The UPEI Community Connector Volunteer Fair is a free event for students! All students are encouraged to attend and learn about the many volunteer organizations and available opportunities. This is a great time to get hands-on experience, make connections, and help make a difference in your community.

UPEI will host its ninth annual Pow Wow on the UPEI campus as part of its Connecting Aboriginal Cultures Festival and in conjunction with Mi'kmaq History Month. The Pow Wow will celebrate the Aboriginal and Mi'kmaq culture through singing, traditional drumming and dancing, and learning. Everyone is welcome.

Join people around the world who will be gazing at the moon for International Observe the Moon Night 2015 (http://observethemoonnight.org/). Volunteers from the UPEI Physics Department and the Sidewalk Astronomers of Charlottetown will show you incredible views of the moon through their telescopes. Saturn will also be visible nearby in the sky for the earlier portion of the night so we will view that also. The viewing location will be a service road adjacent to the turf field. The nearest parking is Lot D. See the event description on our website (linked below) for a map that shows the location. The official start time 8:00 pm, but we may be ready to go by 7:45 pm provided that there are no delays in the soccer game on the adjacent field that will prevent the field lights from being turned off. This event is weather dependent. If it's too cloudy to see the moon, we'll have to cancel. Updates will be posted on our website at http://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/ or via @UPEIAstronomy on Twitter.  

All First-Year Arts students are invited to meet faculty and each other at a Coffee and Chocolate gathering this Friday. As well as the coffee and chocolate, we have Arts UPEI memory sticks for the first 50 students to arrive, and there will also be a free second-hand book table, so come find a few things to add to your libraries!

Island Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Jennings, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, who will give a colloquium entitled "Fografiddle and Giltarump - An exploration of Shetland's onomastic identity". The talk will take place in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, Friday, Sept. 25th, 1:30-3:00pm. Refreshments will be served following the talk. All are welcome.

Come on out to the Math Department Meet N' Greet! Get a chance to talk to other students, chat with professors, and attend a Mathematics Society meeting! Free pizza will be provided!  All who have an interest in math are welcome, no matter what your major/minor is!

The Department of Biology will host two presentations by Dr. Robert Huber, Center for Human Genetics Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, on September 17 and 18, 2015. Dr. Huber is a candidate for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Biology and will present the following talks: Teaching presentation Signal Transduction Mechanisms: Ligands, Receptors, and Their Link to Human Disease Thursday, September 17, 11:30 am, DSC 204 Research presentation Using Dictyostelium discoideum as a model system for studying the functions of proteins linked to human disease Friday, September 18, 12:30 pm, DSC 204 All are welcome to attend and provide comments to the selection committee via email to biologychair@upei.ca  

The Department of Biology will host two presentations by Dr. Robert Huber, Center for Human Genetics Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, on September 17 and 18, 2015. Dr. Huber is a candidate for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Biology and will present the following talks: Teaching presentation Signal Transduction Mechanisms: Ligands, Receptors, and Their Link to Human Disease Thursday, September 17, 11:30 am, DSC 204 Research presentation Using Dictyostelium discoideum as a model system for studying the functions of proteins linked to human disease Friday, September 18, 12:30 pm, DSC 204 All are welcome to attend and provide comments to the selection committee via email to biologychair@upei.ca

Are you planning to apply to Dalhousie Dentistry?   We invite you to attend our presentation: "Admission requirements for the Dentistry Faculty". All prospective applicants are welcome to attend.

UPEI’s Department of Athletics and Recreation staff, coaches, and players are gearing up for an exciting 2015-2016 varsity schedule. Help kick off the season by attending "UPEI Panthers NIght at the Track" on Thursday, September 17 from 5:00-7:00 pm at Red Shores Race Track and Casino. This is a great opportunity to meet and greet players and coaches, hear about the vision of the department and varsity teams, and enjoy a reception. At 7:00 pm, the attention will move to the track where 16 student-athlete ambassadors will represent each the horses participating in the first two race cards of the night.