The UPEI Food Bank has surplus bottles of red pasta sauce that they would like to give away, as the bottles are coming close to their "best before" date.

If you or someone you know would like one or more bottles of sauce, please go to the Food Bank Kiosk in the concourse of the W. A. Murphy Student Centre, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, today (Friday, July 25). 

Thank you,
UPEI Food Bank

The Department of Physics is once again hosting public viewings of the sun using our solar telescopes this summer. We invite you to join us on Friday, July 25, from 12:30-2:00 pm on the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library. There you can view one layer of the sun's atmosphere (the chromosphere) through our ground-based telescope before climbing to the observatory and viewing another layer (the photosphere) through a different telescope. You'll get to see sunspots and prominences and learn about our nearest star.

If the weather is cloudy on Friday, we will have to cancel this event, but we will be holding additional events every two weeks throughout the summer.

Check our website after 10:00 am on Friday for the status of the event.

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is interviewing two candidates for a tenure-track position. Each candidate is invited to give a public research presentation, which everyone is welcome to attend.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE 128A: Dr. Dylan Jubinville, senior research associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, will give a presentation titled "Recycling and Reprocessing of Polymer Materials: Degradation, Vitrimerization, and Circular Applications".

Thursday, July 31, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE128A: Dr. Hirushie Karunathilake, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, will give a presentation titled "Designing Life Cycle Thinking-based Solutions for Sustainable Energy Transitions”.

Troy Life & Fire Safety is conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus. As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "This is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for July and August.  Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

• July 22 and 23: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall
• July 23: Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
• July 24: K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building
• July 28-31: Performing Arts Centre and Residence
• August 4-8: AVC
• August 11-12: Bernadine Hall
• August 12: Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter's Bay 
• August 13-14: Health Sciences Building
• August 18 and 19: Steel Building 
• August 19: Blanchard Hall 
• August 25: Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre 

Date and location: July 28, 2025, 1:00 pm, Duffy Science Centre 204 

Title: "Agrochemical Inputs in Estuaries:  Pesticide and Oxygen Influences on Mobile Invertebrate Assemblages within Salinity Gradients with a Focus on Gammarus Species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) Responses"

Estuaries are ecosystems with spatially variable stressors with multiple anthropogenic impacts. In agricultural landscapes, nutrient and pesticide inputs potentially influence estuarine invertebrate assemblages. This dissertation examines how estuarine gradients, particularly salinity and eutrophication, structure the abundances of mobile invertebrates. Spatial patterns of four estuarine amphipod species are shown through comparisons of multiple collection methods. Insecticide toxicity experiments examine salinity-dependent toxicity of chlorpyrifos and imidacloprid in Gammarus lawrencianus. Field collections uncover unexpected insect species in high-salinity zones. Finally, more than agricultural or natural stressors examined, local hypoxia emerges as the immediate driver of invertebrate abundances. These findings emphasize the dynamic facets of natural gradients and agrochemical inputs that shape estuarine communities.

Everyone is welcome.

The UPEI Bookstore will be open until 6:00 pm on Friday, July 25, as we welcome back alumni for Reunion Weekend. Don't forget to ask for your alumni discount when making your purchases at the Bookstore. Shop online at http://upei.ca/bookstore. 

One of the signature events of Pride Fest ‘25 is the PEI Pride Parade, when individuals, families, friend groups, and organizations join a colourful line-up to walk through the streets of Charlottetown. The 31st annual PEI Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, July 26—UPEI, the UPEI Student Union, UPEI Alumni Association, and the AVC Pride Club are Panther Proud to participate!

All students, staff, faculty, and alumni (and family and friends!) are invited to join the celebration! 

Participants are asked to meet at 10:30 am on parade day at the Panther recruitment vehicle in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. The parade begins at 11:00 am and ends at approximately 12:00 pm.

Wear bright rainbow colours and be ready to wave and cheer! As an option, you can purchase UPEI Pride t-shirts from the UPEI Bookstore or decorate your existing UPEI wardrobe with bursts of Pride colour.  

