The UPEI Music Department Student Recital Series 2019 is pleased to present two Junior Recitals on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:30 PM in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.     Soprano, Tara Llewellyn, will be performing repertoire by Caldara, Scarlatti, Schumann, Ravel, Herbert and Willson in the first half of the program, accompanied by Frances McBurnie, piano   Trombonist, Christopher Perry, will be performing works by  Saint-Saëns, Ewazen and Sulek in the second half of the program, also accompanied by Frances McBurnie, piano   Admission is Free. All Welcome! 

Department of Music Recital Series Winter Semester, 2019 Student Recitals Dr. Steel Recital Hall Free Admission Friday March 29, 7:30 PM Senior Recital Ryan Drew, percussion, Morgan Saulnier, piano

Department of Music Recital Series Winter Semester, 2019 Student Recitals Dr. Steel Recital Hall Free Admission Piano accompanist: Frances McBurnie  Tuesday April 16, 7:30 PM Directed Studies Recital HaeRin Park, soprano

UPEI Alumni and Friends Hong Kong Chapter  President and Vice Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites you and a guest to a special 50th Anniversary Event. Join together with alumni and friends of UPEI and celebrate 50 years of People, Impact, and Excellence.  Royal Plaza Hotel Junior Ballroom III, Level 3 193 Prince Edward Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong March 25, 2019 6:30PM - 8:00PM Please RSVP by March 21 to Kathy at krweatherbie@upei.ca or call 902-566-0687.

Dr. Charlie Pye, veterinary dermatologist at AVC, will give a public workshop on Tuesday, March 19, at 7 pm, on common medical conditions that can cause excessive scratching in our canine companions and explain what treatments can be used to treat them. The workshop will take place in Lecture Theatre A at AVC. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. For information, contact (902) 566-0589 or upei.ca/avc.

Think BIG! Exploring Issues and Opportunities to Promote Family Well-being on Prince Edward Island As the province’s only university, the University of Prince Edward Island is committed to advancing family well-being, and is proud to be partnering with the Vanier Institute of the Family for the Families in Canada Conference 2019. Through dynamic local programming and the national livestream from Ottawa, this satellite conference event will explore issues and opportunities facing PEI families today. Local panelists will share their experiences representing different perspectives as individuals with lived experience, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers. For more information about the UPEI satellite conference or to register go to https://familiesincanada.ca/upei/

As part of 'Pharmacy Awareness Week', the PEI Pharmacist Association is hosting a 1-hour information session on Wednesday, March 6 starting at 11:30 in the Health Sciences Building, room 105. This session will provide information about pharmacy programs, in an effort to not only guide those contemplating pharmacy as a career, but to further inform students about what 'goes in to' becoming a pharmacist so that the expanded role of pharmacists is better understood. There will also be a hands-on Naloxone-administration demo, which will be of interest to students in leadership/supervisory roles.

Invitation to Students Faculty of Arts Academic Advising Drop In Session Thursday, 7 March 2019 11:30am - 2:00pm SDU Main 201 (Faculty Lounge)  Explore Arts programs and courses  Ask questions  Faculty advisors will be available to talk with you  Check out the 2019-20 timetable  Socialize Free refreshments

Sobia Ali-Faisal (Dept of Psychology ) and Dawne Knockwood (Dept of Education) will be facilitating a workshop on building solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities on campus for our well-being. We will be applying liberation psychological theory to: explore ways in which colonization impacts our well-being determine ways in which to challenge colonial understandings of being to create safe spaces for ourselves build solidarity among BIPOC communities on campus When: March 4th, 1 - 3pm Where: Andrew Hall, Room 142 For: Faculty, staff, and students It is a free workshop and refreshments will be provided. Please feel free to email Sobia (sali@upei.ca) or Dawne (daknockwood@upei.ca) if you have any questions.

The UPEI Faculty of Arts, Asian Studies Programme, and Korean Studies Project are pleased to announce the following special lecture by a prominent international scholar, our 2019 annual speaker:  Professor Charles K. Armstrong, Department of History, Columbia University, NYC, will give a special lecture entitled “North Korea and the Prospects for Peace” on March 25 (Monday) from 1:30 to 2:45 pm in the Faculty Lounge (room 201), SDU Main building. We will begin at 1:00 with reception and healthy refreshments. (Storm-day backup: Tuesday, March 26, 2:30-3:45 pm). This is a wonderful opportunity to understand or discuss “the latest development in US-Korean relations especially after the 2nd Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, as well as the history of conflict on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace between North and South Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.” Everyone is invited. You are most welcome to attend.  Dr. Charles K. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University, NYC. He is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013); The Koreas (Routledge, 2014); Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006); Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2006); and The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Cornell…, 2003). His current publication projects include a history of modern East Asia (forthcoming) and American cultural policy in East Asia during the Cold War. He holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Yale University, an MA in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.  Special acknowledgement:  This international seminar and speaker series project is supported by an international Seed Program for Korean Studies grant (AKS-2017-INC-2230001) through the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS), the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS).