Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, will be giving a presentation on "Development of Smart Technologies to Improve Agriculture Productivity and Mitigate Environmental Risks: A Sustainable Approach".

All are welcome to attend!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to the presentation and defense of Patricia Malinski's MAHSR thesis entitled "Predicting home visiting program completion based on mothers’ socioeconomic characteristics and program perceptions”. Everyone is welcome. The event runs Tuesday, June 19 in SDU Main Building room 113.

All UPEI/SDU/PWC alumni are welcome to attend the UPEI Alumni Association AGM at 618 University Avenue at 4PM June 14th, 2018. If you have any questions please contact Anthony Gill at adgill@upei.ca.

Island Studies Press will launch its newest book, Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Nursing Military Heroine, by Katherine Dewar, in Summerside on Sunday afternoon, June 24, 2 p.m., at Eptek Art & Culture Centre.

Called to Serve documents the life and times of Prince Edward Island's Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938), daughter of William Henry Pope and Helen DesBrisay Pope. Her journey takes us from Charlottetown, where, inspired by Florence Nightingale, she developed a "burning desire" to become an army nurse; to the Boston States where she trained; to the battlefields of Africa and Europe where she served as a nursing sister and Superintendent of Nurses―and helped establish the nursing corps of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Matron Pope was the first Canadian nurse decorated with a Royal Red Cross, 1st class.

In 2007 Georgina Pope’s bronze bust became one of the 14 heroic figures forming a part of the Valiants’ Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa. She also appears on the Canadian $5 coin.

Katherine Dewar is the author of the award-winning book, Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War, 1914-1918. Katherine is retired from a career as a nursing instructor at the PEI School of Nursing, and is now committed to researching PEI’s colourful nursing history. Those Splendid Girls was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, won the Publication of Year award from the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and the City of Summerside’s Heritage and Culture department, and Katherine herself is the recipient of the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation Award of Honour for her outstanding contribution to Prince Edward Island Heritage.

The launch is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881. Books will be on sale for $27.95 in bookstores and online through the UPEI Bookstore from mid-May onward.

Registration is now open for the UPEI Department of Music Brass & Woodwind Summer Studios 2018, running June 25-29. This week-long music experience is perfect for motivated young musicians to hone their craft and technique.

It's open to students from Grade 10 to second-year university studying any of the following instruments: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, French horn, and tuba. The tuition fee is $225 (financial assistance is available). For more information or to register, email Nicole Strum at nstrum@upei.ca. 

Spaces are limited, so register now!

Systems Affected: Entire UPEI Network (inbound & outbound traffic)
Outage Times: Friday June 22, 08:00 pm - Saturday June 23, 07:00 am

Details
As a precursor to our network revitalization project, ITSS will be performing an upgrade of our campus firewall service. During this 11-hour maintenance window, any network traffic entering or leaving the UPEI campus will be affected. Internal network traffic will continue to function normally.

Examples of systems that will only be accessible on campus:
MyUPEI
Moodle
Medical Records System
File and Print services
UPEI Website

Examples of systems that will be only accessible off campus:
Google Apps and Gmail
Any external websites or systems hosted offsite (i.e. in the cloud)

If you have any questions or concerns about this scheduled maintenance please contact ITSS at helpdesk@upei.ca or 902-566-0465

With the retirement of Novell network on campus, IT Systems and Services has begun disabling the familiar Novell login screen on computers across campus.

What does this mean for you?

When you first turn on your computer, after you press "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Delete" the screen will look a bit different.

If you still have the Novell software enabled, your login screen will have a red "N" and you will see the "Computer logon only" link below the password field.

Once ITSS disables the Novell client, your login screen will no longer have a red "N" and "Log on to:" field should now read "ADDS".

You will continue to use the same username and password to login as you always have.

There is no change in functionality to your computer once you have logged in. This only changes the way in which you log-in, and only if your computer still has the legacy Novell client software.

If you have any issues or questions regarding this change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465 or helpdesk@upei.ca.

The interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program at UPEI will host an international conference on Asian Studies from June 14 to 15 in Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.

The conference, Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality: Korean Ideas and their Global Implications, will have five panels on several interesting and engaging themes with sixteen prominent and promising scholars from USA, Canada, Korea, and Japan.

The opening keynote speech, “Evil and Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition,” by Dr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Irving and Jean Stone, Endowed Chair in Humanities at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, and Founding Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies and the Center for Korean Studies, UCLA.

This conference is hosted and funded by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Korean Studies Project, and co-organized by UPEI’s Asian Studies and the North American Korean Philosophy Association affiliated with American Philosophical Association (APA). For more information, please click the attached conference program and poster links.

• Invitation
• Program
• Poster

All are welcome to attend!

