Molecular & Macromolecular Science Seminar - Dr. Ian Manners

Molecular & Macromolecular Science Seminar - Tuesday, August 16 Dr. Ian Manners, Professor of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, University of Bristol will present a seminar on Tuesday August 16, 2016 at 1:00 pm.  The presentation is entitled, "Living Crystallization-Driven, Seeded Growth Approaches to Functional Supramolecular Materials".  The seminar will be held in the Kelley Memorial Building, Room 237.   All are Welcome!

AVC Open House

The public is invited to attend the Atlantic Veterinary College’s 28th annual Open House on Saturday, September 24, from 10 am until 2 pm.  A free event hosted by students, faculty and staff, AVC Open House offers the community an opportunity to get an inside view of a busy veterinary college. There is something for everyone including family-friendly activities, exhibits, live animal demonstrations, a parade of dog breeds, farm animals, community organizations, and much more. Come walk through a cow’s stomachs, dress like a surgeon, and tour the hospital. Children are encouraged to bring their stuffed animals to be examined by a veterinary student at the teddy bear clinic, get their faces painted, or take home a balloon animal. Families and children are invited to pick up an AVC Open House passport and collect stamps from the various stations as they tour the college. Once their visit is completed, children can visit the passport office to receive their AVC Open House certificate. Everyone is welcome, but please do not bring personal pets to this event.

Special Announcement - Infrastructure Upgrade at UPEI

Members of the University and PEI sports community are invited to join Mr. Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; the Honourable Richard Brown, Minister of Workforce and Advanced Learning; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, and Mr. Mike O’Grady, Vice-President, Innovation and Strategic Development at Holland College for a special announcement regarding an infrastructure upgrade on the UPEI campus.    

UPEI EMBA Speaker Series: Matt Marx

We are very pleased to announce that the UPEI Executive MBA program will be hosting a special guest speaker event with Matt Marx on Thursday, August 25 from 4:30 to 6:00pm at Marc's Studio, 125 Sydney Street. Most entrepreneurs focus on writing a business plan, prototyping their product, and raising capital. But they often ignore—or postpone—critical organizational issues that may have as much or more impact on their eventual success. Who should be on the founding team? How do we allocate rewards including equity? What should everyone’s roles be? Unfortunately, the “obvious” decision can be dead wrong…but the entrepreneur doesn’t realize this until it is months or years too late. Matt Marx is an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management and Mitsui Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. Drawing on his experience working in both Silicon Valley and Boston startups, Marx studies the systematic and institutional barriers to the growth of new ventures. He holds seven patents, and was previously an inventor and an executive at multiple startup companies in the speech recognition industry. As vice president of professional services at Tellme Networks, he led a team of 75 in growing annualized revenue from $5 million to more than $100 million. Marx holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University, an SM in media arts and sciences from MIT, and an MBA and a DBA in business administration from Harvard University.  

Let's Talk Teaching Day

Please join us for this year's Let's Talk Teaching Day on Tuesday, September 6, at 10:00 a.m. in HSB 104. The theme of the day is "Finding Common Ground." We all teach, but what we teach, how we teach, why we teach, and even who we teach are often different. Are these differences important to our sense of ourselves as a faculty—and to our notions of what a university education is for? How do these differences affect student expectations and performance as they move between Faculties and Schools during their degrees—and how can we help them negotiate those differences? In short, how can we find—and clearly articulate—some "common ground" for our teaching at UPEI? A combination of larger group and smaller break-out group discussions will address such questions as Who is in our classrooms—and why are they there? How does this make a difference in our teaching? How do we use class time? What is the point/purpose of class time? How do we think about the relationships among teaching, retention, and success? How does technology get used in our classrooms? What is the relationship between our technology use and (our expectations for) student learning? How do we articulate relationship between teaching and learning in our different Faculties and Schools? What is the point of a university education? How do we tell the story of life after university—to students, to parents, to community members, to ourselves? Our aim will be to generate some concrete strategies to take back to our Faculties and Schools, our units, and our classrooms that address "finding common ground."  Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served at 9:40; the day will begin at 10:00; lunch will be provided at noon; and we plan to wrap up between 2:30 and 3:00.  If you have any questions, please email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca or (902) 620-5217.
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