Workplace Stress can be triggered by many sources: heavy workloads with tight timelines, layoffs or restructuring, or difficult co-workers. When combined with the pressures and responsibilities outside of work, it is no wonder that people experience high levels of stress. This session will help people to: - Define stress and the fight or flight response. - Identify personal stressors and symptoms. - Develop strategies to increase their personal resiliency. ​ Space is limited so please sign up before April 13. If you would like to attend the session, please pre-register by contacting Megan at mgee@upei.ca. ​ Release-time from your department is generally needed to participate.

For anyone interested in learning the different ways to multiply—parents, students, teachers, pre-service teachers, and friends! The workshop will start with the basics by drawing pictures to model multiplication. Then, we will move to contrasting the different ways to multiply and strategies for multiplication. The workshop will focus on multiplication of decimal numbers too! Email to let us know you are coming so that we will have enough handouts for everybody at tmiller@upei.ca The workshop is led by Dr. Tess Miller and her UPEI Education students. (This is the last workshop in the three-part series.)

UPEI’s Robertson Library and the Canadian Museum of History are proud to announce that the launch of a new website, bowingdownhome.ca, will take place at a series of events across the province in early April. The website is devoted to Prince Edward Island fiddling traditions. The launch parties, fittingly being held at community halls, will include presentations about the website, refreshments, and ceilidhs, featuring fiddlers whose music appears on the site. Events start at 7:30 pm with doors opening at 7:00 pm: • April 7: Murray Harbour Community Centre • April 8: Vanier Centre, Wellington • April 9: BIS Hall, Charlottetown • April 10: Little Pond Community Centre

On Friday, April 17, at 7:30 pm, the UPEI Music Department will present their end of semester "Choral Concert" at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Under the direction of Sung Ha Shin-Bouey, the UPEI Concert Choir will perform selections from Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" featuring UPEI vocal majors as soloists. Along with the Concert Choir, the recital includes the UPEI Chamber Singers, Le Ragazze Girls Vocal Ensemble and I Ragazzi Juniors Children's Chamber Choir and will feature renaissance, folk, and pop styles. Admission is $10 Adults and Seniors; $5 Students. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.upeirecitals13.bpt.me or by calling 902-566-0507.

SPEAKER: Laura Ross, Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Porcine circovirus type 2-associated cerebellar vasculitis - A case report

Bonnie E. Stewart will present her Doctorate in Educational Studies Dissertation Defence on Friday, April 17 at 8:00 am in Memorial Hall, room 417. Dissertation title is "Scholarship in Abundance: Influence, Engagement, and Attention in Scholarly Networks." All are welcome to attend.

Over the next several weeks, a number of candidates for tenure-track positions in the School of Sustainable Design Engineering will be visiting campus. The School encourages members of the campus community to attend the public presentations scheduled for each candidate. Presentation title: Process and Product Development Based On Fast Pyrolysis of Forestry Residues Dongbing Li is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR) at Western University where he has maintained an active portfolio of research projects sponsored by BioFuelNet Canada, Lignoworks Research Network, and industrial partners. His major research interests focus on optimization and value-added opportunities in chemical and bioresource engineering.

Over the next several weeks, a number of candidates for tenure-track positions in the School of Sustainable Design Engineering will be visiting campus. The School encourages members of the campus community to attend the public presentations scheduled for each candidate. Presentation: Who, What, When, How & Why of Micro-Grids, the Impacts for Communities and the latest in R&D Andrew Swingler is an expert in micro-grid energy systems with more than 12 years direct industry experience; including serving as Head of Technology Anticipation for Schneider Electric’s international solar business. Andrew’s experience and expertise ranges across the intelligent grid spectrum from high-performance off-grid PV-hybrid power systems to the integration and optimization of injecting PV and stored energy directly to the grid.

Innovation: At the Core of Value Creation What drives value within the entrepreneurial journey? The development of a good product, and a superior ability to deliver its benefits to clients, is central to good business practices. However, that formula may be the demise of a business if it is not constantly challenged by the possibilities emerging from the business environment. Jacques Dénommée is Founding Partner of AXIAStrategists, a collaborative platform of strategic advisers, with over 30 years of experience in team management, high performance environment, business strategies, and risk management. He will explore the role of dynamic innovation in business sustainability, discuss the primary challenges to an innovative culture, and examine tools and practices to assist businesses in maximizing value creation. The event will include a Q & A session.

University of Prince Edward Island graduates, their families, and friends are invited to a gathering to celebrate, in prayer and song, the accomplishments of the Class of 2015. Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 5:00 pm (note new time) Steel Recital Hall, UPEI Family invitations will not be sent out this year so please help spread the word.