This July fourty-eight exceptional high-school students from across Canada have been participating in the first SHAD enrichment program at UPEI, where they have been exposed to exciting workshops, lectures and other activities related to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and entrepreneurship. The students have also been working on a Design Entrepreneurship project to devise a product or service addressing the question: “How might we help Canadian communities be more resilient in a natural disaster?”

From 2 to 4 pm on July 26th, please join the SHAD UPEI participants for their Open Day Exhibits in the foyer of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, where they will showcase their accomplishments over the 26 days of the program, including their Design Entrepreneurship projects.

The annual UPEI Volunteer Fair welcomes local organizations who are seeking volunteers to campus, so they can engage with students and recruit new volunteers. We also encourage UPEI organizations and departments to take part, recruiting students for volunteer opportunities within our campus community. 

The 2018 Volunteer fair will be held on Wednesday, September 12th from 10:00am-2:00pm in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre concourse. 

If your organization or department is in need of volunteers, please sign up for the Volunteer fair distribution list here to receive the email invitation to register for the fair. This invitation will be sent out in a couple of weeks. 

If you have any questions, please contact Career Services at careerservices@upei.ca or 566-0336

Join us at our Library Talks to chat about PEI author Michael Hennessey’s book The Betrayer, a fictionalized account of the crimes leading up to the last hanging to take place on Prince Edward Island, in 1941. Two condemned men are led to the gallows - but was the crime committed by "the third man"?

Meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3:00 pm in the Early Women Plaza, between Kelley Building and the Chaplaincy Centre. Rain location is in Robertson Library. The introductory meeting will be held on Thursday, July 19, and meetings will continue weekly until August 23.

A limited number of copies of the book are available from the Service Desk in the Library – first come, first served. Check out a copy and join the group. Everyone is welcome!

And, in August, we’ll go on a walking tour of Charlottetown to discover where the gruesome murder took place!

UPEI, in partnership with the Queer Collective and Student Affairs, will raise the pride flag on Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12 pm at the flag plaza near Kelley Memorial Building to recognize the PEI Pride Festival taking place July 23-27. All are welcome to attend the flag raising.

Pride PEI will be raising flags at other locations across the province throughout the day.

UPEI, in partnership with the Queer Collective and Student Affairs, will raise the pride flag on Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12 pm at the flag plaza near Kelley Memorial Building to recognize the PEI Pride Festival taking place July 23-27. All are welcome to attend the flag raising.

Pride PEI will be raising flags at other locations across the province throughout the day.

Until further notice, ITSS will prioritize fulfilling orders for computers for new employees (who do not have an existing system available to use) and those whose computers are completely non-functional. All other new requests for system upgrades under this program will be held for the time being.

With regards to existing, outstanding requests for computers which have been slated to be replaced under the new Computer Deployment and Replacement process for 2017/2018, IT Systems and Services (ITSS) is receiving quite a number of inquiries regarding the status of individual requests. ITSS thanks you for your patience as we continue working through these requests as quickly as we can (trying to catch up to the demand), with priority being given to new employees (who do not have an existing system available to use) and those whose computers are completely non-functional. As systems are ready ITSS will be contacting you to schedule a time to receive your equipment.

ITSS apologizes for this inconvenience and appreciates your continued support and patience.

The Faulty of Arts welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track candidate presentation by Dr. Yahong Zang, titled "Household Debt, Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy." 
The presentation will take place on Monday, July 23 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am in SDU Main Building, Room 320.

Effective July 25, UPEI's cellphone / mobility services will be provided by TELUS Mobility. Faculty and staff who have UPEI-issued cellphones must swap their current SIM card for a new TELUS SIM card before this date in order to ensure their service is not interrupted. TELUS will be on campus in the AVC McCain Foundation Learning Commons, 285 North, for one last clinic day -- Thursday, July 19 -- from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, to assist UPEI cellphone users with the conversion. You are strongly encouraged to drop by as the conversion time at the TELUS clinic is only 5 minutes; otherwise, it will take closer to 25 minutes. If you are unable attend, please contact Peggy Court at mcourt@upei.ca to arrange an alternate time to convert your phone.

The UPEI Faculty of Education cordially invites you to attend the PhD proposal presentation of Suha Alhothali, entitled, "Female faculty members at King Abdulaziz University: The effect of gender preformativity on opportunities for leadership." All are welcome to attend the presentation and public discussion that will take place Thursday, July 19 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am in room 306 of the Sustainable Design Engineering building.

