The UPEI Philosophy Reading Group will meet on Sunday, August 3, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm at a downtown location still to be determined.

All are welcome.

During this gathering, we will discuss Chapter 3: "The Affective Politics of Fear," pp. 62-80, from Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion.

The following passages speak to the spirit of the reading:

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!" - Gen. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics.

Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on.

The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives.

If you would like to attend, please reach out to Dr. Max Schaefer at mschaefer@upei.ca for more information.

On Tuesday, July 29, the Robertson Library’s catalogue will be unavailable to allow for a software upgrade. During the upgrade you can continue to search the library’s holdings using OneSearch and checkout items at the Service Desk.

To learn more visit Catalogue unavailable Tuesday, July 29.

If you have questions please send them to Library Feedback.

New in IslandScholar profile is an option for Scholars to indicate if they are or are not seeking graduate-level research students/trainees as research supervisors.

If you hold an IslandScholar profile, and are interested in updating that IslandScholar profile to indicate if you currently are or are not seeking research graduate students/trainees, read on for details on how.

Robertson Library and Grad Studies have developed a short primer on how to submit a request to add this to your IslandScholar profile, including preview views on how each selected status would display. Status options span: do not display (current default), no (not seeking student/trainees), and yes with the options for masters-level only, doctoral-level only, or both masters & doctoral level.  

Primer: IslandScholar - Seeking Students Profile Option

Note - Requests for IslandScholar profile updates are completed manually, expect 2-3 business days before a change is implemented to a Scholar profile.

For questions about updating this option of the IslandScholar profile, contact: Keri McCaffrey, One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian at knmccaffrey@upei.ca

The UPEI Philosophy Reading Group will meet on Sunday, August 3, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm at a downtown location still to be determined.

All are welcome.

During this gathering, we will discuss Chapter 3: "The Affective Politics of Fear," pp. 62-80, from Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion.

The following passages speak to the spirit of the reading:

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!" - Gen. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics.

Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on.

The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives.

If you would like to attend, please reach out to Dr. Max Schaefer at mschaefer@upei.ca for more information.

It’s time for another cybersecurity Ask Me Anything session. This is an invitation to students, faculty, and staff at UPEI to join in and ask me questions about cybersecurity, and I’ll do my very best to answer them. This is also an opportunity to share concerns, comments, or complaints about cybersecurity issues at UPEI or in general. I look forward to seeing you at this session!

This will be an online session on Tuesday, August 5, at 12:00 pm. Please register with your UPEI account with this link. 

Who I am: My name is Dave Kubert, and I’m the slightly-less-new-than-last-time Director of Information Security and Information Management here at UPEI. I’ve worked in higher university IT and cybersecurity for my entire career and have been with UPEI since late January.

The Selection Committee for the Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, invites you to a public presentation by Dr. Greg Doran on the theme of encouraging and advancing student engagement across the diversity of students in Arts.

The presentation and question period will take place on Tuesday, July 29, 9:00-10:00 am, in SDU Main 213.

All are invited to attend.

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Chaya Seale's public dissertation defence presentation of her PsyD research titled "Veterinarians navigating and overcoming challenges in clinical practice: A collaborative narrative inquiry."

Date and time: August 6, 2025, at 1:00 pm 
Location: AVC 219S 

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is interviewing two candidates for a tenure-track position. Each candidate is invited to give a public research presentation, which everyone is welcome to attend.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE 128A: Dr. Dylan Jubinville, senior research associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, will give a presentation titled "Recycling and Reprocessing of Polymer Materials: Degradation, Vitrimerization, and Circular Applications".

Thursday, July 31, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE128A: Dr. Hirushie Karunathilake, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, will give a presentation titled "Designing Life Cycle Thinking-based Solutions for Sustainable Energy Transitions”.

Troy Life & Fire Safety is conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus. As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "This is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for July and August.  Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

• July 22 and 23: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall
• July 23: Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
• July 24: K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building
• July 28-31: Performing Arts Centre and Residence
• August 4-8: AVC
• August 11-12: Bernadine Hall
• August 12: Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter's Bay 
• August 13-14: Health Sciences Building
• August 18 and 19: Steel Building 
• August 19: Blanchard Hall 
• August 25: Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre 

On Tuesday, July 29, the Robertson Library’s catalogue will be unavailable to allow for a software upgrade. During the upgrade you can continue to search the library’s holdings using OneSearch and checkout items at the Service Desk.

To learn more visit Catalogue unavailable Tuesday, July 29.

If you have questions please send them to Library Feedback.

Bring your craft project (or art, or writing, or other work-in-progress) to Robertson Library on Mondays between 12:00 and 1:00 pm. Show off your skills, ask for advice, see what others are working on, and make some progress in community!

All are welcome, including employees, students, and visitors; feel free to bring your lunch as well. We will meet in the comfortable seating area near the Library stairs. Some basic supplies will be available for those who want to drop in without an ongoing project.

Contact Katelyn Browne (krbrowne@upei.ca) with any questions.

The deadline for Fall 2025 tuition waivers is August 22, 2025.  We encourage you to have tuition waivers submitted as soon as possible to assist in the timely processing. Tuition waiver forms must be submitted electronically.  

Online employee and spouse/dependent tuition waiver fillable forms can be found on the main page of MyUPEI under UPEI Forms.

Please note, the employee or spouse/dependent must be registered in the course prior to applying for the tuition waiver. 

