Join CLA & past Study Abroad participant, Kara Lamont, in the Campus Life Lounge for Coffee with a Stranger: Study Abroad Edition. We will have snacks and drinks while talking about what it's like to participate in an international experience.  

As part of the MMS Seminar Series, Dr. David Palmer from the University of Saskatchewan will be presenting on " Lessons from nature in catalysis and inhibitor design". HIs presentation will take place in DRC 212 and will be followed by a pizza luncheon in Room 200, the Chemistry Student Lounge in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre. All are welcome to attend.

The Faculty of Education invites members of the campus community - students, faculty and staff - to attend a public presentation by Dr. Kathy Snow, candidate for a tenure-track position in Educational Leadership & International Education. A public presentation on prospects and challenges for the future of International Education and Educational Leadership at UPEI will take place on Wednesday, 14-Mar-2019, from 9:00am to 10:00am in Memorial Hall 308. For further information, contact Karen-Anne O'Halloran at kohalloran@upei.ca.

The UPEI Department of Music Student Recital Series is pleased to present the following student recital:   Friday, March 15, 7:30 PM at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.  Joanna McKearney, alto saxophone, accompanied by Frances McBurnie, piano will be performing her senior recital with works by Bach, Lantier, Pascal, Noda and Dubois. Admission is FREE.

The UPEI Department of Music Student Recital Series is pleased to present the following student recital:   Sunday, March 17, 2:30 PM at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.  Ian Soloman, tenor and Gaige Waugh, baritone in collaboration with Frances McBurnie, piano; Ryan Drew, snare drums and Henry Orford, trumpet will be performing their junior recitals with works by Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Schumann, Mozart, Debussy and more. Admission is FREE.   All are welcome  

Relay for Life is a community-based fundraising event for the Canadian Cancer Society, where participants walk around the track, partake in various activities (ie Swing Dancing and Minute to Win it), and join together in the fight against cancer! The first ever combined UPEI/Holland College event is scheduled to take place on Friday, March 15th 2019 from 6pm until midnight in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Visit relayforlife.ca/UPEI today!

The Island Lecture Series March lecture is Tuesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Jocelyn Plourde speaking about his Island Studies master’s research in Samsø, Denmark. “From Policy to Action” is a research project that delves into the link between public policy and the deployment of renewable energy systems. At the heart of the research is a case study of the Danish island community of Samsø. Also known as the Renewable Energy Island, Samsø transitioned away from conventional (fossil fuel) energy sources to being 100% carbon-neutral in only ten years. As part of his presentation, researcher Jocelyn Plourde will discuss the details of Samsø’s transition, the role of public policy in that transition, and the lessons that communities like Prince Edward Island can learn from Samsø’s example. While “from away,” Jocelyn Plourde has lived in PEI for more than a decade. He lives in Charlottetown and teaches high school math and sciences at École La-Belle-Cloche, in Rollo Bay. Jocelyn obtained his degrees in sciences and in education at the University of Ottawa. His thesis titled “From Policy to Action – Renewable Energy in Samsø, Denmark” was written as part of UPEI’s Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) program, which he completed in June of 2018.  Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. This is the last lecture of the season. The series will start up again in the fall. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

Speaker: Will Robbins, Biomedical Sciences Title: Investigating Novel Transmission Routes of the Canid Metastrongylids Angiostrongylus vasorum and Crenosoma vulpis  

The Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, will be interviewing candidates to fill a newly-created, tenure-track faculty position in Zoo, Exotic & Wildlife Animal Medicine. Each candidate has been asked to present two (2) thirty-minute seminars; one a topic of their choosing that should be geared toward 3rd year DVM students and aimed at delivering “core” information for veterinary students (i.e., information that a new graduate will need to possess to be successful on Day 1); and the other on their vision for building/expanding an exotic animal practice at the AVC. Our first candidate will be on-campus Monday and Tuesday of next week. March 18th & 19th, 2019 Dr. Lara Cusack (AVC ’05) has completed an Exotics, Wildlife & Zoo Animal Medicine Veterinary internship at WCVM (2007); a Wildlife, Aquatic Animal & Zoo Animal Medicine Veterinary internship at St. Matthews University, Grand Cayman (2011) and a Zoological Medicine Residency at the University of Georgia, Georgia Aquarium (2013-2016). She is currently working for the Florida Panther Project as part of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Research Institute. Exotic Animal Medicine: Triage, Restraint & Examination Vision for Building/Expanding an Exotic Animal Practice at AVC Tuesday, March 19th @ 12:30pm, Lecture Theatre ‘A’, AVC Any interested faculty / staff are invited to attend. A copy of the candidate’s CV and letter of application are available by contacting Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca) in the Department of Companion Animals

As part of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Robertson Library is presenting a lecture series to celebrate the historical roots of higher education on Prince Edward Island and its future. The series is named after educator Frank Pigot, honoured as a UPEI Founder for his work building the Library’s PEI Collection and University Archives. Dr. Edward MacDonald’s will deliver the first lecture of the series on Tuesday, March 26 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. Dr. MacDonald’s presentation is titled “The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965.” While the Island’s formal education system evolved slowly and painfully across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, other, more informal modes of teaching and learning developed to answer Islanders’ educational needs. From the agricultural societies and mechanics’ institutes of the first half of the 20th century, through the farmer’s institutes that followed, to the adult education underpinning of the Antigonish Movement and the DIY ethos of community schools in the 1960s, these informal systems of education shared one characteristic: they emphasized various kinds of practical, applied learning for Islanders who found themselves outside the province’s structured educational system. Refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome.