ACENET: Introductory Programming: Unix Shell, Git, and R
Using software-carpentry.org materials this workshop introduces you to the fundamentals of the Unix Shell, Version Control and R. This is a beginner level workshop series that is hands-on, covering the fundamentals of R, including data types, functions, importing, manipulating and analyzing data, and data visualization as well as program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
ACENET: Basics of Computers
Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but it will give you insight to how media, programs, and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration.
ACENET: Modern Fortran for scientific programming
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-modern-fortran-for-scientific-programming-tickets-230928903567
Prerequisites: Familiarity with another programming language
Fortran, one of the initial high-level programming languages, continues to be an excellent option for high-performance computing due to its superb performance. The newer versions offer many modern features, including object-oriented programming capabilities to programmers. This course will cover some of these features.
The session will take place on:
Climate tracker initiative launches in Charlottetown and Stratford
The following is a media release issued by the City of Charlottetown on April 20, 2022:
UPEI engineering graduates finding personal and professional success close to home
When Peter Doiron showed up in September 2013 for his first day of classes as a UPEI engineering student, he didn’t realize how different his next five years of study would be compared to past graduates.
“I started here when the program was housed in Dalton Hall and was there for two years in the two rooms that we had,” he says. “When the new facility was completed (in 2016) we got to take on larger projects in spaces for machining, welding, 3-D printing, electrical, and robotics which I really enjoyed.”
UPEI researchers seek to identify climate-resilient and wart-resistant potato varieties on PEI
A multidisciplinary team at the University of Prince Edward Island made up of experts in climate change, gene sequencing, agriculture diseases, and precision agriculture has received $20,000 in funding from Genome Atlantic for a research project titled “Identification of Climate-Resilient and Wart-Resistant Potato Varieties for PEI.”
UPEI Experiential Education seeks community partners for Changemakers program
The UPEI Experiential Education department is seeking non-profit organizations on PEI to participate in its ChangeMakers program, which is aimed at developing, supporting, and celebrating students’ community work.
PEI Bunny Hop takes place April 16
For the second consecutive year, the UPEI Distance Running Program is managing the popular PEI Bunny Hop, which will take place on Saturday, April 16, starting at 8:30 am.
Since the 1970s, the Bunny Hop has been a popular road-running race on PEI, typically considered the official start to the Island’s road-racing season. The race is a fun run through Charlottetown, with distances of 5k and 10k. The first 100 registrants receive a free Bunny Hop T-shirt. The cost is $25.
