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.

With the Our Story competition (our-story.ca) coming at the end of March, why don't you come on out to the Mawi'omi Centre for some help with your story?

Come for the sweets and stay for the writing tips!

The UPEI Faculty of Arts, Asian Studies Programme, and Korean Studies Project are pleased to announce the following special lecture by a prominent international scholar, our 2019 annual speaker: 

Professor Charles K. Armstrong, Department of History, Columbia University, NYC, will give a special lecture entitled “North Korea and the Prospects for Peace” on March 25 (Monday) from 1:30 to 2:45 pm in the Faculty Lounge (room 201), SDU Main building. We will begin at 1:00 with reception and healthy refreshments. (Storm-day backup: Tuesday, March 26, 2:30-3:45 pm).

This is a wonderful opportunity to understand or discuss “the latest development in US-Korean relations especially after the 2nd Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, as well as the history of conflict on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace between North and South Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.”

Everyone is invited. You are most welcome to attend. 

Dr. Charles K. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University, NYC. He is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013); The Koreas (Routledge, 2014); Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006); Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2006); and The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Cornell…, 2003). His current publication projects include a history of modern East Asia (forthcoming) and American cultural policy in East Asia during the Cold War. He holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Yale University, an MA in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago. 

Special acknowledgement: 
This international seminar and speaker series project is supported by an international Seed Program for Korean Studies grant (AKS-2017-INC-2230001) through the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS), the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). 

Think BIG! Exploring Issues and Opportunities to Promote Family Well-being on Prince Edward Island

As the province’s only university, the University of Prince Edward Island is committed to advancing family well-being, and is proud to be partnering with the Vanier Institute of the Family for the Families in Canada Conference 2019. Through dynamic local programming and the national livestream from Ottawa, this satellite conference event will explore issues and opportunities facing PEI families today. Local panelists will share their experiences representing different perspectives as individuals with lived experience, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers. For more information about the UPEI satellite conference or to register go to https://familiesincanada.ca/upei/

Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize!

Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25. 

Enjoy the game!

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.

Sobia Ali-Faisal (Dept of Psychology ) and Dawne Knockwood (Dept of Education) will be facilitating a workshop on building solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities on campus for our well-being. We will be applying liberation psychological theory to:
explore ways in which colonization impacts our well-being
determine ways in which to challenge colonial understandings of being to create safe spaces for ourselves
build solidarity among BIPOC communities on campus

When: March 4th, 1 - 3pm
Where: Andrew Hall, Room 142
For: Faculty, staff, and students

It is a free workshop and refreshments will be provided.

Please feel free to email Sobia (sali@upei.ca) or Dawne (daknockwood@upei.ca) if you have any questions.

The next event in the series being presented by the Faculty Development Office and the Indigenous Education Advisory Circle’s faculty development committee will occur on Wednesday, March 6, from 3:00-4:00 in HSB 106. Dr. Ann Braithwaite will facilitate a discussion of the article "Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms" by Shannon Morreira and Kathy Luckett. African Skies blog. 2018. Please read the article and come join the discussion! Available here. 

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), on behalf of the granting agencies and in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research, is hosting a workshop at UPEI on the implementation of the “made-in-Canada” Athena SWAN program on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 from 9 am to 12 noon.

We hope you can attend this workshop and share your insights on how we can best implement this initiative in Canada and provide comments on the proposed draft Charter. The workshop is a half-day event. Refreshments and treats will be provided. For more information on the made-in-Canada Athena SWAN initiative and to register for the workshop, please visit NSERC’s website.

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 the Murphy's Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown.

Attention: 2018 T4s are now available electronically through the UPEI Campus Login. For those who would like a copy please email payroll@upei.ca or come in person to Human Resources.

UPEI Alumni and Friends Hong Kong Chapter 

President and Vice Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz
invites you and a guest to a special 50th Anniversary Event.

Join together with alumni and friends of UPEI and celebrate 50 years of People, Impact, and Excellence. 

Royal Plaza Hotel
Junior Ballroom III, Level 3
193 Prince Edward Road West,
Kowloon, Hong Kong

March 25, 2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Please RSVP by March 21 to Kathy at krweatherbie@upei.ca or call 902-566-0687.

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!

Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday May 15, 16, 17, 2019, the Faculty of Graduate Studies will be holding its Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference. This will be the second time that graduate students from all UPEI faculties will jointly participate in presenting their research at a university-wide event.

These three days are a celebration of the accomplishments of our Graduate Students and their research efforts. Over the course of the three days, graduate students from multiple faculties will present their research orally.

Call for Abstracts

The Faculty of Graduate Studies invites all graduate students to submit an abstract for a presentation to the second Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference. For details on submissions, please go to our website: http://www.upei.ca/graduatestudies/notice/annual-upei-graduate-studies-and-research-conference. 

More conference information to follow in the coming weeks.

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.

President and Vice Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz and Board Chair Pat Sinnott invite you and a guest to a special 50th Anniversary Event.

Join together with alumni and friends of UPEI and celebrate 50 years of People, Impact, and Excellence. Special Guest Dr. Adam Fenech, Director of the UPEI Climate Lab will discuss global warming and its impact to PEI.

Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club
141 Wilson Avenue, Toronto, ON M5M 3A3

March 6, 2019
6:00PM - 8:00PM

Please RSVP by March 2 to Anthony at adgill@upei.ca or call 902-566-0761.