Exam stress can lead to unhealthy eating for some students.  Staff and faculty at UPEI respond by serving a hot lunch free the first 2 days of exams in the Chaplaincy Centre. Our menu includes meat and vegetarian chili, chicken pasta, baked potatoes, hot dogs, dinner rolls, milk, ice tea and water. 

Exam stress can lead to unhealthy eating for some students.  Staff and faculty at UPEI respond by serving a hot lunch free the first 2 days of exams in the Chaplaincy Centre. Our menu includes meat and vegetarian chili, chicken pasta, baked potatoes, hot dogs, dinner rolls, milk, ice tea and water. 

Speaker: Courtney Gallant, Biomedical Sciences Title: Temperature Dependent Natural Product Produciton in Marine Arctic Actinomycetes

The University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to host the Irish Ambassador to Canada, Dr. Ray Bassett, to our campus this month. President Abd-El-Aziz and Dean of Arts Kujundzic invite the entire community to a public lecture by His Excellency called: The Northern Ireland Peace Process, up close Monday April 11, 2016 at 12 noon Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building A question and answer period and post-lecture reception will follow the talk. Ambassador Bassett was closely involved with the negotiation of the Good Friday Accord. An experienced diplomat, he has held various positions in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and over the course of his career has worked on major files such as Anglo-Irish relations, equality, and human rights and discrimination issues. All are welcome! Céad míle fáilte!

All faculty and staff are invited to attend the 2016 Celebration of Colleagues on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. In recognition of the outstanding performance of our faculty and staff and their dedication to students and community, the annual Presidential Recognition Awards of Merit and 25 Year Service Awards will be presented at this event. Please join us on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 2:00 - 4:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

Please join AVC in celebrating National Wildlife Week, April 10-16, 2016! On Wednesday, April 13, Fiep de Bie, AVC Wildlife Technician, will present “Giving Wings to Wildlife: Wildlife Care at AVC” in Lecture Theatre A at 12:30 pm.  Falconer Jamie Stride will bring in two of his raptors and share information on falconry. Raffle tickets will be available outside Lecture Theatre A from 9 am to 12:30 pm featuring fabulous wildlife items and artwork (donated by Dr. Spencer Greenwood, Jamie Linthorne, and Jordi Seger).   Wildlife cupcakes will also be available for sale.  Monies raised will support renovations to the outdoor flight cage. Everyone is welcome.

Hosted by AVC Community Practice Veterinarian, Dr. Kathy Ling, this session will provide basic information on how to recognize and care for emergencies and injuries in dogs and cats. Topics include: primary assessment, handling an injured animal, bleeding, shock, common toxins, and recognizing signs of pain and distress. Basic First Aid for your Pet will take place on Tuesday, April 26, from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm in Lecture Theatre A at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Please join us in celebrating with the AVC Class of 2016 at the AVC White Coat Ceremony & Graduation Awards Night on Friday, May 6, 2016, in the MacDonald/Coles Ballroom at the PEI Convention Centre, Charlottetown, PEI. This event is truly memorable and moving, and is the highlight of our academic year. During the ceremony, members of the AVC Class of 2016 will make the official and public passage from veterinary students to Doctors of Veterinary Medicine. The AVC White Coat Ceremony & Graduation Awards will begin at 4:00 pm at the PEI Convention Centre.

René Fehr will be defending his Honours Thesis in Philosophy "Aquinas and the Argument for Motion: From Potency and Act to an Unmoved Mover" on Thursday, April 14th, at noon. Location: SDU Main Building Room 203.

Island Lecture Series continues…John Cousins presents Island Studies April Lecture: New London: The Island’s Lost Dream Tuesday, April 19 | 7 p.m. | SDU Main  Building Faculty Lounge The Island Studies Lectures Series concludes this season on April 19 with historian/folklorist John Cousins presenting a lecture entitled “New London: The Island’s Lost Dream,” tracing the rise and fall of the “Quaker” village of New London between the years 1773 and 1795. The talk – a sneak preview of a book to be published later this year by Island Studies Press – gets under way at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus. New London was unique in the history of Island settlements. It was begun not as a community of scattered farms but as a compact industrial village stretched along “Leadenhall Street,” the road leading to the harbour mouth. The villagers for the most part were woodsmen, mill workers, and artisans: shoemakers, blacksmiths, coopers and woodworkers like the famous Benjamin Chappell. There was even a village doctor: Dr. Cullshaw. The plan of Robert Clark, the London Quaker who owned Lot 21, was to exploit the sea and the forest of his Island properties and export fish and lumber to the Caribbean. In return, products from the Caribbean – rum and sugar, for instance – would be carried back to the Island. The village was unique in other ways. It was planned as a Quaker community and its core families were Quakers from London and from the southern and western counties of England – some of whose descendants still live in the area. Powerful Quaker industrialists in England, among them John Townsend, a London pewter merchant, and William Cookworthy, the founder of England’s porcelain industry, were Clark’s supporters. Yet, within 20 years, the settlement at New London’s harbour mouth had died. Using eyewitness accounts and correspondence from the time, Cousins examines the village’s birth, its middle years and finally the “perfect storm” of events which led to the end of Robert Clark’s dream: the American Revolution, the business failure of Robert Clark, and finally the machinations of Island politicians who seized part of Clark’s property. In the end the dream of New London and its founders died. However, the first-hand accounts of its early days recorded by Benjamin Chappell, Thomas Curtis and Joseph Roake demonstrate that the courage, grace and toughness of the first New Londoners outlasted the death of their dream. John Cousins was born in the fishing village of Campbellton, Lot Four, western Prince County in 1945. He has been a fisherman, a school teacher, a school administrator, a historian and a folklorist and has published a number of works on PEI history and folklore. He taught as a sessional professor of folklore in UPEI’s History Department from 2000 to 2014. He is descended from John Cousins and Mary Townsend, whose families were among the first settlers at New London. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend.