The UPEI Health & Wellness Centre is offering two mass immunization clinics in partnership with Public Health Nursing at our clinic, second floor, Murphy Centre North (above the book store). The clinics will be held on October 22nd 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and repeated on November 1st from 12:00 - 5:00 pm and no need for an appointment - just drop in. Flu shots are free and available to all faculty, staff and students. Ask about other immunizations that you might need such as tetanus booster - we could make a follow-up appointment.

Telefilm Canada, UPEI Campus Life, and Robertson Library are presenting the award-winning movie Maudie, based on the life of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis. 

Special guest Wayne Carter, Executive Director, FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival will introduce the film and host a Q&A session after the movie.

Free dinner – pizza, drinks, and cookies (while supplies last)! Free movie! And, a chance to win one of two $50 iTunes gift cards!

Monday, October 15th 
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Duffy Amphitheatre 135

All are welcome!

Members of the UPEI community are welcome to attend the release of two juvenile eagles by the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Wildlife Service on Saturday, October 13, at 2:00 pm, at the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project in Orwell, P.E.I. Prior to the release, there will be a Mi’kmaq smudging ceremony and drumming. Both eagles spent a month at AVC under the care of the College’s Wildlife Service before going to the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Nova Scotia for rehabilitation. In releasing these two eagles, the AVC Wildlife Service is honouring the late Dr. Helene Van Doninck, AVC Class of 1991. During her veterinary career, she dedicated her life to caring for injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife.

Should the weather be inclement, the release will take place on Sunday, October 14, at the same time and place.

The Island Lecture Series kicks off another season on Tuesday, October 16, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Ms. Janice Pettit speaking about her master’s research: “Is the ‘Island way of life’ lost when the ferry becomes a bridge?”

Janice Pettit graduated from the MAIS program in May 2018 and is a Senior Policy Advisor with the Government of Prince Edward Island.

Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend.

The next lecture is scheduled for November 20. Mark your calendars! 

For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

Barry Bisson, CEO of Propel ICT, will give a talk on their new virtual accelerator, "Incite". Incite is an intensive 12-month program designed to accelerate early stage technology companies. Incite includes opportunities for participants to connect in person with other founders, mentors, investors and potential clients – along with a virtual meetups, program tools, and curated content that can be accessed at any time from anywhere. With completely virtual program delivery, Propel is working with early-stage tech startups across Atlantic Canada, including in PEI. This information session is open to students, staff and faculty from all faculties on campus.

Time: 12 to 1 pm
Date: Oct 19, 2018
Location: Room 205 (Design Studio), Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering

Environmental Studies Program and Robertson Library Talks invite the members of the UPEI community to participate in the Environmental Studies Book Club discussion series. The aim of the Environmental Studies Book Club series is to facilitate the campus-wide discussion about various environmental issues, and provide an informal learning opportunity to university students.

This fall we will be reading Justin Farrell’s book Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (2015). Farrell’s book is an illuminating and engaging account of environmental conflicts that have been raging in the iconic Yellowstone National Park for the past two centuries. “The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?” (https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10517.html)

The discussion series will be of interest to anybody who would like to exchange opinions and learn more about the history and present day of nature conservation, conflict over natural resources, discourses and narratives about nature, and the role of spirituality and values in shaping human-environment interaction.

The e-book is available through the UPEI library. Just go to https://library.upei.ca/ and search in the catalogue for Battle for Yellowstone. Click on the link and begin reading! Contact a librarian if you have questions.

The discussions will take place in Robertson Library—2nd Floor.

The discussion for October 17 will be Chapter 3: Buffalo Crusaders: The Sacred Struggle for America’s Last Wild and Pure Herd

If you are interested in joining/leading the discussions or have any questions/suggestions, please feel free to contact Dr. Nino Antadze at nantadze@upei.ca.

All are welcome!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to Jesse Hitchcock's MSc defense entitled "Eelgrass (Zostera marina) responses to natural and anthropogenic gradients in estuaries of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)"

Everyone is welcome. The event is today at 2:00 pm in Duffy Science Centre 204. 

Let us know what you think with our annual Chartwells Customer Feedback Survey for a chance to win a three-course meal for you and five friends or one of two $50 food dollars! In addition, you can avail of a FREE small coffee if you present your completed survey on any device at the AVC Cafe or Samuel's Cafe

Retail Survey: http://surveys.customsurveys.com/s3/Chartwells-Canada-FY19?br=C&unit=77851&loopback=false
Residence Survey: http://surveys.customsurveys.com/s3/Chartwells-Canada-FY19?br=B&unit=72851&loopback=false

Please join us for the second Theology on Tap of 2018-19, sponsored by the Saint Dunstan's Institute for Christianity and Culture. Thursday October 11, at the Pourhouse, 189 Great George Street, 7:00 pm.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community
to the next seminar of the Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Series: Dr Chistian Lacroix (Department of Biology) will be presenting a talk entitled "A journey to the mind of a journal editor".

