New international students are invited to take part in a one day orientation on the support services available and to meet students and staff. International Student Orientation for 2015 will take place in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 328 from 10:00 am-4:00 pm . See the schedule below: 10:00 am - Coffee, registration, handouts in Schurman Market Square10:30 am - Ice Breaker games in Schurman Market Square11:00 am - Presentations McDougall Hall 328 • Welcome • Student Life • Registration/Academics • Student Affairs • Housing12:00 pm - Lunch in Schurman Market Square12:45-1:45 pm - Presentations in McDougall Hall 328 (featuring the UPEI Student Union, Buddy Program, and Society of International Students1:45 pm - Campus Tour2:30 pm - Charlottetown Tour5:30 pm - Meet at the Wave6:00 p - Women's basketball game8:00 pm - Men's basketball game

Research on Tap returns for its sixth season of public discussion, debate, and ideas presented by researchers from the University of Prince Edward Island. Join our next conversation on Monday, January 5 at 7 pm at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Dr. Sunny Hartwig, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences at UPEI’s Atlantic Veterinary College, will lead a discussion entitled: Learning the language of healthy kidney development today, saying “no” to kidney disease tomorrow. The 2014/2015 season of Research on Tap is presented in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Atlantic Chapter. The RSC is Canada’s national academy and is the senior national body of distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists. Research on Tap meets the first Monday of every month from October to April. The full schedule of speakers can be found atupei.ca/research/research-on-tap

Linden MacIntyre, distinguished Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and novelist, will read from his new novel, Punishment, on Monday, January 19, at 7:30 pm, in the chapel of The Mount on Mt. Edward Road in Charlottetown. MacIntyre’s reading is sponsored by the UPEI English department. A book signing will follow, and admission is free.

In 2010, Newfoundland-raised fiction writer Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey through the Northwest Passage from Greenland to Nunavut, including parts of the doomed Franklin Expedition’s route. Boundless, the chronicle of her journey, blends travelogue and memoir, history and nature writing. Winter will read from Boundless and from her new fiction on Monday, January 12, at 7:30 pm in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. A book signing will follow. Her reading is sponsored by the UPEI English Department with support from The Canada Council for the Arts.

As part of the UPEI Music Department Recital Series cellist, and Prince Edward Island native, Julia MacLaine returns home to PEI to present “Fairy Tales and Fantasy” on Sunday, January 11th at 2:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on the UPEI Campus. Julia will be accompanied by pianist Jean Desmarais in a program of music that is fanciful, mystical, at times dreamy and very colourful. The recital will include three pieces by Webern, the Fantasy Pieces by Schumann, Fairy Tale or "Pohadka" by Janacek (featured in the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being”) and sonatas for cello and piano by Debussy and Prokofiev. Tickets are $15/$10 students and seniors and are available at the door, online at http://upeirecitals16.bpt.me or in advance by calling 566‐0507.

The Salon du livre de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard gives the Acadian, Francophone and Francophile population the opportunity to access a wide variety of French language literary works and meet authors and illustrators. The second edition of the expo will be presented at the University of Prince Edward Island’s W.A. Murphy Student Centre from June 3-7, 2015. UPEI's Faculty of Education is pleased to be collaborating with the organizing committee to make this event possible. The Salon du livre de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard is an event intended to bring together the province’s Francophones and Francophiles and promote reading and literacy in general as individual and collective development tools. Through its actions, it helps develop a love of reading and literature, from creation to distribution, while promoting the French culture and language.

Join Dr. Misty Rossiter, Applied Human Sciences, for a presentation entitled Advancing healthy development in child care centres: Impact of nutrition standards for preschool children, on Friday, January 9 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, room 204. All are welcome to attend.

The Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that it has invited local musician Karem J Simon to conduct its February 1, 2015 concert Celtic Landscape: Mendelssohn and Roy Johnstone. A member of the UPEI music faculty and PEISO since 1991, Dr. Simon brings a wealth of musicianship and conducting experience to the PEISO podium. Under his leadership the UPEI Wind Symphony has been transformed into one of the leading wind ensembles in this region. His progressive approach to programming and performance standard has led to the creation of sixteen compact discs with that ensemble. Cathedrals, released in May 2010 received the 2011 Music PEI Award for Best Classical Recording. The Celtic Landscape: Mendelssohn and Roy Johnstone will play at the Zion Presbyterian Church at 2:30 pm on Sunday, February 1. Tickets are $44 for adults, $40 for seniors and $15 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the PEI Symphony Orchestra website .

Take part in the 2015 Panther Golf Classic presented by Stewart McKelvey on Thursday, June 11 at Belvedere Golf Club at 12:00 pm, shotgun start at 1:00 pm. *Registration is $700 per team or $175 for an individual. Registration includes: registration gift, green fee, golf card for two, silent auction, a wrap up banquet immediately following play and a chance to win some wonderful prizes! Young Alumni Special: Registrants who have graduated from UPEI in the past 10 years will receive a draw to receive the team registration fee back. Draw to take place at the tournament during the wrap-up banquet event. Early Bird Incentive: Teams that Register prior to April 1, 2015 will have their team entered into a $25 discount off the individual registrant fee.

The Search Committee for the Dean of Science invites you to a public presentation by candidate, Dr. Debbie MacLellan on Friday, January 9 at 1:30 pm in KCI Room 104. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. All are welcome to attend.