Flags on the UPEI campus will be lowered to half mast on November 11 to mark Remembrance Day. 

Remembrance Day is a national holiday in Canada and a statutory holiday on PEI. The day is intended for "remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict, and peace"; particularly the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all conflicts since then in which members of the Canadian Armed Forces have participated. 

Each year, Canadians gather at ceremonies at cenotaphs across the country and, at 11 am, observe two minutes of silence to pay tribute to members of the Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP who served to defend our values and freedoms. We also honour those who continue to serve our country today, and the families who have lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, and cared for those who have returned with injuries, both visible and invisible. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.  

Veterans Affairs Canada runs a program called Canada Remembers, with the mission of helping young and new Canadians, "come to understand and appreciate what those who have served Canada in times of war, armed conflict, and peace stand for and what they have sacrificed for their country." Visit the Remembrance website for more information

Lest we forget.

On Thursday November 13, 2025, ITSS will be making a minor Email configuration change.  The change will be implemented at 8:30 am. This is a minor infrastructure change removing a redundant configuration to ensure compliance to best practices.  ITSS does not expect any interruption or negative impact on email services as a result of the change.   

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) invites you to the Pitch Battles 2025 Final Event, where the eight top teams will pitch for a chance at $4,000 in prizes!  Happening on Saturday, November 15 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 242. This event is open for anyone to attend, and everyone who signs up will receive an email providing them with a unique access code that they can use to vote for the Audience Choice Award winner!

To attend the event, please register here.

All graduate students are welcome to come out for Coffee and Conversation at the Fox & Crow on Wednesday, November 12 from 3:00-4:00 pm. The conversation will focus on sharing our research, interests, and learning moments.  

If you cannot join in-person, connect online. We are hosting an online Grad Student Hour on November 17 from 1:30-2:30 pm. The discussion at the online session will be about finding the balance of juggling work, study, and life. A Teams link is on the poster below.

See our POSTER for more information. 

Grad Student Hour brings graduate students together to discuss their experiences and challenges in grad studies, helping to build community through shared stories and support. It is hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Office of Student Culture and Community Standards. 

On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, ITSS will conduct maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, Web Advisor, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

Hey Arts Students!  The Dean of Arts invites you to join us for our second Fall Fika on Thursday, November 13, from 11 am-12 pm in SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge, Room 201.  Come enjoy hot chocolate, cookies, and some great conversation with your classmates and faculty members.  We hope to see you there!

"A Wondrous Thing Happened on the Way to Dystopia"

Dr. Richard Lemm is retiring this year, and the UPEI English Department is delighted to host his “Last Lecture.” 

Richard's more than three-decade career here has gone so far beyond his teaching of creative writing, environmental literature, and Canadian Literature in the University classroom: to his own creative works, to his mentoring of generations of new Island writers, and to his support for visiting writers and for the creative life of the Island generally. Come help us celebrate this truly wondrous career!

All graduate students are welcome to come out for Coffee and Conversation at the Fox & Crow on Wednesday, November 12 from 3:00-4:00 pm. The conversation will focus on sharing our research, interests, and learning moments.  

If you cannot join in-person, connect online. We are hosting an online Grad Student Hour on November 17 from 1:30-2:30 pm. The discussion at the online session will be about finding the balance of juggling work, study, and life. A Teams link is on the poster below.

See our POSTER for more information. 

Grad Student Hour brings graduate students together to discuss their experiences and challenges in grad studies, helping to build community through shared stories and support. It is hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Office of Student Culture and Community Standards. 

Visiting scholar Dr. Dann Downes, Professor of Information and Communication Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, presents a public lecture: "The first decades of the 21st century saw a burgeoning subculture of do it yourself (DIY) electronic music making and instrument building based in part on the availability of cheap electronic components and increased information through the internet. This paper will trace the development of one artifact of the period – the “benjolin” created by dutch engineer Rob Hordijk to demonstrate how this cultural period raises interesting questions about intellectual property, the materiality of technology and communication and the practice of media archeology.

November 12, 11:30 am

SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge Room 201

On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, ITSS will conduct maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, Web Advisor, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

This is a reminder that the UPEI Biosafety Program requires that all principal investigators confirm the security and complete inventory of all biohazardous materials being used or stored. This confirmation is due in November of each year.  

Inventory records must be kept up to date throughout the year. This is required not just by the UPEI Biosafety program but also by our federal regulator agencies, the CFIA and the PHAC. Any inventory discrepancies noted during an annual lab inspection may lead to an in-depth inventory audit by the Biosafety Committee. Please ensure your inventory is up to date throughout the year, including prior to completing the steps listed below.

To confirm your inventory is up to date, take the following steps:

1. Access your inventory at http://biosafety.vre3.upei.ca.  Remember to ignore the prominent "Access Denied" that appears on your screen. Just click on "Log in" at the top of the screen, in the grey bar.
2. Log in 
3. Click Edit 
4. Scroll down this page until you see the November 2025 box and enter the date.
5. Hit Save! Task completed. 

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Please contact Rhoda Speare (rspeare@upei.ca or ext. 5071) if you have any questions.

The UPEI Scholarships and Awards Office has extended the deadline to apply for the 2025 MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing to November 10, 2025.

Applications for all categories—“Coursework,” “Faculty and Staff,” “UPEI Writing Centre,” and “Community,”—should be submitted electronically to scholarships@upei.ca by the deadline date. 

Criteria and application forms for the four prize categories can be found through the links below. Please note that there are a number of awards available in each category.

• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Coursework)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Faculty and Staff)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster Centre for Teaching and Learning)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community)

The awards will be presented at a ceremony on December 5. For more information, please contact scholarships@upei.ca.

