As part of this year's Mental Health Week, the second Out of the Blue Gala is taking place on January 31st in the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall with doors opening 6:30pm followed by dinner and the guest speaker at 7:00pm. A gala night aimed to tackle the negative and harmful stigma surrounding mental health, students and other attendees will get to hear UPEI's very own Leigh Reid share his story, enjoy a delicious plated meal prepared by Chartwells Head Chef Alan Paul and his team, and engage with community mental health advocates. 

Tickets for this event are available at the Residence Office and the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, or through Residence Life Coordinator, Sarah Donald (sdonald@upei.ca)

It's that time of year again! Mental Health Week is Jan 28-Feb 1 and we are sending out a call for anyone who is interested in volunteering! If so please submit your name and email to the link below and we will be in touch.

If you have any questions please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Talia Melone at tmelone@upei.ca.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsB-KSn2sFuyoxsiFlqomUDTjE49klexZnvWIwHPnCkLPE5g/viewform

Amel Farhat, Finance Candidate, Faculty of Business, will give a public presentation on Monday, January 21, at 10:00 am, in MCDH 329.
Topic: When is the Price of Dispersion Risk Positive
All are welcome to attend.

Colleen MacQuarrie and Sobia Ali-Faisal from the Department of Psychology will be facilitating a workshop on white privilege in the academy. They will be applying liberation psychological theory to:
- examine white privilege and white supremacy in the academy
- provide space for attendees to explore and navigate their emotions and thoughts around their own privilege, and 
- provide time to practice strategies to challenge their white privilege.

We are holding this workshop to support UPEI's efforts at honouring the TRC recommendations and creating a safe environment for everyone. (Side note: We will also be holding a workshop for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities on campus on March 4th. Please keep an eye out for a notice regarding that very soon.)

When: February 4th, 1 - 3pm
Where: Andrew Hall, Room 142
For: Faculty, staff, and students

It is a free workshop and refreshments will be provided.

Please feel free to email Sobia (sali@upei.ca) or Colleen (cmaquarrie@upei.ca) if you have any questions. 

We would like to thank the Department of Psychology, Office of the Dean of Arts, and Office of Vice-President Academic and Research for their support of the workshop.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite you to the public presentation by Dr. Tom Russell, Queens University: Book Knowledge, Craft Knowledge & Learning From Experience In A Teacher Education Program. This event is Friday, January 25 at noon in room 225 of the Health Sciences Building. All are welcome. 

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by Timothy McRoberts.
Timothy will be defending his dissertation titled " Applying an Experiential Learning cycle to Inform a Deeper Understanding of Teaching and Learning in a Changing Canadian community College."
All are welcome to attend Timothy's public presentation, taking place Friday January 25, 2019 from 2:30 - 3:00 pm in Memorial Hall 417.

Dr. Sam Kolahgar, Finance Candidate, Faculty of Business will give a public presentation on Wednesday, January 23, at 10 am in MCDH room 329.
Topic: Corporate Communications as a Self-governing Mechanism, Evident From Substitution/Complementary Effect
All are welcome to attend.

The Healthy Activity Challenge at UPEI is an opportunity for you and a group of co-workers to participate in a fun eight week physical activity challenge. It’s simple, just record the number of minutes you are active daily. Your team captain will submit team members minutes of physical activity weekly. Registration deadline: Thursday, January 24. Register at http://www.upei.ca/ar/wellness

Challenge Dates: Monday, January 28 – Sunday, March 24, 2019. For UPEI students, faculty and staff only!

Program benefits: FREE access to the Sports Centre walking track from January 28 - march 24, 2019, prize draws and group activities including noontime volleyball, dodgeball, meditation, etc.

Telefilm Canada, UPEI Campus Life, and Robertson Library are presenting the award-winning movie Play Your Gender. The documentary, by Nova Scotia-based filmmaker Stephanie Clattenburg, is about the under-representation of women in the music industry.

“Only 6 women have ever been nominated for a Producer of the Year Grammy and no woman has ever won. In PLAY YOUR GENDER, Juno award-winning producer Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why this disparity exists by speaking to industry stars and veterans about the realities of being a woman in the recording studio.

Play Your Gender features interviews with Sara Quinn of Tegan & Sara, Melissa Auf der Maur of the Smashing Pumpkins, Patty Schemel of Hole, Chantal Kreviazuk, and many more of the music industry’s most talented women.” 

Special guest Wayne Carter, Executive Director, FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival will introduce the film and host a Q&A session after the movie.

Free dinner – pizza, drinks, and cookies (while supplies last)! 

The Department of Psychology welcomes faculty, students, and the campus community to join us at our next Fiona Papps Colloquium Series on Friday, January 25 at 2pm where Dr. Scott Lee will present "Fetishism According to Lacan: Origins and Perversion in Jeanne by Marie-Hélène Lafon”. The presentation will take place in Main 232. All are welcome to attend.

The Senate of Canada is currently seeking candidates for the Senate Page Program , a unique and exciting opportunity for Canadian undergraduate students to be a key contributor within the Parliamentary system at the Senate of Canada. To learn more details about the program, eligibility criteria, and application process, please click here.  Note that the closing date is January 18, 2019.

Speaker: Emily Pope, Biomedical Sciences
Title: A Microbial Domestication Pod for the Discovery of Novel Marine Natural Products When: Tuesday, January 22, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm 
Where: AVC Lecture Theatre B

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday January 18, 2019 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend. For a copy of the paper to be discussed please contact Daphne Gill (dagill@cnscro.com) or Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

It's that time of year again! Mental Health Week is Jan 28-Feb 1 and we are sending out a call for anyone who is interested in volunteering! If so please submit your name and email to the link below and we will be in touch.

If you have any questions please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Talia Melone at tmelone@upei.ca.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsB-KSn2sFuyoxsiFlqomUDTjE49klexZnvWIwHPnCkLPE5g/viewform

The Faculty of Nursing Masters of Nursing Graduate Studies committee invites the Campus community to the first graduate seminar winter 2019. Dr. Christine Cassidy will be speaking about her work in Implementation Science at the IWK Health Centre. Everyone is welcome.

The event is Friday, January 25 at 3:00 pm in Health Sciences room 104.

The Atlantic Veterinary College seeks nominees who demonstrate participation in the community, advancement of the profession, the highest values of compassion, leadership and dedication, and exceptional service and contributions to the profession.

For more detailed criteria and a nomination form, visit:
upei.ca/avc/community; 902-566-0882; avc@upei.ca.

Nominations are due January 31, 2019

Amel Farhat, Finance Candidate, Faculty of Business, will give a public presentation on Monday, January 21, at 10:00 am, in MCDH 329.
Topic: When is the Price of Dispersion Risk Positive
All are welcome to attend.

goPEI Charlottetown in partnership with the UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation will be offering a Learn to Run program at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre indoor track for 10 weeks beginning Monday, January 21. The program is free for Charlottetown and area residents. To register for the program please email Christopher Drummond at cdrummond@charlottetown.ca or drop by the Sports Centre for the first night. The program takes place each week from 6;30 pm - 7:30 pm and will be lead by UPEI personal trainer Richard Pellissier-Lush.