Campus Notices
Scheduled Outage: DNS maintenance (March 13, 2018) beginning at 10:00 pm
Current Status: Initial Posting
Campus Affected: UPEI Campus
Systems Affected: All
Outage Times: Mar 13 2019, 10:00 pm - Mar 13 2019, 11:59 pm
Details
On Wednesday March 13th, 2019, ITSS will be performing maintenance on our campus DNS servers between 10pm and Midnight.
Devices on campus that are connected to wireless or the wired network may experience a delay when communicating with websites or services during this time.
Off-campus access to UPEI websites and services will be unaffected.
If you receive an error message and are unable to access a service during this window, please wait at least 5 minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
The The Atlantic Research Group on Economics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity, Saint Mary’s University will present “A Community Forum on Immigration, Mobility and Economy,” McMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, on March 15, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. The forum is presented in partnership with the University of Prince Edward Island, the PEI Newcomers Association, and the PEI Immigration Partnership. Attendance is free, and lunch is provided. All are welcome. RSVP is required. Please contact Wimal Rankaduwa at (902) 449-0727 or wrankaduwa@upei.ca
Next meeting: Friday, March 22, 12:30-1:15, AVC 286N, to discuss:
Graham C, von Keyserlingk M, Franks B. 2018. Zebrafish welfare: Natural history, social motivation and behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 200:13-22.
Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159117303192?via%3Dihub
The Animal Welfare Journal Club meets approximately once a month to discuss scientific articles related to animal welfare. Everyone is welcome to attend and to propose articles for future discussion.
The club is co hosted by AVC’s Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre and Animal Welfare Club. Email acrook@upei.ca or jdamico@upei.ca to be on the e-mail list for future information.
Original stories written & illustrated & presented by English 2450: Children’s Literature students.
Where: Main 211
When: Tuesday, March 12,, 1:00-2:00 pm.
Thursday, March 14, 1:00-2:00 pm.
Four NEW stories on each day.
All are welcome (children, adults, & well-behaved four-footeds)
Contact: Deirdre Kessler: 902-892-6334, kessler@upei.ca
The University of Prince Edward Island lost a great friend and champion in Dr. Vera E. Dewar, CM OPEI BN LLD RN, who passed away on March 5, 2019, in Charlottetown. Dr. Dewar was instrumental in the establishment of the UPEI School of Nursing and subsequently the Master of Nursing program and construction of the Health Sciences Building. She was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws from UPEI in 2003, was named to the Order of Canada (CM) in 2011 and Order of PEI (OPEI) in 2013, and was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2012.
The flags at the University have been lowered to half-mast in Dr. Dewar’s memory. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Maclean’s Funeral Home. Read the full story
Sobia Ali-Faisal (Dept of Psychology) and Dawne Knockwood (Dept of Education) will be facilitating a workshop on building solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities on campus for our well-being. We will be applying liberation psychological theory to:
- explore ways in which colonization impacts our well-being
- determine ways in which to challenge colonial understandings of being to create safe spaces for ourselves
- build community among BIPOC peoples on campus
When: March 15th, 1 - 3pm
Where: Andrew Hall, Room 142
For: Faculty, staff, and students
It is a free workshop and refreshments will be provided.
Please feel free to email Sobia (sali@upei.ca) or Dawne (daknockwood@upei.ca) if you have any questions.
Free Healthy Breakfast and Admission
Scheduled Outage: DNS maintenance (March 13, 2018) beginning at 10 p.m.
Current Status: Initial Posting
Campus Affected: UPEI Campus
Systems Affected: All
Outage Times: Mar 13 2019, 10:00 pm - Mar 13 2019, 11:59 pm
Details
On Wednesday March 13th, 2019, ITSS will be performing maintenance on our campus DNS servers between 10pm and Midnight. Devices on campus that are connected to wireless or the wired network may experience a delay when communicating with websites or services during this time. Off-campus access to UPEI websites and services will be unaffected. If you receive an error message and are unable to access a service during this window, please wait at least 5 minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences welcomes the campus community to a public research presentation by Catherine Inibhunu, candidate for tenure track position in Data Analytics, on Monday, March 11th at 3:00 pm in Room 101 of the Cass Science Hall.
Read the abstract of the presentation here.
Presentation Title: Temporal Pattern Recognition in Time Series Data Streams and its Application in Critical Care
The 2019 UPE/Holland College Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life, scheduled to take place on March 15, 2019 at UPEI at 6pm. As in prior years, the campus is supporting this event and our team are collecting pledges and selling Luminaries, if you would like to purchase a Luminary in memory or recognition of a loved one who is (was) affected by cancer, please see the staff listed below to fill out the required form.
Luminaries are candles that are placed in special bags that bear the names of cancer survivors and loved ones who have lost their battle with cancer. These luminaries will be displayed during the entire duration of the relay and will be the feature of a special ceremony honoring all the caregivers who support(ed) individuals with cancer. Luminaries sell for $5.00. Payment by cheque, cash or credit card.
