Join us at the Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and help welcome the UPEI Class of 2024 to our alumni family! This event is open to all 2024 grads and UPEI/SDU/PWC alumni.

Celebrate the last day of classes with complimentary refreshments, live entertainment by Ryan Merry (BA'10), fun door prizes to be won, and more!

• Every 2024 grad in attendance will get a complimentary grad gift!
• Alumni who RSVP and attend the event will be entered to win an alumni prize pack.
• All 2024 grads who attend will be entered to win additional door prizes.
• GRAND PRIZE DRAW: Two lucky grads will EACH win a $1000 CASH prize* sponsored by TD Insurance. 

To RSVP, please fill out the form found here.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Owen Shaw at oshaw@upei.ca or 902-566-0687.

*Only 2024 grads are eligible to win and must be present at the time of draw.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is pleased to announce an upcoming Master of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering thesis defense on Wednesday, April 10, at 9 am.

Zeeshan Haydar, supervised by Dr. Aitazaz Farooque and Dr. Travis Esau, will present his thesis titled "Design and Evaluation of Wild Blueberry Harvester Header Automation System Using Artificial Intelligence and Drone."

Location: FSDE 128B

Everyone is welcome.

Dr. Brent MacLaine will launch a new poetry book called A Skeptic in Springtime on April 24, 2024, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building, University of Prince Edward Island. 

A Skeptic in Springtime wrestles with uncertainty and aging, hurricanes, gravity, and particle theory. Amid all the unknowns, “Still, the white-throated sparrow cries I’m here, here, here, here.” Rooted in the PEI landscape where MacLaine grew up, his gaze ranges farther afield to Assyrian myth in “Killing a Lassamu,” to the Song Dynasty in “Su Dongpo Makes Ink,” to art in “Claude Monet in the Waiting Room.”

The book closes with a tribute to the late Dr. John Smith, former poet laureate of PEI. Combining keen observation of the natural world and the human condition, the poems in this collection contain “a universe which has leapt from nothing into something.”

Dr. MacLaine is a professor emeritus at the UPEI Department of English and the author of six volumes of poetry. He grew up in the rural community of Rice Point, PEI, to which he returned after teaching at universities in Vancouver, Edmonton, China, and Singapore. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.

The event is free, and all are welcome to attend. Books will be available for purchase. The event is sponsored by Island Studies Press, the UPEI English Department, and The Bookmark. For more information, contact Bren Simmers at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.

This session is designed to prepare colleagues to review teaching dossiers as part of the tenure and promotions process at UPEI. We touch on applicable clauses from the collective agreement, consider elements from EDI training, and discuss how to think about and assess teaching contributions. There will also be time to ask questions of colleagues with experience serving on the URC about best practices, and guidelines for reviewing a tenure or promotion file. There will also be discussion around what to look for when reviewing interdisciplinary work and how to see if it is well contextualized and accessible to a broader audience.  This session can be particularly helpful for colleagues chairing a DRC or those from cognate departments. 

The session will take place on April 11 at 9:30 am in the Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library Annex, Room 230. Seats are limited, Please RSVP. 

A separate session geared toward colleagues preparing their tenure and promotion files for the coming year will be organized in early May. Details will be shared in campus notices and the next TLC newsletter. 

Our Coffee Break Conversation will be hosted by Kristy McKinney, Instructional Multimedia Specialist, and Keltie MacPhail, Community History Librarian. Bring your favourite morning beverage and join us in the TLC on April 16 at 10:30 am.

The Faculty of Nursing would like to invite all to attend the public presentation of Nikodim Broukhanski’s Master of Nursing thesis defense, "Characteristics of Patients With Stroke Who Fall During Inpatient Rehabilitation." 

Date/Time/Location: Thursday, April 11, Health Sciences Building, Room 103, starting at 10:00 a.m.

Everyone is welcome.

The Faculty of Nursing would like to invite all to attend the public presentation of Paul Moolan’s Master of Nursing thesis defense, "Factors Influencing Evidence-Based Practice Among Newly Graduated Registered Nurses in Prince Edward Island." 

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, April 9, SDU Main Building, Room 115, starting at 10:00 a.m.

Everyone is welcome.

UPEI Co-op Education students are seeking full-time summer positions (May through August). Students' programs include Business, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Financial Math, Statistics, Biology, Environmental Studies, Economics, Physics, and Applied Communication, Leadership & Culture.

If you have questions about hiring a co-op student, contact Karen Turner, job development coordinator for UPEI Co-operative Education, at co-op@upei.ca. Visit Co-op Program information and fill out this form to submit a co-op job posting.

Are you sitting on a DRC this spring? This session is designed to prepare colleagues to review teaching dossiers as part of the tenure and promotions process at UPEI. We touch on applicable clauses from the collective agreement, consider elements from EDI training, and discuss how to think about and assess teaching contributions. This session can be particularly helpful for colleagues chairing a DRC or those from cognate departments. Seats are limited, Please RSVP.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, May 3, for the May meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through 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 viewed 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.

Current status update from Microsoft: A fix to the issue is expected to be in place by Tuesday, April 9. 

During a recent update from Microsoft, there was a code configuration issue that is causing issues with downloading and viewing attachments from Outlook on the web.   

