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

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!

On Wednesday, July 12, between 10:00 and 10:30 pm, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca. During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable. 

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

The UPEI Physics Department invites everyone to view the sun through our telescopes this summer. Meet us in 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 up 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.

Viewings will be held 12:00-1:30 pm on the following dates:

• July 11
• July 25
• August 8
• August 22

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

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.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

The UPEI Physics Department invites everyone to view the sun through our telescopes this summer. Meet us in 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 up 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.

Viewings will be held 12:00-1:30 pm on the following dates:

• July 11
• July 25
• August 8
• August 22

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

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.

We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13, from 9:00 am - 12 noon, in St. Peters Bay, PEI.

The event is open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. Throughout the morning, there will be tours of the facility, project presentations by current students and researchers, and drone demonstrations by the flight crew of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability.

This event is free for everyone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the event, please contact climatesense@upei.ca.

In our effort to make Prince Edward Island a better place to live, work and play, we invite all Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Communities on PEI to share your personal lived experiences of racism. Whether you’ve always called PEI home, or if you are a newcomer or a past resident, this is your opportunity to be heard.

The survey will touch on your personal experiences of encountering racism within various systems, like healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

Your responses will remain confidential and anonymous, and will contribute to a research study led by BIPOC-USHR.

To access the survey, click the link here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJ2VQ6K

Questions? Please reach out to: research@bipocushr.org or sroy@upei.ca

Doing this survey may trigger traumatic memories. If you need supportive resources, please visit the links below.

https://www.healingincolour.com/directory

https://www.blacktherapistlist.com/ 

https://counselling.students.yorku.ca/coping-with-race-related-stress
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/healing-within/202206/the-healing-racial-trauma

This survey is made possible with support from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

#Healthcare #Housing #Education #Employment #EvidenceBasedPolicy #AntiRacism #LivedExperience

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

An all-star cast of Island musicians will present Hard Times Come Again on Sunday, July 9, at 3:00 pm at historic St. Mary's Church in Kensington. Featuring UPEI faculty members Morgan Saulnier, Sean Kemp, and Natalie Williams Calhoun, the Hard Times Orchestra also includes Cameron MacDuffee, Brielle Ansems, Adam Hill, Jeffrey Bazett-Jones, Chris Corrigan, and Andrew Murray. Tickets are available at Under The Spire Festival (902-836-4933) or online (https://underthespire.ca). 

Composed by Adam Hill, Hard Times Come Again is a concert-length chamber-folk suite that draws on oral history and connects the Great Depression to contemporary times through stories of hope and transformation. The piece is made up of seven songs with lyrics derived from historical interviews about the Great Depression. The interviewees represent a diverse demographic, young and old, from farmers and salespeople to artists and politicians. Complementing these songs are seven electroacoustic interludes that tell contemporary tales. Hill conducted his own set of interviews with Island artists and combined samples from those conversations with organic and synthetic sounds. The result is an emotionally evocative musical experience that sheds light on what we value and how we lead our lives in accordance with those values. 

Tickets are available at Under the Spire Festival.

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last THREE draws, the total pot has grown to more than $6,750, with half going to the winner of the draw.

Gold Rush is a virtual fundraising initiative that raises funds for UPEI’s athletic programs. 

Play today and every week for a chance to win! Download the UPEI Panthers app from the App Store or on Google Play, or play from your computer. The weekly draw is held at 8:00 pm every Saturday.

In our effort to make Prince Edward Island a better place to live, work and play, we invite all Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Communities on PEI to share your personal lived experiences of racism. Whether you’ve always called PEI home, or if you are a newcomer or a past resident, this is your opportunity to be heard.

The survey will touch on your personal experiences of encountering racism within various systems, like healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

Your responses will remain confidential and anonymous, and will contribute to a research study led by BIPOC-USHR.

To access the survey, click the link here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJ2VQ6K

Questions? Please reach out to: research@bipocushr.org or sroy@upei.ca

Doing this survey may trigger traumatic memories. If you need supportive resources, please visit the links below.

https://www.healingincolour.com/directory

https://www.blacktherapistlist.com/ 

https://counselling.students.yorku.ca/coping-with-race-related-stress
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/healing-within/202206/the-healing-racial-trauma

This survey is made possible with support from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

#Healthcare #Housing #Education #Employment #EvidenceBasedPolicy #AntiRacism #LivedExperience

An all-star cast of Island musicians will present Hard Times Come Again on Sunday, July 9, at 3:00 pm at historic St. Mary's Church in Kensington. Featuring UPEI faculty members Morgan Saulnier, Sean Kemp, and Natalie Williams Calhoun, the Hard Times Orchestra also includes Cameron MacDuffee, Brielle Ansems, Adam Hill, Jeffrey Bazett-Jones, Chris Corrigan, and Andrew Murray. Tickets are available at Under The Spire Festival (902-836-4933) or online (https://underthespire.ca). 

Composed by Adam Hill, Hard Times Come Again is a concert-length chamber-folk suite that draws on oral history and connects the Great Depression to contemporary times through stories of hope and transformation. The piece is made up of seven songs with lyrics derived from historical interviews about the Great Depression. The interviewees represent a diverse demographic, young and old, from farmers and salespeople to artists and politicians. Complementing these songs are seven electroacoustic interludes that tell contemporary tales. Hill conducted his own set of interviews with Island artists and combined samples from those conversations with organic and synthetic sounds. The result is an emotionally evocative musical experience that sheds light on what we value and how we lead our lives in accordance with those values. 

Tickets are available at Under the Spire Festival.

Troy Life & Fire Safety will be performing the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus beginning Thursday, July 6, 2023. As part of these inspections, there will be testing of alarms. There will be an audible notification stating that this is a test at the beginning of testing and again when the testing is completed. 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 2 hours) of the total time they are in the building.

Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre – July 6

Alumni Hall – July 7

Health Sciences Building – July 7

Alumni Canada Games Place – July 10

Chaplaincy Centre – July 10

Campus Kids Child Care Centre – July 10

Don and Marion McDougall Hall – July 10

Cass Science Hall – July 11

Dalton Hall – July 11

WA Murphy Student Center – July 12

SDU Main Building – July 12

KC Irving Chemistry Centre – July 13

Memorial Hall – July 13

Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre – July 14

Steel Building – July 14

Central Utility Building – July 18 and 19

Duffy Science Centre – July 20 and 21

Kelley Memorial Building – July 24

Robertson Library – July 25

Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering – July 26

Bill and 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 – 18

Atlantic Veterinary College – August 21 – 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.

We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13, from 9:00 am - 12 noon, in St. Peters Bay, PEI.

The event is open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. Throughout the morning, there will be tours of the facility, project presentations by current students and researchers, and drone demonstrations by the flight crew of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability.

This event is free for everyone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the event, please contact climatesense@upei.ca.

An all-star cast of Island musicians will present Hard Times Come Again on Sunday, July 9, at 3:00 pm at historic St. Mary's Church in Kensington. Featuring UPEI faculty members Morgan Saulnier, Sean Kemp, and Natalie Williams Calhoun, the Hard Times Orchestra also includes Cameron MacDuffee, Brielle Ansems, Adam Hill, Jeffrey Bazett-Jones, Chris Corrigan, and Andrew Murray. Tickets are available at Under The Spire Festival (902-836-4933) or online (https://underthespire.ca). 

Composed by Adam Hill, Hard Times Come Again is a concert-length chamber-folk suite that draws on oral history and connects the Great Depression to contemporary times through stories of hope and transformation. The piece is made up of seven songs with lyrics derived from historical interviews about the Great Depression. The interviewees represent a diverse demographic, young and old, from farmers and salespeople to artists and politicians. Complementing these songs are seven electroacoustic interludes that tell contemporary tales. Hill conducted his own set of interviews with Island artists and combined samples from those conversations with organic and synthetic sounds. The result is an emotionally evocative musical experience that sheds light on what we value and how we lead our lives in accordance with those values. 

Tickets are available at Under the Spire Festival.

Troy Life & Fire Safety will be performing the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus beginning Thursday, July 6, 2023. As part of these inspections, there will be testing of alarms. There will be an audible notification stating that this is a test at the beginning of testing and again when the testing is completed. 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 2 hours) of the total time they are in the building.

Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre – July 6

Alumni Hall – July 7

Health Sciences Building – July 7

Alumni Canada Games Place – July 10

Chaplaincy Centre – July 10

Campus Kids Child Care Centre – July 10

Don and Marion McDougall Hall – July 10

Cass Science Hall – July 11

Dalton Hall – July 11

WA Murphy Student Center – July 12

SDU Main Building – July 12

KC Irving Chemistry Centre – July 13

Memorial Hall – July 13

Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre – July 14

Steel Building – July 14

Central Utility Building – July 18 and 19

Duffy Science Centre – July 20 and 21

Kelley Memorial Building – July 24

Robertson Library – July 25

Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering – July 26

Bill and 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 – 18

Atlantic Veterinary College – August 21 – 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 excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last THREE draws, the total pot has grown to more than $6,750, with half going to the winner of the draw.

Gold Rush is a virtual fundraising initiative that raises funds for UPEI’s athletic programs. 

Play today and every week for a chance to win! Download the UPEI Panthers app from the App Store or on Google Play, or play from your computer. The weekly draw is held at 8:00 pm every Saturday.

Taking a summer course and looking for some support with a writing or research assignment or presentation? Teaching a course and need a place to send students for support with an assignment? Keep us in mind.

The Writing Centre will be open, offering a limited schedule but with appointments available six days a week, in RL 274 (closed Saturdays) from Friday, July 7, to Thursday, August 10.  As always, to see our schedule and make an appointment, go to https://upei.mywconline.com/

Our summer tutors can also help you refine resumés and cover letters!

Have a great summer, everyone!

We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13, from 9:00 am - 12 noon, in St. Peters Bay, PEI.

The event is open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. Throughout the morning, there will be tours of the facility, project presentations by current students and researchers, and drone demonstrations by the flight crew of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability.

This event is free for everyone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the event, please contact climatesense@upei.ca.

MSc in Human Biology thesis defense

Thursday, July 6, 2023, 9:00 am, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 243

Presenter:  Kevin Douillette

Title: Patient and Staff Perceptions of Exercise Programs for Hemodialysis and Cancer Patients

Abstract: The importance of exercise is crucial for apparently healthy individuals and can be even more important for clinical populations. The purpose of this study was to examine patient and healthcare professional (HCP) perceptions of exercise programs aimed at cancer patients/survivors and hemodialysis patients. Pre-identified codes were used to conduct individual semi-structured interviews with seven cancer and hemodialysis patients (three men and four women) between the ages of 26 and 78 and eight HCPs (two men and six women) between the ages of 30 and 50. Themes from HCPs were health-related barriers, healthy behaviour changes, increased knowledge, and client-centered exercise programs. Themes from the patients were lack of awareness, healthy behaviour changes, social support, and increased exercise knowledge. Based on the results of this study, it is evident that both the HCPs and patients believe that there is value in participating in exercise programs for cancer and hemodialysis patients.

Everyone is welcome.