The UPEI International Relations Office is holding student information sessions on international study opportunities! Study abroad, international internships, volunteering abroad and many other student-focused opportunities are availble around the world! Come to one of our two sessions to hear about where your peers have studied and travelled! Everyone is welcome. This event is included in the "Prowl to Paradise" program!

The UPEI International Relations Office is holding student information sessions on international study opportunities! Study abroad, international internships, volunteering abroad and many other student-focused opportunities are availble around the world! Come to one of our two sessions to hear about where your peers have studied and travelled! Everyone is welcome. This event is included in the "Prowl to Paradise" program!

Join us at the UPEI observatory as we join people around the world celebrating International Observe the Moon Night. Get an up-close look at our nearest astronomical neighbour through our 8-inch telescope. Meet in room 417 of Memorial Hall to await your turn to go up to the telescope. Local astronomy enthusiasts will be on hand to provide information about the Moon and answer any of your astronomy questions. This event is open to the general public and all ages are welcome. Please note that accessing the telescope requires climbing stairs from the 4th floor to the rooftop. The elevator can be taken up to the 4th floor. In the event of cloudy weather, the viewing may have to be cancelled. Our back-up "cloud-date" is Wednesday, October 12, 8:00 to 9:30 pm. More information and updates on the event status can be found at http://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/ or by following @UPEIAstronomy on Twitter.

Please join us for the 2016 Faith and Knowledge Lecture presented by the Saint Dunstan's Institute for Christianity and Culture. Dr. Moira McQueen, Director of the Canadian Catholic Instute on Bioethics and recent appointment of Pope Francis to the International Theological Commission, will speak on "What is Involved in 'Assisted' Dying?  Ethical Issues for Patients and Health Care Workers in Light of Christian Teaching."   Location: Charlottetown Rural High School, 100 Raiders Road, on Thursday 27 October 2016 at 7 pm.  Free admission and all are welcome.   

FREE ADMISSION! The UPEI Rainbow Alliance will be hosting a craft fair to help send Island high school students and their chaperones to OUTSthine 2017 in Windsor, Ontario. OUTShine 2017 is an International LGBTQI2S Youth and Ally Summit. Vendors: PEI Reach Foundation Nerdy Jewels Nevada Jay, Graphic Designer Houndstooth Bakery Avon One Earth with Consultant, Kathy L Burt Of The Earth Zak T Court Candle Creations Renee's Epic Cosmetics Oragami owl Arbonne Autumn and Fall Decor by Ashley Greening Melanie Hutchins Artistry Namaste PEI Steeped Tea Inc (who will also be doing a fundraiser of which we get 40% of the proceeds!) We will be selling raffle tickets (http://upeira.wixsite.com/fair/raffle for prize list) $2 each, 3 for $5, 15 for $10. All proceeds from the vendor tables, and the raffle will go towards this initiative. Come support our vendors who have helped support us! Steeped Tea is also doing a fundraiser for us, a rep will be there taking orders for the fundraiser, and we'll recieve 40% of the proceeds.  For more info on the Craft Fair: http://upeira.wixsite.com/fair/vendor-list https://www.facebook.com/events/904978959648202/

The University community is cordially invited to join the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development; the Honourable H. Wade MacLauchlan, Premier of Prince Edward Island; and Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, for a special announcement regarding a strategic investment on the UPEI campus. The announcement will take place on Friday, September 30, 2016 at 1:15 pm outside in the Quadrangle, in front of Dalton Hall. 

Canadian lawyer Marie Henein will give a lecture titled “An Inconvenient Profession” at the 2016 Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Wednesday, October 12, at 1:30 p.m., in Memorial Hall, Confederation Centre of the Arts. Henein will focus on the role of the legal profession in society, including both the personal demands of the profession as well as the commitment required to the legal system and the rule of law in firmly protecting the role of independent counsel. Co-sponsored by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island, the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law honours Thane A. Campbell, Rhodes Scholar, former premier of Prince Edward Island, and first chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island. The lecture is free, but seating is limited. It is recommended that audience members arrive 30 minutes prior to the event.

UPEI’s Robertson Library is hosting a new book event series this fall called “Open Pages,” which will feature local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this free series, which takes place in the second-floor lounge of UPEI library on one Wednesday evening of each month, over this fall. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be available for sale and signing. The first event in “Open Pages” is happening Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm, and will feature the new book, Time and a Place: An Environmental History of PEI, published by Island Studies Press at UPEI. Time and a Place is the first environmental history of Prince Edward Island, and the first such history of any Canadian province. It features 12 essays, and explores how the Island has evolved from the Ice Age to the Information Age. One of the book’s strengths is the diversity among its expert authors. They discuss agriculture, fisheries and forestry with some topics in common, including climate change, and they discuss how people have affected the Island’s fields, forests, and waters, and in turn – how nature has affected Islanders. Several of the book’s contributors plus two of its editors, Ed MacDonald and marine biologist Irene Novaczek, will talk about Time and a Place, and encourage discussion on its content. For more information on the Open Pages series, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press, ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd at UPEI, slloyd@upei.ca. For more detail on the book Time and a Place, see “Recent Titles” at upei.ca/isp.

The Catholic Studies programme is pleased to offer RS 388, "Rome: Centre of Christianity," May 6 -27, 2017. Taught in Rome, Italy, the course is supported by the Saint Dunstan's University Institute for Christianity and Culture and its commitment to global and experiential learning. An information session on the application process for the course will be held on November 3, 4 pm in SDU MB 203. All interested students are invited to attend.

Last year, UPEI and PEI Health and Wellness combined to offer a hot bowl of soup in a safe environment - healthy food for mental health.  This year, gardens are adding physical health to our plan. To increase sustainability, we invited the campus to donate bowls and spoons. We received 75 bowls and 15 spoons, and installed soap and sanitizer at the Chaplaincy Centre to decrease our footprint. As cottages close, we are hoping for more spoons and bowls.  Donations can be left at the Chaplaincy Centre. Our first event will be Wednesday October 19, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm.  Drop by with a bowl for a soul! Sister Sue