The UPEI Climate Research Lab will host an information session on new Canadian drone regulations on February 20 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in room 235 of UPEI’s Robertson Library. The event features Roger Smith of Transport Canada and the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) Task Force. The new regulations come into effect June 1. The UPEI Climate Research Lab has done extensive work with drone technology, including studying dune systems, coastal erosion, shoreline armouring, wind turbine inspection, and waste management. Space is limited. Please contact climate@upei.ca with your name, affiliation, email and mailing address to reserve your spot. All are welcome. Please direct all inquiries regarding the RPAS Task Force or Transport Canada drone regulations to Transport Canada at (613) 993-0055 or media@tc.gc.ca

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with us! Robertson Library Movie Talks and UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO) are presenting the Sundance Film Festival award-winning movie The Miseducation of Cameron Post on Thursday, February 14th. “Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.” Kanopy. FREE movie!  Thursday, February 14th  5 pm, Doors open at 4:30 pm Duffy Amphitheatre 135 Bring a date, a friend, or come on your own! Everyone is welcome!

Please join us for Theology on Tap with Ms. Julia Kenney, World Youth Alliance, New York City. WYA has standing with the United Nations and works on questions of human dignity. Ms. Kenney will speak on "Why Not Excellence? Raising Society to Authentic Standards of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness."

peaker: Tessa McBurney, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Title: Deciphering the Bat Signal: Evaluation of Mobile Acoustic Transect Surveys on PEI

*This event was rescheduled from Friday, February 8. Come join us at an OPEN HOUSE for the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre as we welcome our newest member Lynne Fraser, Nurse Practitioner. The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre has expanded its hours of operation and will be open five days per week on a year-round basis. The Centre is also providing care to faculty, staff, and immediate family (spouse, partner, and children). Join us from 1:00 - 2:30 pm on Friday, February 15, 2019 at the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre on the second floor (north) of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the bookstore). Tea/coffee and finger foods will be served! All are welcome!

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defence by Brittany Jakubiec titled "Out of the Box: Queerying Identity Development for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Prince Edward Island". All are welcome to attend Brittany's public presentation, taking place on Tuesday February 26, 2019 from 2:00 - 2:30 pm in the Irving Chemistry Centre, room 104.

Join us Wednesday, March 13th for this year's Career and Summer Job Fair! This event is free to attend for all post-secondary Students, and offers a great opportunity to meet with employers and recruiters to start networking, find a summer job, or kick start a career. Be prepared to present yourself professionally. The event will take place in MacMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and will run from 10:30am until 3:00pm with a storm date on Thursday, March 14th. This year's fair will be co-hosted by UPEI Career Services and the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering and will feature employers from various industries across PEI and the Maritimes.  For more information and to see what organizations will be present at this year's fair, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/upei-career-and-summer-… If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at careerfair@upei.ca  

The topic for this week's Graduate Seminar in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is "Networking with Purpose", given by Dr. Amy Hsiao, FSDE Graduate Studies Coordinator based on a National Initiative on Capacity Building and Knowledge Creation in Engineering Leadership (NICKEL) workshop. While the topic will be focused for FSDE graduate students, all are welcomed to attend.

Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize! Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25.  Enjoy the game!

All fathers and mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers, and anyone who cares for children is invited to a series of Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars. There are three sessions, and the first (rescheduled from February 13th due to weather) is on Wednesday, February 20th at 7:00 in the evening, at the Murphy Community Centre on Richmond Street in Charlottetown. The first week’s topic is “The Power of Positive Parenting”. Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology, is the presenter. Sessions are free, and childcare is available. Visit triplep-parenting.net for more information and to sign up in advance for free childcare during the session. Every dad and mom and other person caring for a child age 2-12 is welcome.