The SchoolDude portal will not be available from 11 pm on March 17, 2023, to 11 pm on March 18, 2023, because of planned maintenance.

Our Brightly product’s web hosting service for SchoolDude will be upgraded to Amazon Web Services. During the maintenance period, you will be unable to access your products including Maintenance Direct (SchoolDude)

Clients will be unable to submit, and technicians will not be able to process, update, or complete work orders during this time period. Please submit your work order on March 19. If it is an emergency, please follow normal protocol and contact Security at 0384.  

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact the Work Order Desk at 0312.

Registration is now open for the Faculty Development Summer Institute that will be taking place June 6 to 9, 2023.  Funds from the Office of the VPAR are available for a discounted registration rate for 15 seats. For information about the program and a link to registration, see the Institute website. Email TLC@upei.ca if you'd like to receive the discount code available for UPEI instructors.   

IT Systems and Services will be performing network maintenance on Sunday, March 19, from 8:00 to 10:00 am. During this time, there will be intermittent connectivity on the campus network. 

If you are off campus, many services such as Microsoft solutions (including email), Google, Zoom, upei.ca, Moodle, etc., that are in the cloud will not be impacted.  

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. 

The UPEI Department of Music Faculty will present a recital on Sunday, March 19, at 4:00 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

The recital will feature performances by Magdalena von Eccher (piano), Sung Ha Shin-Bouey (soprano), Stephen Bouey (bass baritone), Natalie Williams Calhoun (cello), Nicole Strum (saxophone), Greg Irvine (tuba), Frances Gray (piano), Morgan Saulnier (flute/piano), Karem Simon (clarinet), Amy Simon (clarinet), and Dale Sorensen (trombone).

The faculty members have chosen a diverse selection of repertoire including compositions by Franz Liszt, Amy Beach, Otar Taktakishvili, George Frideric Handel, and a new work for trombone by American composer James David.

Admission is $30 for adults and $10 for students, payable by cash at the door of the event.

The UPEI Men’s Hockey team is getting ready to host the national championship, the U SPORTS Cavendish Farms University Cup, March 16–19.

Come cheer on your Panthers in the quarter-final game against the University of Calgary on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, at 7:00 pm! Don’t forget to wear your “green” and white! Join us at 6:00 pm beforehand at the Old Dublin Panther Lounge St. Patrick's Day tailgate party in the Eastlink Centre Trade Centre. 

To purchase a game ticket at a special price of $15, faculty and staff must go to the Eastlink Centre box office in person and present their UPEI ID an hour prior to the game. 

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last SIX draws, the total pot has grown to more than $14,210, 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.

The Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the next event in this year’s ConneXions Series, entitled Unfinished Surveillance: “Smart” Cameras, Speeding Trucks, and Hidden Labor in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Philippe Messier, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will explore the unfinished conditions of Hyderabad’s infrastructure of mobility by discussing the creative acts of avoidance by stonecutters across a city dominated by tracking technologies.

This event will be held on Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 320.

The Connexions Series aims to foster understanding of the role that the liberal arts play in the construction of knowledge and ways of knowing, and in making sense of the complexities of the world around us.

For more information, contact Andrew Zinck, ConneXions Coordinator, at azinck@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Diane Montgomery's public presentation of her PhD dissertation proposal research titled "A Collaborative Student-Initiated Assessment Approach to Support Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms." Please join us through the Zoom link below.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://upei.zoom.us/j/65723925036?pwd=QVlXbjVZWDhQS0hlWURPcDFlN0hvdz09

Meeting ID: 657 2392 5036

Passcode: 047265

The SchoolDude portal will not be available from 11 pm on March 17, 2023, to 11 pm on March 18, 2023, because of planned maintenance.

Our Brightly product’s web hosting service for SchoolDude will be upgraded to Amazon Web Services. During the maintenance period, you will be unable to access your products including Maintenance Direct (SchoolDude)

Clients will be unable to submit, and technicians will not be able to process, update, or complete work orders during this time period. Please submit your work order on March 19. If it is an emergency, please follow normal protocol and contact Security at 0384.  

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact the Work Order Desk at 0312.

Due to inclement weather forecast over an extended period this week, and in the interest of safety for all concerned, the public presentations by candidates for the Dean of Education have been cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date.

Are you a chief warden, floor warden, or guardian for your building? Do you know what to do if there is a building evacuation? Do you have questions about your role as a warden or guardian or the evacuation procedures for your building?

UPEI Health, Safety, and Environment will hold a building emergency plan session for chief wardens, floor wardens, and guardians on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 10:15 am in Andrew Hall Room 142. The session should only take 30 minutes.

