Students, faculty, and staff, welcome to UPEI Mental Health Week 2019! The call for committee members went out and a resounding group of 35 creative and caring individuals came together from across campus to establish the working committee. We hope you enjoy the events we have organized this year and that you use every opportunity to come and celebrate together—relationships matter. View the full UPEI Mental Health Week 2019 schedule.   All are welcome!

  All UPEI students are invited to enjoy a Festive Coffee and Cookie Break on Monday, December 10, presented by the Office of the President. Drop by the concourse in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre between 1 and 2:30 pm where the team from the Office of the President will serve up cookies, coffee, and hot chocolate and UPEI music students will be carolling!  Join in this great stress reliever and spirit booster!

All are welcome to attend this week's FSDE Graduate research seminar on Wednesday, November 28 at 12:00pm in FSDE 212. This week's presenters are: Humna Khan - MSc Student with her title, "Delineating map based management zones for site-specific fertilization in potato cropping system" AND Stephen Peters - MSc Student with his title, "Exploring the SAPPhIRE causality model for product lifecycle management systems within the conceptual engineering design phase".

Santa Clause is coming to UPEI on Wednesday, Nov 28th 11:30-1:30. Drop up to the Mawi'omi and Campus Life Lounge in Student Affairs, 5th Floor Dalton Hall and join us for hot chocolate, cake and a little merriment! Take along your colleagues and friends for some great group photos. Don't forget your camera/phone!  

Due to impeding weather, we are unfortunately going to cancel today's Alumni and Friends Moncton event. We will reschedule in early in the New Year. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Anthony Gill at 902-566-0761 or adgill@upei.ca

Leon Libang will be presenting a Business Capstone Course Presentation on a new Vaccine for Atlantic Salmon.  

  President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites you to attend the 2018 President’s Holiday Social for Faculty and Staff on Tuesday, December 4 from 12-1:30 pm at the W.A.Murphy Student Centre in McMillan Hall.  Celebrate with your colleagues at this special time of year! Enjoy complimentary appetizers and refreshments, while listening to students from the UPEI Brass Quintet perform songs of the season, and get a sneak peek of our 50th Anniversary plans! You are encouraged to bring your food and monetary donations for the UPEI Food Bank—the Office of the President will match your support!  

Speaker: Dr. K. Bedard, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University Title: Identifying causal genetic variants in dominant disorders

Dr. Joshua MacFadyen, an associate professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program in UPEI’s Faculty of Arts, will launch his new book, Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent, on Thursday, November 29 at 7:00 pm at Upstreet Craft Brewing in Charlottetown. Flax Americana examines the story of flax, a plant that went in a few decades from a specialty crop to one of the most commercially important farming products in a rapidly industrializing North America.  “Flax Americana touches on topics as diverse as Canadian Mennonites making homespun linen, escaped slaves and First Nations labourers participating in Ontario’s industrial transformation, and oilseed empires driving precarious agriculture into North and South American grasslands for the production of a luxury good—paint,” explained Dr. MacFadyen. “However, the book is really about what a deep dive into a single plant and the places that produced it can tell us about the emergence of commodity frontiers, industrial capitalism, and the modern world itself.” Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent is published by McGill Queen’s University Press.

At the Chaplaincy Centre, thoughts are with the students during exam time, their success, and yes, of course, the chili dinner. On December 5 and 10, between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm, a free lunch for students will be served at the Chaplaincy Centre. About 300 students show up each day with smiles and conversation.