To cap off Health and Fitness Week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation has added a number of activities to its schedule. Check out our new Fitness Centre! HIIT Fitness Class Led by fitness instructor Maria Campbell. High intensity interval training class. Free for everyone. 9:30 - 10:30 am Free Weight - Lower Body Session Led by personal trainer Kris Lutwick. Learn to perform free weight exercises using dumbbells, barbells, plate-loaded and body-weighted exercises. (12 people max)   PRE-Registration Required! Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca. ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. 10:00 - 11:00 am Yoga 101 Clinic Led by yoga instructor Rebecca Gass, you will learn how to pair your breath with movement in ways to release stress and decompress tension. (15 max) PRE-Registration Required! Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca.   ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. Room 212, 10:00 - 11:30 am PiYo Fitness Class Led by fitness instructor Bernadette Currie. Combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Pilates with the strength and flexibility advantages of yoga. Free for everyone. 10:30 - 11:30 am Powerlifting Session Led by personal trainer Kris Lutwick. Learn the basic technique of the squat, bench press and deadlift. The session will review the basic technique of each lift.  PRE-Registration Required! Only 12 spaces available. Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca. ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Functional Training Session Led by personal trainer Mitch Caissy. A fundamental session to define this type of training, why it is important and how to get started. Activity will include review of proper posture when training. PRE-Registration Required! Only 12 spaces available. Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca. ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. 12:00 - 1:00 pm Pilates on the Bosu Fitness Class Led by fitness instructor and personal trainer Tracey Gairns-Brioux. The BOSU Balance Trainer is the perfect accessory to complement a wide range of authentic Pilates exercises. You can learn to incorporate the BOSU ball into traditional mat and equipment exercises. Free for everyone. 12:30 - 1:30 pm Light up Your Core Session Led by personal trainer Mitch Caissy. Review fundamental abdominal exercises and learn some new exercises to add to your training repertoire. (12 people max.)  PRE-Registration Required! Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca. ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. 1:00 - 2:00 pm Learn to Spin Session Led by Fitness Instructor Bernadette Currie. Learn to efficiently train on a M3 Keiser bike. You’ll learn proper seat adjustments, proper tension and cadence plus a mini class.  PRE-Registration Required! Only 15 spaces available! Pre-Register with the Fitness Centre Supervisor Desk Staff at (902)566-6074 or fitnesscentre@upei.ca. ID number and e-mail required to register. Available only for UPEI students, faculty, and staff. 1:00 - 2:00 pm      

You are invited to attend a public talk by Dr. Nevin Reda, Ph.D (Candidate for a tenure-track position in Religious Studies at UPEI) Title: "The Poetics of Surat al-Baqara: Understanding the Qur'an's Narrative Structure and Running Themes"

Wondering what career options lay before you with a Bachelor of Arts? Plan to attend Careers in the Arts, where four UPEI Arts graduates will share their career journey. Learn how the skills you are learning within your Arts degree, such as communicating, thinking critically, researching, and working as a team will help you find a career path that matches both your interests, skills, and knowledge.

SPEAKER: Dr. Okey, Igboeli, President, True Spring Pharmaceuticals Inc. TITLE: Use of RNAi in signaling studies and drug target discovery. Dr. Igboeli is a candidate for an adjnuct and graduate faculty position in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

As a part of "Social Justice Week" arranged by the DSJS community of UPEI, Rants and Raves is HERE! These rants will be about anything folks believe in that they believe deserves to be said. The rants will be a diverse collection of happy, sad, angry, intellectual, goofy, funny, passionate and excited. This event is always a great time and we look forward to seeing you come out and support those who have something to say! Spread the word!

Have you heard of the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) committee at UPEI? We're doing what we can to sponsor student from refugee camps so that they can come study at UPEI, but most of the students who finish high school in the camps are boys. There are FOUR TIMES more boys than girls in schools in refugee camps! To actively help improve this ratio we are putting on a night of glow-in-the-dark UFIT to support the Shine A Light Campaign. Money from the event ($5 entry per person) will help girls in refugee camps through remedial classes, scholarships, and solar lights so that they can study after dark. The end of the semester can be overwhelming and so can the refugee crisis. This event will give you the chance to take an evening to de-stress and, at the same time, do something practical to help refugees.

Career Development Association of PEI and UPEI Career Services are partnering to host a networking event as part of Career Month 2016. A presentation by the PEI Department of Workforce & Advanced Learning with present it's strategic plan for 2016-19, followed by a Q & A session. There will also be some guided small group discussions and networking opportunities. Please RSVP to cdaofpei@gmail.com.

FREE ADMISSION/FREE HOT CHOCOLATE! During the grind of exams and papers, sometimes you need to relax and listen to some music with a hot drink. As part of Social Justice Week at UPEI, J4J will be putting on a concert, free to all who are interested. In collaboration with the Student Diversity Office, this concert is emphasizing diversity, and will contain lots of different forms of musical expression, including some originals from Robbie Hynes and some cultural music.

In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning. The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada. There are up to 57 prizes available for returning undergraduate students who produced outstanding written work in the previous academic year (September 1 – August 31), as a substantive role in their academic course work or for the broader community audience, and who showed most improvement through a writing support program coordinated through the Webster Centre. Dr. Robert F. Gilmour Jr., Vice-President Academic and Research, cordially invites you to attend the 2016 edition of the MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing Celebration. Please join members of the MacLauchlan family, guest author Deirdre Kessler, and the UPEI community on Friday, November 18, 2016 at 1:30 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall to celebrate the achievements of UPEI students.

Join us for a presentation and discussion at UPEI from 6:00 - 9:00 pm on Thursday, Nov 17.  In this presentation, John R. Sylliboy will speak about the findings of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance research study on the coming out processes of Two Spirits in Atlantic Canada. This study captured the resilience by Two Spirits in their surroundings where there were lack of mental and health supports on First Nations or available supports targeting Aboriginals in urban centres in the Atlantic region. The presentation will be followed by a discussion involving interested community groups and individuals. Refreshments will be provided.  This is a free event. Coffee, tea, and sweets will be served. Everyone is welcome!