Campus Notices
As finals approach, the Robertson Library is adjusting our spaces to better meet the study needs of our patrons. The following study zone designations will be in effect from April 9 to 22:
Silent Study Zones (Upper Floor)
For quiet spaces and uninterrupted focus, visit the:
- Upstairs sunroom
- Upstairs study carrels
- Single-person study rooms (book online via this link).
Quiet Collaboration Zones (Main Floor & Upstairs Reading Room)
For non-silent areas and group work, visit the:
- Upstairs reading room
- Group study rooms: bookable for groups of 2-8 people (book online via this link).
- Entire main floor, including the Library Commons
Reminder: Even in collaboration zones, please keep noise levels respectful for others.
Questions? Visit our service desk, use our online AskUs Chat, or check our website for room reservations and hours.
University of Prince Edward Island is hosting Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) 2025 Atlantic Regional Meeting in Charlottetown June 26 to 27. This event will focus on the future of international education through a series of sessions, roundtables and networking activities.
CBIE’s Atlantic Regional Meeting is an annual gathering of international education practitioners. It is an opportunity to share knowledge and resources and keep abreast of immigration and other changes in the sector. It also serves as an annual networking event for international education practitioners and is a precursor to the national conference held each November.
Registration is now open for the CBIE Atlantic Regional Meeting.
Iryna Kalynychenko, a candidate for the Management (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management) tenure-track position in the McDougall Faculty of Business, will give a presentation titled "Outcomes of Interpersonal Felt Distrust in the Workplace: An Identity Threat Perspective" on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1:00pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 329.
It was with great sadness that UPEI informed the campus community on April 3, 2025, of the death of UPEI student Nafisa Binte Hasan on March 31, 2025, due to illness. Originally from Bangladesh, Nafisa was a fourth-year student in the McDougall Faculty of Business.
The entire UPEI community extends condolences to Nafisa’s family and friends, and students, faculty, and staff in the McDougall Faculty of Business. Flags at the University have been lowered to half-mast in Nafisa’s memory.
Counsellors with UPEI Student Affairs are available for students needing support through this difficult time. To make an appointment, please contact them at studentserv@upei.ca. UPEI students, faculty, and staff can also access resources on the Department of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Human Rights site on myUPEI while eligible employees can call the Employee Assistance Program at 1-800-387-4765 for support.
The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Rahula Samaranayake's public presentation of his MEd research titled: "Exploring the Use of Digital Technology to Support Mathematics Learning in Pre-service Teacher Education"
Please join us on April 14 at 9:00 am in person at Memorial Hall, Room 417 or through the Zoom link below
https://upei.zoom.us/j/63312298077?pwd=9P6uSE02XMCtXb0vqucaEY0fI8eTSV.1
Meeting ID: 633 1229 8077
Passcode: 605283
Economic and community development professional Audrey Keating will give a lecture titled “The Magdalen Islands: A Living Lab for Territorial Innovation” on Tuesday, April 15, at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building, UPEI. Part of the UPEI Institute of Island Studies’ 2025 Island Lecture Series, the lecture is free and open to everyone.
Keating will talk about how the Magdalen Islands are leveraging its unique environment to foster economic development opportunities.
“Just a ferry ride away, the Magdalen Islands are emerging as a dynamic testing ground for innovation. We will explore how the region attracts businesses and startups eager to validate their solutions—from ocean tech to age tech—in real-world conditions.”
Keating is currently Commissioner for Business Development and Partnerships at La Vague, an innovation and development corporation leading the Magdalen Islands’ investment attraction strategy.
Join UPEI President Wendy Rodgers for casual "coffee chats" at Tim Horton's in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre on Monday, April 14 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.
The Faculty of Nursing would like to invite all to attend the public presentation of Tanya MacInnis’ Master of Nursing Thesis Defense, titled: "Interventions Used in Nursing Education that Change Nursing Students' Behaviour Related to Bullying and Incivility in Nursing Practice: A Scoping Review."
Monday, April 14, 2025, 9:30 am
Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 246
Everyone is welcome.
The deadline for Animal Care protocol submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, May 2, for the May meeting.
Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through 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.
Master of Arts in Island Studies student Tristan Atkins will defend his thesis entitled "Embracing community values and culture in academia: A community-based evaluation of a high-efficiency woodstove pilot project on the Island of Ponds, Nunatukavut," on Friday, April 11, 10:00 am-noon, in SDU Main Building, Room 211. Supervisor is Dr. Nick Mercer (Island Studies/Environmental Studies), with committee members Dr. Jean Mitchell (Anthropology) and Dr. Debbie Martin (Dalhousie University). The external examiner is Dr. Stephen Hill (Trent University). Everyone is invited! If you'd like to join online please email Laurie at brinklow@upei.ca for the link.
Iryna Kalynychenko, a candidate for the Management (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management) tenure-track position in the McDougall Faculty of Business, will give a presentation titled "Outcomes of Interpersonal Felt Distrust in the Workplace: An Identity Threat Perspective" on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1:00pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 329.
Scholarships and Awards applications due Wednesday, April 9
The Scholarships and Awards Office is encouraging application submissions for convocation, senior class, and year-end scholarships and awards! The deadline has been extended to Wednesday, April 9, 2025, for the following awards. Click the links provided below to access the application and/or recommendation forms for more information. Please submit your application(s) and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca or in-person to Dalton Hall 202.
