Vagabond Productions is back in action, and it is offering a valentine’s day gift to its audience: a free show. Yes, you read it correctly: admission will not be charged for Vagabond’s production of “The Path of True Love,” a rip-roaring romantic comedy. The show will run from February 10 until 13 in the Faculty Lounge, in Main. The doors will open at 7 p.m., for a 7:30 p.m. “curtain.” While admission will not be charged, Vagabond Productions will gladly accept donations to the Theatre Studies Program at the end of each evening’s performance. For more information, you can contact Dr. Greg Doran at 566-6013 or theatre@upei.ca.

Be a Locavore! You are invited to engage with the students from the UPEI Executive-style Master of Business Administration Program in exploring the topic of local food. This event will take place on Saturday, February 6, 2009 in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, UPEI School of Business/McDougall Hall. From 9:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m., there will be a presentation of the local food challenge by an expert panel consisting of Tim Carroll, Phil Ferraro, and Rob Paterson and moderated by Ian Petrie, well known as a CBC reporter who covered the agricultural industry for many years; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon: a chance to share your views on local food with our MBA students; 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.: come see the MBA students present their response to the local food challenge. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call Grace McCourt at (902)566-6474 or e-mail mba@upei.ca.

Dr. Robert Perrins, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and former Acting Dean of the Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Acadia University. On campus January 21 and 22. Public Presentation on Friday, January 22, 11.30-12.30, in McDougall Hall room 242.

Dr. James Randall, Former Acting Vice-President Academic and former Dean of the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia. On campus January 25 and 26. Public Presentation on Tuesday, January 26, 11:30-12.30, in AVC Lecture Theatre B.

Dr. Rosemary Herbert, Acting Vice-President Academic Development and former Dean of Nursing, UPEI. On campus January 28 and 29. Public Presentation on Friday, January 29, 11.30-12.30, in McDougall Hall room 242.

Dr. David Docherty, Senior Advisor on Multi-Campus Initiatives and former Dean of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University. On campus February 2 and 3. Public Presentation on Tuesday, February 2, 11:30-12:30, in AVC Lecture Theatre B.

Speaker: Mike Ciaramella, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Quality assessment of the American lobster, Homarus americanus SPEAKER: Jennifer Cuillerier, Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Heterologous production of bioactive terpenoids

The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce that Craig MacDonald will defend his Masters thesis on Thursday, February 11, beginning at 2:45 p.m. in Memorial Hall, Room 215. The title of his thesis is: LETTERS, HOME: (Re)Constructing My Place in Language Teaching. To read his abstract go to:http://www.upei.ca/education/files/education/thesis%20abstract%20c%20mac... For more information visit the Faculty of Education web site http://www.upei.ca/education or contact: Kate Graham at 566-0731 or kegraham@upei.ca

Friday, Feb 5, 12:30-1:20, Lecture Theatre C, AVC "Welfare assessments of working equines in India and discussion of causes of welfare issues" Cyril Roy "Survey of methods used for euthanasia in animal shelters in Canada" Niamh Caffrey "Correlates of behavioural anxiety and stress in wild male olive baboons in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria" Jackie Ellis presented by The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre and AVC Animal Welfare Club. All are welcome.

Speaker: Dr. Michel Vetterli, Simon Fraser University / TRIUMF Tuesday, February 2, 3:30 pm in the CMTC Presentation Lab in the basement of the Robertson Library. Abstract: With the recent startup of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, there has been renewed interest in particle physics, which has led to a plethora of articles and presentations for the public on what is being done at the new experiments. This colloquium will present not the what, but the how. How do physicists study Nature at incredibly small distance scales? It is perhaps paradoxical that viewing the world at very small scale requires the largest machines ever built. This talk will present the basic physics concepts involved in experimental subatomic physics. This includes a description of the gigantic accelerators (the probes), and detectors (the eyes) used. Particle physics experiments produce an enormous amount of data. This talk will also discuss the large-scale computing necessary to mine these data, as well as the advanced analysis techniques required to extract very rare events from the preponderance of well-understood background processes.