The UPEI Jazz Ensemble, directed by Professor Dave Shephard, will present their Spring Jazz Concert at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30 pm. The program will include a wide variety of jazz styles with special guests from the voice studio of Sung-Ha and Stephen Bouey. Vocalists Alexandra Smith, Lindsay Gillis, Will Millington and Emily Roberts will perform standard jazz, latin and Motown tunes. Instrumental soloists in the band include Justin Amador (trumpet), Charlotte Large ( tenor and soprano sax), Emily Proude (lead alto saxophone), and trombonists Dan MacDonald and Zack Bernard. The ensemble will also proudly feature percussionist Ryan Drew on vibraphone on a tune aptly named “Good Vibes”. The rhythm section soloists will include Parker Clements on piano and Isaac Williams on guitar. Other charts for the evening will include “Mambo” from Westside Story, “It Had Better be Tonight” from the The Pink Panther, and “A Short History of Jazz," an arrangement that takes you through jazz by the decade from Ragtime, Dixieland, Basie Style to the Modern Big Band of the 1970’s.  Tickets are $10 Adults/Seniors and $5 Students and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/573446 or by contacting the UPEI Music Department at 902-566-0507 or music@upei.ca. 

The UPEI Department of Music presents its annual Spring Choral Concert on Friday, April 1st at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI. The concert, under the direction of Sung-Ha Shin Bouey, will feature the UPEI Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performing selections from St. Matthew's Passion by J.S. Bach as well as musical gems from well-known operas and musicals. Guests that evening will be Le Ragazze Vocal Ensemble and I Ragazzi Jrs Children's Choir.  Musicians Leo Marchildon, Natalie Williams Calhoun, Marc DesRoches, Sean Kemp, and Morgan Saulnier will accompany the choirs. Tickets are $10 Adults/Seniors and $5 Students and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/573446 or by contacting the UPEI Music Department at 902-566- 0507/music@upei.ca. 

The departments of Biomedical and Sciences and Pathology and Microbiology invite you to a seminar presented by Jordan Poley, Pathology and Microbiology called "The transcriptional signature of salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) exposed to stress". Everyone is welcome.

UPEI 203 students, Caitlin Rop and Erica Campbell, are staging the Extreme Clean Campaign. Please read Caitlin's note for more information: Hello everyone, my name is Caitlin Rop and I am currently enrolled in UPEI 203 and as a project we are doing for our class. My classmate Erica Campbell and I are going to be putting on an Extreme Clean Campaign to collect cleaning products for the Anderson House Shelter. Just to let you know a little bit about the Anderson House Shelter they are an organization that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and they provide emergency shelter for women and children who are in need of safety because of violence in their lives. The shelter is located in Charlottetown and it includes emergency shelter, safety planning, advocacy, childcare services, drop-in support, follow-up support, referrals to outreach services and second stage housing, and information pertaining to resources such as lawyers, housing, stay away orders, transportation, childcare and pet care to name a few. As of right now, they are in desperate need of cleaning supplies (any cleaning supplies) and pajamas (any size). This campaign will take place Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18 in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre from 11:30 until 3:30 each day. We are collecting any cleaning products as they are in desperate need! Every little bit helps! Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to hopefully seeing you stop by!

The UPEI Iranian Society invites the UPEI campus community to a Persian New Year Celebration (Nowruz)! An evening of live music, dancing, entertainment, and Persian/Afghani dinner and dessert. Tickets for the event are available at www.PersianPEI.ca/tickets General Admission $25 / VIP $40 / Free admission for children 6 and under After March 18 at 11:30 pm, upon availability, tickets online and at the door: General Admission $50 / VIP $75 Due to the limited number of tickets,  purchase by March 19 to avoid disappointment!  

Dr. Christian Lacroix, Vice-President Academic, invites you to join in a presentation and information session for the MacLauchlan Scholarships in Entrepreneurial Leadership on Thursday, March 17 at 12 noon in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. During the presentation 2015 recipients will be recognized and past recipients will speak briefly about the impact the award has had for them. Three renewable scholarships, valued at $5000 each are available to full-time students entering their third year at UPEI. This prestigious scholarship recognizes students who show a commitment to entrepreneurial initiative, work ethic, business judgement and people skills, and have a deep commitment to family, community and province. The next application deadline is October 1, 2016. More information about the award can be found on the Scholarships and Awards webpage. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Speaker:  Ori Elad, Pathology and Microbiology Title: Epigenetic characterization of the effect of Folic acid on the proximal promoter area and mRNA gene expression of chicken primary B cell receptors.

UPEI Graduate Studies, along with the UPEI Graduate Students Association, and the UPEI Student Union will be hosting a 3MT (3 Minute Thesis). First place will receive $200 and a trip to Memorial University to compete in the Regional 3MT competition. Second place will be $100.00 and third place will receive $50.00. The UPEI 3MT will be Tuesday, March 22 at the Wave. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a skills development activity which challenges thesis-based graduate students to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.

The National Youth Choir of Canada is an ensemble of elite choral singers which convenes every two years, coinciding with Choral Canada’s biennial Podium conference. This May, the National Youth Choir will begin its residency in Edmonton with a one-week rehearsal period in preparation of its tour of Alberta. The 2016 ensemble will be under the direction of renowned choral conductor Michael Zaugg. Representatives are auditioned by each province and selected based on skill level and voice type. This year, PEI will represented by four singers: Lindsay Gillis (soprano), Alexandra Smith (alto), William Millington (tenor), and Parker Clements (baritone). This will be the first National Youth Choir experience for Gillis and Smith, while Clements and Millington are both returning alumni from the 2014 tour. As part of their fundraising initiative, PEI’s National Youth Choir participants will be presenting a recital at the Kirk of St. James on Saturday April 9 at 7:30 pm. The program will include quartets, chorales, and solo pieces, and will featuring works by Bach, Barber, Donizetti, Greer, Loewe, Mahler, Mozart, Oliver, and Ravel. The singers will be accompanied by Frances McBurnie and joined by special guest Hannah Rollwage (National Youth Choir Alumni 2014). Admission is by donation and all proceeds will go toward the choir’s tuition costs.

On Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall (UPEI), Parker Clements will present “Into My Own: A Senior Recital” as part of the UPEI Student Recital Series. His program will include classics of the baritone repertoire such as Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, Finzi’s Let Us Garlands Bring, and Barber’s Three Songs (Op.10) on poetry by James Joyce. Works by Handel, Mahler, and Mozart will also be featured. Clements will be accompanied by Frances McBurnie on piano. Admission is free. Parker Clements is a graduating voice major in the Bachelor of Music program at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has completed his degree under the tutelage of professor Stephen Bouey. Clements has been a featured soloist with the UPEI Concert Choir, UPEI Chamber Singers, Kirk of St. James Choir, New Brunswick Youth Choir, UPEI Jazz Band, and most recently, the Charlottetown Jazz Ensemble. He is an alumnus of the National Youth Choir of Canada (2014) and will be returning to the group for its tour of Alberta this coming May. He has performed in Mavor Moore’s “A Christmas Carol” (Confederation Centre), “Le Grand Cercle” (Festival de l’Escaouette), and the title role in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” (UPEI Opera). Upon graduating, Clements intends to continue his vocal studies at the Master’s level in pursuit of a career in opera.