Thinking of Christmas Shopping? Ten Thousand Villages and Farmers Helping Farmers are bringing a Sale of Fair Traded Gifts, Christmas ornaments and creches, Household items, Musical Instruments, Food Products, and more, to the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

Dr. Jan Zwicky is not only one of Canada’s finest poets, she is also a distinguished philosopher, an influential writer on the intersection of ecology and poetry, and an accomplished violinist. Zwicky will read from her new poetic work on Tuesday, October 2 at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. A reception and book signing will follow. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

Celebrate The Year of Faith with Fr Robert Barron’s dvds “Catholicism” Episode 2 - Happy Are We : The teachings of Jesus Praise and Worship Music Questions? Contact Sister Sue sukidd@upei.ca ~ 894-2876 or Fr Andrew aapmacdonald@hotmail.com ~ 894-8380

What a wonderful time of the year to gather for a multi-faith prayer service of gratitude. Come and make your own candle of thanksgiving with music, the Word and preaching by UPEI's Dr. Callum Beck.

SPEAKER: Sarah McConnachie, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Studies on the Environmental Persistence of Loma salmonae Spores with Special Reference to Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture Practices

All are welcome to the second PEI History of Medicine Society meeting We will hear two talks: Dr. Peter Twohig will speak on "The Felonious Francis Tumblety: A Maritime Medical Mystery." In the summer of 1860, Francis Tumblety, the "Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor," began to practice in Saint John, New Brunswick, after stints in Montreal and Toronto. In each of these settings, Francis Tumblety ran afoul of both the established medical community and the law. Later, Tumblety would be arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and, most dramatically of all, has been implicated in London's infamous Jack the Ripper Murders. Dr. Twohig holds a Canada Research Chair at Saint Mary's, where he specializes in interdisciplinary studies of health and medicine. Dr. Shannon Murray will speak on "Janusz Korczak and the Idea of the 'Old Doctor.'" Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Dr. Henryk Goldszmit, a Polish physician, novelist, educational reformer, and father of the UN Charter of the Rights of the Child, though he is perhaps best known for his extraordinary, terrible march at the head of 200 children bound for the trains to Auschwitz. In his popular radio addresses, he was known as 'The Old Doctor," a title he also used for a character in the challenging children's novel King Matt. In both that novel and in the last days in his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto Korczak seems acutely aware of the power of the physician and of the theatre. Shannon Murray teaches English Literature at UPEI . For more information about the Society, please contact Shannon Murray (smurray@upei.ca), James Moran (jmoran@upei.ca) or Lamont Sweet (lesweet@ihis.org) or visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/479604225387492/.

Please join us for the 2012 Gairdner Faculty Lecture at the University of Prince Edward Island. Dr. Lorne A. Babiuk, Vice-President of Research at the University of Alberta and 2012 recipient of the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, will deliver a lecture titled: “Vaccines: Potential for improving human and animal health.” Lorne A Babiuk received his PhD (1972) from the University of British Columbia. He joined the University of Alberta as Vice-President (Research) in 2007. Prior to moving to the University of Alberta, he spent 34 years at the University of Saskatchewan where he was responsible for building the successful research institution VIDO (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization). Under Lorne Babiuk’s leadership, VIDO became internationally recognized as a leader in novel vaccine development. While at VIDO, Babiuk completed its $19.4 million expansion (in 2005) and obtained funding for InterVac, its $140 million level-three biocontainment facility for work on infectious diseases (opened September, 2011). In addition to being the Vice-President (Research) and former Director of VIDO, Lorne Babiuk has published over 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 100 essays and reviews, primarily in virology and immunology. His most recent focus has been on vaccine formulation and delivery. He is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, the Royal Society of Canada and the European Academy of Sciences as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Charlottetown, PEI (September 28, 2012)—The UPEI Cross Country/Track & Field Club will host their major fundraiser—the Panther Pace 5km Fun Run on Tuesday, October 2 at 6:00 pm at the UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place. Registration will begin at 5:00 pm inside the turf facility clubhouse.

SPEAKER: Doug Marchbank, Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Investigating the antitubercular mechanism of action of pseudopteroxazole: An affinity-based proteomics approach

Dr. Amitabh Jha, Department of Chemistry, Acadia University will present a seminar the "Development of Novel Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators."