Thank you, thank you, thank you!

With April being "Burger Love" on PEI, the GSA at UPEI has decided to go on a Burger Crawl. All students, staff, faculty, and friends are welcome to join us for any of the four dates:

Thursday April 7 at 6:30 pm 
Location: Piatto 
Burger: Bella Sirena

Wednesday April 13 at 6:30 pm 
Location: Gahan
Burger: The Hoppy John

Tuesday April 19 at 6:30 pm
Location: Terre Rouge
Burger: The Gaucho

Friday April 29 at 6:30 pm
Location: Old Triangle 
Burger: The Southern Belle

If you can make it, RSVP to gsa@upei.ca so that we can make a reservation ahead of time. 

Hope to see you all there!

SCENT blog post #9 is up and waiting your reading and comments! This one, by Jeff Noonan, is on the idea of "learning outcomes" as actually antithetical to teaching and learning, and asks us to consider what the push for such measures might mean to faculty, students, and academic freedom. Check it out at projects.upei.ca/scent

for more information, Ann Braithwaite, chair of SCENT, abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, fdo@upei.ca.

To: Department Heads, Chairs and all Account Authorities
From: Tara Judson, Comptroller
Date: April 4, 2016
Subject: Fiscal Year-End - April 30, 2016

1. Department Heads and Chairs are reminded that the University's fiscal year-end is April 30, 2016. To ensure that 2015-16 expenditures are recorded in the 2015-16 operating budget, all external requisitions (both electronic and hard copy) to be processed for purchase orders must be received by the Procurement Services office no later than 12 noon Friday, April 22, 2016. Our auditors require that goods charged to the 2015-16 budget must be both invoiced and received on or before April 30, 2016 and as such, requisitions will be reviewed for
acceptability prior to the April 22, 2016 final cut-off date. Please request your suppliers to forward their invoices to the Accounts Payable on or before May 6,2016.

2. Goods invoiced or received after April 30, 2016 will be charged to the next fiscal year (2016-17). The April 22, 2016 cut-off date will be strictly enforced, so please make your plans now for the remaining weeks of the 2015-16 fiscal year.

3. Hours worked and approved for the month of April will be charged to the 2015-16 fiscal year for students and other hourly-rate employees.

4. Project Beacon - As you are aware, effective the 2016-17 fiscal year, we will be using our new system (Colleague) and portal (myUPEI) for all purchases. Therefore, PO’s created using UIS in 2015-16, with remaining balances, will not be carried forward to 2016-17 fiscal year as in previous practice. For ongoing
commitments, a new PO will need to be issued for 2016-17. Training sessions for myUPEI will be schedule from April 18-29. Details for Registration will be released by the Project Beacon team on April 8).
Your cooperation on this matter will be appreciated by all concerned.
Thank you.

The Wave will be closing it's doors for the school year earlier than anticipated! The last day we will be open for business will be Tuesday, April 5th from 11 am to 7 pm.

Thanks again to everyone who made the year as wonderful as it was for all of our staff and everyone involved in our operations. Feedback is always welcomed via BAMtext by sending an anonymous message to 1-902-200-1323.

Time: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Atlantic Veterinary College - 287-N
This workshop is for students who have been offered an interview for entry into the Atlantic Veterinary College in the Fall of 2016. The purpose of the workshop is to help students prepare for the interview so that they will have an understanding of what to expect.

Sunday April 3 mass at the Chaplaincy Centre will be at 7:00 pm.  Bishop Richard Grecco will be with us as we celebrate the sacrament of Confirmation with 5 UPEI students.  So for this week only, mass will  be at 7:00 and not 6:00

The Psychology department is presenting their final Department Colloquium of the semester this Friday afternoon, April 1, from 3:00- 4:00 pm in Memorial 215. The talk will be given by Dr. Thomy Nilsson and is entitled "The Amazing Discovery and Small Compromises that enabled Great Music."

 Join us for an interesting afternoon of discovery in music.

All are welcome.

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 and Clinical Veterinary Professionals and four Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2016. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 2:00-4:00 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, April 1, 2016. 

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

If you have difficulty carving out uninterrupted time for writing, if you struggle with motivating yourself to write, or if you would simply like the supportive collaboration of a writing retreat, consider Time to Write, UPEI's faculty writers retreat.

When: Wednesday, May 11 to Sunday, May 15.