Another idea is to attend the UPEISU’s “Pride Tie-Dye" event on Thursday, July 24, from 12 noon to 4:00 pm in the Campus Life Lounge, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. All supplies, including tie-dye kits and white t-shirts will be provided at no cost, so you can create your own custom design to wear in the Pride Parade or keep it as a fun memento. (This event is open to all students, staff, and faculty!)  

If you are unable to make it to the parade, you can express support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in other ways such as wearing bright rainbow colours and/or decorating your workspaces during the 10-day PEI Pride Festival.

Pride PEI is looking for volunteers to help with set-up and tear-down for the Pride parade on July 26 and the Rainbow Road on August 2. For information to volunteer, email Chantal at chantal.hayman@pridepei.ca

 

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Justin Read's public presentation of his MEd research titled: "Negotiating the In-Between: An Autoethnographic Exploration of a Hearing Coda’s Cultural and Linguistic Identity as a Sign Language Interpreter and Educator"

Please join us in person July 28 at 10:00 am, Memorial Hall, Room 308.

If you wish to join virtually, visit the Zoom link below.

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68836303402?pwd=K3QnTgjbbuEi2SanEoigHCzVuyIcnS.1
Meeting ID: 688 3630 3402
Passcode: 920033Hide

The Department of Physics is once again hosting public viewings of the sun using our solar telescopes this summer. We invite you to join us on Friday, July 25, from 12:30-2:00 pm on the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library. There you can view one layer of the sun's atmosphere (the chromosphere) through our ground-based telescope before climbing to the observatory and viewing another layer (the photosphere) through a different telescope. You'll get to see sunspots and prominences and learn about our nearest star.

If the weather is cloudy on Friday, we will have to cancel this event, but we will be holding additional events every two weeks throughout the summer.

Check our website after 10:00 am on Friday for the status of the event.

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Chaya Seale's public dissertation defence presentation of her PsyD research titled "Veterinarians navigating and overcoming challenges in clinical practice: A collaborative narrative inquiry."

Date and time: August 6, 2025, at 1:00 pm 
Location: AVC 219S 

As part of the UPEI Hearing Conservation Program, audiometric testing will take place on August 11, 2025. Tests take approximately ten minutes to complete. 

It is important to have your hearing tested annually, especially in workplaces with high noise levels. All UPEI employees are welcome to participate.

Please pre-register for audiometric testing by contacting HSE@upei.ca or 902-566-0901 by August 5, 2025.

Members of the campus community are invited to presentations by the two candidates shortlisted for the joint position of Coordinator of University 1000 and Coordinator of Bachelor of Integrated Studies:

Thursday, July 24, 2:30-3:30 pm, Memorial Hall 104, Prof. Brenton Dickieson

Friday, July 25, 9:00-10:00 am, Memorial Hall 104, Prof. Christina Perry

The presentation topic is “Your vision for U1000/BIS and how your experience prepares you to lead these programs.”

Troy Life & Fire Safety is conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus. As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "This is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for July and August.  Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

• July 22 and 23: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall
• July 23: Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
• July 24: K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building
• July 28-31: Performing Arts Centre and Residence
• August 4-8: AVC
• August 11-12: Bernadine Hall
• August 12: Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter's Bay 
• August 13-14: Health Sciences Building
• August 18 and 19: Steel Building 
• August 19: Blanchard Hall 
• August 25: Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre 

Date and location: July 28, 2025, 1:00 pm, Duffy Science Centre 204 

Title: "Agrochemical Inputs in Estuaries:  Pesticide and Oxygen Influences on Mobile Invertebrate Assemblages within Salinity Gradients with a Focus on Gammarus Species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) Responses"

Estuaries are ecosystems with spatially variable stressors with multiple anthropogenic impacts. In agricultural landscapes, nutrient and pesticide inputs potentially influence estuarine invertebrate assemblages. This dissertation examines how estuarine gradients, particularly salinity and eutrophication, structure the abundances of mobile invertebrates. Spatial patterns of four estuarine amphipod species are shown through comparisons of multiple collection methods. Insecticide toxicity experiments examine salinity-dependent toxicity of chlorpyrifos and imidacloprid in Gammarus lawrencianus. Field collections uncover unexpected insect species in high-salinity zones. Finally, more than agricultural or natural stressors examined, local hypoxia emerges as the immediate driver of invertebrate abundances. These findings emphasize the dynamic facets of natural gradients and agrochemical inputs that shape estuarine communities.