Please let hse@upei.ca know if you are interested in attending.

IT Systems and Services will be performing network maintenance on Sunday, March 19, from 8:00 to 10:00 am. During this time, there will be intermittent connectivity on the campus network. 

If you are off campus, many services such as Microsoft solutions (including email), Google, Zoom, upei.ca, Moodle, etc., that are in the cloud will not be impacted.  

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. 

The UPEI Department of Music Faculty will present a recital on Sunday, March 19, at 4:00 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

The recital will feature performances by Magdalena von Eccher (piano), Sung Ha Shin-Bouey (soprano), Stephen Bouey (bass baritone), Natalie Williams Calhoun (cello), Nicole Strum (saxophone), Greg Irvine (tuba), Frances Gray (piano), Morgan Saulnier (flute/piano), Karem Simon (clarinet), Amy Simon (clarinet), and Dale Sorensen (trombone).

The faculty members have chosen a diverse selection of repertoire including compositions by Franz Liszt, Amy Beach, Otar Taktakishvili, George Frideric Handel, and a new work for trombone by American composer James David.

Admission is $30 for adults and $10 for students, payable by cash at the door of the event.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation in the Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar series on Friday, March 17, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.

Ryan Cheverie, MSc Candidate, Environmental Sciences will present “Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation in a Threatened Endemic Species (Symphyotrichum laurentianum) as an Aid for Conservation.” And Melanie Hutchins, MSc Candidate, Environmental Sciences, will presen: “Phyllo-what? Real-time analysis of leaf pattern development at the shoot apex.”

All are welcome.

The UPEI Men’s Hockey team is getting ready to host the national championship, the U SPORTS Cavendish Farms University Cup, March 16–19.

Come cheer on your Panthers in the quarter-final game against the University of Calgary on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, at 7:00 pm! Don’t forget to wear your “green” and white! Join us at 6:00 pm beforehand at the Old Dublin Panther Lounge St. Patrick's Day tailgate party in the Eastlink Centre Trade Centre. 

To purchase a game ticket at a special price of $15, faculty and staff must go to the Eastlink Centre box office in person and present their UPEI ID an hour prior to the game. 

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last SIX draws, the total pot has grown to more than $14,210, 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.

The Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the next event in this year’s ConneXions Series, entitled Unfinished Surveillance: “Smart” Cameras, Speeding Trucks, and Hidden Labor in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Philippe Messier, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will explore the unfinished conditions of Hyderabad’s infrastructure of mobility by discussing the creative acts of avoidance by stonecutters across a city dominated by tracking technologies.

This event will be held on Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 320.

The Connexions Series aims to foster understanding of the role that the liberal arts play in the construction of knowledge and ways of knowing, and in making sense of the complexities of the world around us.

For more information, contact Andrew Zinck, ConneXions Coordinator, at azinck@upei.ca.

Join Josh MacFadyen and Libby Osgood  to hear about the OER textbooks that they developed with support from the OER Development Grant program. Bring your curiosity and questions to the Teaching and Learning Centre in the Robertson Library Annex Room 230 on Wednesday, March 15, at 12:30. We'll take a look at these Open Educational Resources and talk about ideas on ways to develop more OER for our students.  

The OER Development Program through the Teaching and Learning Centre and the Robertson Library is accepting grant applications for the creation or adaptation of open educational resources (OERs). The grant types include:

• Open Textbook Grant: Two grants of up to $6000
  • the development of a new open textbook on a topic that is currently not covered by an existing open textbook; 
• Open Textbook Adaptation Grant: up to $4,000
  • the adaptation of one or more open textbooks to create a new version or edition of an open textbook (i.e., a Canadian edition of an existing open textbook);
• Supplementary Resources Grant: up to $2,000
  • the creation of ancillary materials for existing open textbooks, including, but not limited to test banks, slide decks, or interactive media, etc.

The deadline for applications is Friday, April 28, 2023, with work expected to begin during the spring or summer of 2023. 

More information is available at https://library.upei.ca/OERProgram/grants.

Questions about your grant idea? Contact TLC@upei.ca. 

Questions about OERs? Read more at http://opencontent.org/definition/.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Diane Montgomery's public presentation of her PhD dissertation proposal research titled "A Collaborative Student-Initiated Assessment Approach to Support Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms." Please join us through the Zoom link below.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://upei.zoom.us/j/65723925036?pwd=QVlXbjVZWDhQS0hlWURPcDFlN0hvdz09

Meeting ID: 657 2392 5036

Passcode: 047265