Just a reminder: this is the last week to register for the University of Prince Edward Island’s Faculty Development Summer Institute on Active Learning. Here is the URL.

The Institute will be held from the evening of July 23 to the evening of July 26. The venue is the lovely Stanley Bridge Resort in Stanley Bridge, PEI. The resort has set aside a block of rooms for workshop participants. You can reserve your room by contacting the resort: https://stanleybridgeresort.com/

When you reserve your room, mention that you are a participant in FDSI, and you will get a 10% discount. The resort asks that you book your room by June 22 at the latest.


Registration for the workshop will be $800.00 CDN, all taxes and fees included. That fee covers all learning materials; all breakfasts and lunches plus two nutrition breaks a day; the Monday-night reception; and the Thursday-night barbeque banquet. There will be an extra charge of $50.00 for each guest you bring to the banquet. If you are interested in the optional deep-sea fishing expedition, there will also be an extra charge (which you can pay once you have arrived).

The resort is a beautiful old Island venue that is not, unfortunately, wheelchair accessible.

Because there is a limit of 30 participants, please register as soon as possible and by June 15 at the latest. If you have any questions, please write to Gerald Wandio, Program Coordinator of UPEI’s Faculty Development Office, at gwandio@upei.ca.

Island Studies Press will launch its newest book, Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Nursing Military Heroine, by Katherine Dewar, in Summerside on Sunday afternoon, June 24, 2 p.m., at Eptek Art & Culture Centre.

Called to Serve documents the life and times of Prince Edward Island's Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938), daughter of William Henry Pope and Helen DesBrisay Pope. Her journey takes us from Charlottetown, where, inspired by Florence Nightingale, she developed a "burning desire" to become an army nurse; to the Boston States where she trained; to the battlefields of Africa and Europe where she served as a nursing sister and Superintendent of Nurses―and helped establish the nursing corps of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Matron Pope was the first Canadian nurse decorated with a Royal Red Cross, 1st class.

In 2007 Georgina Pope’s bronze bust became one of the 14 heroic figures forming a part of the Valiants’ Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa. She also appears on the Canadian $5 coin.

Katherine Dewar is the author of the award-winning book, Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War, 1914-1918. Katherine is retired from a career as a nursing instructor at the PEI School of Nursing, and is now committed to researching PEI’s colourful nursing history. Those Splendid Girls was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, won the Publication of Year award from the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and the City of Summerside’s Heritage and Culture department, and Katherine herself is the recipient of the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation Award of Honour for her outstanding contribution to Prince Edward Island Heritage.

The launch is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881. Books will be on sale for $27.95 in bookstores and online through the UPEI Bookstore from mid-May onward.

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is selling raffle tickets for the chance to win roundtrip airfare for two guests to any regular scheduled WestJet destination.

The tickets are 1 for $10 or 3 for $20. Leigh Read will be selling the tickets in main breezeway of the Robertson Library from 10:30 until 12:00 noon and in the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre from 1:00 to 3:00 pm on Wednesday, June 13.

This is a cash only purchase, the main draw will take place at our panther classic golf day on Thursday, June 21.

The UPEI Bookstore has new stock of the Quo Vadis Day Planners for both the academic (August-August) and the calendar year. 

Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, will be giving a presentation on "Development of Smart Technologies to Improve Agriculture Productivity and Mitigate Environmental Risks: A Sustainable Approach".

All are welcome to attend!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to the presentation and defense of Patricia Malinski's MAHSR thesis entitled "Predicting home visiting program completion based on mothers’ socioeconomic characteristics and program perceptions”. Everyone is welcome. The event will be held Tuesday, June 19 in room 113 of UPEI's SDU Main Building.

The UPEI Faculty of Arts and its interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program are pleased to announce the following International Conference on Asian Studies:
Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality: Korean Ideas and Their Global Implications
University of Prince Edward Island, June 14–15, 2018
Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.

Featuring five panels on several interesting and engaging themes with 16 prominent or promising scholars from USA, Canada, Korea, and Japan. 
Opening keynote speech, “Evil and Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition,” by Dr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, and Founding Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies and the Center for Korean Studies, UCLA

Hosted and funded by: 
University of Prince Edward Island and the Korean Studies Project
Co-organized by:
UPEI’s Asian Studies and the North American Korean Philosophy Association affiliated with American Philosophical Association (APA)

Everyone is invited!

The Faculty of Nursing welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track faculty candidate presentation by Dr. Christine Cassidy, titled "Evidence to Action: Linking Research, Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Nursing".

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. in the Health Sciences Building, Room 104.

Please join the staff of the Office of Recruitment, and The International Relations Office for a celebratory reception on Wednesday June 13 between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. Our long-time student assistant Bassel Malke has passed his Canadian Citizenship exam. Congratulations Bassel from all of the staff and students at UPEI.