Douglas Deacon - Master of Arts In Island Studies Thesis Defense #1 "A Small Island Perspective to Natural Capital: Focus on Prince Edward Island"

Harnessing Images, Text, and Sound (HITS) for Education: Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition will take place from July 26-28, 2011 at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Canada.  The goal is to create a forum during where researchers and experts, potentially from around the world, will  present data and theory on the use of multimedia in education, stimulate scholarly discussion, and develop policy-relevant approaches and analysis for decision-makers and leaders in education.  A further aim of the conference is to provide the foundation for the book that will synthesize the content of the presentations. This permanent record will enable dissemination to a broad audience. View our webpage at www.upei.ca/hits-for-education

Join us for our annual workshop, full of exciting and stimulating activities and discussion! Further event details to follow. Background: AIRS is a seven-year major research initiative aiming to understand individual, cultural, and universal influences on singing and the influences of singing on individuals and societies. In cooperation of over 70 researchers representing every province in Canada and 15 other countries on 6 continents, individuals will share their knowledge and expertise from numerous perspectives, including psychology, musicology, music therapy, education, sociology, folklore and medicine. There are three major themes that AIRS focuses on: (1) Development of singing ability (2) Singing and Learning (3) Enhancement of Health and well-being through singing. These themes may be regarded respectively as defining what singing behaviours there are possible given mental, physiological and environmental constraints; what singing behaviours occur in practice, and what are societal implications of singing. Dissemination of research findings will provide a foundation for decision making in education, health, culture, immigration, and foreign policy. Website: www.airsplace.ca

The 2011 UPEI Engineering Design Expo and Awards Ceremony is taking place on Friday, April 15. Nine (9) different teams will present their projects including highlights of the problems, analysis, and recommended solutions. They have come up with some pretty cool looking designs!! This event takes place in McMillan Hall, with the Expo running from 1:00-4:00pm followed by the Engineers PEI reception from 4:15-5:15 and finished by the awards ceremony from 5:30-7:00. Please come and have a look at all these great design projects. If you have any questions, please contact the Engineering Department at 566-0764 or email upeiengineer@upei.ca

Currently there are collection sites on campus, in each of the residences, collecting items that would generally be tossed at the end of the academic year by students (e.g., used furniture, clothing, books, sports equipment, and kitchen ware). This Saturday we will be selling all collected items in a yard-sale fashion from 8:00am - 12:00pm. Last year we were successful in diverting more than 1,000 pounds of items from waste! All proceeds from the Dump n' Run go to helping with 2011 Environmental Society initiatives. It’s free admission, and beginning at 9:00am another group will be partnering with us to sell used jewerly, all proceeds going to aid Japan following the past month’s earthquakes. Hope to see you there!

For more information regarding World Intellectual Property Day, please visithttp://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/

AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing), in partnership with the ECMA, is proud to present 'Melody-On-The-Spot', a creative, improvisational contest in songwriting where individuals have the chance of crafting a new song ‘on the spot’ inspired by a choice of visual images provided by the AIRS research team: 1 minute to compose, and 1 minute to sing. A panel of industry professionals will judge the recordings and prizes will be awarded to the top three winners. First place prize: A year's membership to the East Coast Music Association Second place prize: A $40.00 gift certificate to Long & McQuade's Music Education Centre Third place prize: A bottle of champagne We will be at the heart of the ECMA proceedings, in the Delta Prince Edward on the second floor, April 14th-April 16th, 1:30-3:30. Two minutes to win it!

SPEAKER: Collin Arens, Department of Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Evaluating sub-lethal effects of oil sands process-affected waters on the white sucker (Catostomus commersonii).

The Robertson Library will be hosting a launch of the new IslandArchives.ca site on April 18. Please join us and our Partners for a celebration of this unique resource. We will also highlight our digitization facility and the new Espresso Print on Demand machine. April 18, 11 AM Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Robertson Library University of PEI, 550 University Ave. Charlottetown, PE

SPEAKER: Whitney Kelly-Clark, Department of Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Catch-as-catch-can: Considerations regarding wildlife capture and handling. SPEAKER: Mitchell Moore, Department of Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Profiling gene expression in female Homarus americanus via oligonucleotide microarray analysis. SPEAKER: John Davidson, Department of Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Evaluating the Productivity and Cost Benefit of High Pressure Water Treatment Regimes on Ciona intestinalis Infested Mussel Socks