Campus Notices
Please be advised that UPEI is switching all shredding services to ShredGuard/DocGuard. They offer a wide range of services at low prices and are currently the holder of the ISI contract.
We would encourage any departments that have a bag service for shredding at this time to consider going to a console with a lock and key. There is no rental fee for the console and it keeps your documents secure and confidential until they are shredded on campus by ShredGuard. The console holds one bag and would be picked up monthly for a fee of $5.96 per console per visit. If your department only requires shredding services on an infrequent basis you can call Shredguard or procurement services for a current price list and to schedule a pick up. For further information on the services provided by ShredGuard please visit shredguard.ca.
If you are interested in receiving a console please contact Carolyn at cgarro@upei.ca.
You’ve worked so hard to receive your degree and it’s certainly something to be extremely proud of and on display.
Degree framing services are offered by the UPEI Alumni Association. Visit the secure order website, to view the five models of frames that are available. Each frame includes a mat with the UPEI coat of arms embossed in gold. You are encouraged to place your orders immediately so your desired frame is available. Frames may be picked up at the reception immediately following convocation ceremonies at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering. AVC Graduates may pick-up their frames at their post-convocation reception in the AVC Learning Commons.
Contact Sarah Hastelow in the UPEI Alumni Office (618 University Avenue) at (902) 566-0615 or shastelow@upei.ca to learn more.
The Department of Pathology and Microbiology has short listed two candidates for Competition #08A17 (tenure track Anatomic Pathology), Dr. Carolyn Legge and Dr. Melanie Buote. They will deliver a seminar as part of their interview process.
Dr. Legge will deliver her seminar, "A Diagnostic Pathologist’s Approach to Case-based Learning & Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex - Diagnostic Challenges and Potential Opportunities", on Friday, May 12, 2017 at 10:30 am in lecture theatre AVC-A.
Dr. Buote will deliver her seminar, ‘Looking is Not Seeing: The Perils of Media Multitasking’ - on Monday, on May 15, 2017 at 10:30 am in lecture theatre AVC-A.
All are welcome!
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) presents a summer school on financial mathematics and actuarial sciences at
UPEI from July 3 to 28, 2017. This summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduates. Each participant is expected to register for at least two of the three courses. Each course consists of three hours lecture sessions per day for two weeks. AARMS and UPEI will provide a certificate indicating course completion and facilitate transfer of credit to students' home university.
Registration and accommodation are free and deadline to apply is May 15, 2017.
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) presents a summer school on financial mathematics and actuarial sciences at
UPEI from July 3 to 28, 2017. This summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduates. Each participant is expected to register for at least two of the three courses. Each course consists of three hours lecture sessions per day for two weeks. AARMS and UPEI will provide a certificate indicating course completion and facilitate transfer of credit to students' home university.
Registration and accommodation are free and deadline to apply is May 15, 2017.
Studenta, alumni, and community members that meet the criteria and are looking to make a little extra money please contact Student Affairs. We need tutors in every subject and program.
Applicants must have a minimum academic average of 80 percent in courses you wish to tutor and have excellent communication skills. They must be able to work with a variety of learning styles; have an interest in teaching; and be highly motivated, flexible, and reliable.
Documentation required for applying:
- Transcripts (unofficial)
- Letter of recommendation from professor (if you are a student)
- List of courses you want to tutor
- Resume/CV
Come out for a delicious soup lunch, and to support Fallon in her LAST fundraising event for her trip to the International Seminar in Bolivia.
Menu: Creamy roasted garlic & potato soup and vegan chili
Tuesday, May 9th, 11:30-1:30
UPEI Chaplaincy Centre
Cost: by donation
Cause: to finish off Fallon's fundraising efforts
Questions: fmawhinney@upei.ca, 902-940-9751
Donate online at https://ceci.akaraisin.com/uniterraen/FallonMawhinney
Mark your calendars to attend Science Graduate Research Day on Monday, May 8 where over twenty graduate students from the Faculty of Science will present posters and talks of their thesis research.
We are also delighted to have Dr. Justin Moores and Dr. Kimberley Johnstone from SYNAPSE as the keynote speakers and PEI BioAlliance and WISE-Atlantic as the sponsors of the day's awards.
A special closing reception at 4:00 pm will recognize Best Poster and Presentations and celebrate our 15 graduates receiving their MSc and PhD degrees at convocation.
Monday, May 8, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
School of Sustainable Design Engineering room 128A/B
This is an event about graduate research in science, engineering and innovation not to be missed, all are welcomed!
The Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching has a modest fund to support instructional development and travel to conferences whose subject is teaching and learning. The deadline for applications is noon on May 31. If you would like an application, or if you have any questions, please write to Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca
AARMS Summer School: Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences
University of Prince Edward Island July 3 – 28, 2017
This summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduates. Each participant is expected to register for at least two of the three courses. Each course consists of three hours lecture sessions per day for two weeks. AARMS and UPEI will provide a certificate indicating course completion and facilitate transfer of credit to students' home university.
