In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning.

The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada. There are up to 60 prizes available for returning undergraduate students who produced outstanding written work in the previous academic year (September 1–August 31), as a substantive role in their academic course work or for the broader community audience, and who showed most improvement through a writing support program coordinated through the Webster Centre.

There are also up to 3 prizes available for faculty or staff members, who have shown exceptional leadership in the development of writing among students at UPEI.

For application information, please check out the following links:

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Academic) – up to 35 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Staff/Faculty) - up to 3 prizes

For more details regarding this awards program, please feel free to contact Logan Dawson in the Scholarships, Awards and Financial Aid office at lodawson@upei.ca or (902) 620-5187.

In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning.

The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada. There are up to 60 prizes available for returning undergraduate students who produced outstanding written work in the previous academic year (September 1–August 31), as a substantive role in their academic course work or for the broader community audience, and who showed most improvement through a writing support program coordinated through the Webster Centre.

There are also up to 3 prizes available for faculty or staff members, who have shown exceptional leadership in the development of writing among students at UPEI.

For application information, please check out the following links:

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Academic) – up to 35 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Staff/Faculty) - up to 3 prizes

For more details regarding this awards program, please feel free to contact Logan Dawson in the Scholarships, Awards and Financial Aid office at lodawson@upei.ca or (902) 620-5187.

Are you planning a trip to the Caribbean this winter and would like to acquire basic vocabulary? Are you a student in the Spanish program who is looking for more oral practice? Or maybe, you would simply like to brush up on your once fluent Spanish? The situations are endless! All language levels are welcome to have fun with us in a friendly social setting while learning the Spanish language and culture from Spain and Latin America. If you are interested, Tertulias meets every second Thursday at 7:00-8:30pm. Modern Languages Lounge (SDU Main 427). ¡Hasta el jueves!

Dr. Doreley Coll
Associate Professor
Modern Languages

A lecture by Dr. John Todd

UPEI Environmental Studies and the Institute for Bioregional Studies Ltd. are pleased to host Dr. John Todd on Sunday, September 22, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.,  135  DSC for an stimulating lecture and book launch.

John Todd is a biologist working in the field of ecological design. He addresses problems of food production and wastewater processing by using ecosystems technologies that incorporate plants, animals and bacteria. He combines alternative technologies for renewable energy, organic farming, aquaculture, hydroponics and architecture to create "living machines"or "eco-machines"; designed for sustainable living.

John Todd is a co-founder with Nancy Jack Todd of the non-profits New Alchemy Institute and PEI’s historic Spry Point Ark. He is president of the design and engineering firm John Todd Ecological Design Inc.  A research professor emeritus and distinguished lecturer at the University of Vermont, where he teaches Ecological Design, Dr. Todd has published well as over 200 scientific papers, popular articles and essays and authored several books.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Peach Brown - hcpbrown@upei.ca

Members of the campus community are invited to join Ashok Somalraju for the presentation of a PhD Thesis Defense on "Potato Germplasm Development through EMS- Mutagenesis and Crop Bio-Fortification for Enhanced Plant Defense and Nutritional Quality." 

All are welcome to attend. 

Please note updated time and location!

Members of the campus community are invited to join Dr. Linyuan Guo-Brennan and Dr. Charlene VanLeeuwen for a research presentation community-based learning and international students.  The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes followed by a 10 minute question period.  

Increased global mobility has allowed more and more students to pursue graduate education overseas, and many are engaged in community-based learning (CBL) through formal or informal educational opportunities.

Based on a mixed-methods case study conducted in the context of UPEI's M.Ed with Global Perspectives Program, the presentation shares the impact of CBL on international students’ academic, sociocultural, personal, and professional development and discusses the benefits and challenges unique to international students in community-based learning.

All are welcome!

UPEI students, staff, and faculty are you up for a challenge? Test your mental abilities alongside your fellow UPEI colleagues in a problem-solving fun experience—and, you won't be marked on it!

Robertson Library is presenting an escape room in the Library, Room 312, this semester: Escape the Deadly Virus on PEI: Crow Disease.

You and your fellow UPEI colleagues are locked in a room! Find clues, solve puzzles, find keys, and open locks to find the map to escape. Can you find the map and escape in time?

