"We will not be silenced. The CCDA's struggle for land justice in Guatemala" presentation will take place at UPEI campus, room 328 MacDougall Hall, Charlottetown at 2 :00 pm, November 10. As part of the Fall Speaking Tour of the Maritime-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Solidarity Network, the public is invited to a presentation by Marcelo Sabuc. Marcelo is the National Coordinator of the Comite Campesino del Altiplanto CCDA (Highland Committee of Small Farmers). As a result of his work with the CCDA, Marcelo has received threats and is a target of criminalization, facing charges for political reasons. The CCDA supports 30,000 indigenous small farmers throughout the country in struggles for access to and defense of land and territory through advocacy, the production of coffee for export and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. Marcelo will also speak about the current political context and how it impacts organizations like the CCDA. For more information phone 902-367-6246.  CUPE 1870 and CUPE Global Justice which partner with CCDA is also a co-host of this event.

Campus Life Lounge brings you Charades Night. Join us on Thursday, November 8 at Dalton Hall Mawi'omi and campus life lounge. It runs from 6 pm until 10 pm. Just pop in anytime or stay for the whole event. It's free! Snacks and drinks are provided. Charades is a game where you pick a word in secret, and you must get others to guess the word using only body language.  Everyone is welcome!  

Join us for a discussion on how technology and artificial intelligence, in particular, is poised to disrupt the labour market and what students can do to prepare themselves for an uncertain work future.

Speaker: Dr. A. Ahmadi, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Title: 3D Bioprinting: Bridging life sciences and engineering.  

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday November 9, 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. For a copy of the paper to be discussed please contact either Adam Johnston (adjohnston@upei.ca) or Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

Dr. Qamar-uz-Zaman will be presenting a special research seminar on Wednesday, November 7 at 12 noon in SDE 212. Dr. Zaman has applied for an adjunct faculty appointment in the FSDE.  All are welcomed to attend! Topic: Precision Agriculture: Wise Use of Agricultural Resources Coffee/tea will be provided. Abstract: Increasing population rate and urbanization are expected to further enhance demand for more and superior quality food. Crop yield increases in this region have been achieved at considerable expense to its resource base and largely by means of excessive and indiscriminate use of external inputs: irrigation, seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. High price of agriculture input and fuel, pest and disease incidence, environmental pollution, soil erosion, and reduced biodiversity are, therefore, rampant. There is an urgent need to intensify efforts to identify agricultural and industrial technologies that are less labor and energy intensive but more responsive to social, economical, environmental and ecological needs. Such precision agriculture technologies will gradually change the basic patterns of production and consumption and enable humankind’s transition to a new and more harmonious approach to economic, environmental and social development. Only through such profound changes can the world respond fully to the crisis of food and energy that it is facing at present.

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre, in partnership with Public Health Nursing, was thrilled to provide over 500 flu shots to faculty, staff, students and their families. Due to ongoing requests, we have arranged one final flu vaccine clinic for Tuesday, December 4th from 12:00 noon-5:00 pm. Please mark your calendars to join us upstairs at the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre located on the second floor of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (North). Bring your provincial health card or proof of international insurance with you. Appointments are not required. For more information, contact healthcentre@upei.ca.  

Campus Life Program is partnering with Charlottetown's Start Up Zone to bring an interactive session for our students on mental wellness and youth development. Join us for a panel presentation and Q&A with representation from both on and off campus on a variety of topics exploring the importance of taking care of oneself through stress management and becoming involved with one's community. Refreshments will be provided.

Douglas Gibson is Canada’s most famous living book publisher and editor. In his 45-year career, he edited and published luminous constellations of Canadian authors including Alice Munro, Pierre Trudeau, Alistair MacLeod, Ken Dryden, Brian Mulroney, Hugh MacLennan, Robertson Davies, W.O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, and Barry Broadfoot. Gibson will tell stories about his work and friendships with Canada’s celebrated authors at the next Winter’s Tales Authors Reading Series event on Tuesday, November 20 at 7:30 pm in the Carriage House of Charlottetown’s Beaconsfield Historic House. In 2011, he published his memoir, Stories About Storytellers. Book in hand, he took his self-proclaimed “road show” to more than one hundred communities around Canada, from Newfoundland to Haida Gwaii. That tour resulted in his second book, Across Canada by Story, and a second “stage show.” In the new book and show, he tells stories of the many people he encountered with strong connections to Canada’s literary culture: friends of the authors, devoted readers, booksellers and librarians, teachers and students, local authors and supporters. He celebrates not only the stars, but the galaxy of people who cherish and nurture our heritage as it crystallizes in book form.                       Douglas Gibson was born in the village of Dunlop in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, and worked on farms during the summer. He immigrated to Canada in 1967 and became Managing Editor at Doubleday Canada in 1969. He was appointed editorial director and then publisher at Macmillan of Canada, then publisher at the great Canadian publishing company McClelland & Stewart from 1988 until 2004. At M&S, he established Canada’s first editorial imprint, Douglas Gibson Books. “No one has done more for Canadian Literature than this man,” wrote Alistair MacLeod. Gibson’s show is hosted by the UPEI English Department, with support from the UPEI Dean of Arts and The Canada Council for the Arts. Admission is free. All are welcome.

UPEI’s Climate Research Lab and the PEI Woodlot Owners Association (PEIWOA) will host a public talk on sustainable forestry practices to deepen our understanding of how climate change can affect forestry management. Dutch expert Dr. Gert-Jan Naburs will compare European forestry practices with the situation on Prince Edward Island. The event is Tuesday, November 20 at 7:00 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium of UPEI’s Don and Marion McDougall Hall. All are welcome to this free public lecture. “On PEI, one can think of enhancing thinnings, using the low quality thinned wood for biomass and, at the same time, aim with the remaining stand for a higher quality timber—a kind of European style forestry,” said Dr. Nabuurs. “The benefit for the forest owner is not so much in the short term, but lies more in the longer term, with better stands. These operations and mindset have to change. That takes time. Access to forest is needed. Owners have to collaborate, and regular supply is needed.” Dr. Gert-Jan Nabuurs is a professor of European forest resources at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and a senior researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research (WUR). His background is in European scale forest resource analyses and management under climate change. His work has both scientific and practical applications. Dr. Nabuurs is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) coordinating lead author in good practice guidance for the its fourth assessment report. He will lead the agriculture and forestry chapter in the IPCC’s sixth assessment report, starting in 2019. He was assistant director of the European Forest Institute in Finland from 2009-2012. He is member of Ministerial Advisory Committee Sustainability of Biomass for Energy Purposes, advising on certification schemes and their applicability to Dutch biomass sustainability criteria. Although this event is important for woodlot owners and silviculture workers, Dr. Nabuurs’ ideas and experience will also be of interest to forestry contractors, environment and watershed groups, climate scientists, resource managers, local governments and chambers of commerce. All are welcome.