President's Holiday Social for Faculty and Staff

  President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites you to attend the 2018 President’s Holiday Social for Faculty and Staff on Tuesday, December 4 from 12-1:30 pm at the W.A.Murphy Student Centre in McMillan Hall.  Celebrate with your colleagues at this special time of year! Enjoy complimentary appetizers and refreshments, while listening to students from the UPEI Brass Quintet perform songs of the season, and get a sneak peek of our 50th Anniversary plans! You are encouraged to bring your food and monetary donations for the UPEI Food Bank—the Office of the President will match your support!  

Flax Americana launch

Dr. Joshua MacFadyen, an associate professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program in UPEI’s Faculty of Arts, will launch his new book, Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent, on Thursday, November 29 at 7:00 pm at Upstreet Craft Brewing in Charlottetown. Flax Americana examines the story of flax, a plant that went in a few decades from a specialty crop to one of the most commercially important farming products in a rapidly industrializing North America.  “Flax Americana touches on topics as diverse as Canadian Mennonites making homespun linen, escaped slaves and First Nations labourers participating in Ontario’s industrial transformation, and oilseed empires driving precarious agriculture into North and South American grasslands for the production of a luxury good—paint,” explained Dr. MacFadyen. “However, the book is really about what a deep dive into a single plant and the places that produced it can tell us about the emergence of commodity frontiers, industrial capitalism, and the modern world itself.” Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent is published by McGill Queen’s University Press.

Janet Pottie Murray Award Ceremony

Please join your colleagues in congratulating Dr. Cornelia (Cora) Gilroy, the recipient of the 2018 Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership. The award ceremony will be held from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 13th in the Faculty Lounge of the Main Building. Light refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!