Join us on Friday, April 4, from 5:00–7:00 pm, at The Fox & Crow as we welcome the UPEI Class of 2025 to our alumni family! This event is open to all 2025 grads and UPEI/SDU/PWC alumni.

Celebrate the last day of classes with free refreshments, live entertainment by Ryan Merry, fun door prizes to be won, and more!

• Every 2025 grad in attendance will get a complimentary grad gift! 
• Alumni who RSVP and attend the event will be entered to win an alumni prize pack.
• All 2025 grads who attend will be entered to win additional door prizes.
• Grand prize draw: two lucky grads will each win a $1,000 cash prize* sponsored by TD Insurance.

To RSVP, please fill out the form found here. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Faith Phillips at fsteeves@upei.ca or 902-566-0687.

*Only 2025 grads are eligible to win and must be present at the time of draw.

Join UPEI President Wendy Rodgers for casual "coffee chats" at Tim Horton's in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre on Friday, March 21 from 8:00-8:45 am.

These coffee chats offer a relaxed setting where any member of the UPEI community can drop by, grab a drink, and chat with Wendy about anything on your mind. Whether you want to share ideas, ask questions or simply say hello, these chats are a great way to connect with the president in a comfortable and informal environment.

Stay tuned for future "coffee chat" dates!

The Island Lecture Series is pleased to present a talk by Heidi Haering on Tuesday, March 18, at 7:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, Room 201.

Drawing on anthropological fieldwork for a master’s thesis, this talk will deal with the struggle to define the “family farm” in PEI and how this ambiguity helps or hinders the work of farmers, agribusiness and government. It will discuss how participant definitions of the “family farm” contrasted with how they farmed and were sometimes at odds with their ideals. This talk will also shed light on the possible reasons that agribusiness and governments look to the pastoral romanticism of “family farm.”

Heidi Haering lives in Charlottetown and has recently completed her MA in Anthropology from Memorial University. Her thesis is entitled: “Three keywords in the campaign against farmland consolidation and the loss of small farms through the lens of the Prince Edward Island Chapter of the National Farmers Union." 

This event is hosted by the Institute for Island Studies at UPEI. Free, all are welcome. 

The Department of Companion Animals will interview Dr. Julia Cusack for a tenure-track faculty position in Diagnostic Imaging. Dr. Cusack will be on campus on Wednesday, March 19, and Friday, March 21, 2025. 

Dr. Cusack received her DVM in 2019 from the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI. She then completed a large animal rotating internship and is currently completing an DVSc and clinical residency program in Diagnostic Imaging at the Ontario Veterinary College.

As part of the interview process, she has been asked to present a 50-minute seminar on two separate topics: the first, a topic that would be appropriate to teach to third-year veterinary students; the second, to present her research interests:

SEMINAR NOTICE - Dr. Julia Cusack

“Common Pitfalls in Pulmonary Patterns”

“Bilateral Limb Postmortem CT Imaging of Racehorses: Insights into Fractures, Stress Remodeling and Developmental Orthopedic Disease”

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12:30 pm, AVC Lecture Theatre B

Any interested faculty and staff are invited to attend. A copy of her CV and cover letter will be available from Jill Blaquiere (jnblaquiere@upei.ca). 

The City of Charlottetown is developing a new active transportation plan and is seeking community input. This could have an important impact on members of the UPEI campus community. To learn more about the plan, and provide feedback, please visit: https://www.charlottetownhall.ca/atplan.

A celebration of author Deirdre Kessler’s contributions to the PEI literary community will take place on Thursday, March 20, at 7:00 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI. The evening will be co-hosted by Dr. Richard Lemm, UPEI professor and Island author, and Dr. Laurie Brinklow, coordinator of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program at UPEI. It will include short readings of Kessler’s work by other Island writers, students, and friends.

Deirdre has had a pronounced influence on the Island’s culture and literary scene as an author, educator, and advocate for Lucy Maud Montgomery’s writing. She is a former Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, a novelist, children’s author, non-fiction writer, and occasional radio broadcaster. For many years, she has been a sessional professor with the UPEI Department of English, teaching children’s literature, creative writing, and a course on L.M. Montgomery. She has supported other writers as a workshop facilitator, book editor, and teacher. She has also been involved in the L.M. Montgomery Institute from its early days and is on the editorial board of the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies.

All are welcome to attend this free event sponsored by the Bookmark, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookstore, and the UPEI Department of English. For more information, please contact Heather Doran at heather@bookmarkreads.ca or 902-566-4888.

Take a breather, relax with friends, and paint a planter pot! This event is a great chance to be creative, meet new people, and envision ways to cultivate care and community on campus. How can each of us be a seed of change? What do each of us need to grow and thrive?

