Members of the University and PEI sports community are invited to join Mr. Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; the Honourable Richard Brown, Minister of Workforce and Advanced Learning; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, and Mr. Mike O’Grady, Vice-President, Innovation and Strategic Development at Holland College for a special announcement regarding an infrastructure upgrade on the UPEI campus.    

Ms. Izumi Nonaka will defend her Master of Arts Island Studies thesis entitled "Niche and off-island strategies for island business:  Case studies from Prince Edward Island". The defence will take place on Friday, August 26th, 11:30am, in Rm. 409 Dalton Hall. Given limited space, please RSVP to jarandall@upei.ca if you wish to attend.

Are you a first-year Arts student? Come enjoy coffee and chocolate and meet some profs and fellow students at this orientation event. There's even a table with free second-hand books for you to browse through.

We are very pleased to announce that the UPEI Executive MBA program will be hosting a special guest speaker event with Matt Marx on Thursday, August 25 from 4:30 to 6:00pm at Marc's Studio, 125 Sydney Street. Most entrepreneurs focus on writing a business plan, prototyping their product, and raising capital. But they often ignore—or postpone—critical organizational issues that may have as much or more impact on their eventual success. Who should be on the founding team? How do we allocate rewards including equity? What should everyone’s roles be? Unfortunately, the “obvious” decision can be dead wrong…but the entrepreneur doesn’t realize this until it is months or years too late. Matt Marx is an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management and Mitsui Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. Drawing on his experience working in both Silicon Valley and Boston startups, Marx studies the systematic and institutional barriers to the growth of new ventures. He holds seven patents, and was previously an inventor and an executive at multiple startup companies in the speech recognition industry. As vice president of professional services at Tellme Networks, he led a team of 75 in growing annualized revenue from $5 million to more than $100 million. Marx holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University, an SM in media arts and sciences from MIT, and an MBA and a DBA in business administration from Harvard University.  

Please join us for this year's Let's Talk Teaching Day on Tuesday, September 6, at 10:00 a.m. in HSB 104. The theme of the day is "Finding Common Ground." We all teach, but what we teach, how we teach, why we teach, and even who we teach are often different. Are these differences important to our sense of ourselves as a faculty—and to our notions of what a university education is for? How do these differences affect student expectations and performance as they move between Faculties and Schools during their degrees—and how can we help them negotiate those differences? In short, how can we find—and clearly articulate—some "common ground" for our teaching at UPEI? A combination of larger group and smaller break-out group discussions will address such questions as Who is in our classrooms—and why are they there? How does this make a difference in our teaching? How do we use class time? What is the point/purpose of class time? How do we think about the relationships among teaching, retention, and success? How does technology get used in our classrooms? What is the relationship between our technology use and (our expectations for) student learning? How do we articulate relationship between teaching and learning in our different Faculties and Schools? What is the point of a university education? How do we tell the story of life after university—to students, to parents, to community members, to ourselves? Our aim will be to generate some concrete strategies to take back to our Faculties and Schools, our units, and our classrooms that address "finding common ground."  Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served at 9:40; the day will begin at 10:00; lunch will be provided at noon; and we plan to wrap up between 2:30 and 3:00.  If you have any questions, please email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca or (902) 620-5217.

Join the staff of the UPEI International Relations Office Friday morning at 9am at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall for breakfast. We have a full day of activities and information sessions prepared for our new international students. Online registration for the September 2nd event has now closed, but late arriving students can still direct Inquiries about ISO to Richelle Greathouse rgreathouse@upei.ca

This is a follow-up orientation session for international students. Students who were unable to attend the Friday session are welcome to join staff of the IRO for this alternate session. Between the hours of 1:30-2:30pm we will also introduce students to the many supports and services available to them as new UPEI students.   http://www.upei.ca/studentlife/international-students

The School of Sustainable Design Engineering will be holding their annual Student, Faculty, and Staff Orientation Day at Parks Canada's Greenwich location on Friday, September 9, 2016. This is a great day for the School to celebrate a new year, welcome students and make them feel at home, and continue a long-standing tradition of design activities.

Due to unforseen circumstances, the Family Friendly Event scheduled for September 4th has been postponed to Sept 25th. Sorry for any incovenience.  Contact Elyse at ecottrell@upei.ca with any questions. 

Are you new to graduate studies at UPEI? Do you want to meet fellow grad students? Want to meet your Graduate Students’ Association and the other services available to you on campus?  Come out to our Graduate Student Orientation!  Pizza will be served!