The students from this year's Theatre Studies 244 class will be presenting monologues from a variety of Canadian plays. Come out, on March 27, and support the future performers in the Theatre Studies Program. The event begins at 7:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge in Main. Admission is a donation of either money or non-perishable food. All proceeds will be going to the Campus food bank. Warning: some monologues contain adult language and deal with adult themes. For more information, please contact the Coordination of Theatre Studies, Dr. Greg Doran, at gdoran@upei.ca or 566-6013.

SPEAKER: Janet Saunders, Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Validation of Co-oximetry For The Measurement of Methemoglobin in Fish SPEAKER: Michelle MacPhee, Biomedical Sciences TITLE: Optoacoustic Imaging of a Prostate Cancer Model

The students in the UPEI Executive-style MBA Program's Biotechnology stream invite the public to their presentations on "Biotech Areas in PEI ", as part of their Commercialization of Biotechnology and Innovations course. The presentations will include an evaluation of the topic and potential future approaches for the areas of Animal Health, Aquaculture and Biofuels. These presentations will be held on Wednesday, March 31st from 6:00 pm -9:00 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, McDougall Hall. For more information, please call 902.566.6474 or email mba@upei.ca.

By Distinguished Professor and IIS Research Associate Dr Mark Lapping from the University of Southern Maine Date: Thursday March 18, 2010 Time: noon – 1PM Location: Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI Professor Lapping of the University will give a public talk about food security as it relates to rural areas, land use policy and community planning. He has been working on food security issues for close to 20 years and is currently working on a project in Cumberland County, Maine, to identify vulnerable populations, assess their levels of food insecurity and develop a plan to tie them together with food banks, farmers, farmers’ markets and other agencies to address food insecurity problems. He is also part of a group that is working to establish a system of community foundations to handle what will be over the next 20 years one of the largest transfers of land wealth in American history.

Challenges and Opportunities: the next 25 years ‑ a public event to engage Islanders in the process of planning for the Island’s future. Location: Carrefour de l’Isle-Saint‑Jean (5 Acadian Drive, Charlottetown) A panel of local and regional speakers will identify current strengths and future opportunities for building a more vibrant, progressive and sustainable Island society. Discussions will focus on the economy, the environment, health, education, arts and culture. Taking into consideration some of the unique challenges we face on P.E.I., including fiscal constraints, an ageing population, and climate change. Forum participants will have an opportunity to work in small groups, discuss these themes and report back with key ideas that will help to move the Island forward.

By Visiting scholar Dr Linda Price, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: Thursday March 18, 2010 Time: noon – 1PM Location: Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI Dr Price is writing a book on family farming, belonging, stress and change which will feature stories from Prince Edward Island. Her presentation will review her most recent research on rural support networks. She is particularly interested in the changing nature of rural communities and how family farm individuals are dealing with this change.

(Please alert young people/students who may be interested) Limited entry youth forum for persons age 16-26 who are interested in marine and coastal issues, coastal livelihoods, coastal culture. Enjoy seaside activities; Share your ideas and vision for a sustainable future for coastal communities and the environment; Expand your network of friends and colleagues; and Develop video messages for the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 conference. Registration in the youth forum includes a free pass to the main conference. Go to http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010/ and click on Youth Forum. (This event co-hosted by Institute of Island Studies and Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI, with assistance from Hillsborough Helping Hands, Native Council Youth Group and Stratford Youth Can Do)

SPEAKER: Kylie Muio, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Identification of Novel Up-Regulated Virulence-associated Proteins in Streptococcus iniae using Quantitative Proteomics SPEAKER: Afaf Arara, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: The Reid-Index in Healthy Cats

Join us for an award and paper presentation, as we honour the three most outstanding paper submissions from our Global Issues students, Tuesday, March 30 at 6:00pm in McDougall Hall, Room 242. Two of the primary aims of Global Issues 151 are to examine the changing character of the modern university and to provide a critical analysis of modern global technological civilization. In this paper submission, students were asked to explore both aspects of the course in order to clarify, extend, and critically assess its argument. The purpose of these papers and the public discussion that will follow them is to provide a student forum for reflecting on the key problems and concerns in Global Issues 151. Students were asked to formulate their paper using a broad topic in order to generate a variety of ideas and viewpoints. The topic is: The University in the Age of Technological Globalization. All are welcome.

JUNE Conference - Time and a Place: Environmental histories, environmental futures, and Prince Edward Island Charlottetown PEI (June 13-18, 2010) This unique conference will be a highly interactive, week-long exploration of the Island's environmental history featuring exciting keynote presenters who will place PEI 's history into its national and global context. Conference registration is closed, but there will be day passes available, and the evening keynote presentations are open to the public. FOR MORE INFO: http://niche-canada.org/pei2010