Everyone is welcome.

One of the signature events of Pride Fest ‘25 is the PEI Pride Parade, when individuals, families, friend groups, and organizations join a colourful line-up to walk through the streets of Charlottetown. The 31st annual PEI Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, July 26—UPEI, the UPEI Student Union, UPEI Alumni Association, and the AVC Pride Club are Panther Proud to participate!

All students, staff, faculty, and alumni (and family and friends!) are invited to join the celebration! 

Participants are asked to meet at 10:30 am on parade day at the Panther recruitment vehicle in the parking lot behind the provincial government buildings on Terry Fox Drive, Charlottetown. The parade begins at 11:00 am and ends at approximately 12:00 pm.

Wear bright rainbow colours and be ready to wave and cheer! As an option, you can purchase UPEI Pride t-shirts from the UPEI Bookstore or decorate your existing UPEI wardrobe with bursts of Pride colour.  

Another idea is to attend the UPEISU’s “Pride Tie-Dye" event on Thursday, July 24, from 12 noon to 4:00 pm in the Campus Life Lounge, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. All supplies, including tie-dye kits and white t-shirts will be provided at no cost, so you can create your own custom design to wear in the Pride Parade or keep it as a fun memento. (This event is open to all students, staff, and faculty!)  

If you are unable to make it to the parade, you can express support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in other ways such as wearing bright rainbow colours and/or decorating your workspaces during the 10-day PEI Pride Festival.

Pride PEI is looking for volunteers to help with set-up and tear-down for the Pride parade on July 26 and the Rainbow Road on August 2. For information to volunteer, email Chantal at chantal.hayman@pridepei.ca

 

On Tuesday, July 29, the Robertson Library’s catalogue will be unavailable to allow for a software upgrade. During the upgrade you can continue to search the library’s holdings using OneSearch and checkout items at the Service Desk.

To learn more visit Catalogue unavailable Tuesday, July 29.

If you have questions please send them to Library Feedback.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Justin Read's public presentation of his MEd research titled: "Negotiating the In-Between: An Autoethnographic Exploration of a Hearing Coda’s Cultural and Linguistic Identity as a Sign Language Interpreter and Educator"

Please join us in person July 28 at 10:00 am, Memorial Hall, Room 308.

If you wish to join virtually, visit the Zoom link below.

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68836303402?pwd=K3QnTgjbbuEi2SanEoigHCzVuyIcnS.1
Meeting ID: 688 3630 3402
Passcode: 920033Hide

Members of the campus community are invited to presentations by the two candidates shortlisted for the joint position of Coordinator of University 1000 and Coordinator of Bachelor of Integrated Studies:

Thursday, July 24, 2:30-3:30 pm, Memorial Hall 104, Prof. Brenton Dickieson

Friday, July 25, 9:00-10:00 am, Memorial Hall 104, Prof. Christina Perry

The presentation topic is “Your vision for U1000/BIS and how your experience prepares you to lead these programs.”

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is interviewing two candidates for a tenure-track position. Each candidate is invited to give a public research presentation, which everyone is welcome to attend.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE 128A: Dr. Dylan Jubinville, senior research associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, will give a presentation titled "Recycling and Reprocessing of Polymer Materials: Degradation, Vitrimerization, and Circular Applications".

Thursday, July 31, 2025, 9:00 AM, FSDE128A: Dr. Hirushie Karunathilake, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, will give a presentation titled "Designing Life Cycle Thinking-based Solutions for Sustainable Energy Transitions”.

Troy Life & Fire Safety is conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus. As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "This is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for July and August.  Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

• July 22 and 23: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall
• July 23: Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
• July 24: K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building
• July 28-31: Performing Arts Centre and Residence
• August 4-8: AVC
• August 11-12: Bernadine Hall
• August 12: Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter's Bay 
• August 13-14: Health Sciences Building
• August 18 and 19: Steel Building 
• August 19: Blanchard Hall 
• August 25: Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre