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UPEI officially signs contract agreements with unions

(L to R): Mr. Greg Clayton, Director of Facilities Management; Ms. Jackie Podger, UPEI Vice President Administration and Finance; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor; Blair Somers Vice Chair and Shop Steward; Jim Sponagle, IBEW Local 1928 Business Manager.

(L to R): Dr. Malcolm Murray,Vice President, UPEI Faculty Association; Dr. Nola Etkin, President, UPEI Faculty Association; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor; Ms. Jackie Podger, UPEI Vice President Administration and Finance.

(L to R): Mr. Barry Connell, Vice President MTF, CUPE 1870; Ms. Tracy Carmichael, President, CUPE 1870; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor; Ms. Jackie Podger, UPEI Vice President Administration and Finance.
Events
Student Design Expo kicks off three-day showcase of sustainable, green engineering
The University of Prince Edward Island's School of Sustainable Design Engineering (SSDE) annual Student Design Expo on April 21 will kick off a three-day showcase of the best in student, sustainable, and green engineering in Atlantic Canada.
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Owen Jennings on Saint Helena
Saint Helena: An island in flux
The April Island Studies Lecture features Master of Arts in Island Studies student Owen Jennings speaking about Saint Helena: an island in flux. His presentation is Tuesday, April 18, at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building.
The allure of islands relies on often-inaccurate assumptions. These imaginary islands are small, remote, and—more often than not—tropical. Where most islands fall well short of that imagined island, the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena comes pretty close to the ideal. Over the past decade, this island has been gifted a new connection to the world—an airport. When it eventually opens to commercial traffic, the airport is expected to reduce travel time to and from South Africa from five days to a few hours. The Saints, as the islanders call themselves, will soon be able to travel in a way that most similar island communities take for granted. This lecture considers the experience of travelling to and being a researcher on Saint Helena, and what being a Saint might mean as the island's connection to the rest of the world changes dramatically.
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Seminar/Conference
Christina Bosch will deliver the conference's keynote
UPEI to host Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning, May 31–June 2
UPEI is proud to host the second Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), May 31 to June 2. UDL is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences.
The first conference on UDL was hosted two years ago at McGill University. Interest and momentum for UDL has steadily grown across Canada in both the K-12 and post-secondary sectors, and the time has come for UDL practitioners and advocates to come together again to exchange ideas, showcase practices, and examine the potential for future development.
For early bird registration or for more information, please visit www.udlconference.ca or contact udlpei17@gmail.com.
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If You're Curious About Climate Change
More than 150 students and teachers from Three Oaks Senior High School, Colonel Gray High School, Kensington Intermediate Senior High School, Bluefield High School, and Charlottetown Rural High School attended If You're Curious About Climate Change, an event for PEI high school teachers and students held at Holland College on April 5, 2017. Topics such as renewable energy, hydrogeology, and climate change were presented, with a special introduction from PEI Minister of Communities, Land and Environment, the Honourable Robert Mitchell. UPEI Climate Lab PhD student Hope Parnham and UPEI Climate Lab Researcher Stephanie Arnold represented UPEI at the event discussing sea-level rise, coastal flooding and erosion, regional impacts of climate change, extreme weather events, and the UPEI Climate Lab’s use of drones and computer simulation (CLIVE) in Environmental Science research. Many students were interested in pursuing their academic careers at UPEI as a result.
Submitted by Dr. Adam Fenech
Research
Nutrition research study seeking participants
A research project at the University of Prince Edward Island is seeking volunteers for a study on the impact of consumption of blueberries on indicators of diabetes. The research team is seeking participants who are healthy, non-smoking, and age 21 to 65. Eligible participants will be compensated up to 200 dollars.
Those interested in participating are invited to attend a 30-minute information session in room 301 of UPEI’s Health Sciences Building.
This project is a collaboration between UPEI’s Dr. Katherine Gottschall-Pass, Dr. Marva Sweeney-Nixon, and Dr. Kim Stote, 2016/2017 UPEI Fulbright Scholar and Research Chair of Nutrisciences and Health. For more information, contact Dr. Stote at kstote@upei.ca.
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News
AARMS 2017 Summer School at UPEI, July 3 to 28
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) is holding its 2017 summer school this July at UPEI. For a four-week period every summer, AARMS invites highly regarded faculty from around the world to deliver graduate courses in the mathematical sciences and their applications. The goals are to broaden the education of graduate students and to encourage promising undergraduates to continue their study.
The summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduate students from all parts of the world. Each participant is expected to register for at least two of the three courses. Each course consists of three hours lecture sessions per day for two weeks. These are graduate courses approved by the University of Prince Edward Island. AARMS will facilitate transfer credit to the extent possible.
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Speakers
The Honourable David H. Jenkins, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island
Island Studies Presents Lecture on Electoral Boundaries Process on Bermuda featuring PEI’s Chief Justice David Jenkins
In keeping with one of the Institute of Island Studies’ goals to see Prince Edward Island through the lens of other islands, PEI’s Chief Justice, David Jenkins, will share with Islanders what he’s learned as a member of Bermuda’s Constituency Boundaries Commission. He will deliver a lecture Monday, April 10, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. All are welcome.
