President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz cordially invites the University community to University Update 2018 on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 2:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.  All are welcome.

On August 9th and 10th, graduate students from UPEI and across Canada will come together for a two-day conference held in Don and Marion McDougall Hall. There will be multiple events open to the campus community and conference attendees: presentations, poster session, workshops, keynote, and president's reception. More information will be posted to our website as it is confirmed.  Any questions and comments can be directed to gsa@upei.ca. 

The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track faculty candidate presentation by Mr. Kyle Harrison, PhD candidate, on May 3 at 11:00 am in the Cass Science Hall, Room 101. For more information, please email smcs@upei.ca.

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday May 16, 17, 18, 2018, the School of Graduate Studies will be holding its Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference. This will be the first time that grad 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 two days, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from multiple faculties will present their research orally or in poster sessions. Opening ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 9:00 am on Wednesday, May 16. Students (undergraduate and graduate), researchers, and faculty are encouraged to attend as much of the conference as their schedule permits. Most activities will occur in AVC Lecture Theatre A and the McCain Foundation Learning Commons at AVC. This year, we are instituting a no-cost registration to facilitate planning and communication to participants. Register today!

UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the *New* MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to an information session on Thursday, May 10th, from 12:15 to 1:15 in AVC 218S. The MBA Coordinator will be there to give an overview of the program and there will be a representative from the Registrar’s Office there to assist candidates in making their application to the program. The $75 application fee will be waived for those in attendance that apply at the session. Pizza and refreshments will be available. Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to reserve a seat.

President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites members of the Indigenous, University, and Prince Edward Island community to the historic raising of the Mi'kmaq National Flag at the University of Prince Edward Island on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 3:00 pm at UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place. Please enter at the main entrance of the track facility at the north end of campus, and follow along the fence to access the flag pole area. 

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI will be holding its 2nd ProGRES Summer Program to promote engineering research interest and involvement among young women in high school. Through the ProGRES Program, high-school students will have the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research projects with world-class researchers in state-of-the-art facilities. The selected students will work directly with a woman faculty researcher and mentor on an independent research project, and they will have opportunities to meet and work with women engineers and women engineering students. Young women of Prince Edward Island going into grades 11 and 12 are encouraged to apply for the ProGRES Summer Program by completing this application form. Application forms will be reviewed and successful applicants will be selected to participate in engineering research projects at UPEI’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering for a five-week period (July 9 – August 10). Each participant will also be awarded a stipend of $2200. There will be 7-8 participants selected, depending on interest. Participants will be asked to share their research experiences with the public and their peers in the following school year. The hope is that the shared research experiences will encourage more young women to choose Engineering at UPEI and see how women can thrive and be successful as engineering researchers or professional engineers. Application Deadline is Monday, May 28, 2018, by 5:00 PM.

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday May 11, 2018 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend. For a copy of the paper to be discussed please contact Rebecca Reed-Jones (rreedjones@upei.ca) or Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

The UPEI Master in Global Affairs program welcomes Dr. Javier Esguevillas (Director, MGA URJC-Strasbourg) who will deliver a presentaion on "The Council of Europe and Graduate Studies in the XXI Century: Rule of Law, Democracy and the Refugee Crisis" on Thursday May 10, 3:00 pm McDougall Hall 329. All are welcome to attend the lecture!

Join Dr. Larry Hammell, Dean of UPEI’s Faculty of Graduate Studies, for an introduction to the new joint Master in Global Affairs between UPEI and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid, Spain. This exciting degree program offers study in three countries. Faculty members will describe the many opportunities associated with this new Masters program.