We are fortunate to have the following staff assisting us in selling Luminaries. Here is a list of staff/buildings who will be collecting funds until 11:00 am on Friday, March 15, 2019. Please see them to purchase Luminaries.
Dalton Hall - Jenna Gaudet - Room 209
Dalton Hall - Sondra Gantner - Room 308
Robertson Library - Pauline MacPherson - Room 287
The University of Prince Edward Island is excited to partner with Madrid's Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) to deliver a joint one-year master's degree.
To learn more about this exciting program, please join us for an information session on Monday, March 18th, from 3:00-4:30 pm in the Dawson Lounge Room 520 in the SDU Main Building (building 5).
The Faculty of Graduate Studies is excited to invite everyone to come out and watch the 3 Minute Thesis competition on Tuesday, March 12, the competition starts at 5:30 in 242 MacDougall Hall. There will be pizza at 5:00 pm for anyone who is attending the 3MT.
The 3MT is a skills development activity which challenges thesis-based graduate students to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. Great prizes and lots of GREAT research.
Come out and support the Graduate Students competing and enjoy a fun-filled evening.
Speaker: Ashley McKibbon, Pathology and Microbiology
Title: Analysis of structural proteins of Atlantic salmon bafinivirus, a coronavirus of fish
Speaker: Vernon Ptycia-Lamky, Biomedical Sciences
Title: Natural Product Discovery from Bahamian Actinobacteria
This event is Tuesday, March 12 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B.
Chartwells UPEI will be participating in the island-wide bake sale on Monday, March 11 for PEI's only shelter for companion animals. We will be selling cupcakes for $3 starting at 11am at Samuel's Cafe and the AVC Cafe with proceeds going directly to the PEI Humane Society!
If you want to customize a cupcake with an edible print of your pet, send a photo to via.reyes@compass-canada.com by Saturday, March 9th.
Another week, another article posted to get us all thinking together about issues of equity and inclusion. "How to make your social justice events accessible to the disability community" addresses the often invisible ways in which assumptions about ability permeate our everyday activities and practices, and provides a long list of ideas to move us to reconsider some of those assumptions. Head on over to http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion/ and click on the 'discussions' button. And share with your colleagues too.
Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize!
Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25.
Enjoy the game!
This year Vagabond Productions takes its audience back to the Renaissance, but not for a visit with the familiar playwright you might expect. It isn't very often directors and theatre troupes venture into the realm of the Renaissance without Shakespeare being involved in some respect. This year, however, Greg Doran and the cast and crew are presenting a show that has no known author.
Don't mistake that for meaning there won't be familiarity. The classic Renaissance comedic stylings and flowing iambic pentameter are still very much present and accounted for. Vagabond are looking to take this show and run with it in an over the top fashion so that uproarious laughter will be an unavoidable pleasantry, as the troupe returns to the UPEI faculty lounge in 2019. If you like The Princess Bride, then you'll love A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus.
The production runs from March 12th to 16th and seating is limited with no pre-sale tickets available. So, if you'd like to catch a classic, family-friendly Renaissance style show that you've never seen before, make sure to head over to The Faculty Lounge in The Main Building at UPEI. The doors open at 7:00 pm, for a 7:30 pm start. Admission is "pay-what-you-can." For more information, contact UPEI Vagabond Productions on Facebook, at gdoran@upei.ca, or call 902-566-6013.
History of Agriculture on PEI
The Environmental Studies Book Club Discussion Series
This winter we will be reading and discussing "Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island" (2016). Our discussions will probe into past and present environmental changes on PEI, and how and why the Islanders are particularly sensitive to environmental issues and enmeshed in their landscape in a way that is unique among Canadians.
During our third discussion we will talk about the history of agriculture on PEI and will focus on the chapters “The Fertile Crescent: Agricultural Land Use on Prince Edward Island, 1861-1971” by Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and “Agriculture and the Environment on Prince Edward Island, 1969-2014: An Uneasy Relationship” by Mr. Jean-Paul Arsenault.
We are thrilled that the authors, Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and Mr. Jean-Paul Arsenault, will join our discussion.
Date and time: March 14, 2019 at 4pm
Place: The Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, UPEI campus.
All are welcome!
"Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island" is available as an e-book at https://library.upei.ca/.
If have any questions/suggestions, please feel free to contact Dr. Nino Antadze at nantadze@upei.ca
All students are welcome to attend the 2019 UPEI Career & Summer Job Fair to meet employers face-to-face and learn about employment opportunities.
Date: Wednesday, March 13th
Time: 10:30am-3:00pm
Location: W.A. Murphy Student Centre, McMillan Hall
Storm date: Thursday, March 14th, same time and location
Including free headshots for students from 12:30-2:30
Visit the Career Services Website or a list of the employers that will be at the fair: http://www.upei.ca/experientialeducation/upei-career-and-summer-job-fair
The University of Prince Edward Island is excited to partner with Madrid's Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) to deliver a joint one-year master's degree.
To learn more about this exciting program, please join us for an information session on Monday, March 18th, from 3:00-4:30 pm in the Dawson Lounge Room 520 in the SDU Main Building (building 5).
