Two candidates for the Master of Applied Health Services Research (MAHSR) degree will present their thesis defences on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Matthew Munro will present his thesis defence, entitled “The Treatment of Youth Anxiety: Historical and Current Narratives”, at 9 am. Sarah Gallant will present her thesis defence, entitled “The Depression Care-Seeking Journeys of Mothers and Daughters”, at 1 pm. Both presentations will take place in Room 116 of SDU Main Building (SDMB). All are welcome to attend!

Please join us for the 2017 Faculty Association Recognition and Awards year’s dinner and gala. Everyone is welcome to celebrate the end of the academic year, and to honour FA award recipients and retirees.

Join us at Fox Meadows Golf Club (167 Kinlock Road, Stratford, PEI) on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 6:30 pm for the reception and 7:00 pm for the dinner.

Tickets are $50.00 each (with a subsidized price of $25.00 for FA members and their guests), and can be pre-ordered at the Faculty Association Office, SDU Main Building, Room 315, 566-0438, hjpenny@upei.ca.

Deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 12:00 noon. Faculty Recognition Night is co-sponsored by the UPEI Faculty Association and the Office of the President, University of Prince Edward Island.

Micromarket in the sustainable engineering building will close on April 7 and reopen in September. AVC will remain at its regular hours. Samuel’s will stay open until April 13 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm and will close after April 13 until September. Student centre will be open its regular hours until April 21, then starting April 24 will open Monday – Friday 7:30 am-3:30 pm. Wanda Wyatt will be closing on April 22 and reopening sometime in late June.

Please visit our website for updates!

Central Printing will be closed Thursday, April 13. Contact: Wendy Henderson, 902-566-0558 or email whenderson@upei.ca

Jennifer Vacon, MSc student, will present a MMS 890 seminar on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 12:30 pm. Jennifer Vacon's presentation is entitled "In-cell Solid-State NMR as a Technique for the Study of Biological Molecular Processes".  The seminars will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, lecture theatre, room 212.

All are welcome!

With the switch to myUPEI, Moodle will be the place for faculty to submit final grades. To help with this change, the E-Learning Office has created some guides and is leading workshops to show the new process. Our guides can be found at this link. You can register for one of our workshops with this form.

At the Chaplaincy Centre, thoughts are with the students during exam time, their success, and yes, of course, the chili luncheo! On Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11, between 11:30 am –1:30 pm, a chili lunch will be served at the Chaplaincy Centre, free for the students. About 300 students show up each day for smiles, conversation, and food during this busy week!

Do you have library fines? Would you like to help a fellow student or family on campus?

Bring non-perishable food or grocery items (e.g. canned goods, pasta, light bulbs, toilet paper, etc.- please no damaged, expired, or opened goods) for the Campus Food Bank to the Service Desk at the Library from Friday, April 7 to Friday, April 28 and we’ll deduct $2.00 per item from your library fines.

If you have any questions, please contact the Service Desk, 902.566.0583

The schedule at the Chaplaincy Centre is different with exams and Holy Week beginning this week:

• Monday, April 10 - Chili Lunch, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, (no noon mass) Chrism Mass at Saint Dunstan's Basilica at 7:00 pm
• Tuesday, April 11 - Chili Lunch, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
• Thursday, April 13 - Holy Thursday, (no noon mass) masses in local parishes
• Friday, April 14 - Good Friday Service 3:00 pm
• Sunday, April 16 - Easter Sunday Mass (no 6:00 pm mass in the evening) 11:00 am with confirmation of two UPEI students

On Monday, April 10, Dr. Farimah HakemZadeh will give a teaching demonstration on "Contingencies in Organizational Behaviour and/or Management" at 1:30 pm in MCDH246 which will be followed by her public presentation of research and scholarship on "Evidence-Based Decision Making." The presentation will be held in MCDH 246 at 3:00 pm.

All are welcome to attend!

