Events Archive

President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz cordially invites members of our campus and Prince Edward Island communities to attend the seventeenth annual Recognition of Founders Ceremony including a very special event, The President's Circle: Indigenizing our Campus in the Spirit of…
Students, Staff, Faculty, and recently graduated students are invited to bring their children, grandchildren, etc. to attend the Halloween Family Friendly Event on Saturday from 2pm to 5pm.  Co-hosted by the Campus Life Program and Let's Talk Science. Everyone is welcome to dress up. Let's…
Please join us for the 2016 Faith and Knowledge Lecture presented by the Saint Dunstan's Institute for Christianity and Culture. Dr. Moira McQueen, Director of the Canadian Catholic Instute on Bioethics and recent appointment of Pope Francis to the International Theological Commission, …
The Robertson Library partners with the Open Data Book Club to host an event. The Open Data Book Club will introduce their activities related to Open Data. Following that we will have two speakers: Dr Adam Fenech (Director of UPEI Climate Lab) will speak on The Value of Open Data in Research. Mary-…
Dr. Robert Gilmour, VP Academic and Research, will introduce the re-launch of the new IslandScholar and data.upei.ca. Dawn Hooper and Donald Moses, from the Robertson Library, will demonstrate the new IslandScholar, UPEI’s institutional repository of faculty and staff publications, graduate theses…
Speaker: Alyson Brown, Pathology and Microbiology Title: Acute phase and intracellular responses in vaccine-induced protection against bacterial infections in Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
The Celebration of Student Success- Dean's Honours List Ceremony for the School of Nursing will be held on Monday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m. in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Students who are on the Dean's List for the 2015-16 academic year will be presented with a certificate…
Robin DeRosa (Plymouth State University): Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy Open Educational Resources have the ability to eliminate the costs to students for textbooks and other learning materials, but they also empower students and faculty to work in new ways.  This…
Hello all, World Singing Day is a great opportunity to bring people together and share some inspirational songs, and the AIRS UPEI & Community Multicultural Choir and Song Circle is reminding you of the celebration that will be occurring for World Singing Day. The event will take place on…
On October 21st, the Catholic Studies programme and the Canadian Catholic Students' Association will host the Second Annual Blessed John Henry Newman Dinner. Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, CEO of Salt and Light Media and English-Language Attache to the Holy See Press Office at the Vatican, will speak on "…
Open Appetizers: What Open can do for Higher Ed   We’re talking “open” in higher ed as a preview for the UPEI library’s Open Access Week celebrations, and welcome you to join us.   We’ll have light refreshments, a series of 5 minute Lightning Talks on various aspects of “open” currently…
In partnership with Telefilms Canada and the Atlantic Film Festival, UPEI will be offering a FREE screeing of The Grand Seduction.  There will be pizza, pop and chips, we will also be drawing for gift cards to Superstore!  "The small harbour village of Tickle Cove needs a doctor or they…
The 7th Annual Candlelight Vigil Against Homophobia and Bullying will start at 6pm, with students and community members speaking about their experiences with discrimination and bullying. We will hold a moment of silence for those who have lost their lives, or a part of themselves as a result of…
Last year, UPEI and PEI Health and Wellness combined to offer a hot bowl of soup in a safe environment - healthy food for mental health.  This year, gardens are adding physical health to our plan. To increase sustainability, we invited the campus to donate bowls and spoons. We received 75…
All students are encouraged to attend and learn abou tthe many volunteer organizations and available opportunities. This is a great time to get hands-on experience, make connections, and help make a difference in your community. 
Please join us for "Theology on Tap" with speaker Dr. Chris Armstong, Wheaton College, on "Getting Medieval with C.S. Lewis."  The Pourhouse, 189 Great George Street.  Doors open at 630 pm with the talk at 7 pm.  Sponsored by the Saint Dunstan's University Institute for Christianity…
Join us for the first History of Medicine event for the fall, as Master of Arts (Island Studies) student Sara Underwood presents some of her research on the more than 200 children who were settled in Prince Edward Island between 1893 and the early 1920s, as part of the child emigration movement by…
UPEI’s Robertson Library is hosting a new book event series this fall called “Open Pages,” which will feature local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this free series, which takes place in the second-…
Canadian lawyer Marie Henein will give a lecture titled “An Inconvenient Profession” at the 2016 Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Wednesday, October 12, at 1:30 p.m., in Memorial Hall, Confederation Centre of the Arts. Henein will focus on the role of the legal profession in…
Join us at the UPEI observatory as we join people around the world celebrating International Observe the Moon Night. Get an up-close look at our nearest astronomical neighbour through our 8-inch telescope. Meet in room 417 of Memorial Hall to await your turn to go up to the telescope. Local…