To apply: https://aarms.math.ca/affiliated/summer2017/
For further information contact: Dr. Alexander Alvarez (alalvarez@upei.ca); or Dr. Gordon
Macdonald (gmacdonald@upei.ca); Dr. Nasser Saad (nsaad@upei.ca)
Registration and Accommodation are free Deadline to apply: May 15, 2017
Kim Leeson from the Communications Security Establishment (the CSE is an agency of the federal government tasked with protecting Canadian security and information) will be on Campus on Monday, May 8 and will be hosting an information session on careers with the CSE. The session will be from 12 noon to 1 pm in Cass Science Hall, Room 101. The opportunities are mostly in areas such as Business and Information Management, Cybersecurity, GIS development, IT security, Network Analysis and System Administration.
Attendees must register in advance (by Thursday, May 4) and can do so by contacting Rita Stanley (rstanley@upei.ca) in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences.
UPEI will be officially rolling out its Moodle upgrade on the morning of May 5, 2017. As a result of the rollout process, courses from the Winter 2017 semester and prior will be inaccessible between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm Atlantic Time. There should not be any disruption to Spring courses already using the upgraded Moodle (moodle31.upei.ca).
Check out the new speciality and cycle class schedule for May/June. Various options of 4 week or 6 week programs. For more detail visit http://www.upei.ca/ar/fitness-classes
The United Way Prince Edward Island and the Cooper Institute are excited to bring the film Us and Them to Charlottetown. The documentary will screen at the University of Prince Edward Island on Tuesday, May 9 at 3:00 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, room 242 of UPEI's Don and Marion McDougall Hall. Filmmaker Krista Loughton will be in attendance.
Us and Them chronicles Loughton's personal experience befriending four chronically homeless people. Using the First Nations Medicine Wheel, she sets out to help them but they end up helping her. The story digs deep into the root causes of homelessness and addiction. Following the screening of the film, Krista Loughton will respond to questions from the audience about her experiences in making this film. The event wraps up with short presentations from local community experts who will share their thoughts on how Islanders can take action to end poverty and homelessness on Prince Edward Island. Any questions regarding the screening can be directed to David Webster, Community Impact Facilitator United Way of Prince Edward Island,dwebster@peiunitedway.
Tickets are free and can be reserved: https://www.
US AND THEM TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/
You’ve worked so hard to receive your degree and it’s certainly something to be extremely proud of and on display.
Degree framing services are offered by the UPEI Alumni Association. Visit the secure order site, 8734upei.com, to view the five models of frames that are available. Each frame includes a mat with the UPEI coat of arms embossed in gold. You are encouraged to place your orders immediately so your desired frame is available. Frames may be picked up at the reception immediately following convocation ceremonies at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering. AVC Graduates may pick-up their frames at their post-convocation reception in the AVC Learning Commons.
Contact Sarah Hastelow in the UPEI Alumni Office (618 University Avenue) at (902) 566-0615 or shastelow@upei.ca to learn more.
UPEI is proud to host the second Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), May 31 to June 2. UDL is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences. For more information, please visit www.udlconference.ca or contact udlpei17@gmail.com.
Kim Leeson from the Communications Security Establishment (the CSE is an agency of the federal government tasked with protecting Canadian security and information) will be on Campus on Monday, May 8 and will be hosting an information session on careers with the CSE. The session will be from 12 noon to 1:00 pm in Cass Science Hall, Room 101. The opportunities are mostly in areas such as Business and Information Management, Cybersecurity, GIS development, IT security, Network Analysis and System Administration.
Attendees must register in advance (by Thursday, May 4) and can do so by contacting Rita Stanley (rstanley@upei.ca) in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences.
Are you teaching a course that you've taught before? The E-Learning Office is inviting instructors to join us on May 4 at 10:00 am to migrate previous course materials into spring courses.
The session will be held in the LINC lab in the Robertson Library.
You can register for this session with this form: https://goo.gl/forms/lESIOiAwQQQ0uHpp1
The United Way Prince Edward Island and the Cooper Institute are excited to bring the film Us and Them to Charlottetown. The documentary will screen at the University of Prince Edward Island on Tuesday, May 9, and filmmaker Krista Loughton will be in attendance.
Us and Them chronicles Loughton's personal experience befriending four chronically homeless people. Using the First Nations Medicine Wheel, she sets out to help them but they end up helping her. The story digs deep into the root causes of homelessness and addiction. Following the screening of the film, Krista Loughton will respond to questions from the audience about her experiences in making this film. The event wraps up with short presentations from local community experts who will share their thoughts on how Islanders can take action to end poverty and homelessness on Prince Edward Island. Any questions regarding the screening can be directed to David Webster, Community Impact Facilitator United Way of Prince Edward Island, dwebster@peiunitedway.com
Tickets are free and can be reserved: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/us-and-them-charlottetown-tickets-340557095…
US AND THEM TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/175460546
The UPEI Student Union will be closed on Thursday, May 4, for staff training. We will re-open on Friday, May 5 at 9:00am. Sorry for any inconvenience.