The event will feature a safe-listening and non-judgemental environment where various students, staff and faculty members will share their stories and encounters with mental illness. These stories will provide us with an opportunity to learn, care, and be inspired to help ourselves and those around us living with mental illnesses, and remind us all, that relationships matter. Pub Grub will be provided. All are welcome to attend! Click here for the full MHW 2017 Schedule  

Join Bernadette Currie, certified fitness instructor, for a fun, choreographed dance and toning workout to kick off the weekend!!! Click here for the full MHW 2017 Schedule

Speaker: Nadia Prigoda-Lee, Biomedical Sciences Title: Evaluating and Optimizing Canine Lyme Disease Diagnosis

The March Island Studies Lecture is Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, featuring Dr. Peter Buker speaking about scale and governance, including its effects on small islands such as Prince Edward Island. The relation between a political jurisdiction’s scale and how well (or poorly) its government performs is seldom addressed in scholarly literature or in practice. However, scale does affect governance. This lecture addresses the question: How do size factors of population and geography relate to accountability and responsibility, to efficiency and effectiveness? Citing political theory, public administration, economics, and social “small-scale” literature, and taking into account technological advances, Dr. Buker will focus on how scale applies to governance. The implications, especially for small island jurisdictions such as Prince Edward Island, are many. For example, the case for and against Maritime Union can be explored by looking at the tension between small governing systems supporting reciprocal relations between their citizens and their government and large governing systems supporting one-way command relations. Dr. Peter Buker is Chair of General Studies at Yorkville University. He has a widely varied academic background in economics, politics, and community economic development, and considers scale to be one of the most important single factors affecting our experience as citizens. Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Please note, this event has been rescheduled to to weather. It was originally scheduled to occur March 14. Watch for details for another lecture about islands – near and far – April 18! For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.  

Are you looking for a career in the Federal Public Service? Representatives from the Public Service Commission (PSC) will be on campus to answer your questions regarding the recruitment process for student and graduate programs. The Federal Government offers a wide variety of jobs from coast to coast, from field work and research, to positions in administration, IT, finance, policy, communications and many more! Come learn about how we proudly serve Canadians!

Important Information Session for faculty, staff, and students!   Do you wish you could have someone read your textbook to you? Would you rather "speak" your paper instead of writing it? Are you tired of taking notes in class?   Are you trying to help your students with any of these issues? If you answered yes (or maybe) to any of these questions, we have the session for you!! *Come check out the magic of some life changing adaptive technologies and Apps! Location: Andrew Hall 142 Time: 12:30 - 1:30 (with time for questions after) Date: March 15th, 2017 (this session is rescheduled from Feb. 8th) *We hope to see you there!

The UPEI French Society is hosting a Cabane à Sucre (Sugar Shack) at UPEI to celebrate a French Canadian tradition and the maple syrup season.  All are invited to share a traditional Québécois breakfast in a jovial and convivial atmosphere. Breakfast cooked in Québécois style Traditional musical entertainment by Remi & Louise Arsenault + company Maple Taffy Kid-friendly games and activities Doorprizes Sugar Shack Tickets: $15 - adults $10 - kids (age 12 and under) $10 - UPEI students W.A. Murphy Student Centre, 550 University Avenue Hosted by the UPEI French Society in partnership with the UPEI Faculty of Education, the UPEI Student Union, and the Coopération d'Intégration Francophone of PEI. Tickets on sale Wednesday, February 22  - Contact upeifrenchsociety@gmail.com OR  - Pick them up at the reception desk of the Carrefour de l'Isle-Saint-Jean Monday-Friday between 9 AM and 4:30 PM (cash only)

All are invited to an Environmental Studies symposium "Putting a Price on Carbon: A PEI Perspective". Join speakers Erin Flanagan, Director of Federal Policy with the Pembina Institute, and Dr. Rémi Morin Chassé, Environmental Economist at UPEI. Tuesday, March 7, 7:00 pm - Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 242

Speaker:  Maria Soriani, Biomedical Sciences Title: Effects of low dose neonicotinoid pesticides on CNS function in the rat Speaker:  Kim Foote, Pathology and Microbiology Title: Hemophagocytic Histiocytic Sarcoma - A Diagnostic Dilemma?

The Campus Life program is hosting this event for families. Let's Talk Science will be here to do fun experiments and projects with the kids, and we'll be showing the movie Meet The Robinsons.  Snacks will be provided, and there will be coffee and tea for parents. Current students, recently graduated students, staff, and faculty, are all invited to bring their kids/grandkids.    It is drop in, but parents are required to stay in the same area as their kids, as we are not a licensed daycare.     If you have any questions contact Elyse Cottrell at ecottrell@upei.ca