The University of Prince Edward Island’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) will showcase the best in sustainable design engineering by its students at the annual Student Design Expo on Friday, April 24, starting at 1 pm. Projects can be viewed through the afternoon until 3:30 pm. Student projects will be presented in person. Each project is the result of collaboration between FSDE students and an industry or community partner. Students were tasked with designing and creating solutions to their partners’ unique challenges.

We look forward to seeing everyone.

The UPEI Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Office is updating the Access to Information and Protection of Personal Information and Privacy Policy and would like input from the campus community. Your feedback is important in helping us ensure that our practices reflect the needs, expectations, and concerns of everyone on campus. Please share your thoughts by completing this short survey —your input will help to inform the final policy updates.

Any questions related to the survey or the policy update can be directed to accessprivacy@upei.ca. The ATIP Office thanks you for your valuable input.

The Island Lecture Series presents a talk by Andrew Halliday, “Borders, Boundaries and Jurisdictional Islanding: Placemaking in Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The lecture will be held on April 21, 2026, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building Room 201, University of Prince Edward Island. 

The interdisciplinary field of Island Studies continues to reflect upon island understandings. This lecture will explore placemaking that occurred on a regional level in Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the creation of the Atlantic Bubble in the summer of 2020. New conceptual island constructs of “covid-islands” and “covid-archipelagos” are introduced as frames of inquiry and explained as policy constructs which occurred at both micro and macro levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Covid-islands” and “covid-archipelagos” are defined by their relativity to other places, their spatial and temporal aspects, their social construction and the permeability and interaction with their borders and defined boundaries.

Andrew Halliday is a cross-appointed graduate faculty member in the Island Studies and Cleantech Leadership and Transformation interdisciplinary graduate programs at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with an academic and public service background across various domains under the broad umbrella of political science. He has extensive government experience at the provincial level with the Government of P.E.I. and the Government of Alberta and nationally with the Government of Canada. He is a member of the International Small Islands Studies Association, the Small Islands Cultural Research Initiative, and the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Islands.

The lecture is free, and all are welcome. For more information, contact Bren Simmers at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.

Library spaces will be closed May, June, July, and August, with some services available at our temporary location. 

Beginning May 4, 2026, limited in-person library services will be available in Robertson Library Annex Room 235 (click here for a map). This temporary service point will be open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

The Library’s website, OneSearch, research databases, digital materials, and online services will be available throughout the summer. The building’s central hallway (breezeway) – housing the book drop, ATM, lockers, bulletin board, microwave, etc. – will still be accessible.

Important Dates:

• Monday April 27 - Thursday April 30 - Library opens 8:00 am-5:00 pm with regular library services
• Friday, May 1 - Library spaces open 8:00 am-5:00 pm but all library services closed
• Monday, May 4 - Service desk opens in Li8brary Annex Room 235 with reduced services Monday-Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Details of our availability and services may change as we adjust to the construction.

See our Library Renovations Closure Information page for more details

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Bukola Kehinde's public presentation of her MEd research titled: "Teaching and Learning Science in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence" 

Please join us on April 23 at 9:00 am, in person at Memorial Hall, Room 417 or through Teams: see the link below:

Bukola Kehinde - Thesis Dissertation Exam | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

The Faculty of Education invites all to attend the public presentation of Elizabeth Blake's PhD Dissertation Defense, Chair(s), Child, Cut(s): A Diffractive Exploration of How Agential Realism Makes—and Unmakes—Distributed Inclusion Across Summer Camp Encounters.