UPEI, in partnership with the Queer Collective and Student Affairs, will raise the pride flag on Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12 pm at the flag plaza near Kelley Memorial Building to recognize the PEI Pride Festival taking place July 23-27. All are welcome to attend the flag raising.

Pride PEI will be raising flags at other locations across the province throughout the day.

The UPEI Faculty of Education cordially invites you to attend the PhD proposal presentation of Suha Alhothali, entitled, "Female faculty members at King Abdulaziz University: The effect of gender preformativity on opportunities for leadership." All are welcome to attend the presentation and public discussion that will take place Thursday, July 19 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am in room 306 of the Sustainable Design Engineering building.

UPEI recently announced that it will switch to TELUS Mobility for its cellphone service, effective July 25, 2018. Faculty and staff who have UPEI-issued cellphones will need to swap their current Bell SIM card for a new TELUS SIM card. To assist UPEI cellphone users with converting their phones, ITSS and Telus will hold clinics on Tuesday, July 17, and Wednesday, July 18, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the AVC Learning Commons, 285 North. An additional clinic for AVC and Veterinary Teaching Hospital faculty and staff will take place on Thursday, July 19, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the same location.

If you are unable attend one of these clinic dates, please make arrangements with Peggy Court to arrange an alternate time to convert your phone. Peggy can be reached at mcourt@upei.ca.

Reflection is the mediator between knowledge and experience and is a vital skill for instructional professionals in order to continuously improve their teaching. In this workshop, participants will be provided with exercises to practice reflection daily over a 30-day period. This is a collaborative learning experience as workshop participants will share between them and comment on their daily reflections. This workshop consists of two face-to-face sessions (July 31 and August 31, 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 292 Robertson Library) with the remainder of events, occurring between those sessions, online. Register early as space is limited for this workshop. REGISTER

ITSS will be conducting network maintenance during our regular maintenance window on July 18,  starting at 8 pm until 12 midnight (Atlantic time). There may be some intermittent network disruptions during this time. If you have any questions or concerns please contact ITSS at 902-566-0465 or helpdesk@upei.ca

UPEI recently announced that it will switch to TELUS Mobility for its cellphone service, effective July 25, 2018. Faculty and staff who have UPEI-issued cellphones will need to swap their current Bell SIM card for a new TELUS SIM card. To assist UPEI cellphone users with converting their phones, ITSS and Telus will hold clinics on Tuesday, July 17, and Wednesday, July 18, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the AVC Learning Commons, 285 North. An additional clinic for AVC and Veterinary Teaching Hospital faculty and staff will take place on Thursday, July 19, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the same location.

If you are unable attend one of these clinic dates, please make arrangements with Peggy Court to arrange an alternate time to convert your phone. Peggy can be reached at mcourt@upei.ca.

ITSS will be conducting network maintenance during our regular maintenance window on July 18, starting at 8pm Atlantic Time until 12 midnight. There may be some intermittent network disruptions during this time. If you have any questions or concerns please contact ITSS at 902-566-0465 or helpdesk@upei.ca

The UPEI Faculty of Education cordially invites you to attend the PhD proposal presentation of Suha Alhothali, entitled, "Female faculty members at King Abdulaziz University: The effect of gender preformativity on opportunities for leadership." All are welcome to attend the presentation and public discussion that will take place Thursday, July 19 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am in room 306 of the Sustainable Design Engineering building.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering invites the UPEI community to attend a special summer research seminar on "Soil Health, Carbon Farming, and Fixing our Nitrogen Problem," on Tuesday, July 17 at 1:30 pm in room 202 of Sustainable Design Engineering building. Dr. David Burton, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, will be presenting as part of his research collaborations with Dr. Aitazaz Farooque of the FSDE. All are welcome!

Abstract: Agriculture is being challenged on multiple fronts to improve its environmental footprint - reducing its impact on surrounding ecosystems and providing environmental goods and services in addition to traditional role of food production. Potato production in PEI provides an excellent case study to examine how this transition can be achieved. Fortunately agricultural production systems provide the opportunity not only to “do good” for the neighbours, but also improve our capacity to produce a safe nutritious food product. This requires a rethink of how we do agriculture with greater emphasis on long-term goals of sustainable production. Three research initiatives will be discussed to build “Soil Health”, store carbon in agricultural soils, and improve nitrogen use efficiency in potato production systems in PEI.