Mi'kmaq Flag Raising

Join the UPEI Mawi'omi Centre and community elders in raising the Mi'kmaq flag on Monday, October 20 at 9:00 am at the flagpoles in front of Kelley Building. All are welcome attend. After the raising of the flag, the Mawi'omi Centre will host an open house with free refreshments, in Kelley Memorial Building room 236.

Fiona Papps Colloquium Series Presentation

Gather your friends and come and join the Psychology department for our first presentation in the Fiona Papps Colloquium Series taking place on Friday, October 10 at 1:30 pm in Memorial Hall, room 215. The topic of the day Wicked questions, academic activism, and community based participatory action research: Lessons from the field will be presented by Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie. All are invited and welcome to attend.

Red Cross on the Home Front

Just in time for Remembrance Day in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, two historians offer a public talk exploring the humanitarian war work of civilians on the home front. 100 years ago, the Australian Red Cross did not exist and the Canadian Red Cross was small and little-known. Both rose to prominence as a result of the war, serving as channels for ordinary citizens' desire to serve their country and to save the lives of sick and wounded servicemen. Dr. Ian Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia) will discuss Red Cross work in the Camden district of New South Wales, and Dr. Sarah Glassford (University of Prince Edward Island) will discuss Islanders' work for the Canadian Red Cross. All are welcome to attend.

Chemistry Seminar

Dr. Stephen Westcott, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mount Allison University will present a seminar on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 12:30 pm. Dr. Westcott’s presentation is entitled Using Arylspiroborate Metal Complexes for Borylation Reactions: To B-E or not to B-E?. The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212. All are welcome to attend.

TED Talk Talks

Come join us at the Student Affairs lounge for UPEI's first in the series of TED Talk Talks. We will watch a the TED Talk video on "A Danger Of a Single Story," on Wednesday, October 15 at 4:30 pm. A facilitated discussion will follow the TED Talk viewing. The speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, begins by telling us a story about what she would write about as a child. She wrote stories that were similar to the foreign stories she would read which depicted children that looked nothing like her. It wasn't until she found African stories, that she realized that people like her could be in stories. A single story can rob people of dignity and emphasizes how different people are. By engaging with all the stories of a person, place, or issue, the trap of a single story can be avoided. By examining Adichie's story we began to realize the danger of a single story.

Health Career Showcase

Come and join local health professionals to learn more about health careers on Prince Edward Island, during the Health Career Showcase, on Wednesday, October 29 from 11:30am-1:30 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. This event is hosted by the PEI Department of Health and Wellness and PEI Health Sector Council. A light lunch will be provided.

World Food Day Celebration at The Wave

Join your UPEI Student Union in partnership with the Applied Human Science Society for monthly "Food Days" centered around healthy eating and lifestyles with a theme of "Family Farmers: Feeding the world, Caring for the earth!" The first event will be held on World Food Day on Thursday, October 16 in the Wave beginning at 7:00 pm for a screening of Island Green by Millefiore Clarkes followed by a performance by Nine Mile River.
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