Join the International Student Office and the Robertson Library on Tuesday, March 19, as we present What Walaa Wants, the compelling story of a defiant young woman who dreams of becoming a policewoman in the Palestinian Security Forces (PSF). The film will be shown in the Robertson Library, Room 235, at 6:00 pm. Doors will open at 5:30 pm.

The Faculty of Business will host an Open House for the Master of Business Administration in Global Leadership (MBA-GL) program on Tuesday, March 19, from 4:30–6:00 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.

This session will offer attendees the opportunity to learn more about the program and application process, have any questions answered, and meet with students, alumni, professors, and staff from the Faculty of Business.

Attendees will be able to apply on-site (please bring a laptop or mobile device) and have their UPEI application fee waived ($50 CAD value).

For more information about UPEI’s MBA in Global Leadership program, please visit upei.ca/globalmba, or email mba@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Education invites members of the campus community–students, faculty, and staff–to attend a public presentation by Deneen Gallant-Norring, candidate for a ten-month term position in our Bachelor of Education (français langue seconde) program. The presentation takes place from 1:15 to 2:15 pm on Monday, March 18, in Memorial Hall 308. For further information, contact Karen-Anne O’Halloran.

The Department of Physics has been getting many inquiries from members of the campus community about how and where to acquire eclipse glasses. To ensure that you get safe eclipse glasses, you should purchase from a vendor or brand that is listed on the American Astronomical Society's Suppliers of Safe Solar Viewers and Filters page. There are many vendors there that are listed as being in Canada, which can save you time and money on shipping. You may also be able to purchase eclipse glasses from some local retailers, although stock is shifting rapidly so you will have to do your own inquiries to find where glasses are still available.

Our department has also prepared a website with general information about the solar eclipse on PEI. The eclipse will take place on the afternoon of Monday, April 8. It will be a partial (~99%) eclipse in Charlottetown, but it will be a total eclipse in parts of western PEI. You can find details of the timing of the event on our eclipse website and information about safe viewing.

We hope for clear skies on April 8 and that you can all view the eclipse safely.

Join Courtney Matthews and Kim Mears for a Lunch and Learn session to learn about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and some alternatives for licensing Indigenous OERs. They'll start with the larger OER conversation and how OERs benefit students and the academy, share resources for finding existing OERs, and then take a look at the local UPEI OER context. There will be ample time to discuss details that specifically support OER creation for Indigenous researchers and educators. We'll be in the Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library Annex, Room 230, on April 5 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

The Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation (OCII) and UPEI Co-operative Education are hosting a joint event on March 21 at 2:30 pm in AVC 286A to build awareness of funding undergraduate co-op student placements through partnered Mitacs Business Strategy Internships (BSI) and Mitacs Accelerate grants. This event will be structured around information sharing and networking, where industry, community organizations, UPEI faculty members, and co-op students will be invited to discuss collaborative project ideas and funding opportunities. This will provide a setting for external companies/organizations to visit UPEI, connect with faculty members with relevant expertise, and find co-op students interested in their projects. Co-op awards for students and employer of the year will also be presented during the networking part of the event. 

Faculty interested in learning more about these partnership opportunities are encouraged to register using the following form - https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9KUeeE99lUaXGGaCg81bvoJXmU6pEYpHtwAB4QF7YchUNkdGTEQ2WUtMVVdOMEVWWkpPUjNMSVdJWS4u

The PEI Federation of Agriculture is conducting a survey to better understand how Islanders think of agriculture. This 10-minute survey is open to everyone living on Prince Edward Island. All participants have the chance to enter a draw for a $50 gift card to the Atlantic Superstore. To take the survey, follow this link: https://forms.gle/uBnTo74uxabx4VAS9 This research is part of the coursework for a group of students who are doing their capstone course for Environmental Studies 4010: Public Scholars on Environmental Issues.

Duo Concertante returns to PEI on Saturday, March 16, at 7:30 pm with a program entitled Spirited Away. The performance will take place on the SDU Stage, Dr. Steel Recital Hall at UPEI.

This recital will feature works by Beethoven, Saint Saens, Khachaturian and Maier, with a performance of a piece by Alice Pee Ying-Ho, commissioned by Duo Concertante with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

For 23 years, violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built an international career as artist and life partners in the Canadian chamber ensemble Duo Concertante. Award-winning artists, champions of new music, visionary artistic directors, and inspiring mentors, they have forged a musical legacy and strive to provoke thought and engagement through their art.

Accessible parking is available, and the Dr. Steel Recital Hall has an accessible entrance via elevator.

On Wednesday, March 20, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email directly using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

Presenter: Emmanuel Neokye

Title: "The role of climate change and its Impacts on marine fisheries resources”

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday March 19, 2024, 9:00 am, AVC 287N

Everyone is welcome.

The sixth meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, March 15, 2024, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). All meetings of Senate are open to members of the University community, although for certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees), only senators may be present. While Senate is an in-person meeting, to facilitate inclusion, under special circumstances members of the University community may request a Zoom connection when they are unable to attend in person by emailing senate@upei.ca. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair. 

Workshop #4 in the virtual monthly Lunch and Learn Library series supporting UPEI graduate students.

REGISTER: https://forms.gle/Eopa1BvZawVaqM8b9 to receive the Zoom link and/or recording
Facilitator: Kaitlin Newson, Research Consultant, ACENET
When: 12:00 pm Atlantic, Friday, March 15 (recording available)
Where: Zoom

Description: In this virtual session learn about:

• what research data management is
• problems research data management can help you solve and avoid
• best practices for data management, including data management planning, organization, and storage
• how to find and share research data

Target audience: Graduate-level students (Masters and PhD)

Join the International Student Office and the Robertson Library on Tuesday, March 19, as we present What Walaa Wants, the compelling story of a defiant young woman who dreams of becoming a policewoman in the Palestinian Security Forces (PSF). The film will be shown in the Robertson Library, Room 235, at 6:00 pm. Doors will open at 5:30 pm.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies invites all current UPEI students to participate in a research study that will help decide the title of a new master’s program. The faculty creating this program are interested in receiving student feedback and will use the information gathered in this study to help determine the program title. UPEI students who complete this approximately 15-minute anonymous online survey will be entered into a draw and have a one in thirty chance of winning a $50 gift card!

Faculty of Business Behavioral Lab Students Click Here to Take Survey

All Other UPEI Students (not Behavioral Lab) Click Here to Take Survey 

For questions, contact szavala@upei.ca.

Come watch the UPEI Women's hockey team take on a team of Faculty and Staff. Game time is at 3 pm at the Bell Aliant Centre, Rink A. All are welcome to see who takes the honours of this first encounter between both teams! See you there. 

Duo Concertante returns to PEI on Saturday, March 16, at 7:30 pm with a program entitled Spirited Away. The performance will take place on the SDU Stage, Dr. Steel Recital Hall at UPEI.

This recital will feature works by Beethoven, Saint Saens, Khachaturian and Maier, with a performance of a piece by Alice Pee Ying-Ho, commissioned by Duo Concertante with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

For 23 years, violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built an international career as artist and life partners in the Canadian chamber ensemble Duo Concertante. Award-winning artists, champions of new music, visionary artistic directors, and inspiring mentors, they have forged a musical legacy and strive to provoke thought and engagement through their art.

Accessible parking is available, and the Dr. Steel Recital Hall has an accessible entrance via elevator.

Presenter: Emmanuel Neokye

Title: "The role of climate change and its Impacts on marine fisheries resources”

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday March 19, 2024, 9:00 am, AVC 287N

Everyone is welcome.

The sixth meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, March 15, 2024, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). All meetings of Senate are open to members of the University community, although for certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees), only senators may be present. While Senate is an in-person meeting, to facilitate inclusion, under special circumstances members of the University community may request a Zoom connection when they are unable to attend in person by emailing senate@upei.ca. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair. 

Shannon MacDonald, Chair of the UPEI Board of Governors and Presidential Search Committee, issued a message to the campus community on March 5 about the Fireside Chats with the Finalist Candidates for the UPEI Presidential Search. Read the full message.

These sessions are in-person and limited to current UPEI students, staff, and faculty. Campus community members are asked to keep all discussions and comments confidential and not share names of the candidates during or after their visits to the University. Recording the fireside chats is strictly prohibited and no recordings will be distributed following the sessions.  

All those who wish to attend must pre-register using their UPEI credentials through this form (https://forms.office.com/r/UFvwj3USD5). Those who cannot attend in person due to work-from-home arrangements/other accommodations can indicate this in the form and will be sent a Zoom link to watch live.

• Candidate 1, Friday, March 8, 2024, 1:30–2:30 pm, Performing Arts Centre 121S
• Candidate 2, Monday, March 11, 2024, 1:30–2:30 pm, Duffy Science Centre Amphitheatre 135
• Candidate 3, Monday, March 18, 2024, 1:30–2:30 pm, Performing Arts Centre 121S

Members of the campus community members have an opportunity to provide feedback anonymously regarding the candidates following the fireside chats and small-group meetings until March 21, 2024, at https://forms.office.com/r/F6YY4K6J1D

On Thursday, March 14, Dr. Michel Juneau-Katsuya will give two lectures--the first at 2:30 pm in SDU Main Building, Room 335, and the second at 4:00 pm in Robertson Library, Room 208--about transnational organized crime and influence and intelligence operations in Canada. He is involved with the launch of two newly published books, “The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard” and “Under Cover: Inside the Shady World of Organized Crime and the RCMP.”

Dr. Juneau-Katsuya was a career RCMP officer and later a senior intelligence officer and manager with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in counter-intelligence as head of its Asia Pacific operations. He is the co-author of “Nest of Spies: The Startling Truth About Foreign Agents at Work Within Canada’s Borders.” He lectures on national security issues at several Quebec universities and is a regular host of a weekly national security program on Radio Canada.  

For information, contact Henry Srebrnik at hsrebrnik@upei.ca