Speaker: Jordi Segers, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Title: Bats in Canada: A story of heroes and wildlife health.  

As part of Health and Fitness Week we are having a Plant Party on Wednesday, October 24 at 5:00 pm. Cost is $10 per person. Get your creative juice flowing and join us. We'll provide the succulents and materials. Pre-registration required. Please visit Panther Central desk at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre by Friday, October 19. Space is limited and on a first come, first serve basis. Event is for UPEI students, staff and faculty only.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to Jesse Hitchcock's MSc defense entitled "Eelgrass (Zostera marina) responses to natural and anthropogenic gradients in estuaries of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)." Everyone is welcome.  

The Department of Physics invites you to join people around the world in observing the Moon on Saturday, October 20. We will be hosting a viewing session at our observatory from 7:00-9:00pm. Come learn about our neighbour world and get an up-close view of its surface through our telescope. This event is weather-dependent. For updates on the event status and more information, please visit our website.

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday October 12, 2018 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend and learn of the exciting neuroscience research projects happening at UPEI.  

Dr. Stacey MacKinnon (UPEI) & Dr Beth Archer-Kuhn (UCalgary) are excited to announce several important additions to "Reigniting Curiosity & Inquiry in Higher Education: A Working Conference" to be held at UPEI, Nov 2-4th, 2018. Seats are limited and going fast so please register soon (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/curiosity-and-inquiry-conference-tickets-49…). In addition to networking with others interested in incorporating more curiosity and inquiry in the classroom and forming research partnerships in these areas, we welcome the following contributors to the conference: Pat Maher, PhD (Cape Breton University) “Taking risks and trusting the process: Lessons from a process-based pedagogy” Sarah-Lynn Boyle, PhD student (UGuelph) “Understanding, practicing and transferring inquiry-based learning skills across the undergraduate experience and beyond: The Student Experience” Mick Healey, PhD (UGloucestershire, UK) "Students as Partners in Inquiry-based learning: An interactive workshop" Andrew P. Minigan, EdM (Director of Strategy, The Right Question Institute, Boston, MA) "“Teach Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral Students How to Ask Better Questions” Robin Mueller, PhD (Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, UCalgary)"Building a Inquiry-focused Community of Practice in Higher Education" For more information please check out http://projects.upei.ca/curiosityandinquiry/2018-curiosity-inquiry-conf…

Please join us for the second Theology on Tap of 2018-19, sponsored by the Saint Dunstan's Institute for Christianity and Culture. Thursday October 11, at the Pourhouse, 189 Great George Street, 7:00 pm.

The UPEI Music Department Recital Series 2018-2019 and The Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Association are delighted to present the Atlantic Young Artist Concert featuring Andrew Son, piano on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 7:30 PM in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Admission: Adults $20/Students $10. Tickets will be available at the door.

Members of the UPEI community are welcome to attend the release of two juvenile eagles by the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Wildlife Service on Saturday, October 13, at 2 p.m., at the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project in Orwell, P.E.I. Prior to the release, there will be a Mi’kmaq smudging ceremony and drumming. Both eagles spent a month at AVC under the care of the College’s Wildlife Service before going to the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Nova Scotia for rehabilitation. In releasing these two eagles, the AVC Wildlife Service is honouring the late Dr. Helene Van Doninck, AVC Class of 1991. During her veterinary career, she dedicated her life to caring for injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife. Should the weather be inclement, the release will take place on Sunday, October 14, at the same time and place.

Dr. Clément Fortin will be presenting a virtual research seminar on Wednesday, October 17, at 12 noon in FSDE 212.  Dr. Fortin is applying for an adjunct faculty appointment in the FSDE.