Moodle is UPEI's online course space. This session will provide an introduction to the basics of using Moodle: sending course announcements; organizing your course page; creating some online activities. This session will be hosted synchronously online on April 22 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. Please register to get an invite to the session. 

Title of the Thesis “Modeling Groundwater Dynamics Under Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes for Prince Edward Island, Canada”

This thesis investigates how groundwater in Prince Edward Island (PEI) is being affected by climate change and growing water demand. Because PEI relies almost entirely on groundwater for drinking water, understanding these pressures is essential for future water security. The research includes a review of groundwater monitoring, mapping, and modeling, examines the sustainability of Charlottetown’s municipal groundwater abstraction, evaluates saltwater intrusion in Summerside, and presents an island-wide groundwater flow model to assess groundwater and baseflow responses under changing conditions. Overall, this work identifies key risks and supports more informed and sustainable groundwater management in PEI.

April 21, 2026, 1:00pm via Web Conferencing

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

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

The Department of History invites members of the campus community to attend the upcoming tenure-track faculty candidate presentation.

Dr. Grace McNutt will present "Women on the Water: The Feminine Seascape Onboard Nova Scotia’s Nineteenth Century Deepwater Merchant Sailing Vessels" on Wednesday, April 22, from 1:30–3:00 PM in SDU Main Building, Room 213.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Convocation is almost here! All faculty members are invited to participate in the Academic Procession for each Convocation ceremony. 

May 12—Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of Nursing
May 13—Faculty of Business and Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
May 14—Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Faculty of Graduate Studies
May 15—Faculty of Science

Faculty members who have regalia and wish to participate are asked to RSVP via this form to confirm which ceremony they will be attending. Faculty members will line up with the graduates in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building concourse 45 minutes before each ceremony.  

For those faculty members who would like to order regalia online through UPEI’s official gown supplier, GradCo, they are encouraged to do so ASAP at http://gradco.ca/upei. The deadline for ordering is Wednesday, April 22, at 11:59 pm. 

Any faculty members who wish to purchase their regalia may contact GradCo at info@gradco.ca for information.  

The deadline for the Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition Waiver forms for the Summer 2026 semester is July 10, 2026.  We encourage you to have your tuition waivers submitted as soon as possible to assist in the timely processing. Tuition Waiver forms must be submitted electronically.  

The online Tuition Waiver fillable forms can be found on the HR Portal of the myUPEI site, under Training and Development.

Please note, the Employee or Spouse/Dependent must be registered in the course prior to applying for the tuition waiver.

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at: (902) 566-0514 or hrgeneral@upei.ca.

Title of the Thesis: “A Comparison of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Nutrition and Food Safety Between Primary School Students Receiving a Practical Agri-Nutrition Education Program and the Grade 5 Agriculture and Nutrition Competency-Based Curriculum in Meru County, Kenya”

Abstract: Micronutrient malnutrition remains a major public health challenge among school-age children in Kenya, driven by poor dietary diversity, food insecurity, and unsafe food practices. This study evaluates a Practical Agri-Nutrition Education (PANE) program implemented among Grade 5 students to improve nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP). Using a quasi-experimental pre-post design, outcomes were compared between students receiving PANE (n=43) and those following the national Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) (n=55). Data were collected using structured KAP questionnaires, and Chi-square tests were used for data analysis. Post-intervention, PANE participants demonstrated significantly improved knowledge, more positive attitudes toward recommended practices, and reported fewer barriers to adopting them than the comparison group. Findings suggest that PANE improved knowledge and attitudes but did not translate into improved practices within the short study period. Since the PANE was found to enhance the CBC curriculum, our findings support integrating PANE into the CBC curriculum, with longer-duration interventions and teacher involvement.

April 23, 2026, 8:30 am in Health Sciences Building, Room 323

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

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 Master of Arts in Island Studies program invites you to a thesis defence by Em Coates entitled “Now I know my ABC(D)s: Lessons in island sustainability via asset-based community development (ABCD) and autoethnography in community-based research on the Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.” Please join in person or on Teams (email brinklow@upei.ca for the Teams link). Everyone is welcome!

April 23, 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 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/