March 8th is International Women's Day - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. 

In celebration of International Women’s Day, WUSC UPEI Local Committee, the Rotaract Club of UPEI, and Robertson Library will be showing the documentary To Educate A Girl: Empowering Women and Girls in the Developing World, by filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky.

“What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, TO EDUCATE A GIRL takes a ground-up and visually stunning view of that effort through the eyes of girls out of school, starting school or fighting against the odds to stay in school.” Kanopy

The purpose of the film will be to raise money for the Shine A Light Program, an initiative that provides women and girls within refugee camps the opportunity to better their educational prospects.

Admission is free, but there will be donations accepted at the door. Any amount can make a difference in someone's life.

Friday, March 8th
Robertson Library, Room 312 
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Show starts at 5:45 pm

All are welcome!

Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and all who care for children are invited to "Raising Resilient Children", the final is a series of free Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars, presented by Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology. It's not necessary to have attended the first sessions to attend this one. For more information, and to sign up for free child care, visit triplep-parenting.ca/pei. This event is today at 7:00 pm at Murphy's Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown.

Join us for the next several weeks as our MSc-SDE graduate students present their thesis research in three-minutes, for the purpose of preparing and practicing clear, concise, and inspired talks. This week we have four 3-minute presentations:

"What do potato chips and climate change have in common?”
Melanie Bos

"Delineating map based management zones for site-specific fertilization in potato cropping system”
Humna Khan

"Precision irrigation strategies for sustainable potato production on Prince Edward Island“
Hassan Afzaal

“Biochar assisted wastewater treatment and nutrient recycling”
Abhishek Pokarel

This event is today at noon in FSDE 212. 

The UPEI Music Department Junior Senior Recital Series would like to present Junior Recitals featuring Jamie Gooch, soprano,  Morgan Saulnier, piano; and Melissa Lewis, mezzo soprano, Frances McBurnie, piano on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Admission is FREE.

Earn your MBA in just 12 months!

You’re invited to attend an Open House for the new MBA in Global Leadership at UPEI!

Wednesday, March 6^th from 4:30 to 6:00 pm in Schurman Market Square,

Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI Campus.

Meet with Dean of Business Dr. Jurgen Krause, MBA Program Director, Dr. Don Wagner, faculty, staff, and current students to learn all about this innovative and in-demand program.

Attendees will be able to apply on-site (please bring a laptop or mobile device) and have their application fee waived.

UPEI students with an average of at least 80% in their last two years of undergraduate study in any discipline are automatically eligible for the MBA program, with no GMAT/GRE requirement. 

Light refreshments will be served.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Can’t make the Open House? Feel free to contact the Graduate Studies Coordinator Grace McCourt at 902-566-6474, or by email at mba@upei.ca to request a call.

BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Use BlackBoard Collaborate to record your teaching for days when your face-to-face class has been cancelled. Share your PowerPoint or use the interactive whiteboard, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. It’s simple, easy and reliable. This workshop takes place on March 12th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

In recognition of the outstanding performance and dedication of our faculty and staff, a number of annual awards have been created to acknowledge their efforts and achievements. 

Up to 10 Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Faculty, Librarians, Clinical Veterinary Professionals and Clinical Nursing Instructors and four categories of Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2019. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 from 10:30am-12:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. 

Susan Connolly, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources & Legal, will lead the process and chair the committee to select award recipients. 

Nominations for both faculty and staff awards close on Friday, March 29, 2019. 

For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please visit: http://www.upei.ca/president/presidential-recognition-awards-merit 

Call for Nominations: The UPEIFA’s Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement Subcommittee is currently calling for nominations for this award for 2018-2019.

The deadline for nominations and all supporting documentation, is Friday, March 22, 2019.

Nominations should be sent ELECTRONICALLY:
Chair, UPEI Faculty Association Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement c/o Faculty Association Office upeifa@upeifa.org.

Information about the award can be found on the UPEI Faculty Association website: http://www.upeifa.org.

Join us Wednesday, March 13th for this year's Career and Summer Job Fair!

This event is free to attend for all post-secondary Students, and offers a great opportunity to meet with employers and recruiters to start networking, find a summer job, or kick start a career. Be prepared to present yourself professionally.

The event will take place in MacMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and will run from 10:30am until 3:00pm with a storm date on Thursday, March 14th.

This year's fair will be co-hosted by UPEI Career Services and the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering and will feature employers from various industries across PEI and the Maritimes. 

For more information and to see what organizations will be present at this year's fair, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/upei-career-and-summer-job-fair

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at careerfair@upei.ca.

The UPEI Health & Wellness Centre is pleased to offer 3 brief STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) presentations on Wednesday March 6 at 1:30, 2:00 and 2:30 in room 238 (beside the clinic). These are the original talks that were to have taken place on our storm day during Love & Sex Week! We have a limited number of gift bags for attendees and you can also enter our draw for a gift card! Hope you can join us in the W.A. Murphy Centre North, 2nd floor (above the bookstore) to improve your STI awareness!

As part of 'Pharmacy Awareness Week', the PEI Pharmacist Association is hosting a 1-hour information session on Wednesday, March 6 starting at 11:30 in the Health Sciences Building, room 105.

This session will provide information about pharmacy programs, in an effort to not only guide those contemplating pharmacy as a career, but to further inform students about what 'goes in to' becoming a pharmacist so that the expanded role of pharmacists is better understood.

There will also be a hands-on Naloxone-administration demo, which will be of interest to students in leadership/supervisory roles.

The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences welcomes the campus community to a public research presentation by Dr. Faiza Khan Khattak, candidate for tenure track position in Data Analytics, on Monday, March 4th at 3:00 pm at Cass Science Hall, Room 101. 

Presentation Title: Automatic extraction of information from patient-clinician dialogues

Abstract: AutoScribe is a system for automatically extracting pertinent medical information from dialogues between clinicians and patients. The system parses the dialogue and extracts entities such as medications and symptoms, using context to predict which entities are relevant. It also classifies the primary diagnosis for each conversation. A novelty of this work is that, unlike most of the existing systems which primarily use lexicon-based term matching, AutoScribe uses linguistic context and time information to extract entities and also determines which entities are relevant. 

All are welcome to attend.

Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and all who care for children are invited to "Raising Resilient Children", the final is a series of free Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars, presented by Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology. It's not necessary to have attended the first sessions to attend this one. For more information, and to sign up for free child care, visit triplep-parenting.ca/pei. This event is Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm at Murphy's Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown.

And no, not at the same time! This year, Wednesday March 6 marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. So before we fast, we feast!
Tuesday March 5 - Pancake Tuesday @ Chaplaincy Centre 11:30-1:00 in collaboration with Connection Point Christian Church
Wednesday March 6 - Ash Wednesday Masses 12:05 and 4:05 pm.
All are welcome!

Karma Yoga at Chaplaincy Centre is cancelled on Tuesday, March 5. The program will return on March 12 at noontime.