The Escape Room is limited to UPEI students, staff, and faculty and up to six participants per time.  Free admission!

Come and see if you have what it takes to escape!  Don’t miss out!

Sign up now!

The University community is invited to the "UPEI at 50 Barbecue" on Friday, September 27 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in the green space between Don and Marion McDougall Hall and the Duffy Science Centre. 

Help us celebrate the University's 50th anniversary during Homecoming Week and enjoy free food, 50th anniversary swag, music and more! In the event of inclement weather, we'll move into Schurman Market Square, MCDH. 

All are welcome!

In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning.

The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada. There are up to 60 prizes available for returning undergraduate students who produced outstanding written work in the previous academic year (September 1–August 31), as a substantive role in their academic course work or for the broader community audience, and who showed most improvement through a writing support program coordinated through the Webster Centre.

There are also up to 3 prizes available for faculty or staff members, who have shown exceptional leadership in the development of writing among students at UPEI.

For application information, please check out the following links:

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Academic) – up to 35 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster) – up to 11 prizes
MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Staff/Faculty) - up to 3 prizes

For more details regarding this awards program, please feel free to contact Logan Dawson in the Scholarships, Awards and Financial Aid office at lodawson@upei.ca or (902) 620-5187.

Are you planning a trip to the Caribbean this winter and would like to acquire basic vocabulary? Are you a student in the Spanish program who is looking for more oral practice? Or maybe, you would simply like to brush up on your once fluent Spanish? The situations are endless! All language levels are welcome to have fun with us in a friendly social setting while learning the Spanish language and culture from Spain and Latin America. If you are interested, Tertulias meets every second Thursday at 7:00-8:30pm. Modern Languages Lounge (SDU Main 427). ¡Hasta el jueves!

Dr. Doreley Coll
Associate Professor
Modern Languages

The next performance in the UPEI Music Recital Series will feature an evening of masterworks for violin and piano. Violinist Martin Chalifour and pianist Sarah Hagen will perform together Saturday, September 21, at 7:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI Steel Building. 

Chalifour and Hagen first met at a music festival on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and over too many cups of coffee, began scheming plans to perform together. This highly caffeinated meeting led to laughter-filled tours in BC and Washington State and an eventual recording. Their upcoming program features Beethoven’s glorious and transcendent Opus 96 Sonata, a thoughtful work which transforms both performers and listeners.

From Québec, Chalifour has been principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1995. He came to wide prominence upon receiving a certificate of honour at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986, with a laureate at the Montréal International Musical Competition the following year. Chalifour has maintained a career as a much sought-after orchestral violinist, soloist, and chamber musician ever since. Throughout these years, he has performed a vast repertory of more than 50 concertos, spanning the world as a soloist and sharing concert stages with such notable conductors as Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Hagen, who makes her home on the south shore of PEI, enjoys a busy and diverse life touring across Canada and internationally as both a recitalist and a humorist. She won first prize in the 2013 Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, and Artist of the Year by Ontario Contact in 2017 and the British Columbia Touring Council in 2015. Her interpretations have been described as “outstandingly inventive” by the University of Waterloo Gazette, and “with great sensitivity and heart,” by the Vernon Morning Star.

This concert is part of the UPEI Music Department Recital Series. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students. Barrier-free parking is available adjacent to the Steel Building via the driveway in front of the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre. Regular parking may be found in Lot C. All campus parking is free after 5 pm.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the first Environmental Sciences/Human Biology seminar of the academic year.

Dr. Patrick Murphy of the UPEI Biology Department will present “Unraveling metabolite function with disruptive new tools in metabolomics and proteomics”. The seminar will take place on Friday, September 20th  at 12:30 pm in the Duffy Science Centre, room 204.  

All are welcome.

Students from UPEI’s Kinesiology and Foods and Nutrition 4520 class are seeking participants to take part in an assessment of their fitness, nutrition and physical activity levels.

Participants must be healthy, 65 years of age or older and are able to visit the Kinesiology Teaching Lab (Steel 128) ONCE to participate in a low-intensity fitness assessment and complete several questionnaires related to nutrition and physical activity.  Fitness assessments will be from 12:30 to 1:20 pm on October 7, 9, and 11.

