Daniel Cousins, a third-year UPEI student in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program, is planning PEI’s first TEDx event, tentatively set for October 13, 2023, and is looking for ideas from faculty, students, and alumni. 

UPEI faculty, students, alumni, and community members can pitch their idea for a talk by submitting a TEDx application before midnight (11:59 pm), July 17, 2023. Interviews will be conducted as applications come in to determine the successful talk idea.

As TEDx events are regional, speakers must be current residents of Prince Edward Island (Island born, “come from away,” or on the Island to study) so that voices of those who live on the Island can be showcased. TED talks are 18 minutes and can cover a wide variety of topics, but must fall within four strict rules. Read the article to learn more about the guidelines.

The UPEI Student Union will be participating in the 2023 Pride Parade on Saturday, July 29, and invites all students, staff, and faculty to join them! Participants are asked to meet at 11:00 a.m. on parade day in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. Look for the Panther Patrol van! The parade begins at 12:00 p.m. and ends at approximately 12:30 p.m.

All you need to do to join the UPEI parade team is to be yourself and be ready to wave and cheer. If you like, you can purchase a UPEI Pride t-shirt from the bookstore, or you can make your own! Wear a UPEI shirt or hat and add a little Pride colour!

For a full schedule of the week's events, check out the 2023 PEI Pride Festival website.

If you’re unable to make it to the Parade, don your bright rainbow colours all week to express your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Come show your Pride!

Join your fellow colleagues for the third annual UPEI Plant Pals Plant Swap on Thursday, July 20, from noon to 1:00 pm in the quad in front of Dalton Hall. Trade plants and trimmings with other staff and faculty; finally repot that office plant outgrowing its container; or offer up slips/cuttings to folks looking to spruce up their office spaces!

Please bring what supplies you can, and, even better, if you have enough to share. Let's take care of our office greenery while enjoying a little visit with our coworkers! 🌱

Email Shannon at smsnow@upei.ca or Jenna at jengaudet@upei.ca with any questions.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

The UPEI Student Union will be participating in the 2023 Pride Parade on Saturday, July 29, and invites all students, staff, and faculty to join them! Participants are asked to meet at 11:00 a.m. on parade day in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. Look for the Panther Patrol van! The parade begins at 12:00 p.m. and ends at approximately 12:30 p.m.

All you need to do to join the UPEI parade team is to be yourself and be ready to wave and cheer. If you like, you can purchase a UPEI Pride t-shirt from the bookstore, or you can make your own! Wear a UPEI shirt or hat and add a little Pride colour!

For a full schedule of the week's events, check out the 2023 PEI Pride Festival website.

If you’re unable to make it to the Parade, don your bright rainbow colours all week to express your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Come show your Pride!

On Wednesday, July 12, between 10:00 and 10:30 pm, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca. During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable. 

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13, from 9:00 am - 12 noon, in St. Peters Bay, PEI.

The event is open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. Throughout the morning, there will be tours of the facility, project presentations by current students and researchers, and drone demonstrations by the flight crew of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability.

This event is free for everyone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the event, please contact climatesense@upei.ca.

In our effort to make Prince Edward Island a better place to live, work and play, we invite all Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Communities on PEI to share your personal lived experiences of racism. Whether you’ve always called PEI home, or if you are a newcomer or a past resident, this is your opportunity to be heard.

The survey will touch on your personal experiences of encountering racism within various systems, like healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

Your responses will remain confidential and anonymous, and will contribute to a research study led by BIPOC-USHR.

To access the survey, click the link here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJ2VQ6K

Questions? Please reach out to: research@bipocushr.org or sroy@upei.ca

Doing this survey may trigger traumatic memories. If you need supportive resources, please visit the links below.

https://www.healingincolour.com/directory

https://www.blacktherapistlist.com/ 

https://counselling.students.yorku.ca/coping-with-race-related-stress
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/healing-within/202206/the-healing-racial-trauma

This survey is made possible with support from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

#Healthcare #Housing #Education #Employment #EvidenceBasedPolicy #AntiRacism #LivedExperience

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

Daniel Cousins, a third-year UPEI student in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program, is planning PEI’s first TEDx event, tentatively set for October 13, 2023, and is looking for ideas from faculty, students, and alumni. 

UPEI faculty, students, alumni, and community members can pitch their idea for a talk by submitting a TEDx application before midnight (11:59 pm), July 17, 2023. Interviews will be conducted as applications come in to determine the successful talk idea.

As TEDx events are regional, speakers must be current residents of Prince Edward Island (Island born, “come from away,” or on the Island to study) so that voices of those who live on the Island can be showcased. TED talks are 18 minutes and can cover a wide variety of topics, but must fall within four strict rules. Read the article to learn more about the guidelines.

The UPEI Student Union will be participating in the 2023 Pride Parade on Saturday, July 29, and invites all students, staff, and faculty to join them! Participants are asked to meet at 11:00 a.m. on parade day in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. Look for the Panther Patrol van! The parade begins at 12:00 p.m. and ends at approximately 12:30 p.m.