This event is Friday, October 12 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre 204. 

Environmental Studies Program and Robertson Library Talks invite the members of the UPEI community to participate in the Environmental Studies Book Club discussion series. The aim of the Environmental Studies Book Club series is to facilitate the campus-wide discussion about various environmental issues, and provide an informal learning opportunity to university students.

This fall we will be reading Justin Farrell’s book Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (2015). Farrell’s book is an illuminating and engaging account of environmental conflicts that have been raging in the iconic Yellowstone National Park for the past two centuries. “The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?” (https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10517.html)

The discussion series will be of interest to anybody who would like to exchange opinions and learn more about the history and present day of nature conservation, conflict over natural resources, discourses and narratives about nature, and the role of spirituality and values in shaping human-environment interaction.

The e-book is available through the UPEI library. Just go to https://library.upei.ca/ and search in the catalogue for Battle for Yellowstone. Click on the link and begin reading! Contact a librarian if you have questions.

The discussions will take place in Robertson Library—2nd Floor.

The discussion for October 17th will be Chapter 3: Buffalo Crusaders: The Sacred Struggle for America’s Last Wild and Pure Herd

If you are interested in joining/leading the discussions or have any questions/suggestions, please feel free to contact Dr. Nino Antadze at nantadze@upei.ca

All are welcome!

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI invites all Grade 7-10 girls and one parent/guardian to attend Go ENG Girl Day on Saturday, October 27. Go ENG Girl Day is a fun opportunity to spend an afternoon learning about the wonderful world of engineering, meeting women currently studying engineering, learning about some of the amazing things women engineers are doing, and participating in cool hands-on activities. We are excited to be one of 20+ other Engineering programs at Canadian universities all holding this event together on the same day! Registration is FREE but space is limited and closes on Tuesday, October 23 at 12 noon: https://sites.google.com/upei.ca/fsde-go-eng-girl 

http://www.onwie.ca/programs/go-eng-girl

MMS Seminar Series, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 at 12:30 pm in KCI 104.
Presenter: Mathew Larade, PhD Student, Chemistry Department.
Topic: "Applying neural networks to predict atomic energies in Molecules: Leveraging Data for more efficient calculations".
Everyone is welcome to attend.

Dr. Stacey MacKinnon (UPEI) & Dr Beth Archer-Kuhn (UCalgary) are excited to announce several important additions to "Reigniting Curiosity & Inquiry in Higher Education: A Working Conference" to be held at UPEI, Nov 2-4th, 2018. Seats are limited and going fast so please register soon (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/curiosity-and-inquiry-conference-tickets-49…).

In addition to networking with others interested in incorporating more curiosity and inquiry in the classroom and forming research partnerships in these areas, we welcome the following contributors to the conference:

Pat Maher, PhD (Cape Breton University) “Taking risks and trusting the process: Lessons from a process-based pedagogy”

Sarah-Lynn Boyle, PhD student (UGuelph) “Understanding, practicing and transferring inquiry-based learning skills across the undergraduate experience and beyond: The Student Experience”

Mick Healey, PhD (UGloucestershire, UK) "Students as Partners in Inquiry-based learning: An interactive workshop"

Andrew P. Minigan, EdM (Director of Strategy, The Right Question Institute, Boston, MA) "“Teach Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral Students How to Ask Better Questions”

Robin Mueller, PhD (Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, UCalgary)"Building a Inquiry-focused Community of Practice in Higher Education"

For more information please check out http://projects.upei.ca/curiosityandinquiry/2018-curiosity-inquiry-conference/

Speaker: Jordi Segers, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative
Title: Bats in Canada: A story of heroes and wildlife health. 

The event is Tuesday, October 16 at 3:30 in AVC Lecture Theatre A.

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday October 12, 2018 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend and learn of the exciting neuroscience research projects happening at UPEI.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to Jesse Hitchcock's MSc defense entitled "Eelgrass (Zostera marina) responses to natural and anthropogenic gradients in estuaries of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)". The event is Friday, October 12 at 2 pm in 204 Duffy Science Centre.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community
to the next seminar of the Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Series: Dr Chistian Lacroix (Department of Biology) will be presenting a talk entitled "A journey to the mind of a journal editor".

Everyone is welcome. The event is Friday, October 12 at 12:30 in Duffy Science Centre 204.