Time to get creative and expressive things that you've been aching to #voice! This slam poetry night will be full great performances, a writing workshop, eating tasty snacks and having a chance to share your own poetry with others. Perhaps your work will be featured in the UPEI Arts Review. How exciting! In partnership with the Our Turn UPEI Chapter, the Student Diversity Office invites you to a safe space to hear and share creative writing on issues that are important to you.  Our Turn is a student led initiative to fight sexual violence on university campuses. This will be a great opportunity to meet the awesome execs for this group at UPEI while having a great time sharing written work and feeling safe to talk about your experiences. Written word is one of the strongest tools we have to end issues like sexual violence. Attend the event and speak out!

Desmond Hammill, Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "A next generation sequencing (NGS) approach for the simultaneous detection of plant viruses for the purpose of quarantine testing." All are welcome!

Learning is an action that only the student can own and control. As an instructor, what can be done to help a student maximize his/her learning capabilities? In this workshop, instructors will learn about three key skills that contribute to more efficient and effective learning. Those skills are how to take notes, how to read for learning, and how to study effectively.  Offered by the E-Learning Office, this workshop is available on Tuesday, November 28, 1:00-2:00 pm in Rm 265, Robertson Library. Register.

UPEI will offer a professional development course offering on the Essentials of Workplace Writing, December 12, 2017. Essentials of Workplace Writing provides techniques that help you to write efficiently, craft a clear and persuasive message, and avoid common mistakes that can diminish the professionalism of your work. This course operates in a workshop format, giving you the chance to examine your writing and complete exercises to improve it. You will learn to: use the writing process to simplify writing write effective and efficient documents review grammar/punctuation to ensure communication strengthens your image enliven your writing to make it persuasive express a clear and concise message locate tools for writing projects To register, click here.

Since 1888, the Estate of Owen Connolly has helped thousands of Prince Edward Island students of Irish Catholic heritage gain a higher education. Leonard Cusack (SDU ’69) has written the rags-to-riches story of Owen Connolly, the remarkable man behind the money. We invite you to celebrate the launch of Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy on Thursday, November 30, at 7:00 pm at the PEI Brewing Company in Charlottetown. The event will feature the Irish group, Omos. All are welcome. Owen Connolly first stepped onto the docks in Charlottetown in 1839 as a poor young Irish immigrant escaping the poverty and repression of his homeland. Forty years later, he was one of the wealthiest men on Prince Edward Island. Connolly was a special kind of entrepreneur; with little formal education, he could write well and was good with figures. When he died in 1887, he left almost all his fortune to provide bursaries to poor Irish Catholic students from PEI. The Connolly bursary has funded more than $3 million to help Island students of Irish Catholic heritage gain a higher education, many of them at SDU or UPEI. But because the bursary was handled externally, there are no easy records of which students received it. The UPEI Alumni Office is issuing a special call to SDU and UPEI alumni who benefited from the Connolly bursary over the years. If you received the Connolly bursary, please contact Anthony Gill at adgill@upei.ca. Soft cover and souvenir copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the launch on November 30. Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy is published by Island Studies Press and the Estate of Owen Connolly.

The University of Prince Edward Island and the UPEI Alumni Association invite everyone to the annual New Year's Levee. Join us from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in UPEI's School of Sustainable Design Engineering building for this festive event to wish each other a "Happy New Year!"  Lunch and cash bar provided. 

The Theatre Studies Program presents On The Line: An Evening of Monologues, performed by the Students in Theatre 2440. Admission is a donation of non-perishable food, cash, or gently used warm clothing for the Campus Food Bank. Warning: some of the monologues contain adult language and situations. Doors open at 7:00 pm - event begins at 7:30 pm.

Students, staff and faculty, are welcome to come by the Campus Life Lounge in Student Affairs, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, on Thursday, November 30 between 11:30 and 1:30 for some cake and hot chocolate. Bring along your phone/camera, your friends and colleagues, and your best smile to take a picture with Santa! For more information, please contact Anne Bartlett at ambartlett@upei.ca or 902-894-2835.

All UPEI students are invited to enjoy a Festive Coffee and Cookie Break on Wednesday, December 6, presented by the Office of the President. Drop by the concourse in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre between 1 and 2:30 pm where the team from the Office of the President will serve up cookies, coffee, and hot chocolate and UPEI music students will be carolling!  Join in this great stress reliever and spirit booster!

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Travis McIsaac, Masters student, will be defending his thesis entitled "Exploring negative sports experiences as predictors of positive youth development" today at 10:00 am in room 301, Health Sciences Building. For more information, please contact Angela Deighan at adeighan@upei.ca.