The Faculty of Nursing welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track faculty candidate presentation by Dr. Rosemary Kohr, titled  "The Journey Together: Linking Teaching, Learning and Research at the Faculty of Nursing, UPEI".

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. in the Health Sciences Building, Room 104. 

Learning is an action that only the student can own and control. As an instructor, what can be done to help support the development of student core skills? In this workshop, instructors will learn about three key skills that contribute to more efficient and effective learning. Those skills are how to take quality notes, how to read for learning, and how to study effectively.

Offered by the E-Learning Office, this workshop takes place on Thursday, May 31st from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

Looking for an enriching volunteer experience this summer? The UPEI English Language Centre is looking for volunteers to join us in assisting with afternoon socio-cultural activities and acting as conversation partners in hosting this year’s English language Camps for International students!

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and strengthen valuable skills, experience other cultures, and of course have a blast doing it! Activities may include things such as trips to Anne of Green Gables, scavenger hunts, tours, on-campus workshops, beach visits, and more! If you are interested, please email Owen Shaw at oshaw@upei.ca, or call 902-566-0529.

Island Studies Press will launch its newest book, Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Nursing Military Heroine, by Katherine Dewar, on Thursday evening, May 24, at 7 p.m. at the Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.

Launches are 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 in mid-May.

Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.

The UPEI Student Union offices will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 16, for staff training, and will re-open on Thursday, May 17 at 9:00 am.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the new MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to participate in one of two "virtual" information sessions: Thursday, May 17th or Thursday, May 24th from 12:00-12:30. This session will be offered through Blackboard Collaborate. A link to join the session will be provided to all who register.

MBA Coordinator, Grace McCourt, will provide an overview of the program and answer your questions.

Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to register. Be sure to indicate your preferred date.

On  May 16 from 8:00 pm until midnight ITSS will be performing maintenance on UPEI’s Active Directory Services and the myUPEI portal.

During this time, faculty, staff and students will be unable to access the myUPEI portal at my.upei.ca.

Additionally, access to printing and file services will be intermittently distrupted thru the evening and last 5-10 minutes.

If you receive an error message when logging into a service, please wait at least 10 minutes and try again until you are successful.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 566-0465.

Emergency First Aid Training is being held Tuesday, June 12 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The training cost is covered by UPEI for all faculty and staff. Students who require the training for on-campus employment will also have the training cost covered.

If you are interested in attending, or have any questions, please email kharrison@upei.ca by June 1.

UPEI’s ACLC program will host a public speaking workshop from June 12–14 run by Bruce Rainnie.  The aim of this workshop is to provide a small group of undergraduate and graduate students at UPEI with an opportunity to significantly improve their abilities to represent their thoughts through verbal communication to a public audience.

Bruce Rainnie brings a wealth of public communications experience with him to his position as the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture Program’s Practitioner in Residence. He is currently the President and CEO of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in Halifax. Prior to this position, he was the host of CBC News: Compass, the supper-hour news program for Prince Edward Island. In that role, he helped Compass become the country’s number one rated CBC supper-hour news broadcast. Bruce is known nationally for his work with CBC Sports. Along with being a regular host on Hockey Night in Canada, he broadcast eight Olympic games–including the most recent games in South Korea.

Workshop participants must commit to the full program over the three days. The workshop runs 10:00 am to 2:00 pm from June 12 through June 14.

The workshop will include an exploration of the following topics:

• How to manage anxiety
• How to convey confidence while speaking
• How to eliminate problematic presentation habits
• How to prepare for a pre-planned talk
• How to prepare for an interview

There are limited spaces available for this workshop. For more information, or to sign up for this free program, please contact Lisa Chilton, Director, Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture Program, at lchilton@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Nursing welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track faculty candidate presentation by Dr. Rosemary Kohr, titled  "The Journey Together: Linking Teaching, Learning and Research at the Faculty of Nursing, UPEI".

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. in the Health Sciences Building, Room 104. 

There will be a small upgrade happening to Moodle on Wednesday, May 16. The upgrade will require Moodle to be switched to maintenance mode causing it will be inaccessible from 8:00 pm onward until the upgrade is complete. The upgrade is expected to be complete within two hours.

We apologize for any inconvenience! For further details, a description of the changes and new features will be available on the Moodle frontpage.

Island Studies Press will launch its newest book, Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Nursing Military Heroine, by Katherine Dewar, on Thursday evening, May 24, at 7 p.m. at the Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.

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.

Georgina Pope will also be honoured at a “Celebration of Service” in the Atrium of the Daniel J. MacDonald Building in Charlottetown on Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m. Local actors will bring her story to life, accompanied by the PEI Regiment Band and the Canada Remembers Chorus. An exhibition entitled “Inspired by Nightingale: Called by God” will also open. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

The book will also be launched in Summerside on Sunday afternoon, June 24, 2 p.m., at Eptek Art & Culture Centre.

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.

Launches are 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 in mid-May.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, June 1st for the June meeting.

Ensure you download the current forms from, use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms (only current forms will be accepted).

Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date.

• Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302
• Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Administrative Assistant at 902-566-0973.

On  May 16 from 8:00 pm until midnight ITSS will be performing maintenance on UPEI’s Active Directory Services and the myUPEI portal.

During this time, faculty, staff and students will be unable to access the myUPEI portal at my.upei.ca.

Additionally, access to printing and file services will be intermittently distrupted thru the evening and last 5-10 minutes.

If you receive an error message when logging into a service, please wait at least 10 minutes and try again until you are successful.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 566-0465.

UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the new MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to participate in one of two "virtual" information sessions: Thursday, May 17th or Thursday, May 24th from 12:00-12:30. This session will be offered through Blackboard Collaborate. A link to join the session will be provided to all who register.

MBA Coordinator, Grace McCourt, will provide an overview of the program and answer your questions.

Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to register. Be sure to indicate your preferred date.

Lecture Posters for the Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference on May 16, 17, and 18 can be viewed here. 

All are welcome to attend these lectures!

The regular May 2018 Island Studies Lecture takes place on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus and will feature L.M. Montgomery scholar Dr. Kate Scarth speaking about “Anne of Charlottetown and Summerside: L.M. Montgomery’s Urban PEI.”

Read more on the UPEI Events Calendar.

In consideration of the difficulties that exposure to scented products cause to sensitive individuals UPEI asks for your cooperation in making our campus a scent-free environment. We ask that all faculty, staff, students, and visitors refrain from wearing or using products with strong scents/fragrances while on campus. A few examples of products to refrain from wearing or using are: colognes/perfumes, body sprays, lotions, hair care products, hand/body soaps and lotions, shaving cream, sun screen, laundry soap, fabric softeners, air fresheners, scented candles and Aromatic Oils (used in aromatherapy).

UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative Policy can be viewed here.

If you have any questions about UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative please contact the Health, Safety and Environment Department at 902-566-0901 (Kathryn Harrison) or 902-566-0516 (Kevin Robinson). To report an exposure to scented products please follow UPEI’s incident reporting process.

Central Printing will be closed May 31 - June 8, 2018.

Any questions may be directed to Wendy Henderson at 902-566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI will be holding its 2nd ProGRES Summer Program to promote engineering research interest and involvement among young women in high school. Through the ProGRES Program, high-school students will have the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research projects with world-class researchers in state-of-the-art facilities. The selected students will work directly with a woman faculty researcher and mentor on an independent research project, and they will have opportunities to meet and work with women engineers and women engineering students.

Young women of Prince Edward Island going into grades 11 and 12 are encouraged to apply for the ProGRES Summer Program by completing this application form. Application forms will be reviewed and successful applicants will be selected to participate in engineering research projects at UPEI’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering for a five-week period (July 9 – August 10). Each participant will also be awarded a stipend of $2200. There will be 7-8 participants selected, depending on interest.

Participants will be asked to share their research experiences with the public and their peers in the following school year. The hope is that the shared research experiences will encourage more young women to choose Engineering at UPEI and see how women can thrive and be successful as engineering researchers or professional engineers.

Application deadline is Monday, May 28, 2018, by 5:00 PM.