Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, a new book of poetry by Dr. Brent MacLaine, will be launched at a public event on Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the North River Fire Hall’s Ember Room. A native of PEI, MacLaine is professor emeritus and a 3M Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at UPEI. In addition to numerous academic articles on modern literature, he has published four volumes of poetry. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. In Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, MacLaine undertakes an exploration of fire. The title poem establishes Prometheus as the poet’s persona, a voice that is dedicated to the reconsideration of fire in both its benevolent and malevolent aspects. Formal and elegant, Prometheus plots a trajectory between the classical and the local, a bearing that will be familiar to readers of MacLaine’s earlier work, Athena Becomes a Swallow. Wide-ranging in its geography, the new book is wrapped ’round by “The Fire Hall Suite,” which begins and ends the book. The poems in the collection respond to the “drive-by wisdom” created by the anonymous “Sign Person” who speaks to the local community by way of the fire hall’s roadside sign. Framed by the “Suite,” the poems of Prometheus move between city and country. A naturalist in the city, MacLaine brings to the urban environment the acutely observing eye that has always characterized his Island nature poems. The book is published by Nimbus Publishing. Everyone is invited to attend the launch of Dr. MacLaine’s newest book. The Ember Room is upstairs in the North River Fire Hall, Trans Canada Highway, North River, PEI.

You are cordially invited to join 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 (ACOA), Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, and invited guests for a project announcement aimed at improving infrastructure within the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:00 pm at the Upstairs Lobby, Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on campus of the University of Prince Edward Island

Registration for the 2016-2017 academic year begins on May 31, 2016. Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all UPEI students on Friday, June 3.  Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins. *Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.

Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all UPEI students on Friday, June 3. Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins. *Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.

Registration for the 2016-2017 academic year begins on May 31, 2016. Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all UPEI students on Friday, June 3.  Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins. *Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.

The UPEI Faculty of Education cordially invites you to attend the PhD proposal presentation of Olive Bryanton entitled “Pioneers in Aging: Voices of Community Dwelling Women Age 85 and Older in Rural Prince Edward Island” on Monday, June 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm in Memorial Hall 308.

Spatial Analytics for Health Research using ArcGIS This two-day workshop will introduce participants to key concepts, data types, and basic methods of spatial analysis in ArcGIS. Participants are not expected to have any experience working with GIS. Location Details: Monday, June 20 & Tuesday, June 21 Room 218 S - Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown 9 am - 4 pm To Register: (Free training but registration is required in advance) Please visit:   bit.ly/pei-gis Organized by:  Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit and CHBMR

UPEI’s new School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences is in the process of searching for its first Associate Dean and Dr. Gordon MacDonald has been invited to make a public presentation on his vision for the new School. Everyone is encouraged to attend on Monday, June 20, 2016, from 1:00-2:00 pm, in the K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104.  For those who wish to view a copy of Dr. MacDonald’s CV it can be obtained by contacting Kate in the Office of the Dean of Science, contact info as shown below.

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative is holding its annual workshop, this year called, "An Atlantic and Canadian Perspective on Wildlife Health", on the UPEI campus at the Atlantic Veterinary College.  Link to the full program      

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI) at the University of Prince Edward Island is hosting its 12th biennial international and interdisciplinary four-day conference June 23 to 26. Much Montgomery criticism of the past several decades has regarded her work from a feminist and gender studies perspectives: L. M. Montgomery and Gender will reconsider and build upon those readings, exploring how formative and deterministic gender roles seem, and yet how mutable they may be. “This year’s conference theme, L.M. Montgomery and Gender, will look back over more than a century of change to reassess how Montgomery both reinforced and challenged gender roles of her day and ours,” said Dr. Laura Robinson, LMMI Visiting Scholar, conference co-chair, and dean of arts at Royal Military College. “Moreover, we will also invite conference-goers to digitize their testimonies of how Montgomery’s works have influenced their lives, a topic that novelist Jane Urquhart will also discuss in her keynote address. It promises to be a very international, interdisciplinary, and engaging conference.” Canada is quickly approaching the centenary of women’s suffrage in Manitoba (1916) and nationally (1918). The presentations and events of this conference will reconsider the role of gender in L. M. Montgomery’s work: her fiction, poetry, life writing, letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and the many adaptations and spinoffs in film, television, theatre, tourism, and social media. “The L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI promotes research into, and informed celebration of, the life, works, culture, and influence of Montgomery,” said Dr. Philip Smith, professor of psychology and Committee Chair of LMMI. “We have a rich network of local, national, and international Montgomery scholars and enthusiasts.  This conference features presenters from nine countries. The conference welcomes both academics and community members, and anyone with an interest in Montgomery is encouraged to register.” Conference keynote speakers: Elizabeth Epperly, professor emerita, was the first student to register at the “new” University of Prince Edward Island in 1969.  A Victorian scholar and English professor from 1976-2006, she taught at UPEI for 22 years where she also served as founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and UPEI's fourth (and only female to date) president (1995-1998).  Originally from Virginia, Epperly became a citizen of Canada because of her love for L.M. Montgomery’s writing.   Dr. Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was the first full-length critical study to address all of Montgomery’s novels. Mavis Reimer is professor in the Department of English, and dean of graduate studies at the University of Winnipeg, where she also was Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood and founding director of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children’s Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale. Jane Urquhart is the author of internationally acclaimed and award-winning novels, including: The Whirlpool; Changing Heaven; Away; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; A Map of Glass, a finalist for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; Sanctuary Line, and, most recently, The Night Stages. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction and four books of poetry, and published a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery as part of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians series. Full details, including instructions on how to register, can be found at the conference website.