For information or to sign up, please contact Dr. Adam Johnston - adjohnston@upei.ca.

UPEI’s Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) program will host three public lectures featuring new research on the ways that maps and other geospatial data shape regional development. The lectures are part of a three-day workshop exploring new digital humanities tools and training for research and public policy. 

Dr. Ed MacDonald, professor of history at UPEI, will present the first public talk on Thursday, October 3, starting at 7 pm at the Carriage House, Beaconsfield Historic House, Charlottetown. Dr. MacDonald’s talk, Designing Change: A Semicentennial Review of the Comprehensive Development Plan on Prince Edward Island, will explore the largest and first provincial-federal development initiative in post-war Canadian history. 

Environmental and digital historian Dr. Jim Clifford will present Combining the Local and Global Scales: London’s Nineteenth Century ‘Ghost Acres’ on Friday, October 4, at 8:30 am in the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Lecture Theatre B, UPEI. Dr. Clifford is an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Tina Loo, professor of environmental and Canadian history at UBC, will present Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and ‘a Good Life’ in Postwar Canada on Friday, October 4, at 4 pm in The McCain Foundation Learning Commons at the Atlantic Veterinary College.

All are welcome to these three public lectures.

With the return of fall, the Department of Physics is returning to nighttime telescope viewings at its observatory. The first viewing is scheduled for 8:30-10:00pm on Saturday, September 21. Drop by Memorial Hall 417 for an opportunity to look through the telescope and learn about astronomical objects. This event is weather dependent; in the event of cloudy weather updates will be posted at http://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/

Following this September viewing, we will be holding an event to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night on October 5, 7:30-9:30pm.

A lecture by Dr. John Todd

UPEI Environmental Studies and the Institute for Bioregional Studies Ltd. are pleased to host Dr. John Todd on Sunday, September 22, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.,  135  DSC for an stimulating lecture and book launch.

John Todd is a biologist working in the field of ecological design. He addresses problems of food production and wastewater processing by using ecosystems technologies that incorporate plants, animals and bacteria. He combines alternative technologies for renewable energy, organic farming, aquaculture, hydroponics and architecture to create "living machines"or "eco-machines"; designed for sustainable living.

John Todd is a co-founder with Nancy Jack Todd of the non-profits New Alchemy Institute and PEI’s historic Spry Point Ark. He is president of the design and engineering firm John Todd Ecological Design Inc.  A research professor emeritus and distinguished lecturer at the University of Vermont, where he teaches Ecological Design, Dr. Todd has published well as over 200 scientific papers, popular articles and essays and authored several books.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Peach Brown - hcpbrown@upei.ca

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering invites the campus community to this week's Graduate research seminar by Dr. Sheldon White, entitled "Thermodynamic Modeling of Phase Equilibria for Nuclear Applications"

This event is Wednesday, September 18 at noon in FSDE room 212. 

Everyone is welcome.

Members of the campus community are invited to join Ashok Somalraju for the presentation of a PhD Thesis Defense on "Potato Germplasm Development through EMS- Mutagenesis and Crop Bio-Fortification for Enhanced Plant Defense and Nutritional Quality." 

All are welcome to attend. 

The next talk in the Franklin (Frank) Pigot Memorial Lecture Series at UPEI will explore how the spirit of the 1960s shaped the University. On Thursday, September 26, Dr. Alan MacEachern will present “A Child of the ’60s: Creating the University of Prince Edward Island” at 7:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge of SDU Main Building. 

The PEI government began pressing for a single Island university in the spring of 1968. By spring 1970, UPEI was not merely up and running, but was holding its first graduation. The whirlwind nature of UPEI’s founding—with long-term decisions made in the very short-term—meant the new university was a product of its time: a time of visionary planning and respect for tradition, of religious authority and rising secularism, of student alienation and student power.

As part of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Robertson Library is presenting a lecture series to celebrate the historical roots of higher education on Prince Edward Island and its future. The series is named after educator Frank Pigot, honoured as a UPEI Founder for his work building the Library’s PEI Collection and University Archives. 

Dr. Alan MacEachern is the author of Utopian U: The Founding of the University of Prince Edward Island, 1968–1970. He is a professor of history at Western University.

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