All are invited to join international students and others from the UP community to offer prayers for peace on Friday, November 10, at 2 p.m., at the International Peace Garden next to Buckley Center Auditorium. All students, faculty, and staff of all faiths, spiritual traditions, and languages are warmly invited to participate by offering a prayer in their native language. For ADA accommodations or more information, please contact international student services at iss@up.edu. The event is co-sponsored by international student services and the Garaventa Center.
The UP Wellness Fair, which takes place in the Beauchamp Center on Wednesday, November 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., will kick off the 2017 Open Enrollment for employee benefits. This year, the Open Enrollment period will run from November 1 through Friday, November 17, closing at 4:30 p.m. All benefited employees will be required to confirm or change their healthcare benefits during this time for coverage that will go into effect January 1, 2018. Healthcare options remain the same as 2017 with minimal changes to the plans. More details regarding the Open Enrollment process will be provided on the HR website as we get closer to November.
The Teaching and Learning Collaborative will host a brown bag workshop on the possibilities of “Digital Humanities” on Monday, October 30, from noon to 1 p.m., in the library’s Digital Lab. Trina Marmarelli of Reed College and UP’s own Spanish professor Lora Looney will tag team to present both a) an overview of how humanities professors might use digital tools to solve research and teaching problems; b) a specific application of this approach, namely, Looney’s “Spain Remembers” project and portable lessons learned along the way.
The University’s annual Advent Concert will take place on Saturday, December 9, at 8 p.m., at Saint Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Tickets will be available starting November 1; admission is free but tickets are required due to limited seating.
Following a resolution of the Academic Senate, November 2, All Souls Day, will include a service honoring all faculty and staff who have died in the current and past years. The service will begin at 4 p.m. at the Faculty and Staff Memorial (rain location: Chapel of Christ the Teacher). Following brief readings and common prayer, a wreath will be laid at the memorial, a sign of remembering those who have passed. A reception will follow in the Bauccio Commons Board Room.
Join the Garaventa Center for refreshments and remarks by Fr. Thomas Hosinski, C.S.C., theology emeritus, in celebration of the launch of his new book, The Image of the Unseen God: Catholicity, Science & Our Evolving Understanding of God, on Wednesday, November 1, at 4 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. Sponsored by the Garaventa Center. For ADA accommodations or more information email 
The Teaching and Scholarship Committee invites all faculty and staff to a presentation by the University’s 2017 faculty teaching award winner, Molly Hiro, on Friday, November 3, at 4 p.m., in Clark Library room 211. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Teaching and Scholarship Committee at 
The entire University community is invited to take part in the fourth annual ReadUP event, according to Thomas Greene, provost. This year’s selection is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, who will speak on February 26 as a guest of the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series. Skloot’s 2010 book was a number one New York Times bestseller and was featured on more than 60 critics’ “best of the year” lists. It was the 2011 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.
The opening reception for Searching for Homunculus will be in the Clark Library Gallery on October 27 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibit features the work of Mark Pitzer, psychological sciences, a behavioral neuroscientist who studies diseases of the brain and teaches about brain evolution and function. He is also an artist and creates sculptures and paintings that explore the disparities between how we experience conscious awareness and how the brain may actually function. We invite you to engage your brain with his work and stop by the reception, or view the art on display in the gallery through December.
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