17吃瓜

Join us for a 30 minute information session on the scholarship and award opportunities available at 17吃瓜 including When, Where and How to Apply! We will be happy to address any questions you may have: there are three separate sessions on three different days, so feel free to attend which ever one suits your schedule best. If you are unable to attend at these times, personal appointments are available as well; please feel free to contact us as outlined below.

Join us for a 30 minute information session on the scholarship and award opportunities available at 17吃瓜 including When, Where and How to Apply! We will be happy to address any questions you may have: there are two separate sessions on three different days, so feel free to attend which ever one suits your schedule best. If you are unable to attend at these times, personal appointments are available as well; please feel free to contact us as outlined below.

Classes begin for the January - May 2015 semester.

New international students are invited to take part in a one day orientation on the support services available and to meet students and staff. International Student Orientation for 2015 will take place in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 328 from 10:00 am-4:00 pm . See the schedule below: 10:00 am - Coffee, registration, handouts in Schurman Market Square10:30 am - Ice Breaker games in Schurman Market Square11:00 am - Presentations McDougall Hall 328 鈥� Welcome 鈥� Student Life 鈥� Registration/Academics 鈥� Student Affairs 鈥� Housing12:00 pm - Lunch in Schurman Market Square12:45-1:45 pm - Presentations in McDougall Hall 328 (featuring the 17吃瓜 Student Union, Buddy Program, and Society of International Students1:45 pm - Campus Tour2:30 pm - Charlottetown Tour5:30 pm - Meet at the Wave6:00 p - Women's basketball game8:00 pm - Men's basketball game

Research on Tap returns for its sixth season of public discussion, debate, and ideas presented by researchers from the 17吃瓜. Join our next conversation on Monday, January 5 at 7 pm at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Dr. Sunny Hartwig, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences at 17吃瓜鈥檚 Atlantic Veterinary College, will lead a discussion entitled: Learning the language of healthy kidney development today, saying 鈥渘o鈥� to kidney disease tomorrow. The 2014/2015 season of Research on Tap is presented in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Atlantic Chapter. The RSC is Canada鈥檚 national academy and is the senior national body of distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists. Research on Tap meets the first Monday of every month from October to April. The full schedule of speakers can be found atupei.ca/research/research-on-tap

Linden MacIntyre, distinguished Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and novelist, will read from his new novel, Punishment, on Monday, January 19, at 7:30 pm, in the chapel of The Mount on Mt. Edward Road in Charlottetown. MacIntyre鈥檚 reading is sponsored by the 17吃瓜 English department. A book signing will follow, and admission is free.

In 2010, Newfoundland-raised fiction writer Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey through the Northwest Passage from Greenland to Nunavut, including parts of the doomed Franklin Expedition鈥檚 route. Boundless, the chronicle of her journey, blends travelogue and memoir, history and nature writing. Winter will read from Boundless and from her new fiction on Monday, January 12, at 7:30 pm in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. A book signing will follow. Her reading is sponsored by the 17吃瓜 English Department with support from The Canada Council for the Arts.

As part of the 17吃瓜 Music Department Recital Series cellist, and Prince Edward Island native, Julia MacLaine returns home to PEI to present 鈥淔airy Tales and Fantasy鈥� on Sunday, January 11th at 2:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on the 17吃瓜 Campus. Julia will be accompanied by pianist Jean Desmarais in a program of music that is fanciful, mystical, at times dreamy and very colourful. The recital will include three pieces by Webern, the Fantasy Pieces by Schumann, Fairy Tale or "Pohadka" by Janacek (featured in the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being鈥�) and sonatas for cello and piano by Debussy and Prokofiev. Tickets are $15/$10 students and seniors and are available at the door, online at or in advance by calling 566鈥�0507.

The Salon du livre de l鈥櫭巐e-du-Prince-脡douard gives the Acadian, Francophone and Francophile population the opportunity to access a wide variety of French language literary works and meet authors and illustrators. The second edition of the expo will be presented at the 17吃瓜鈥檚 W.A. Murphy Student Centre from June 3-7, 2015. 17吃瓜's Faculty of Education is pleased to be collaborating with the organizing committee to make this event possible. The Salon du livre de l鈥櫭巐e-du-Prince-脡douard is an event intended to bring together the province鈥檚 Francophones and Francophiles and promote reading and literacy in general as individual and collective development tools. Through its actions, it helps develop a love of reading and literature, from creation to distribution, while promoting the French culture and language.

Join Dr. Misty Rossiter, Applied Human Sciences, for a presentation entitled Advancing healthy development in child care centres: Impact of nutrition standards for preschool children, on Friday, January 9 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, room 204. All are welcome to attend.