Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems Date: Friday, March Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204 Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Everyone is welcome to attend. Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant Biology Department and Environmental Studies Program phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology

UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.

The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents Dr. Sara Diamond OCAD University This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation. Tuesday, February 26 3:30 to 4:30 pm Duffy 202 About the Series: The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information. Daisy MacAusland Administrative Assistant Physics Department dmacausland@upei.ca

Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems Date: Friday, March Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204 Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Everyone is welcome to attend. Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant Biology Department and Environmental Studies Program phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology

UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.

The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents Dr. Sara Diamond OCAD University This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation. Tuesday, February 26 3:30 to 4:30 pm Duffy 202 About the Series: The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information. Daisy MacAusland Administrative Assistant Physics Department dmacausland@upei.ca

Sheldon Opps, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Physics, will be giving a seminar talk entitled "You Can't Catch Me: The effects of confinement and landscape fragmentation on predator-prey dynamics" on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in Duffy Room 204. Everyone is welcome.

The Faculty of Education's International & Indigenous Specializations dinner and silent auction will be held this Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Pond Street. There's a great program scheduled, many wonderful items for the silent auction and an international buffet representing 7 countries! Contact: Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or 894-2813 for further information or tickets.

Speaker: Dr. Judith Nyireneza, Agriculture & Agri-Foods Canada, Charlottetown Title: Nitrogen cycling under diversified cropping systems Date: Friday, March Location: Duffy Science Centre, Room 204 Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Everyone is welcome to attend. Sharon Martin, Administrative Assistant Biology Department and Environmental Studies Program phone: 902-566-0301 upei.ca/biology

UPEI Athletics & Recreation will be having a glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure clinic on Tuesday, March 5 from 8:30 am - noon. This clinic is free for UPEI students, staff and faculty. To book your 10-minute appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca.

The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents Dr. Sara Diamond OCAD University This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation. Tuesday, February 26 3:30 to 4:30 pm Duffy 202 About the Series: The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is “From data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information. Daisy MacAusland Administrative Assistant Physics Department dmacausland@upei.ca

Sheldon Opps, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Physics, will be giving a seminar talk entitled "You Can't Catch Me: The effects of confinement and landscape fragmentation on predator-prey dynamics" on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 pm in Duffy Room 204. Everyone is welcome.

The Faculty of Education's International & Indigenous Specializations dinner and silent auction will be held this Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre on Pond Street. There's a great program scheduled, many wonderful items for the silent auction and an international buffet representing 7 countries! Contact: Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or 894-2813 for further information or tickets.

At the next Research on Tap, raise a toast to alcohol. Dr. Richard Kurial, Professor of History at UPEI, will lead a discussion entitled "From whence all good things flow: how alcohol built the West." The event begins at 7 pm, Tuesday, March 5, at The Pourhouse (above The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse in Charlottetown). “I don’t deny the social price that many pay for alcohol,” said Dr. Kurial, “but it is minor compared with the economic, social, and technological benefits we have enjoyed because of drinking.” Dr. Kurial argues alcohol provided the creativity and willingness to take risks that were required to innovate and build the world we live in today. Research on Tap is a series of public discussions with UPEI researchers. For more information, contact Dave Atkinson at (902)620-5117, or datkinson@upei.ca.

One of the most discussed recent trends in education is the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC. This model of free and open university courses is now offered by education giants such as Stanford and M.I.T., and has strong early connections to UPEI.... Read the rest of the story here: http://research.upei.ca/blogs/2013/02/21/what-mooc-100k-people-want-know

You are invited to attend the Department of Economics Speaker Series for a presentation by Patrick de Lamirande, Assistant Professor at the Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University on Friday, March 1 in Memorial Hall Room 215 at 2:30 pm on the topic: "Winners and Losers Under a Capped Assessment Program: The Case of Nova Scotia" Any questions, please contact the Department of Economics at 566-0370.

On Tuesday, February 26, the UPEI Men's Hockey team will face the UNB Varsity Reds in Games #3 and #4 of Subway AUS Men's Hockey Semi-finals at MacLauchlan Arena. Start time for the game is 7:00 pm. For Panther fans who don’t have tickets but want to experience hockey playoff action and ‘cowboy' spirit, UPEI Athletics and Recreation, in partnership with The Wave, has opened the Molson Saloon. Opening at 5:00 pm and accessible via the CARI Complex lobby for those aged 19 and older, the saloon is located on the third court of the gym and will feature the live AUStv webcast of the games on an eight-foot 'big screen'. Admission to the saloon is $5/per person but is free for game-ticket holders who want to drop in before game-time or during intermissions. GO PANTHERS GO! For more information, contact: Ron Annear Athletics and Recreation (902) 566-0991 annear@upei.ca

If you haven't done so yet, please take about 15 minutes to go to our homepage (library.upei.ca) and fill out the survey. This survey last ran 5 years ago ... so, we could use your up-to-date feedback! And, if you have already given us your assessment, our thanks for your time and input.

Wednesday, February 27 is national Pink Shirt Day to counter bullying in Canada. Come by the W.A. Murphy Student Centre between 11:30 am-1:30 pm and let us know what you think about bullying at UPEI. We’ll have information, lists of resources, and a clothesline project where you can write your thoughts and we’ll hang them up for others to see. Join us to make your thoughts about bullying known – and to bring an end to all types of bullying at UPEI. Wear pink to show your support of this important cause! For more information: Ann Braithwaite, abraithwaite@upei.ca or Treena Smith, trlsmith@upei.ca Friday, March 1 the UPEI Rainbow Alliance is hosting a screening of two films: the 2011 documentary BULLY, followed by the 2011 movie Cyberbully, with a bake sale during intermission. Suggested donation: $5 for adults; $2 for UPEI, Holland College, and high school students; free for children under 12—but if you can't afford to donate, please come anyway! Room to be announced on the Facebook event page - http://tinyurl.com/UPEIantibullying For more information: Elyse Cottrell: ecottrell@upei.ca

Canadian journalist and author Gwynne Dyer will be speaking at UPEI on Monday, February 25 at 7.00 pm in the Duffy Science Centre, room 135. Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he trained as a historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American, and British universities, finishing with a PhD in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. His public lecture at UPEI will be "The Triumph of Non-Violence." Non-violent revolution is both more common and more successful in the modern world than the old and bloody version, but few people really understand it. This is an attempt to explain how and why it works. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.