Please join us for this year’s Let’s Talk Teaching Day on Friday, September 4 in HSB 104. The theme this year is Teaching for Transfer, and we are very fortunate to have as our keynote speaker Dr. Rosemary Polegato of Mount Allison University, a 2014 3M Fellow and an authority on student portfolios, whose address is entitled “Engaging Students in Reflection on Learning: Explanations, Exercises, and Portfolios.” Other presenters include Dr. Shannon Murray on “Teaching for Transfer” and Dr. Stacey MacKinnon on “People Aren't Asking Questions: Why That Is and What We Can Begin to Do About It at UPEI.” We will also present this year’s Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership, and the day will end with a workshop conducted by Dr. Polegato based on her keynote address. Lunch will be provided, and, in deference to the date, this year’s Let’s Talk Teaching Day has been slightly shortened. Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served at 9:45, the day will begin at 10:00, and we plan to wrap up between 2:30 and 3:00. Oh, and please bring a new or recent syllabus for one of your courses for the workshop. If you have any questions, please email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites to a MSc- Environmental Sciences Thesis defence by Brittany Cole: “Adapting to beach and dune environments: A study of fitness and ecological factors in the coastal plant Cakile edentula". Everyone is invited.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to a memorial for Dr. Barry Bartmann, a professor in Political Science and Island Studies who passed away earlier this week. The memorial will take place in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, from 4:00 - 5:00 pm on Friday, August 28.

UPEI’s Climate Research Lab, in partnership with PEI EMO and the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) to bring a special presentation to Prince Edward Island. Dr. Adam Sobel, author of Storm Surge will give a talk in the Lecture Theatre of the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre. The talk begins at 10 am Friday, August 28.    There is no cost to attend, but please RSVP to messery@gov.pe.ca.   Dr Sobel is a renowned atmospheric scientist and Columbia University Professor. His book details the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using it to explain our planet’s changing climate and what we need to do to protect ourselves and our cities for the future.   Storm Surge brings together the melting glaciers, the shifting jet streams, and the warming oceans to make clear how our changing climate will make New York and other cities more vulnerable than ever to huge storms—and how we need to think differently about these long-term risks if we hope to mitigate the damage. Engaging, informative, and timely, Sobel’s book provokes us to rethink the future of our climate and how we can better prepare for the storms to come.

Members of AVC's Class of 2019 officially start off their year on Friday, August 28, with orientation during the day and then in the evening the wonderful Blue Coat ceremony, a special event to welcome them to AVC and to mark the beginning of their veterinary education. Welcome, Class of 2019!

Open to anyone interested in learning more about scholarship opportunities at UPEI, including an overview of how and when you can be considered for the available awards and bursaries.

Open to anyone interested in learning more about scholarship opportunities at UPEI, including an overview of how and when you can be considered for the available awards and bursaries.  

Open to anyone interested in learning more about scholarship opportunities at UPEI, including an overview of how and when you can be considered for the available awards and bursaries.  

Open to anyone interested in learning more about scholarship opportunities at UPEI, including an overview of how and when you can be considered for the available awards and bursaries.  

Chris Benjamin is a well-known fiction and features writer. His latest book, Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, won the 2013 Dave Greber Freelance Book Award.   On Friday, September 18, Chris Benjamin will be sharing his new book on campus at UPEI during a brown bag lunch to be held in the Main Faculty Lounge from 12:00 - 1:00. Everyone is welcome to attend.   The event takes place soon after the publication of the Summary Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  In an interview with the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge on June 1, Justice Murray Sinclair stated, “Education is the key to reconciliation.”  t is in this spirit that the UPEI community and members of the public are gathering together with Chris Benjamin to discuss Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School.   The Faculty of Education and the UPEI Aboriginal Students' Association are organizing the event.