University
(L to R): Dr. Abd-El-Aziz, Bsmah Thabet, William Beall, Sweta Daboo, Anchen Cai, Premier MacLauchlan, Oluwafoyinsayemi Senbanjo, Freya Qi
UPEI president and students attend state-of-the-province address
UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El- Aziz (left) and several international students attended Premier Wade MacLauchlan’s 2017 state-of- the-province address to PEI Rotary Clubs on Monday, January 16. Shown (left to right) with Dr. Abd-El- Aziz and Premier MacLauchlan are Bsmah Thabet, Saudi Arabia, MSc in chemistry; William Beall, USA, fourth-year arts; Sweta Daboo, Mauritius, first-year science; Anchen Cai, China, fourth-year business; Oluwafoyinsayemi Senbanjo, Nigeria, fourth-year business; and Freya (Ruifang) Qi, China, MEd.
Students
UPEI's student ambassadors
UPEI goes on the road with KeepItSocial.ca
The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation and the PEI Liquor Control Commission (PEILCC) revealed details today for the second phase of the KeepItSocial.ca-Panther Sport program that was first announced in November 2016—aboard a bus!
KeepItSocial.ca is a digital platform that promotes responsible alcohol consumption, emphasizing social drinking versus binge drinking. The highly visual and provocative promotional campaign that supports the website builds awareness and is aimed at starting a dialogue about high-risk alcohol consumption and its associated harms.
Alumni
Paige Matthie (photo by CBC)
19th-century painter gets her due thanks to UPEI history grad
The CBC recently featured a story about Paige Matthie, the registrar at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and a 2009 Honours History graduate of UPEI. Matthie, through some creative sleuthing, was able to reassign credit for six works by 19th-century painter Caroline Louisa Daly which had been attributed for more than a century to two other artists.
“We were able to piece the story together with enough historical proof to say 'no these are actually all Caroline Louisa Daly,’” Matthie said to the CBC.
Read the whole story here.
Athletics
Future Panther Lauren Fleming
UPEI Women’s Basketball recruits Lauren Fleming
Greg Gould, coach of the UPEI Women’s Basketball team, is pleased to announce Lauren Fleming has committed to the Panthers for the 2017–18 season.
Fleming, a 5’11” forward from Sussex, New Brunswick, is the leading rebounder and one of the top scorers for the Sussex Regional High Sonics team, which is one of the top high school teams in the Maritimes. Fleming was also selected this year as a starting forward on New Brunswick’s U–17 provincial team.
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Maria Clinton and Tyler Scott
UPEI announces the Panther Subway Athletes of the Week, January 9-15
Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes two student-athletes for their hard work and dedication to their respective sports. Congratulations to Maria Clinton (Women’s Hockey) and Tyler Scott (Men’s Basketball), the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the week for January 9-15!
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Jane McLauchlin and JC Campagna
UPEI announces the Panther Subway Athletes of the Week, January 2-8
Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes two student-athletes for their hard work and dedication to their respective sports. Congratulations to Jane McLaughlin (Women’s Basketball) and JC Campagna (Men’s Hockey), the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the week for January 2-8!
Shelby Foran, seen here playing with the Winchendon School hockey team, will join the UPEI Panthers in September
UPEI Women’s Hockey signs Shelby Foran for the 2017-18 season
University of Prince Edward Island Women’s Hockey Coach Bruce Donaldson is ringing in the New Year by announcing that Miramichi, New Brunswick native Shelby Foran has committed to the Panthers for 2017–18.
For the past three years, Foran, a forward, has attended the Winchendon School, a college preparatory boarding school in Winchendon, Massachusetts where she has played several varsity sports, with hockey being her favourite. Prior to Winchendon, she played for the North Stars Midget Triple AAA team in Miramichi and with the New Brunswick provincial team.