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at: (902) 566-0514 or hrgeneral@upei.ca.

The UPEI Food Bank has surplus bottles of red pasta sauce that they would like to give away, as the bottles are coming close to their "best before" date.

If you or someone you know would like one or more bottles of sauce, please go to the Food Bank Kiosk in the concourse of the W. A. Murphy Student Centre, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, today (Friday, July 25). 

Thank you,
UPEI Food Bank

The Department of Physics is once again hosting public viewings of the sun using our solar telescopes this summer. We invite you to join us on Friday, July 25, from 12:30-2:00 pm on the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library. There you can view one layer of the sun's atmosphere (the chromosphere) through our ground-based telescope before climbing to the observatory and viewing another layer (the photosphere) through a different telescope. You'll get to see sunspots and prominences and learn about our nearest star.

If the weather is cloudy on Friday, we will have to cancel this event, but we will be holding additional events every two weeks throughout the summer.

Check our website after 10:00 am on Friday for the status of the event.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is interviewing two candidates for a tenure-track position. Each candidate is invited to give a public research presentation, which everyone is welcome to attend.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE 128A: Dr. Dylan Jubinville, senior research associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, will give a presentation titled "Recycling and Reprocessing of Polymer Materials: Degradation, Vitrimerization, and Circular Applications".

Thursday, July 31, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE128A: Dr. Hirushie Karunathilake, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, will give a presentation titled "Designing Life Cycle Thinking-based Solutions for Sustainable Energy Transitions”.

Troy Life & Fire Safety is conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus. As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "This is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for July and August.  Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

• July 22 and 23: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall
• July 23: Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
• July 24: K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building
• July 28-31: Performing Arts Centre and Residence
• August 4-8: AVC
• August 11-12: Bernadine Hall
• August 12: Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter's Bay 
• August 13-14: Health Sciences Building
• August 18 and 19: Steel Building 
• August 19: Blanchard Hall 
• August 25: Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre 

Date and location: July 28, 2025, 1:00 pm, Duffy Science Centre 204 

Title: "Agrochemical Inputs in Estuaries:  Pesticide and Oxygen Influences on Mobile Invertebrate Assemblages within Salinity Gradients with a Focus on Gammarus Species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) Responses"

Estuaries are ecosystems with spatially variable stressors with multiple anthropogenic impacts. In agricultural landscapes, nutrient and pesticide inputs potentially influence estuarine invertebrate assemblages. This dissertation examines how estuarine gradients, particularly salinity and eutrophication, structure the abundances of mobile invertebrates. Spatial patterns of four estuarine amphipod species are shown through comparisons of multiple collection methods. Insecticide toxicity experiments examine salinity-dependent toxicity of chlorpyrifos and imidacloprid in Gammarus lawrencianus. Field collections uncover unexpected insect species in high-salinity zones. Finally, more than agricultural or natural stressors examined, local hypoxia emerges as the immediate driver of invertebrate abundances. These findings emphasize the dynamic facets of natural gradients and agrochemical inputs that shape estuarine communities.

Everyone is welcome.

The UPEI Bookstore will be open until 6:00 pm on Friday, July 25, as we welcome back alumni for Reunion Weekend. Don't forget to ask for your alumni discount when making your purchases at the Bookstore. Shop online at http://upei.ca/bookstore. 

One of the signature events of Pride Fest ‘25 is the PEI Pride Parade, when individuals, families, friend groups, and organizations join a colourful line-up to walk through the streets of Charlottetown. The 31st annual PEI Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, July 26—UPEI, the UPEI Student Union, UPEI Alumni Association, and the AVC Pride Club are Panther Proud to participate!

All students, staff, faculty, and alumni (and family and friends!) are invited to join the celebration! 

Participants are asked to meet at 10:30 am on parade day at the Panther recruitment vehicle in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. The parade begins at 11:00 am and ends at approximately 12:00 pm.

Wear bright rainbow colours and be ready to wave and cheer! As an option, you can purchase UPEI Pride t-shirts from the UPEI Bookstore or decorate your existing UPEI wardrobe with bursts of Pride colour.  

Another idea is to attend the UPEISU’s “Pride Tie-Dye" event on Thursday, July 24, from 12 noon to 4:00 pm in the Campus Life Lounge, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. All supplies, including tie-dye kits and white t-shirts will be provided at no cost, so you can create your own custom design to wear in the Pride Parade or keep it as a fun memento. (This event is open to all students, staff, and faculty!)  

If you are unable to make it to the parade, you can express support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in other ways such as wearing bright rainbow colours and/or decorating your workspaces during the 10-day PEI Pride Festival.

Pride PEI is looking for volunteers to help with set-up and tear-down for the Pride parade on July 26 and the Rainbow Road on August 2. For information to volunteer, email Chantal at chantal.hayman@pridepei.ca

 

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Justin Read's public presentation of his MEd research titled: "Negotiating the In-Between: An Autoethnographic Exploration of a Hearing Coda’s Cultural and Linguistic Identity as a Sign Language Interpreter and Educator"

Please join us in person July 28 at 10:00 am, Memorial Hall, Room 308.

If you wish to join virtually, visit the Zoom link below.

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68836303402?pwd=K3QnTgjbbuEi2SanEoigHCzVuyIcnS.1
Meeting ID: 688 3630 3402
Passcode: 920033Hide