While Prince Edward Island goes through the process of updating its electoral boundaries, over the past several months, Chief Justice Jenkins has been on hand as Bermuda underwent a similar process. Bermuda has jurisdictional similarities with PEI, being an overseas territory of the UK comprised of 36 electoral districts and a population of approximately 65,000. This is why Justice Jenkins was first invited to be a member of the commission in 2009. He is also a former chair of the federal boundaries commission.
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Atlantic Green Expo at UPEI welcomes Peter Childs
Dr. Peter Childs will be the first of two keynote speakers at Atlantic Green Expo, presented by E365, held at the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering on April 21 to 23. Dr. Childs is the head of Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, UK. His general interests include robotics, creativity tools and innovation, design process and design rationale, fluid flow and heat transfer—particularly rotating flow, and sustainable energy component, concept, and system design. He has co-authored books on rural-urban migration, inclusive sports, and sports technology. Peter Childs will give his keynote address to the public at Atlantic Green Expo on Friday, April 21 at 5:30 pm.
Atlantic Green Expo starts on Friday, April 21 at 1:00 pm with the Student Design Expo beginning at 2:00 pm. All events are open to the public and admission is free. Atlantic Green Expo gives the public a chance to learn more about sustainable products and services available in the Atlantic region, with exhibitors displaying clean tech options, eco-friendly products, and environmental practices.
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Athletics
The inaugural Barb C. Mullaly Memorial Athletic Award was presented to Kelly Green by Mary Lou Turner at the UPEI Athletic Awards Gala on Saturday
New UPEI award honours the late Barb Mullaly
The University of Prince Edward Island is proud to announce the creation of the Barb C. Mullaly Memorial Athletic Award in memory of the late Barb Mullaly, former director of athletics at UPEI.
The inaugural award was presented to third-year science student Kelly Green, a member of the women’s soccer team, at the UPEI Athletic Awards Gala held on Saturday, April 1, 2017. She was selected for the award by Chris Huggan, director of UPEI Athletics and Recreation; the athletics student leadership group; and varsity coaches.
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Marie-Soleil Deschenes, women's hockey, and Mark Ashlee, men's soccer, were each named UPEI Outstanding Athlete of the Year at the annual awards gala Saturday night
Ashlee and Deschenes selected UPEI Athletes of the Year
UPEI’s Department of Athletics and Recreation celebrated the 2016–17 season at the 48th annual UPEI Athletic Awards Gala on Saturday, April 1, recognizing outstanding student athletes who have excelled in sport, the classroom, and serving the community. The UPEI Alumni Association’s Outstanding Athlete of the Year awards went to men’s soccer fullback Mark Ashlee and women’s hockey goalie Marie-Soleil Deschenes.
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International
Dr. Claude Mangion, University of Malta, and UPEI’s Dr. Neb Kujundzic
UPEI’s Dean of Arts presents at the University of Malta
Dr. Neb Kujundzic, dean of Arts and a professor of philosophy at UPEI, delivered a guest lecture last week on the relationship between humanity, work, and technology (particularly robotics) and its implications for education to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malta (UMalta).
Dr. Kujundzic is the latest of a long series of island-to-island exchanges between UPEI and UMalta, which started off with an invitation extended to Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino to visit UPEI back in 1992. Dr. Baldacchino is now pro-rector and a professor at UMalta and a UNESCO Co-Chair in Island Studies & Sustainability at UPEI and UMalta.
A healthy history of student exchanges exists between UMalta and UPEI. Clare Byrne, a UPEI student, is currently at UMalta for a semester studying political science. UMalta nursing student Chanel Borg spent a semester at UPEI last year. Dr. Robert Dennis, a professor of religious studies at UPEI, will visit Malta and UMalta in May 2017.
Atlantic Veterinary College
Dr. Martha Mellish with Contrite the horse
Alumnus Dr. Martha Mellish joins AVC faculty
For Dr. Martha Mellish, “it’s all horses all the time.” A member of AVC’s Class of 2005, Dr. Mellish recently joined the Atlantic Veterinary College as an assistant professor in the College’s Ambulatory Equine Service (AES), responsible for teaching veterinary students, and providing veterinary and theriogenology services to AES clients.
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Dr. Etienne Côté presents a copy of the "Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 8th Edition," to Dean Greg Keefe for AVC’s Small Animal Hospital ICU.
AVC cardiologist co-edits “gold standard” veterinary textbook
Three years ago, Dr. Etienne Côté, professor of cardiology at AVC, was asked to co-edit the eighth edition of the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, widely recognized as the most authoritative textbook for small animal internal medicine. Created in 1975 by Dr. Stephen Ettinger, considered the trailblazer of veterinary specialty medicine, the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine is the internationally acclaimed “gold standard” textbook in small animal medicine, with its unparalleled coverage of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases affecting dogs and cats.
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Natalie Dow, AVC Class of 2017, helps a Kenyan farmer listen to a cow's heart murmur with a stethoscope.
2017 Kenyan smallholder dairy health management project a success
The 2017 Farmers Helping Farmers-AVC three-week senior veterinary student course in Kenya was a resounding success. Over 500 smallholder dairy farmers received education and services in cattle health management; over 650 animals were given individual treatments or health management interventions; and another 130 animals were treated for identified health concerns.
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