UPEI will be hosting its annual Relay for Life event on Friday, January 25, from 6:00 pm to midnight in the UPEI Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Relay For Life is a community based fundraising event for the Canadian Cancer Society. It’s a fun and active event with music, games, sports, and other activities to keep fellow students engaged and active throughout the event. But most importantly, students form relay teams to fundraise and take turns walking or running around the track, passing the baton to teammates to achieve personal or team goals and connect with others in this emotionally inspiring event. Every dollar UPEI raises through Relay For Life helps the Canadian Cancer Society have more impact against more cancers than any other cancer charity in Canada. Check out the Facebook page for more details about how to register, volunteer, or make a donation. 

This event is the opportunity for the Faculty of Science to celebrate UPEI student-award recipients and the donors for their generosity.  

  *This event will be rescheduled in January 2019.  The Office of the President cordially invites you to attend the MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing Celebration. Please join members of the MacLauchlan family, guest speaker Dr. Laurie Brinklow, and the UPEI community on Friday, November 30, 2018 at 1:30 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall to celebrate the writing achievements of UPEI students and faculty and staff.

The Department of Psychology welcomes faculty, students, and the campus community to join us at our next Fiona Papps Colloquium Series on Friday, Nov. 16 at 1:30pm where Dr. Scott Lee will present "Fetishism According to Lacan: Origins and Perversion in Jeanne by Marie-Hélène Lafon”. The presentation will take place in Main 213. Please note this event was previously planned for Nov. 2.  This event has been postponed due to weather. A new date will be announced.

Please join us in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building for a symposium presented by the students of MUS 4220—Global Musics. Students will present their research-in-progress on a diverse range of topics, from South Indian classical music, to Mexican punk rock, to the relationship between bagpiping and Scottish identity on Prince Edward Island. This symposium is part of a major research project that students in MUS 4220 are undertaking this semester, and they would greatly appreciate support and feedback. Students from other courses are welcome to present their own work at the symposium, but there is limited space in the schedule. Please contact music@upei.ca. All are welcome!

The University of Prince Edward Island expresses its condolences to the entire Jewish community on the senseless act of hate and violence that took place at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday. UPEI wishes to inform the campus that PEI's Jewish Community is holding a Candlelight Vigil in memory of the 11 victims of the shooting rampage and in support of those wounded. The Vigil will take place Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3 pm in front of Founders Hall, at the corner Water Street and Prince Street in downtown Charlottetown. All are invited and encouraged to attend in solidarity as a way to show their support.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about working for FORD/ACOA. Hiring managers will be onsite to answer any employment-related questions.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about working for the Department of Veteran Affairs. Hiring managers from different departments such as finance and IT will be onsite to answer any employment-related questions.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about working for CRA. Student ambassadors will be onsite to answer any employment-related questions.

"We will not be silenced. The CCDA's struggle for land justice in Guatemala" presentation will take place at UPEI campus, room 328 MacDougall Hall, Charlottetown at 2 :00 pm, November 10. As part of the Fall Speaking Tour of the Maritime-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Solidarity Network, the public is invited to a presentation by Marcelo Sabuc. Marcelo is the National Coordinator of the Comite Campesino del Altiplanto CCDA (Highland Committee of Small Farmers). As a result of his work with the CCDA, Marcelo has received threats and is a target of criminalization, facing charges for political reasons. The CCDA supports 30,000 indigenous small farmers throughout the country in struggles for access to and defense of land and territory through advocacy, the production of coffee for export and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. Marcelo will also speak about the current political context and how it impacts organizations like the CCDA. For more information phone 902-367-6246.  CUPE 1870 and CUPE Global Justice which partner with CCDA is also a co-host of this event.