All art supplies will be provided, and you will receive seeds to grow in your new pot. 

Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome to attend. 

Hosted by the UPEI Student Union Student Wellness Coordinator and the UPEI Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office on March 19, 11:00 am at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, McMillan Hall.

We're wrapping our tenth anniversary year of Soup for the Soul with two more servings in March! 

Enjoy a warm bowl of soup from 11:30 am-1:00 pm on March 11 (served by the Athletics and Recreation Department) and March 25 (served by the staff from the Robertson Library) at the Chaplaincy Centre. 

As the Muslim community celebrates Ramadan, we will continue to have to-go cups available at both Soup for the Soul events.

Got a business idea you’re excited about? Join the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship for MiniPitch on Thursday, March 20 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. It’s a great opportunity for students to sharpen their presentation skills and develop new ideas. Prepare a three-minute pitch, face a three-minute Q&A, and participate in a two-minute feedback session to discover what you did well, where you can improve, and what steps you should take next to move forward with your idea!

The first eight presenters to register will have their spots booked, and we will have some wildcard spots at the event if you don’t get registered in time!

Sign up here!

Join us for an exciting, useful, and hands-on workshop focused on "Elevator with Amy Andrews and Jeremy Heartz" of the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship. The workshop will be taking place at Schurman Market Square on Tuesday, March 18, from 4:00--6:00 pm. This workshop will provide tools, tips, and tricks around executing an elevator pitch effectively, efficiently, and engagingly. This workshop is open to both Harry W. MacLauchlan Entrepreneurship Program participants as well as the general public. There will be pizza!

Register to attend here!

The fourth UPEI Board of Governors meeting of the 2024-2025 Academic Year will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 102, Alumni Hall. All board meetings generally include sessions that are open to the public. Certain agenda items, including but not limited to human resources discussions, may require the board to go into a closed session. For logistical purposes, members of the public who wish to attend the open session of a meeting are asked to contact board@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. Members of the public wishing to attend the public portion of a meeting must adhere to the UPEI Board of Governors' Meeting Observer Guidelines.

Title: Repurposing Biomass and Organic Waste into Engineered Biocarbon Materials

Presenter: Dr. Yulin Hu, assistant professor, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island 

Date and Time: March 21, 2025, 1:30–2:30 PM (Atlantic Time) 

Registration: https://t.ly/f2e2q (The webinar is free, but registration is needed to receive the Zoom link).

Join us for the 35th UPEI Faculty Development Summer Institute (FDSI) with multiple days of great professional development focusing on active learning in higher education. The FDSI is relevant to educators at all career stages, especially early career faculty and those looking at tenure and promotion. Ask your Dean or talk to colleagues about their FDSI experiences! Don't miss this opportunity to participate in what past participants have found to be a milestone experience in your teaching career! Join colleagues from across Canada for this year’s FDSI from May 26 to 29, 2025. To learn more, ask questions, and register, check out the FDSI website.  

Building work-integrated learning (WIL) into your courses can help students gain experience, build their network, and learn new skills. Join our lunch and learn with Experiential Education; we'll provide you some examples of what WIL looks like at UPEI and workshop in real time how to build WIL into your programs, courses, and assignments. Learn about what supports are available for planning, programming, and identifying partnerships. Join us on Tuesday March 25 at 12:00 noon in the Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library, Room 230.

The UPEI World University Service of Canada Committee is hosting a free Human Rights Education workshop on Monday, March 17 at 4:00 pm, SDU Main Building, Room 320, with guest speaker Shaun Perves. This workshop will discuss our rights on Prince Edward Island, and help university students with diverse backgrounds to understand their human rights. See you there! 

This event is free for all students to attend. 

IMPORTANT! All final exam scheduled from April 9-May 2 must be booked by March 26 at 11:59 pm!

Final exams are now available to be booked through accommodate! This deadline is to provide our testing services team with enough time to coordinate rooms, accommodations, and proctors. 

EARLY BOOKING INCENTIVE: Book before March 19 at 11:59 pm to be entered for prize draws. 

FINAL BOOKING DEADLINE: Wednesday, March 26 at 11:59 pm (late bookings will not be accepted.)

Please Note: 

• The 7-day booking minimum DOES NOT apply for final exams (April 9 - May 2). If you have any technical issues, an email must be sent to astesting@upei.ca by March 26 at 11:59 pm at the latest to ensure a seat for your exam.
• Due to the high volume of accommodated exams for finals, late bookings will not be accepted. Please double check in accommodate that you have all your exams booked. If the exam information is not in accommodate, please email astesting@upei.ca immediately. 
• 7:00 pm exams - all 7:00 pm exams are scheduled in accommodate to start at 6:30 pm. 
• Students with an accommodation for more than 1.5x - If you have a time accommodation that is greater than time and a half, you must contact astesting@upei.ca to request accommodations, as we need to manually book your exam. 