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our Pitching Workshop.This workshop will provide tools, tips, and tricks to effectively communicate your business idea and keep your audience engaged. This workshop will be structured for Pitch Battles pitches specifically, but is useful to anyone looking to improve their public speaking and presentation skills! Refreshments provided!

This session is open to public. Sign up here!

Join us on November 13, 2025 at 12:30 pm for a flag raising ceremony and words by community members for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025. We are honoured to have representatives from local non-profit, grassroot organizations, whose efforts continue to make Epekwitk a more dignified, equitable and joyous place for 2 Spirit and Gender Diverse people to live and thrive.  

Location: The ceremony will take place on campus at the three flag poles facing University Avenue

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual vigil to grieve and pay respects to 2 Spirit and gender diverse people who were murdered as an outcome of transphobia. To learn more about TDOR, visit Egale Canada's website at https://egale.ca/ or the US-based GLAAD's website at visit https://glaad.org/tdor/. For more activities during Trans Awareness Week visit the following sites:

• @peersalliance - www.peersalliance.ca 
• @nativecouncilpe - www.ncpei.com
• @peitransnetwork - www.peitn.com

Additional Flag Raisings by Community Organizations:

• Charlottetown - November 13 10:00 am,  Joe Ghiz park
• Summerside - November 14 11:00 am,  Summerside City Hall
• Stratford - November 17 11:00 am, Stratford Town Hall

The Canadian Career Virtual Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars was three half-days, jam-packed with career and professional development content from career practitioners and researchers across Canada.

Current graduate students and post-doctoral scholars may access recordings in FGS's UPEI Graduate Student Professional & Academic Development Resources Moodle page (a self-enroll course).

Faculty/Staff interested in one or more session recordings can either self-enroll in the Moodle course for access, or request the link for a particular session by emailing Kendra Mellish, Graduate Programs Officer at kmellish@upei.ca

Sessions:

• Keynote: Motivation...It Works! 
• Ten healthy habits of financial management (only handouts available, no session recording)
• You have a story worth sharing
• Getting practical career relevant experience (and talking to your supervisor about it...or not!)
• A recruiter's perspective to applying and interviewing
• Building cultural and career competency through networking conversations

UPEI graduate students and post-doctoral scholars were able to access sessions live and are now able to view session recordings, slides, and handouts for up to one year thanks to event sponsorship from the UPEI Faculty of Graduate Studies. 

Shaping the future of our campus begins with understanding how we use our space today. To ensure UPEI continues to provide the best environment possible for learning, research, and student success, Facilities Management will be conducting a comprehensive campus-wide space inventory over the coming weeks and months (two UPEI students have been employed to assist us with this task).

Starting October 27, 2025,  Facilities Management staff will carry out in-person walkthroughs of campus spaces to ensure UPEI has up-to-date data about the type, size, configuration and amenities of our space. This will include a visual review of offices, classrooms, laboratories, storage spaces, etc. Any review of laboratories or other similar facilities will be coordinated with the various academic units/faculties and no confidential or sensitive materials will be disturbed or logged. In addition, building occupants will be given advance notice of when walkthroughs will take place via the Chief Building Wardens.

Your cooperation will help us make the best use of our resources and plan effectively for the future. Thank you!

The Island Lecture Series presents a talk by Kate MacQuarrie, “The Wild Side of PEI." The Island Lecture Series will be held on November 18, 2025, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building Room 201, University of Prince Edward Island. 

Prince Edward Island is known as the 'million-acre farm' and 'Canada's food island', but there is so much more to this province than farming and fishing! In this illustrated presentation, Kate MacQuarrie will take you on a tour of some of PEI's best remaining natural landscapes. From iconic coastal sand dunes and red sandstone cliffs to wetlands, ancient peat bogs, and old growth forests, this presentation highlights the wild side of Canada's smallest province. No matter how well you know PEI, you’ll something new and interesting from this talk.

Kate MacQuarrie is an award-winning botanist, naturalist, and author with more than 30 years’ experience working with the plants, wildlife, and natural history of PEI. In addition to being PEI’s Director of Forests, Fish, and Wildlife, she runs PEI Untamed, a business dedicated to helping people learn, explore, and reconnect with the natural world around them. Kate has conducted research in PEI’s upland hardwood forests and coastal sand dunes, found plants not previously known to exist on PEI, published papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and has just published her first book, Wild Foods of Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press. She is currently working on another book due out Fall 2026.

The lecture is free, and all are welcome. For more information, contact Bren Simmers at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Joshua Le Clairs’s public dissertation defense presentation of his PsyD research titled: 

“Sexual Dis-Orientation: A Lacanian Critique of Current Perspectives on Sexuality in Clinical Practice”.

Date and Time: November 11, 2025 at 10:00 am 
Location: Memorial Hall, Room 104

The Animal Care Committee does not meet in December.  The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, January 2, 2026 for the January meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols select ‘applications’ and for renewal or amendment protocols select ‘events’.

To view any UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

This annual recital, featuring Department of Music faculty members, is popular among students and public alike, and includes a varied selection of repertoire performed by Sung Ha Shin-Bouey (soprano), Dale Sorensen (trombone), Nicole Strum (saxophone), Magdalena von Eccher (piano), Stephen Bouey (bass baritone), Ryan Drew (percussion), Bob Nicholson (tuba), Morgan Saulnier (flute), Amy Simon (bass clarinet), and a jazz combo with Shawn Doiron (drums), Adam Hill (bass), Mark Parsons (trumpet), and Ian Toms (guitar).

Accessible parking is available, and the theatre has an accessible entrance via elevator. Tickets are available in advance at upei.universitytickets.com or by cash at the door.