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.

by Dr. Brent MacLaine, Professor Dept. of English Dr. Brent MacLaine is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at The University of Prince Edward Island with over twenty-five years of post-secondary teaching experience at universities in Canada, China, and Singapore. He has given talks and workshops both regionally and nationally on Team Based Learning and is the recipient of UPEI’s Teaching Excellence Award (1997), the UPEI Student Union Faculty of the Year Award (1998), the AAU Distinguished Teaching Award (2001), and the 3-M Teaching Fellowship ( 2002). A poet and scholar of twentieth-century literature, he has authored four volumes of poetry, including Shades of Green (Acorn 2008) which won both the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Prince Edward Island Book Award.

The UPEI Wind Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Karem J. Simon, will feature an encore performance of "The Lord of the Rings" this Sunday, January 29. The performance will take place at 3:00 pm in the Homburg Theatre at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Everyone is welcome to attend. Tickets are $10 adults, $5 students and can be purchased at the Confederation Centre Box Office.