All you need to do to join the UPEI parade team is to be yourself and be ready to wave and cheer. If you like, you can purchase a UPEI Pride t-shirt from the bookstore, or you can make your own! Wear a UPEI shirt or hat and add a little Pride colour!

For a full schedule of the week's events, check out the 2023 PEI Pride Festival website.

If you’re unable to make it to the Parade, don your bright rainbow colours all week to express your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Come show your Pride!

On Wednesday, July 12, between 10:00 and 10:30 pm, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca. During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable. 

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

The UPEI Physics Department invites everyone to view the sun through our telescopes this summer. Meet us in the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library where we will have our hydrogen-alpha telescope set up to let you view the sun's atmosphere. From there, we will direct you up to the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory on the top of Memorial Hall where you can view sunspots on the sun's surface through a white-light filter on our large observatory telescope.

Viewings will be held 12:00-1:30 pm on the following dates:

• July 11
• July 25
• August 8
• August 22

If the sky is too cloudy, the viewing will have to be cancelled. Check our website for the most up-to-date status on any viewing: https://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/

Our ground-based telescope is accessible for people with all mobility levels. It is necessary to be able to climb stairs to reach our observatory telescope.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

The UPEI Physics Department invites everyone to view the sun through our telescopes this summer. Meet us in the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library where we will have our hydrogen-alpha telescope set up to let you view the sun's atmosphere. From there, we will direct you up to the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory on the top of Memorial Hall where you can view sunspots on the sun's surface through a white-light filter on our large observatory telescope.

Viewings will be held 12:00-1:30 pm on the following dates:

• July 11
• July 25
• August 8
• August 22

If the sky is too cloudy, the viewing will have to be cancelled. Check our website for the most up-to-date status on any viewing: https://projects.upei.ca/astronomy/

Our ground-based telescope is accessible for people with all mobility levels. It is necessary to be able to climb stairs to reach our observatory telescope.

We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13, from 9:00 am - 12 noon, in St. Peters Bay, PEI.

The event is open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. Throughout the morning, there will be tours of the facility, project presentations by current students and researchers, and drone demonstrations by the flight crew of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability.

This event is free for everyone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the event, please contact climatesense@upei.ca.

In our effort to make Prince Edward Island a better place to live, work and play, we invite all Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Communities on PEI to share your personal lived experiences of racism. Whether you’ve always called PEI home, or if you are a newcomer or a past resident, this is your opportunity to be heard.

The survey will touch on your personal experiences of encountering racism within various systems, like healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

Your responses will remain confidential and anonymous, and will contribute to a research study led by BIPOC-USHR.

To access the survey, click the link here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJ2VQ6K

Questions? Please reach out to: research@bipocushr.org or sroy@upei.ca

Doing this survey may trigger traumatic memories. If you need supportive resources, please visit the links below.

https://www.healingincolour.com/directory

https://www.blacktherapistlist.com/ 

https://counselling.students.yorku.ca/coping-with-race-related-stress
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/healing-within/202206/the-healing-racial-trauma

This survey is made possible with support from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

#Healthcare #Housing #Education #Employment #EvidenceBasedPolicy #AntiRacism #LivedExperience

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 4, for the August meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications." and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

An all-star cast of Island musicians will present Hard Times Come Again on Sunday, July 9, at 3:00 pm at historic St. Mary's Church in Kensington. Featuring UPEI faculty members Morgan Saulnier, Sean Kemp, and Natalie Williams Calhoun, the Hard Times Orchestra also includes Cameron MacDuffee, Brielle Ansems, Adam Hill, Jeffrey Bazett-Jones, Chris Corrigan, and Andrew Murray. Tickets are available at Under The Spire Festival (902-836-4933) or online (https://underthespire.ca). 

Composed by Adam Hill, Hard Times Come Again is a concert-length chamber-folk suite that draws on oral history and connects the Great Depression to contemporary times through stories of hope and transformation. The piece is made up of seven songs with lyrics derived from historical interviews about the Great Depression. The interviewees represent a diverse demographic, young and old, from farmers and salespeople to artists and politicians. Complementing these songs are seven electroacoustic interludes that tell contemporary tales. Hill conducted his own set of interviews with Island artists and combined samples from those conversations with organic and synthetic sounds. The result is an emotionally evocative musical experience that sheds light on what we value and how we lead our lives in accordance with those values. 

Tickets are available at Under the Spire Festival.

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last THREE draws, the total pot has grown to more than $6,750, with half going to the winner of the draw.

Gold Rush is a virtual fundraising initiative that raises funds for UPEI’s athletic programs. 

Play today and every week for a chance to win! Download the UPEI Panthers app from the App Store or on Google Play, or play from your computer. The weekly draw is held at 8:00 pm every Saturday.