Please join us in person on April 22 at 1:00 pm, Memorial Hall, Room 417 or on Teams: E. Blake PhD Dissertation Defense | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

Title of the Thesis: "Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Oyster Aquaculture: A Case Study in PEI"

In recent years, climate change and its hazards have had severe effects on the culture of oyster in coastal communities, especially in Prince Edward Island. The oyster industry is vital to PEI's economy; however it is severely threatened by climate change and it induced hazards such as storms which leads to losses in terms of infrastructure, mortalities of oysters and financial losses for farmers. Therefore, this study uses a systematic approach to investigate and assess the effects of climate change on oyster aquaculture. This research also employs a methodology to investigate historical environmental conditions affecting oyster production in PEI. The results shows that climate change is influencing oceanic environmental factors such as water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, and primary productivity in PEI. Furthermore, the study also investigated future climate scenario using downscaled data sets of CMIP6 under SSP1- 2.6, SSP2- 4.6, and SSP5- 8.5. The results shows that oyster production in PEI is likely to decline under these socio-economic pathways.

April 22, 2026, 9:00am via Web Conference

If you wish to attend the public presentation, please contact the Graduate Studies Coordinator at gsc@upei.ca to receive the link.

The Master of Arts in Island Studies program invites you to a thesis defence by Laurie Rayner Langford entitled “FOXMAN: The story of B.I. Rayner as told by eight women.” Please join in person or on Teams (email brinklow@upei.ca for the Teams link). Everyone is welcome!

April 24, 10:00 am, Memorial Building Room 104

The University of Prince Edward Island’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) will showcase the best in sustainable design engineering by its students at the annual Student Design Expo on Friday, April 24, starting at 1 pm. Projects can be viewed through the afternoon until 3:30 pm. Student projects will be presented in person. Each project is the result of collaboration between FSDE students and an industry or community partner. Students were tasked with designing and creating solutions to their partners’ unique challenges.

We look forward to seeing everyone.

The UPEI Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Office is updating the Access to Information and Protection of Personal Information and Privacy Policy and would like input from the campus community. Your feedback is important in helping us ensure that our practices reflect the needs, expectations, and concerns of everyone on campus. Please share your thoughts by completing this short survey —your input will help to inform the final policy updates.

Any questions related to the survey or the policy update can be directed to accessprivacy@upei.ca. The ATIP Office thanks you for your valuable input.

The 2026 Zoonoses, AMR, and BioInformatics (ZAMBI) meeting will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from July 6-9. The meeting brings together cross-disciplinary researchers and trainees working at the intersection of antimicrobial resistance, emerging zoonotic diseases, and computational biology to share their research and develop new cross-cutting One Health skills. There will be a mix of talks and workshops. 

May 1 is the deadline to submit a title and abstract for consideration for poster and oral presentations, and May 31 is the deadline to register to attend the meeting. Registration for all four days is $50 (plus $20 for an optional conference dinner and Agricultural Campus tour). More information about the program and the meeting in general can be found at https://zambi.ca/

In order to accommodate UPEI computer classroom and lab software adds, drops, or modifications for the 2026 fall semester, we have set a firm deadline of June 1, 2026.

This date is necessary to allow sufficient time to plan and implement the installation of new and upgraded software. This ensures our students will have the software resources they need. Any requests received after the deadline will be applied in the next round of software updates.

Further information of currently installed software is available on the ITSS website, and you can fill out the following Computer Lab Software Request Form by June 1 with your request for software.

The UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre is pleased to invite you to our annual Teaching Community Conference, taking place on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in the Health Sciences Building.

This year’s theme, Connected Teaching: Connecting with Community, Self, and Place, invites us to reflect on how teaching is shaped by relationships, context, and care. We hope you’ll join us for a full day of conversation, learning, and connection with colleagues from across campus.

The Teaching Community Conference is an opportunity to further energize UPEI’s strategic commitment to innovative and connected teaching, research, and scholarship by sharing our experiences, questions, and opportunities for advancing teaching and learning at UPEI.

Throughout the day, participants will be invited to explore questions such as:

• What supports, skills, and critical capacities do faculty need to embrace the relational and connected nature of teaching?
• As we expand the walls of our classrooms and broaden our partnerships, how do we move beyond supplementing traditional practices to truly transform what teaching can be?

Please RSVP by April 20 to help us with planning and catering, and be sure to save the date in your calendar.

We look forward to learning together and hope you can join us for this engaging day.