How to book a test or exam: Video | Step-by-step guide

PRIZE DRAW BONUS:  If you register for your final exams in accommodate by Wednesday March 19 at 11:59 pm, your name will be entered into a draw to win some prizes! If you do not have any final exams and would still like to enter, please email astesting@upei.ca to let us know, and your name will be entered into the draw. 

Best of luck with your exam preparation, and please reach out if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Accessibility Services Team

Are you or someone you know living with Alzheimer’s disease? We are conducting a research study to explore how physical activity (e.g., walking, jogging) affects mood, thinking skills, social engagement, and quality of life in people with Alzheimer’s disease on Prince Edward Island.

We are looking for adults aged 55 or older with a formal diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease to take part. Participation includes:

• Wearing a small, lightweight device (called an actical) for 7 days to track physical activity levels (not location).
• Answering questions about mood, thinking skills, social support, and quality of life (approximately 1 hour, online, by phone, or in-person).
• An optional follow-up interview (30 minutes) to discuss your experience with physical activity.

Participation will help improve understanding of how physical activity can support dementia care on PEI. All information will remain confidential. Participation is voluntary, and participants can withdraw at any time.

For more information or to sign up, please contact Fairouz Gaballa at strongresearchlab@gmail.com or leave a massage at 902-566-0941.

This research is part of a master’s degree in Island Studies with a focus in psychology. Some of the data will also contribute to an honours degree in psychology. This project has been approved by the UPEI Research Ethics Board and complies with tri-council guidelines for research involving human participants. 

The Application Review Committee invites campus community members to attend the research and teaching seminar by Dr. Hilary Caldwell, candidate for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Children, Youth and their Educational Geographies.

Dr. Caldwell completed her PhD in Kinesiology at McMaster University (2020). Currently, Dr. Caldwell is a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact Fellow (post-doctoral stream) with the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute. Dr. Caldwell's proposed research program at UPEI will generate evidence that can be used to update policies, programs, and environments to promote outdoor play and physical activity, with the overall goal of improving child health and well-being.

Teaching Seminar:

• Date/Time: Monday, March 17, 2025, 9:30 am
• Location: Memorial Hall 417

Research Seminar: 

• Date/Time: Monday, March 17, 1:15 pm
• Location: Memorial Hall 417

The teaching and research seminars will be recorded and available after the session.  There will be access to virtual attendance. Those interested in the recording or requiring access to the virtual session may contact mlsteele@upei.ca.

The Island Lecture Series is pleased to present a talk by Heidi Haering on Tuesday, March 18, at 7:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, Room 201.

Drawing on anthropological fieldwork for a master’s thesis, this talk will deal with the struggle to define the “family farm” in PEI and how this ambiguity helps or hinders the work of farmers, agribusiness and government. It will discuss how participant definitions of the “family farm” contrasted with how they farmed and were sometimes at odds with their ideals. This talk will also shed light on the possible reasons that agribusiness and governments look to the pastoral romanticism of “family farm.”

Heidi Haering lives in Charlottetown and has recently completed her MA in Anthropology from Memorial University. Her thesis is entitled: “Three keywords in the campaign against farmland consolidation and the loss of small farms through the lens of the Prince Edward Island Chapter of the National Farmers Union." 

This event is hosted by the Institute for Island Studies at UPEI. Free, all are welcome. 

The Department of Companion Animals will interview Dr. Julia Cusack for a tenure-track faculty position in Diagnostic Imaging. Dr. Cusack will be on campus on Wednesday, March 19, and Friday, March 21, 2025. 

Dr. Cusack received her DVM in 2019 from the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI. She then completed a large animal rotating internship and is currently completing an DVSc and clinical residency program in Diagnostic Imaging at the Ontario Veterinary College.

As part of the interview process, she has been asked to present a 50-minute seminar on two separate topics: the first, a topic that would be appropriate to teach to third-year veterinary students; the second, to present her research interests:

SEMINAR NOTICE - Dr. Julia Cusack

“Common Pitfalls in Pulmonary Patterns”

“Bilateral Limb Postmortem CT Imaging of Racehorses: Insights into Fractures, Stress Remodeling and Developmental Orthopedic Disease”

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12:30 pm, AVC Lecture Theatre B

Any interested faculty and staff are invited to attend. A copy of her CV and cover letter will be available from Jill Blaquiere (jnblaquiere@upei.ca).