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Atlantic Veterinary College
Applications accepted for Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Graduate Scholarship
The SJDAWC is calling for applications from potential graduate students for the 2017 Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Graduate Scholarship. The scholarship will support the training of researchers at the masters or doctoral level to pursue animal welfare research at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Both applied or more fundamental approaches to research pertaining to animal welfare are welcome.
Applications for 2017 will be accepted until 12 noon (AST), Friday, February 17, with decisions to be announced in April. Students may take up their award at any time of the year but must do so within 12 months of the date of the letter of offer. Click here for more information about applying for the scholarship.
Please note: All potential graduate students must identify a graduate faculty member willing to supervise the student should the application be successful. This must be included with the application.
Events
Keep Walking Forward: Film Showing on Cyber-activism and Islamophobia
Join Royal Road University graduate students Rebecca Gass and Meghan Miller Cronkite for a screening of the films Letter to a Terrorist and Keep Walking Forward, followed by a presentation and panel discussion with UPEI staff and faculty, on Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 pm in Lecture Theatre A, AVC, UPEI. This event is sponsored by the Student Diversity Office at UPEI.
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UPEI 2017 Arts and Science Lecture
Dr. Catherine Morley, a film-maker, textile artist, and professor in the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University, will present the 2017 UPEI Don Mazer Arts and Science Lecture on Thursday, February 9, at 7:00 pm in the Dining Room (third floor, room 301) of the UPEI Health Sciences Building.
Dr. Morley’s talk, “The Arts and the Health/Helping Professions,” will focus on arts-informed teaching strategies for working with students who are preparing for health and human services careers. She will also draw on her expertise and experience in using arts-based approaches for research in health and human services.
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Dr. Lisha O'Sullivan and Dr. Emer Ring, professors at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick; Dr. Ring's daughter Iseult; and UPEI graduate student Erin Rowan at Cill Rialaig Famine Village, County Kerry, Ireland.
The January Island Studies Lecture featured graduate student Erin Rowan speaking about her research on “islandness” in Ireland. She was joined by Eoin O'Beaglaoich, a visiting lecturer in Irish culture and language at UPEI and musician in residence at Holland College.
Last spring, Rowan travelled to County Kerry in southwest Ireland for a six-week research trip. While there, she conducted interviews in Cahersiveen and Valentia Island, as well as visited libraries and archives around the county and country. Her research explores a dark time in Irish history, the Great Potato Famine (1845-1852), and how this period was felt and experienced by the people of Valentia Island and Cahersiveen. The subtle differences in famine experience between these two places demonstrate the effects of islandness and peripherality on this important period in Ireland's history.
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Bird Calls is published by Island Studies Press
Open Pages features Island poet Jane Ledwell, January 18
The most recent Open Pages event in the UPEI Robertson Library featured PEI poet Jane Ledwell. Ledwell was both fascinated and exasperated by British travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird’s haughty judgement of PEI, penned after she visited the Island for six weeks in 1854. “I never saw a community,” wrote Bird, “in which people appear to hate each other so cordially.”
Ledwell decided to “write back” 160 years later. Her poetic response is the heart of Bird Calls, the latest title published by Island Studies Press. Everyone is invited to the Open Pages event. Bird Calls will be available for sale and signing. Hosted by the Robertson Library, Open Pages features local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they shared. For more information, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press: ispstaff@upei.ca.
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Academics
Dr. Trevor Jain, Program Director for Paramedicine at UPEI and Medical Director of the Primary Care Paramedicine and Advanced Care Paramedicine programs at Holland College and Brent Nicholson, lead instructor for the paramedicine at Holland College
UPEI offers Bachelor of Science in Paramedicine for Holland College paramedicine graduates
The University of Prince Edward Island is offering a degree pathway to a Bachelor of Science in Paramedicine for graduates of Holland College’s paramedicine programs or any other two-year paramedicine program accredited by the Canadian Medical Association.
The pathway, which reduces the duration of the BSc program from four years to two, is designed for paramedics interested in enhancing their scientific knowledge and their research and communication skills in order to access post-graduate opportunities, research experiences, or business opportunities to advance their careers.
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