This annual recital, featuring Department of Music faculty members, is popular among students and public alike, and includes a varied selection of repertoire performed by Sung Ha Shin-Bouey (soprano), Dale Sorensen (trombone), Nicole Strum (saxophone), Magdalena von Eccher (piano), Stephen Bouey (bass baritone), Ryan Drew (percussion), Bob Nicholson (tuba), Morgan Saulnier (flute), Amy Simon (bass clarinet), and a jazz combo with Shawn Doiron (drums), Adam Hill (bass), Mark Parsons (trumpet), and Ian Toms (guitar).

Accessible parking is available, and the theatre has an accessible entrance via elevator. Tickets are available in advance at upei.universitytickets.com or by cash at the door.

Join us to celebrate student ingenuity at the inaugural Interdisciplinary Panther Series on Friday, November 7, starting at 3 pm, in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre!

The first competition in this series will focus on sexual violence prevention in work-integrated learning settings, challenging students to develop innovative and actionable solutions that promote education, prevention, and community support. This case is sponsored by the Interministerial Women’s Secretariat.

We invite students, faculty, staff, and industry partners to attend the final presentations, network, and see the awards ceremony:

• 3:00–5:00 pm: Witness innovation. Watch five interdisciplinary student teams present their solutions to a real-world case provided by an external sponsor.
• 5:00–6:00 pm: Connect and collaborate. Enjoy food and networking with UPEI leadership, faculty, students, and key industry leaders
• 6:00–7:00 pm: Celebrate success. Stay for the awards ceremony to find out which team takes home the top prize of $2,500!

Don't miss this opportunity to engage with UPEI's next generation of problem-solvers. Your attendance offers invaluable support and connection for our competing students.

Visit https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-interdisciplinary-panther-series-case-1-tickets-1748597806109 to register to attend. For information, email experientialed@upei.ca

"A Wondrous Thing Happened on the Way to Dystopia"

Dr. Richard Lemm is retiring this year, and the UPEI English Department is delighted to host his “Last Lecture.” 

Richard's more than three-decade career here has gone so far beyond his teaching of creative writing, environmental literature, and Canadian Literature in the University classroom: to his own creative works, to his mentoring of generations of new Island writers, and to his support for visiting writers and for the creative life of the Island generally. Come help us celebrate this truly wondrous career!

All graduate students are welcome to come out for Coffee and Conversation at the Fox & Crow on Wednesday, November 12 from 3:00-4:00 pm. The conversation will focus on sharing our research, interests, and learning moments.  

If you cannot join in-person, connect online. We are hosting an online Grad Student Hour on November 17 from 1:30-2:30 pm. The discussion at the online session will be about finding the balance of juggling work, study, and life. A Teams link is on the poster below.

See our POSTER for more information. 

Grad Student Hour brings graduate students together to discuss their experiences and challenges in grad studies, helping to build community through shared stories and support. It is hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Office of Student Culture and Community Standards. 

The Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Seminar Series invites the campus community to a presentation by Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust (Department of Pathology and Microbiology, AVC) entitled "Navigating social norms and animal welfare". 

The seminar will be held in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204 on Friday, November 7 from 12:30-1:20 pm. 

Everyone is welcome.   

We are excited to invite UPEI alumni and friends back to Mill River Resort for the third annual outdoor winter family fun day on Saturday, January 24, 2026.

Our friends at Mill River Resort are offering UPEI Alumni a 20% discount on individual and family outdoor activity day passes and equipment rentals. Your pass enables you to enjoy all the outdoor activities at Mill River and includes tube, snowshoe, and cross-country ski rentals. Guests must bring their own skates. Discounted passes can be purchased from the Pro Shop beginning at 9:00 am or when you arrive at the resort.

Join us for an end-of-day campfire with complimentary s'mores, hot chocolate and an alumni gift beginning at 3:00 pm.

If you would like to make it a weekend getaway, Mill River is offering standard rooms (two queen beds) for just $195+ tax. This is $74 off regular rates, available for the nights of January 23 and 24 only. To take advantage of this special rate, please call Mill River Resort directly at 1-844-375-3555 and mention that you are part of the UPEI alumni group. This rate is based on room availability. Please book your room by Sunday, December 14, 2025. 

Please use this form to let us know that you're coming - so we can order an appropriate amount of hot chocolate and s'mores and to keep you informed if anything changes. 

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our Pitching Workshop.This workshop will provide tools, tips, and tricks to effectively communicate your business idea and keep your audience engaged. This workshop will be structured for Pitch Battles pitches specifically, but is useful to anyone looking to improve their public speaking and presentation skills! Refreshments provided!

