New African Canadians and International Cities of Peace are organizing a Global Mental Well-Being and Substance (Mis)Use Conference from August 11 to 13 at the University of Prince Edward Island. The theme is Rest, Recovery, and Resilience During and Beyond Pandemics. Delegates will showcase knowledge and research from community members, advocates, service providers, allied health professionals, media, and policymakers.

The conference will take place in the UPEI Performing Arts Centre and Don and Marion McDougall Hall. Details on sessions being held at each venue will be available soon. 

The registration fee has been waived for all Islanders and students. For more information, click here. To register, click here. For all other inquiries, email sroy@upei.ca or luyombya@gmail.com.

The UPEI Student Union will be participating in the 2023 Pride Parade on Saturday, July 29 and invites all students, alumni, staff, and faculty to join them by meeting at 11:00 a.m. on parade day at Terry Fox Drive in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings. Look for the Panther Patrol van! The parade begins at 12:00 p.m. and ends approximately at 12:30 p.m.

All you need to do to join the UPEI parade team is to be yourself and be ready to wave and cheer. If you like, you can purchase a UPEI Pride t-shirt from the bookstore or you can make your own! Wear a UPEI shirt or hat and add a little Pride colour! Additionally, the Student Union will be handing out bucket hats, flags, fans, and stickers.

For a full schedule of the week's events, check out the 2023 PEI Pride Festival website.

If you’re unable to make it to the Parade, don your bright rainbow colours all week to express your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Come show your Pride!

It is Summer Reunion time here at UPEI!

Summer Reunion takes place from July 27-29, with many exciting events to celebrate our reunion groups. 

Event highlights include:

• SDU All Years' Mass - Friday, July 28, 11:00 am
• SDU All Years' Luncheon - Friday, July 28, 12:30 pm
• All Years' Campus Tour - Friday, July 28, 5:00 pm
• All Years' Milestone Reunion Reception - Friday, July 28, 6:00 pm
• PWC Summer Reunion - Saturday, July 29, 2:00 pm

To learn more, visit upei.ca/summerreunion

This summer's student and faculty interdisciplinary research forum and workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 26, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142.   

We invite attendance from all people from campus, community, and government interested in music from different disciplinary perspectives. A particular focus is the issue of equal access to music education in the public school system, integrating the work and ideas of students and faculty researchers, practitioners (teachers), musicians, and community members. Registration is required for planning purposes. Please follow this link. For more information, please email Annabel Cohen (Psychology) at acohen@upei.ca or Linyuan Guo Brennan (Education) at liguo@upei.ca. 

On Wednesday, August 2, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to 12:00 am. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with MyUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email directly using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

The Faculty of Education invites everyone to attend Paulina Maria Huayamave's public presentation of her PhD dissertation proposal research titled "Transformative Teacher Education in Search of the Sumak Kawsay (the Good Living): A Mixed-Methods Study on Critical Global Citizenship Education in Ecuador." 

Please join us in person in Memorial Hall 417 or through Zoom at https://upei.zoom.us/j/63649137607?pwd=M1RxQ1JmZDZrZWFKWXYxdHorZkdJQT09 (Meeting ID: 636 4913 7607, Passcode: 842362)

The UPEI Student Union will be participating in the 2023 Pride Parade on Saturday, July 29 and invites all students, alumni, staff, and faculty to join them by meeting at 11:00 a.m. on parade day at Terry Fox Drive in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings. Look for the Panther Patrol van! The parade begins at 12:00 p.m. and ends approximately at 12:30 p.m.

All you need to do to join the UPEI parade team is to be yourself and be ready to wave and cheer. If you like, you can purchase a UPEI Pride t-shirt from the bookstore or you can make your own! Wear a UPEI shirt or hat and add a little Pride colour! Additionally, the Student Union will be handing out bucket hats, flags, fans, and stickers.

For a full schedule of the week's events, check out the 2023 PEI Pride Festival website.

If you’re unable to make it to the Parade, don your bright rainbow colours all week to express your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Come show your Pride!

Troy Life & Fire Safety is performing the annual fire alarm inspections throughout the campus. As part of these inspections, the alarms are being tested. There will be an audible notification stating that this is a test at the start and at the completion of testing. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. The ringing of alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. This will be a small portion (up to two hours) of the total time they are in the building. 

Pleasew note the new date for testing in Memorial Hall.

• Kelley Memorial Building: July 24
• Robertson Library: July 25
• Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering: July 26
• Memorial Hall: July 27 (NEW DATE)
• Bill & Denise Andrew Hall: August 8 and 9
• Bernardine Hall: August 10
• Blanchard Hall: August 11
• Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall: August 14
• New Residence Building: August 14 to 18
• Atlantic Veterinary College: August 21 to 25
• Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation: August 28

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.

The UPEI Physics Department invites everyone to view the sun through our telescopes today (weather permitting). Between 12:00-1:30 pm, drop by the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library where we will have our hydrogen-alpha telescope set up to let you view the sun's atmosphere. From there, we will direct you to the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory on the top of Memorial Hall, where you can view sunspots on the sun's surface through a white-light filter on our large observatory telescope.

Our ground-based telescope is accessible for people with all mobility levels. It is necessary to be able to climb stairs to reach our observatory telescope.

If the sky is too cloudy, the viewing will have to be cancelled. Check our website for the most up-to-date event status: https://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/

We are holding these viewings every two weeks. The next event dates are August 8 and 22.

The University of Prince Edward Island community is saddened to learn of the passing of James "Jim" MacAulay, Saint Dunstan's University alumnus and recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from UPEI. Campus flags have been lowered to half-mast in his memory.

Read the full story on upei.ca. His obituary can be viewed at https://www.belvederefh.com/obituary/James-MacAulay

UPEI sends its deepest condolences to Dr. MacAulay’s family and friends.

It is Summer Reunion time here at UPEI!

Summer Reunion takes place from July 27-29, with many exciting events to celebrate our reunion groups. 

Event highlights include:

• SDU All Years' Mass - Friday, July 28, 11:00 am
• SDU All Years' Luncheon - Friday, July 28, 12:30 pm
• All Years' Campus Tour - Friday, July 28, 5:00 pm
• All Years' Milestone Reunion Reception - Friday, July 28, 6:00 pm
• PWC Summer Reunion - Saturday, July 29, 2:00 pm

To learn more, visit upei.ca/summerreunion

This summer's student and faculty interdisciplinary research forum and workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 26, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142.   

We invite attendance from all people from campus, community, and government interested in music from different disciplinary perspectives. A particular focus is the issue of equal access to music education in the public school system, integrating the work and ideas of students and faculty researchers, practitioners (teachers), musicians, and community members. Registration is required for planning purposes. Please follow this link. For more information, please email Annabel Cohen (Psychology) at acohen@upei.ca or Linyuan Guo Brennan (Education) at liguo@upei.ca. 

The Faculty of Education invites everyone to attend Paulina Maria Huayamave's public presentation of her PhD dissertation proposal research titled "Transformative Teacher Education in Search of the Sumak Kawsay (the Good Living): A Mixed-Methods Study on Critical Global Citizenship Education in Ecuador." 

Please join us in person in Memorial Hall 417 or through Zoom at https://upei.zoom.us/j/63649137607?pwd=M1RxQ1JmZDZrZWFKWXYxdHorZkdJQT09 (Meeting ID: 636 4913 7607, Passcode: 842362)

UPEI's Marketing and Production unit is actively working to improve the accessibility of our website content. The majority of this work can be managed by our web team; however, UPEI staff, faculty, and students can help improve the overall accessibility of our site.

Visit the Marketing and Communications team site on myUPEI to find out why web accessibility is important, and to access resources and tools for creating accessible documents.

If you have any questions about web accessibility, the provided resources, and our work, please contact web@upei.ca. 

The University of Prince Edward Island community is saddened to learn of the passing of James "Jim" MacAulay, Saint Dunstan's University alumnus and recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from UPEI. Campus flags have been lowered to half-mast in his memory.

Read the full story on upei.ca. His obituary can be viewed at https://www.belvederefh.com/obituary/James-MacAulay

UPEI sends its deepest condolences to Dr. MacAulay’s family and friends.

This summer's student and faculty interdisciplinary research forum and workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 26, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142.   