If you are experiencing this issue, we recommend that you sign out and back into Outlook to temporarily mitigate the impact. Please note that you may have to do this more than once if the problem recurs, and you will have to complete a multifactor authentication (MFA ) check, so remember to have your authentication device nearby. 

This issue is affecting many other organizations as well as UPEI.   

Please contact the ITSS helpdesk with any questions at 902-566-0465 or helpdesk@upei.ca.

On Wednesday, April 10, the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering will host a guest presenter for the last SDE 8900 seminar of the semester.

Dr. Ali Madani was a full professor in the Department of Engineering at the College of Agriculture (NSAC), Dalhousie University. He was involved in teaching, conducting research, and providing extension services in the areas of drainage, water quality, water table management, and constructed wetlands for several decades.

His topic will be  “Agricultural Drainage Water Management for Crop Production and Water Quality Benefits."

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.

Location: FSDE 128B

Presenter: Vanessa Engelke Da Silva

Title: "The effects of climate change on human physical well-being and health”

Date/Time/Location: Monday, April 8, 2024, 12:15 pm AVC 286A

Everyone is welcome.

You are invited to UPEI's 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on April 11 at 5:00 pm in the Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

3MT is a competition for graduate students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in three minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. The winner of the UPEI 3MT Competition moves on to the regional 3MT competition in June.

Come cheer on the competitors, and learn more about graduate students' research at UPEI!

Light refreshments will be provided.

On Tuesday, April 9, the UPEI Jazz and Popular Music Ensemble will present a night of music titled "Under the Moon." The show begins at 7:30 pm on the SDU stage at the UPEI Steel Recital Hall.

Under the leadership of Shawn Doiron, the night will feature a variety of musical genres from old classics to modern pop hits. There will be many featured vocalists and instrumental soloists, as well as performances of original music by ensemble members.

Admission is $20 for adults and $10 for students, payable by cash at the door.

UPEI's fiscal year ends on April 30, 2024.

Purchasing Cut-Offs

Requisition/purchase order:

The last day to create a requisition/purchase order for the 2023-24 fiscal year will be on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at noon, with guaranteed delivery date on or before April 30, 2024.

Requisitions/purchase orders created after April 18, 2024, will have the requisition date changed to May 1, 2024, and the goods and services must be delivered on or after May 1, 2024. If you are unable to change the requisition's date to May 1, 2024, please put a note in the comment section of the requisition indicating it is a new year order.

Receiving goods/services cut-off: April 30, 2024

Goods and services must be received on campus by April 30, 2024. Only the goods that have been physically received or completed services should be accepted at this time. This will ensure that these goods and services are paid in the 2023-24 fiscal year.  Any items received in myUPEI after April 30, 2024, will be considered new fiscal year goods and services and will be deducted from your new fiscal year budget (2024-25).

All departments are required to look at their outstanding purchase order list to see if there are any purchase orders that need to be cancelled. This functionality can be accessed through the myUPEI self-service menu under "Financial Information" and the “Receive Goods and Services” selection.

If the items have been back-ordered for some time, you will need to check with the supplier to see if they are still on their records as back-ordered. If they are not back-ordered, then please email procurement@upei.ca to cancel your purchase order.

If you are in receipt of vendor invoices, forward these to invoices@upei.ca ASAP. Please contact apadmin@upei.ca with questions or concerns regarding billing and invoicing.

Need assistance? 

Please take a look at the “Financial Tools Reference Guide” under the "Self-Service Help" tab on myUPEI. 

Join us at the Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and help welcome the UPEI Class of 2024 to our alumni family! This event is open to all 2024 grads and UPEI/SDU/PWC alumni.

Celebrate the last day of classes with complimentary refreshments, live entertainment by Ryan Merry (BA'10), fun door prizes to be won, and more!

• Every 2024 grad in attendance will get a complimentary grad gift!
• Alumni who RSVP and attend the event will be entered to win an alumni prize pack.
• All 2024 grads who attend will be entered to win additional door prizes.
• GRAND PRIZE DRAW: Two lucky grads will EACH win a $1000 CASH prize* sponsored by TD Insurance. 

To RSVP, please fill out the form found here.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Owen Shaw at oshaw@upei.ca or 902-566-0687.

*Only 2024 grads are eligible to win and must be present at the time of draw.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is pleased to announce an upcoming Master of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering thesis defense on Wednesday, April 10, at 9 am.

Zeeshan Haydar, supervised by Dr. Aitazaz Farooque and Dr. Travis Esau, will present his thesis titled "Design and Evaluation of Wild Blueberry Harvester Header Automation System Using Artificial Intelligence and Drone."

Location: FSDE 128B

Everyone is welcome.

Are you an Indigenous student who is graduating this year? The Mawi'omi Indigenous Student Centre would like to recognize and celebrate your accomplishments by gifting you an Indigenous stole. Designed by Corinne Chappell, the University's Indigenous affairs adviser, the stole features the four sacred colours and graduating year on one side and a logo that represents the three nations on the other: First Nations, Metis, and Inuit. 

If this is something you are interested in, please contact the Mawi'omi Indigenous Student Centre at mawiomi@upei.ca ASAP to ensure that you have a stole for your graduation photos and Convocation.

All students are invited to attend an information session on the UPEI Faculty of Medicine. A presentation will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Preston Smith, Dean of UPEI Faculty of Medicine, and representatives from admissions, clinical learning and simulation, and anatomy.