Where: Stanley Bridge Resort

Cost to participants: $200, which includes four nights accommodation, meals and snacks

Your project must be at a stage where sustained writing time makes sense. Your research and/or data collection and analysis must be completed to the point that you are ready to write. You must also be prepared to commit to the full program: a total of 3½ days focused on writing.

The retreat is open to tenured and tenure stream University of Prince Edward Island faculty in any Department/Faculty/School.

Email Research Communications Officer Dave Atkinson, datkinson@upei.ca, with a brief summary of the project you plan to work and your writing goals for the retreat. There is room for six participants at Time to Write.

University of Prince Edward Island and TD Wealth Private Client Group would like to invite you to a panel discussion on Women & Philanthropy. This exciting session presents the findings of a TD report entitled "Time, Treasure, Talent: Canadian Women and Philanthropy" which was conducted independently by iNVESTOR ECONOMICS and provides reflections from the perspective of a unique group of female philanthropic leaders in our community.

Please join us for an insightful discussion on the findings of this groundbreaking report. Guest Panelists are Alicia Bremner, Catherine Callbeck, Kathy O’Rourke and Shauna Sullivan Curley while the featured keynote speaker and panelist is Jo-Anne Ryan, VP Philanthropic Advisory Services, TD.

Thursday, April 21st, 2016
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Don and Marion McDougall Hall

Panel discussion followed by Cocktail Reception

RSVP by Thursday, April 7th to Jo-Ann Thomsen: jthomsen@upei.ca or 902 628 7984
(This is not a fundraiser. No cost to attend. Space is limited.)
 

The Wave will be closing at 4pm today, Friday April 1st.

Courtyard Cafe in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre

• Closing at 2:00 pm, Tuesday, April 5 for the summer. It will reopen in early September. 

AVC Cafeteria

• No change in operational hours for the summer: Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Samuel's in the Robertson Library

• No change in operational hours up to and including April 15
• Saturday, April 9: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Starting April 18 hours of operation will be Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall

• Monday to Friday: 700 am to 9:00 pm
• Saturday & Sunday, Continental Breakfast - 9:30 to 10:30 am; Hot Meal Service - 10:30 am-9:00 pm
• Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall will close for the academic year at 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 16.

Summer hours of operation for the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall will be advertised at a later date.

The UPEI Wind Symphony will present a Symphonic Gala of “Contemporary Works for Wind Band” on Sunday, April 3 at 2:30 PM at Zion Presbyterian Church, 135 Prince Street in Charlottetown. This is the final recital of the academic year for the Wind Symphony which received much acclaim for this program in its performance in Halifax on March 12.

The recital will feature several emerging masterworks of the genre. Among the centerpieces is Magnolia Star, a programmatic work by American Steve Danyew. This piece, written using a blues scale, captures the sounds typically associated with train travel. Another work, Jug Blues & Fat Pickin’, by Don Freund, conveys music styles of Tennessee, inspired by the Memphis Jug Band (Beale Street, late 1920's) and bluegrass banjo playing. The program will begin with Fanfarria, a powerful and heroic fanfare by Spanish composer Javier Perez Garrido, and reminiscent of Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Additional works by Percy Grainger and Luke Ellard will be performed.

The UPEI Wind Symphony received the 2014 Music PEI award for Achievement in Classical Music. With performances throughout the Maritimes, partnerships with PEI school music programs, and utilizing unique performance spaces, the UPEI Wind Symphony is known as one of the region’s most respected large ensembles and features outstanding student and professional soloists.

Members of the public are invited to attend this performance. Admission is $10 for Adults; $5 for Students.

Dr. Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island and the UPEI International Relations Office cordially invite you attend an on-campus roundtable on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, Mr. David Lametti MP.

Moderated by UPEI Director of International Relations, Dr. Barbara Campbell, the Roundtable is part of the series of local consultations led by the Government of Canada, with provincial leaders, local industry representatives, and members of the public on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and on international trade.‎

Thursday, March 31 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building

All members of the UPEI community are welcome to attend!

Member of Parliament (LaSalle-Émard-Verdun) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, David Lametti

David Lametti was recently a Professor of Law at McGill University. He was Associate Dean (Academic) between 2008 and 2011. He is a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and was a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP); he served as its Director from 2009 to 2012. Professor Lametti obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989.  He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled “Ethical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property”. Professor Lametti was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. He is an internationally-recognized expert in property and intellectual property, with numerous publications, and has taught or lectured in many of the world’s most well-known universities.