We invite attendance from all people from campus, community, and government interested in music from different disciplinary perspectives. A particular focus is the issue of equal access to music education in the public school system, integrating the work and ideas of students and faculty researchers, practitioners (teachers), musicians, and community members. Registration is required for planning purposes. Please follow this link. For more information, please email Annabel Cohen (Psychology) at acohen@upei.ca or Linyuan Guo Brennan (Education) at liguo@upei.ca. 

UPEI employees who pay for their parking permits through payroll deduction can now renew their permits for 2023-2024. Permits with no expiry date (Lots B, C, and reserved spaces) must be renewed yearly. All permit holders will be reassigned to their current lot/space; new employees will be assigned to the general lots.

To renew your permit, please go to “Buy a staff or faculty parking pass” on the UPEI Security web page (NOTE: this link will not work with Internet Explorer). All fields with a RED asterisk must be filled, including your office phone number and whether you have an electric vehicle. 

Please note the following:

• If you wish to add additional information after you have submitted your form, you must submit a new application and inform parking@upei.ca that you have done so.
• If you change your vehicle, please email parking@upei.ca with the make, model, province or state, and plate number.
• If a student in your household is attending UPEI starting in September and has their own vehicle, please include their vehicle information, name, and student ID number on your application.
• If your permit is for a gated lot and a student in your household will be using your vehicle to come and go during the workday, please include their information on the application as an additional driver.
• If you use payroll deduction, and no longer wish to use a UPEI lot to park, please email parking@upei.ca so we can stop your deduction. 
• Employees who park in Lots B, C, F, and G and are taking a leave of absence must email parking@upei.ca with their ID #, name, departure date, and expected return date in order to maintain access to their assigned lot.
• If you would like to be added to the wait list for a designated lot or wish to change lots, please email parking@upei.ca with the following information:
  • employee ID #
  • name (last, first)
  • email
  • phone number
  • current lot
  • requested lot: 
• Note: If you are already on the waitlist, there is no need to resubmit. While you are on the waitlist, you will be reassigned to your current lot until a spot opens in your requested location.

Please direct any questions or information changes to parking@upei.ca

NOTE: Parking meters are enforced Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, year-round. 

The Faculty of Education invites everyone to attend Paulina Maria Huayamave's public presentation of her PhD dissertation proposal research titled "Transformative Teacher Education in Search of the Sumak Kawsay (the Good Living): A Mixed-Methods Study on Critical Global Citizenship Education in Ecuador." 

Please join us in person in Memorial Hall 417 or through Zoom at https://upei.zoom.us/j/63649137607?pwd=M1RxQ1JmZDZrZWFKWXYxdHorZkdJQT09 (Meeting ID: 636 4913 7607, Passcode: 842362)

With the recent release of the Rubin Thomlinson report, the University has coordinated two new confidential processes to support faculty and staff who have experienced harm from harassment, sexual violence, or discrimination at UPEI.

Confidential personal counselling

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre has engaged a psychologist, who is bilingual (English and French), to meet individually with faculty and staff Tuesday and Wednesday mornings throughout the summer.

Employees may email Caylin Jenkins at cbjenkins@upei.ca, indicating “Appointment required” in the subject line. Caylin will coordinate their appointment with the psychologist and confirm the location of the appointment.

Making a confidential disclosure

People have asked about the process for making disclosures of incidents of harassment or discrimination by senior executive members of the University. The University has established an independent third-party process to address any such issues with Resonance Inc., a multidisciplinary human resources firm, based in Saint John, NB, that specializes in workplace assessments. The contact person at Resonance is Trisha Perry, who may be reached at tperry@resonanceinc.ca or (506)799-0412.

This summer's student and faculty interdisciplinary research forum and workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 26, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142.   

We invite attendance from all people from campus, community, and government interested in music from different disciplinary perspectives. A particular focus is the issue of equal access to music education in the public school system, integrating the work and ideas of students and faculty researchers, practitioners (teachers), musicians, and community members. Registration is required for planning purposes. Please follow this link. For more information, please email Annabel Cohen (Psychology) at acohen@upei.ca or Linyuan Guo Brennan (Education) at liguo@upei.ca.