Well-known scientist and public speaker Dr. Joe Schwarcz, a.k.a 'Dr. Joe,' will give a presentation called Hey! There Are Cockroaches in My Chocolate Ice Cream! at the University of Prince Edward Island on Wednesday, November 18, and again on Thursday, November 19. The presentation on November 18 will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Steel Recital Hall, and the one...

The Tourism Research Centre at UPEI is pleased to announce the release of its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. This report groups visitors based on the activities they participated in while on PEI. 'We have divided our visitors into four groups based on what they did while on PEI,' said Dr. Sean Hennessey, Faculty Director of the...

The Winter's Tales Author Reading Series will feature and celebrate 13 talented Island writers, most of them new voices, several of them familiar to Island audiences, at a public reading on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at UPEI. The writers are currently participating in a creative writing master class offered by the UPEI Department of English...

Members of the public are invited to attend a talk called "Creating City Wolves ... From Dogs" by Canadian author Dorris Heffron on Tuesday, November 3, from 12:30-1:20 p.m., in the AVC Lecture Theatre D at UPEI. Heffron is the author of City Wolves, a novel that imagines the life of Canada's first female veterinarian, the Klondike gold rush, and the evolution of the dogs...

Doug MacGregor, chairman and co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, will give a public talk at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. MacGregor's talk, entitled Canada's Economy and Canadian Banks' Performance through the Financial Crisis and into the Recovery, will take place in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), McDougall Hall. ...

Musicians Lennie Gallant, Richard Wood, Michelle Wright and friends will donate their performances in a concert on November 7 for Light Up Papua New Guinea, a project to honour Captain Nichola Goddard who was killed in 2006 in Afghanistan while serving with the Canadian Forces. Nichola's parents, UPEI's Dean of Education Tim Goddard and Sally Goddard, will attend the event. ...

John Acorn, aka The Nature Nut, will share his passion for natural history and entomology during two presentations at the University of Prince Edward Island on Monday, October 26, in the KC Irving (KCI) Chemistry Centre. Acorn will give a presentation called "It's natural to be a naturalist (and it pays too!)" at 1:30 p.m. in the KCI Wanda Wyatt Lecture Theatre (Room 104)....

Linden MacIntyre, distinguished Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist, will read from his new novel, The Bishop's Man, on Tuesday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m., in Studio One at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. His reading is sponsored by the UPEI Department of English and Confederation Centre Public Library, with support from The Canada Council for the Arts. A reception and...

What are afternoon horses? The phrase comes from a poem in Deirdre Kessler's poetry book, Afternoon Horses, which will be launched on Tuesday, October 20, at Beaconsfield's Carriage House, from 7 to 9 p.m. Though Kessler has been writing poetry for more years than she has been writing fiction and nonfiction and has had poems published in chapbooks and in a number of collections and...

To launch Sustainability Week on October 19, the UPEI Office of Sustainability and Energy Management is organizing a public forum about sustainability initiatives at post-secondary institutions in the Atlantic region. Speakers from six institutions will highlight their efforts and initiatives around sustainability. Their presentations will be followed by a panel discussion on how...