This session is open to public. Sign up here!

Join us on November 13, 2025 at 12:30 pm for a flag raising ceremony and words by community members for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025. We are honoured to have representatives from local non-profit, grassroot organizations, whose efforts continue to make Epekwitk a more dignified, equitable and joyous place for 2 Spirit and Gender Diverse people to live and thrive.  

Location: The ceremony will take place on campus at the three flag poles facing University Avenue

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual vigil to grieve and pay respects to 2 Spirit and gender diverse people who were murdered as an outcome of transphobia. To learn more about TDOR visit https://glaad.org/tdor/. For more activities during Trans Awareness Week visit the following sites:

• @peersalliance - www.peersalliance.ca
• @nativecouncilpe - www.ncpei.com
• @peitransnetwork - www.peitn.com

Additional Flag Raisings by Community Organizations:

• Charlottetown - November 13 10:00 a.m. Joe Ghiz park
• Summerside - November 14 11 a.m. City Hall
• Stratford - November 17 11 a.m. Town Hall

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Joshua Le Clairs’s public dissertation defense presentation of his PsyD research titled: 

“Sexual Dis-Orientation: A Lacanian Critique of Current Perspectives on Sexuality in Clinical Practice”.

Date and Time: November 11, 2025 at 10:00 am 
Location: Memorial Hall, Room 104

Visiting scholar Dr. Dann Downes, Professor of Information and Communication Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, presents a public lecture: "The first decades of the 21st century saw a burgeoning subculture of do it yourself (DIY) electronic music making and instrument building based in part on the availability of cheap electronic components and increased information through the internet. This paper will trace the development of one artifact of the period – the “benjolin” created by dutch engineer Rob Hordijk to demonstrate how this cultural period raises interesting questions about intellectual property, the materiality of technology and communication and the practice of media archeology.

November 12, 11:30 am

SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge Room 201

The Faculty of Arts ConneXions series continues this week with the second of this semester's presentations. This semester, the series is focused on hearing more about the "provocative" questions that motivate faculty members in their teaching and / or scholarly work. This Friday, we continue to hear from some of our newest colleagues, as they explore what inspires their academic work. Dr. Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, will address the question "How can we measure human–animal ties, and why is this worth doing?" and Dr. Cinthya Guzman will look at "What is the place of boredom in our everyday lives?” Friday, November 7, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 420. Everyone welcome! 

This is a reminder that the UPEI Biosafety Program requires that all principal investigators confirm the security and complete inventory of all biohazardous materials being used or stored. This confirmation is due in November of each year.  

Inventory records must be kept up to date throughout the year. This is required not just by the UPEI Biosafety program but also by our federal regulator agencies, the CFIA and the PHAC. Any inventory discrepancies noted during an annual lab inspection may lead to an in-depth inventory audit by the Biosafety Committee. Please ensure your inventory is up to date throughout the year, including prior to completing the steps listed below.

To confirm your inventory is up to date, take the following steps:

1. Access your inventory at http://biosafety.vre3.upei.ca.  Remember to ignore the prominent "Access Denied" that appears on your screen. Just click on "Log in" at the top of the screen, in the grey bar.
2. Log in 
3. Click Edit 
4. Scroll down this page until you see the November 2025 box and enter the date.
5. Hit Save! Task completed. 

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Please contact Rhoda Speare (rspeare@upei.ca or ext. 5071) if you have any questions.

The Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Seminar Series invites the campus community to a presentation by Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust (Department of Pathology and Microbiology, AVC) entitled "Navigating social norms and animal welfare". 

The seminar will be held in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204 on Friday, November 7 from 12:30-1:20 pm. 

Everyone is welcome.   

To kick off our community engagement process for the 2026–2027 operating budget, the senior executive team invites you to join us at this Thursday’s town hall to share your ideas and ask questions. Tim Walker, Vice-President, Administration and Finance, will outline the budget process to date and the timeline through to March 2026, when UPEI intends to seek Board approval for the budget.

President’s Town Hall: UPEI Budget Planning for the 2026–2027 Fiscal Year
Thursday, November 6, 2025 – 1:30 pm
Performing Arts Centre and Residence Amphitheatre, PAC 121S

If you are unable to participate in person, you are welcome to join us virtually at this Teams Town Hall link.

The UPEI Scholarships and Awards Office has extended the deadline to apply for the 2025 MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing to November 10, 2025.

Applications for all categories—“Coursework,” “Faculty and Staff,” “UPEI Writing Centre,” and “Community,”—should be submitted electronically to scholarships@upei.ca by the deadline date. 