- Arlie Parks Scholarship - In Memory of Dr. Kenneth MacIntyre (Science)
- Marylou Hughes Scholarship (Science)
- Gerald M. Gerry Birt Memorial Award (Science/Nursing/Arts)
- David Austin O'Malley-Keyes Memorial Award (Arts/Music)
- Frank J. Costello Scholarship (Arts/Education)
- Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Scholarship (Law)
- PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award (Arts/Campus Community)
- Dr. Graeme and Alberta Bryant Boswall Award (Campus Community)
- Dr. Regis Duffy Academic Achievement Award (Campus Community)
- UPEI Class of 1989 Award (Campus Community)
What is with all of this casting of pods lately? From the edges of the blogosphere in the days before the ubiquity of YouTube, podcasting became a thing. Its shape and scope have changed, but it remains a complex tableau of digitally dynamic, microphone-centred, for-you-by-you content design. When explaining the phenomenon, we can apply “multi-,” “inter-,” and “trans-” to all of our descriptors. Podcasting is multicultural, interdisciplinary, and transmedial (and all of the other combinations). Podcasting embraces digital-age culture with a kind of technophobic charm. Podcasting is rigorously research-based and terrifyingly casual with the truth. Podcasting is elitist and thus committed to accessibility. Podcasting is carefully designed and completely spontaneous.
Podcasting is becoming an emergent, dynamic, and transformative part of scholarly life. Increasingly, employers, grad school recruiters, start-ups, and nonprofit managers are looking for students with podcasting experience.
Using a collaborative, student-centred, inquiry-based pedagogical approach—all important parts of podcasting culture—Brenton Dickieson taught the inaugural podcasting course in Applied Communications, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) in Winter 2025. As an interdisciplinary applied arts program with a communications and cultural engagement focus, a workshop-styled course on podcasting makes a lot of sense.
While Brenton is the host and co-producer of the MaudCast: The Podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and has some experience teaching, he is not an expert in podcasting. In this lunch and learn, Brenton reflects upon an intense, beautiful, and learning-filled semester guiding students through the 5 stages of podcast design—from concept to product launch.
April 16, 12:00 pm, Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library Annex, Room 230
Join UPEI President Wendy Rodgers for casual "coffee chats" at Tim Horton's in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre on Monday, April 14 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.
On May 1, 2025, the PEI Alliance for Mental Well-Being is hosting PEI’s first-ever Reverse Science Fair on mental well-being in partnership with the UPEI Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building.
This event is designed to build connections and share knowledge between community and researchers by swapping the roles that each play in a traditional science fair. Community organizations are invited to host a booth where they’ll share their insights, observations, and challenges from practice. Researchers and students are invited to learn from the community, share insights about the research process, and explore collaborative opportunities to find evidence-based answers to the community’s questions.
The main goal of the Reverse Science Fair is to provide organizations and researchers with the opportunity to connect, learn from one another, and start thinking about how they can work together to improve mental well-being outcomes on PEI.
To learn more about the Reverse Science Fair, click here.
To register for the event, sign up through Eventbrite.
The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre (SJDAWC) at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) invites you to its three-part webinar series exploring animal welfare issues in small mammals kept as pets. This series will provide participants with insights on the care and welfare of small companion animals, with an emphasis on rabbits and rodents.
The webinars feature Dr. Lee Niel, Dr. Carol Tinga, and Dr. Dan O’Neill, and will take place on April 15, 22, and 29, beginning at 4:00 pm.
Veterinarians and veterinary technicians are eligible for continuing education credit. The webinar cost is $50 per webinar, or $120 for all three. There will be no charge for students.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Participating veterinarians and veterinary technicians are eligible to earn one hour of RACE-accredited continuing education per webinar. Participants are required to attend the live webinar to earn this credit. RACE-program number: 20-1286545.
Add some student energy to your team this summer. Ambitious UPEI Co-op students are seeking work experiences related to their program of study and opportunities to make connections in the workforce.
Students' programs include Computer Science, Business, Economics, Actuarial Science, Analytics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Studies, and Applied Communication, Leadership & Culture.
Contact Karen Turner, job development coordinator for UPEI Co-operative Education, at co-op@upei.ca
The deadline for Animal Care protocol submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, May 2, for the May meeting.
Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through 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.
As finals approach, the Robertson Library is adjusting our spaces to better meet the study needs of our patrons. The following study zone designations will be in effect from April 9 to 22:
Silent Study Zones (Upper Floor)
For quiet spaces and uninterrupted focus, visit the:
- Upstairs sunroom
- Upstairs study carrels
- Single-person study rooms (book online via this link).
Quiet Collaboration Zones (Main Floor & Upstairs Reading Room)
For non-silent areas and group work, visit the:
- Upstairs reading room
- Group study rooms: bookable for groups of 2-8 people (book online via this link).
- Entire main floor, including the Library Commons
Reminder: Even in collaboration zones, please keep noise levels respectful for others.
Questions? Visit our service desk, use our online AskUs Chat, or check our website for room reservations and hours.
Iryna Kalynychenko, a candidate for the Management (Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management) tenure-track position in the McDougall Faculty of Business, will give a presentation titled "Outcomes of Interpersonal Felt Distrust in the Workplace: An Identity Threat Perspective" on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1:00pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 329.