Classes are over; you just have to make it through exams. The library is here to help, and not just with books and research advice. April 17-25, in the Robertson Library Lobby, we've scheduled a number of surprises, featuring a treat, craft, or activity to give your brain a break. Follow @RobertsonLibrary on Instagram and Facebook so you never miss a Pop-Up Surprise. (Here's a freebie: we're co-hosting a coffee break with Dana Hospitality, Monday April 20 at 1:00 pm!)   

You'll find the lobby lounge transformed into the Stress-Free Zone for the duration of exams. Relax with colouring pages, yarn, origami, and so much more!    

Good luck on your finals! 

Dr. Billy Johnson, a candidate for the new tenure-track position in the English Department, will give a research presentation titled "From Halifax to Harlem: Arthur Huff Fauset's Folklore from Nova Scotia (1931)" on Friday, April 17, 2026 at 10:30 am in SDU Main Building, Room 320. We invite faculty, staff, and students to attend.

UPEI fiscal year ends on April 30, 2026.

Preparation for Fiscal Year End

Procurement Services request that all departments review their outstanding purchase order list to see if there are any purchase orders that should be cancelled. Your purchase order listing can be found in the myUPEISelf-Service Menu under "Financial Management" and the “Receive Goods and Services” selection.

If any line items have been backordered for some time, it is recommended that you confirm with the supplier that the goods are still on their records as being back ordered. 

To cancel a purchase order, please email procurement@upei.ca with the PO number and vendor name.

If you are in possession of vendor invoices, please forward these to invoices@upei.ca as soon as possible. For questions or concerns you may have regarding billing and invoicing, contact apadmin@upei.ca. 

Requisitions & Purchase Orders:

The last day to create a requisition or purchase order for the 2025-26 fiscal year will be Friday, April 17, 2026, at noon with guaranteed delivery date on or before April 30, 2026. 

For requisitions and purchase orders created after April 17, 2026, please change the requisition date to May 1, 2026. For these requisitions, the goods and services must be delivered or performed on or after May 1, 2026.

Receiving Goods & Services Cut-Off: April 30, 2026

For the expense to be recorded in the 2025-26 fiscal year, goods and services must be received by April 30, 2026. Only the goods that have been physically received on campus or performed services should be accepted against the purchase order at this time. 

Please note that you cannot backdate receiving items in myUPEI. Please reach out to procurement@upei.ca for assistance accepting backdated goods or services for 2025-26. Additionally, the vendor invoice must be dated on or before April 30, 2026.

Any goods received or services performed after April 30, 2026 will be recorded against your new fiscal year budget (2026-27). 

The Faculty of Education invites all to attend the public presentation of Elizabeth Blake's PhD Dissertation Defense, Chair(s), Child, Cut(s): A Diffractive Exploration of How Agential Realism Makes—and Unmakes—Distributed Inclusion Across Summer Camp Encounters.

Please join us in person on April 22 at 1:00 pm, Memorial Hall, Room 417 or on Teams: E. Blake PhD Dissertation Defense | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

The eight meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, April 24, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). To view the 2025-2026 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here. (Posted one week before the meeting)

All meetings are open to members of the University community, although certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees) may require the Senate to go into a closed session. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair. 

For logistical purposes, members of the UPEI community who wish to attend the open session of a UPEI Senate meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person. 

Join UPEI President Wendy Rodgers for casual "coffee chats" at Fox and Crow in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre on Friday, April 17 from 9:30-10:30 am.

These coffee chats offer a relaxed setting where any member of the UPEI community can drop by, grab a drink, and chat with Wendy about anything on your mind. Whether you want to share ideas, ask questions or simply say hello, these chats are a great way to connect with the president in a comfortable and informal environment.

Please be advised that Financial Services and Procurement Services (KMB 131) will be closed from 10:45 - 12:15 pm on Thursday, April 16 for a staff meeting. 

This closure also includes the Student Financial Services office (DH 202), and the FOM Shipping and Receiving office (HEF 143).