 700 first year students. The Global Issues course is tasked with improving critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities by encouraging students to examine their local and broader world through a themed, interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary globalization. The delivery of the course employs three simultaneous pedagogical approaches – lectures (delivered by the senior faculty), seminars (led by the term lecturers), and “town hall” meetings (led by the senior faculty) to provide multiple learning avenues to students. Our presentation will focus on the ambitions, successes and challenges of this novel interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, writing, and reading in the Canadian university context.

Course Portfolios: an Alternative to a Final Exam In this session, we'll talk about an alternative to a final exam: a portfolio that collects, selects, and reflects on what the student has learned in the course. Ideally, portfolios promote deep learning, provide the professor with a rounded look at the student's accomplishments and gaps, and leave the student with a tangible indication of academic growth: but there are also obstacles to a successful portfolio project. We'll talk about the process, pitfalls, and potential of course portfolios.

Experiential Learning and Environmental Studies: An Experiment In this presentation, Dr Carolyn Peach Brown and some Environmental Studies students will share the lessons learned from a new course, which included the planning of an environmental symposium as a major avenue to enhance learning about environmental issues. The piloting of this course was supported by a "Students Come First" project grant.

Values Infused Teaching in Nunavut Increasingly, UPEI Faculty members are involved in delivering programs in contexts outside Prince Edward Island and Canada. Some of these programs are offered in culturally diverse locations where English is not the first language of the learners. In addition, distance learning and blended program delivery often become important when offering programs off campus. Instructors in such contexts are called upon to deliver courses that not only teach the knowledge related to the course content, but also engage learners in ways that integrate aspects of local, cultural knowledge as well as venturing into teaching that uses both English and the first language of the students to promote learning. Fiona Walton and Sandy McAuley teach in the Nunavut Master of Education program where the integration of Inuit values and Inuit languages is a principle agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding with the Nunavut Department of Education. In this Brown Bag session they will share strategies and approaches gained through experience balancing the values integral to graduate education with those based on Inuit traditional ways of knowing, doing and being.

Date: January 22,2012 Time: 12:00pm Location: Chi Wan Young Sports Centre Cost: $5 per player (minimum 10 players per team) Contact: recreation@upei.ca to register There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams!

Speaker: Dr. Edelokun Borha, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Title: Histogenesis of malignant fibrous histiocytoma in dogs.