Criteria and application forms for the four prize categories can be found through the links below. Please note that there are a number of awards available in each category.

• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Coursework)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Faculty and Staff)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster Centre for Teaching and Learning)
• MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community)

The awards will be presented at a ceremony on December 5. For more information, please contact scholarships@upei.ca.

The UPEI Department of Philosophy has rented Tivoli Cinema, 155 Kent Street, Charlottetown, for a private showing of Edward Yang’s film, "Yi Yi (A One and a Two)," on Friday, November 7, at 1:00 pm. The showing is open to all students, staff, and faculty at UPEI. Please contact Dr. Max Schaefer at mschaefer@upei.ca for further details on how to claim a seat.

Please see the following reviews and trailers for more information about the movie: 

“When it’s over, you’ll wish it weren’t. You will also feel better about being alive. Do yourself a favour, don't miss this one!” - John Leonard

“The extraordinary, internationally embraced "Yi Yi," directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the twenty-first century”-The Criterion Collection

4K Restoration Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxgrzNFwyqY

Original Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCs_jbdHwg

As part of our ongoing 50th Anniversary observances, the Robertson Library is pleased to celebrate the centrepiece of our University Archives and Special Collections, the Prince Edward Island Collection, with a guest lecture from The Reverend Edward Rix, one of the foremost independent collectors of Island books and ephemera. A proud Islander, with deep family roots in West Prince, Father Rix studied at the University of King’s College in Halifax, the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College, and Dalhousie University in Halifax. It was during his university days that he began to turn his passion for books into a successful venture as an independent bookseller and collector, learning from some of Canada’s leading rare and antiquarian book dealers. Since 2001, he has served as Priest in Charge of the Parish of All Saints Episcopal Church in Wynnewood, a western suburb of Philadelphia, where he has continued to build a remarkable personal library, including some 2000 titles relating to Prince Edward Island, with exemplary collections of the works of Basil King and Milton Acorn as particular highlights.

Please join us at the Library on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm to hear Father Rix share highlights from his PEI collecting adventures, and how the careers of many Island authors in the 1800s and 1900s underscored the observation of Island essayist Sir Andrew Macphail — another writer well-represented in Rix’s collection — that our Province’s chief export for many years was, “brains.” Special selections from his library and from our own PEI Collection will be displayed at the talk. All are welcome, and admission is free, but donations to the ongoing Love Our Library fundraising campaign will be gratefully received. Light refreshments will be served.

Title of the Thesis:  "Assessing Coastal Erosion Under Climate Change:  A Case Study of Prince Edward Island"

Coastal erosion, exacerbated by climate change, threatens global communities. Traditional vulnerability assessments often underestimate climate-induced dynamic oceanic processes. This research addresses this gap by developing a process-based framework to quantify the role of extreme waves, using Prince Edward Island's vulnerable coastline as a case study. Analysis of Hurricane Fiona (2022) demonstrated the capacity of single storms to cause catastrophic land loss far exceeding long-term averages. Furthermore, correlation with multi-decadal wave data confirmed that the frequency of extreme wave events instead of average wave heights is the primary erosion driver. Future climate projections under intensified scenarios reveal a non-linear relationship, where increased extreme storm disproportionately amplifies wave heights and the corresponding potential coastline retreat, while critically shortening recovery periods. This work advocates a paradigm shift toward dynamic, process-based vulnerability assessments to guide mitigation and enhance coastal resilience globally.

November 7 at 1:30 pm in AVC 286A

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our Pitching Workshop.This workshop will provide tools, tips, and tricks to effectively communicate your business idea and keep your audience engaged. This workshop will be structured for Pitch Battles pitches specifically, but is useful to anyone looking to improve their public speaking and presentation skills! Refreshments provided!

This session is open to public. Sign up here!

Thanks to the fantastic response to the Recognizing Remarkable Colleagues program, submissions are being shared the following month, spread over several editions of the weekly e-newsletter. For example, you will see the September submissions appear in October issues.  

This initiative is a great way to share words of appreciation for UPEI faculty and staff across campus. Let’s celebrate the big and small wins that make our campus shine! 

Please submit your form(s) by the last Friday of each month (the next deadline is November 28, 2025). Human Resources will collect the submissions and work with UPEI Communications to feature them in the Campus Connector. 

How to submit:  Complete this short form: https://forms.office.com/r/766cg9JsT6   
You’ll be asked to share:  

• Who are you recognizing? (Name and department/faculty)  
• Why are you recognizing them? (Briefly describe what they did or the impact they made)  
• Your name   

You can also visit the Recognizing Remarkable Colleagues SharePoint page to view all past issues. 

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at hrengage@upei.ca.