The schedule at the Chaplaincy Centre is different with exams and Holy Week beginning this week:

• Monday, April 10 - Chili Lunch, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, (no noon mass) Chrism Mass at Saint Dunstan's Basilica at 7:00 pm
• Tuesday, April 11 - Chili Lunch, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
• Thursday, April 13 - Holy Thursday, (no noon mass) masses in local parishes
• Friday, April 14 - Good Friday Service 3:00 pm
• Sunday, April 16 - Easter Sunday Mass (no 6:00 pm mass in the evening) 11:00 am with confirmation of two UPEI students

Department heads and chairs are reminded that the University's fiscal year-end is April 30, 2017. To ensure that 2016-17 expenditures are recorded in the 2016-17 operating budget, all external requisitions to be processed for purchase orders must be received by the Procurement Services office no later than 12:00 noon on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. View full memo here.

PEI Chief Justice David Jenkins will share with Prince Edward Islanders what he's learned as a member of Bermuda's Constituency Boundaries Commission. He will deliver a lecture Monday, April 10, at 7:00 pm., in the UPEI Main Building Faculty Lounge.

While Prince Edward Island goes through the process of updating its electoral boundaries, over the past several months Justice Jenkins has been on hand as Bermuda underwent a similar process. The Honourable Gerard Mitchell, who is chairing Prince Edward Island's Electoral Boundaries Commission, will be on hand to provide the PEI context of reviewing its 27 electoral districts, including the boundaries and the names.

Admission is free and all are welcome to attend!

At the Chaplaincy Centre, thoughts are with the students during exam time, their success, and yes, of course, the chili luncheo! On Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11, between 11:30 am –1:30 pm, a chili lunch will be served at the Chaplaincy Centre, free for the students. About 300 students show up each day for smiles, conversation, and food during this busy week!

The UPEI Bookstore is looking to gather information that will assist in continuing to provide products and services that meet the needs of the campus community and visitors. To collect this information, a short survey has been created and can be completed here.

By completing the survey, respondents are given the opportunity to enter for a chance to win one of three $50.00 gift cards from the UPEI Bookstore.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Campus Life presents its annual Easter Egg Hunt for kids on Saturday April 8, 1:00 - 3:00 pm in Student Affairs (Above the Bookstore) at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

If you're a UPEI Student, Alumni, Staff, or Faculty member who has children or grandchildren we invite you to attend this event. This is a non-denominational, non-religious event, for people of all faiths.

Join the celebration for "Let's Talk Science" experiments, snacks, a ball pit, the movie "Hop", and an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids (children will collectively hunt for all of the eggs and then take turns choosing an egg to keep until we run out of eggs)

Any questions may be directed to Elyse Cottrell at ecottrell@upei.ca.

Dr. Mansel W. Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph and Chief Scientific Officer, MicroSintesis, will give a seminar entitled "Probiotics as alternatives to antibiotics: The advent of proteobiotics" on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 3:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre "A". 

Everyone welcome!

Enjoy a free snack at the Robertson Library Stress Free Zone on Saturday, April 8 at 1:00 pm and, again, at 4:00 pm. Sweets and hot beverages co-sponsored by Chartwells and the Robertson Library.

All students are welcome! 

UPEI is updating to a newer version of Moodle for the spring and summer session. Because of this, the courses for the Spring/Summer session are being generated on the upgraded version of Moodle. This version of Moodle is available at moodle31.upei.ca (courses will be available there).

What's new in new Moodle?

If you're familiar with using Moodle, the updated version will look and feel very similar to the previous version. We have a list of some of the new changes that have been made in the update: Moodle 3.1 : new features.

What if I have old teaching materials that I need for next semester?

If you have teaching materials from previous versions of your next semester courses, you can import those materials into the new version of Moodle by doing a Backup and Restore. We have a video that shows each step of the process which you can watch here: Moodle Backup and Restorehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D47ThVmqzA. The E-Learning Office will also be hosting working sessions where we will walk through the process, you can register through this form. The E-Learning Office is happy to help you backup and restore your materials if you need assistance.

Final grade submissions:

With the launch of myUPEI, Moodle will be the where final grades are submitted. If you keep track of your grades in Moodle or with a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Spreadsheets, this should make final grade submissions easier. We go over the changes in a bit more detail on this blog post.

We will be running workshop sessions on Final Grade Entry and the Moodle Gradebook. You can sign up for these workshops here.

If you have any questions or if you need support with Moodle you can reach us at moodle@upei.ca