Campus Notices
Date: Sunday, November 22, 5 pm
Where: Jack Blanchard Hall, 3 Pond St., Charlottetown
Featuring Chef Emily Wells from The Mill in New Glassgow
$30 per person. For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Carolyn Francis at 902-894-2813 or njtoombs@upei.ca
President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz cordially invites everyone to attend the sixteenth annual Recognition of Founders Ceremony including a very special event, The Presidents’ Panel:The Past Inspiring UPEI’s Future (moderated by Bruce Rainnie).
Please join us at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, to honour and be inspired by the esteemed 2015 Founders:
Dr. Ronald J. Baker
Dr. Peter P. M. Meincke
Dr. C. W. J. ‘Willie’ Eliot (posthumously)
Dr. Elizabeth R. Epperly
Hon. H. Wade MacLauchlan
An inspiring announcement will also be made during this event.
The Honourable Eugene F. Whelan Green Hat Award will be awarded to the Christofor Foundation at 2:00 pm at The McCain Foundation Learning Commons at the Atlantic Veterinary College.
All are welcome!
Parking available at MacLauchlan Arena and CARI parking lots. RSVP by September 30 to Sarah Hastelow at shastelow@upei.ca or 902-566-0615
The UPEI School of Business, in partnership with the International Relations Office, is holding a household goods and winter clothing drive and requests your donations of gently-used items. The donations that the School collects will be distributed to UPEI international students at a special event on Friday, October 2 at 2 pm, in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 246.
Please donate your gently used items:
1. during the week (September 29-October 2) by contacting the School of Business main office (Debbie Graham, dgraham@upei.ca 902-566-0564, or Brenda MacLean, blmaclean@upei.ca 902-566-0626), or
2. on October 2, at MCDH 246 between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm.
Thank you for your support!
The UPEI School of Business, in partnership with the International Relations Office, is holding a household goods and winter clothing drive and requests your donations of gently-used items. The donations that the School collects will be distributed to UPEI international students at a special event on Friday, October 2 at 2 pm, in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 246.
Please donate your gently used items:
1. during the week (September 29-October 2) by contacting the School of Business main office (Debbie Graham, dgraham@upei.ca 902-566-0564, or Brenda MacLean, blmaclean@upei.ca 902-566-0626), or
2. on October 2, at MCDH 246 between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm.
Thank you for your support!
Members of the campus community are invited to join President Alaa Abd-El-Aziz,CIO Dana Sanderson, and Ellucian representatives at a project kick-off event on Tuesday, September 29 at 11:00 am in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The event will shed some "light" on the cross-campus, transformative project formerly known as ERP. We'll announce the "Name that Project" winner and reveal the new project name for the initiative that deals with the changing and developing of many UPEI processes and the supporting technology that interacts with them. Coffee, cake, and conversation will be served! All are welcome.
The public presentation by Professor Allen Ross, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPath, FACTM, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia previously scheduled for Thursday, October 1 has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience.
On Friday, October 2, 2015, the PEI Quakers in cooperation with the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre will sponsor “A Simple Meal: So That Others Might Eat.” This free meal is open to UPEI university students, faculty and staff, with a suggested donation of $5-10, payable in either cash or canned foods. All foods and/or funds collected will be donated to the UPEI Food Bank.
The meal will take place at the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre from 12 noon to 2:00 pm. The menu will consist of Cuban beans & rice, a salad, beverage and fruit.
During the meal, at 1:00 PM, Ann Wheatley, a founding member and current co-chair of the PEI Food Security Network will speak on the topic of food security and how it impacts Islanders. Ms. Wheatley is also a member of Cooper Institute, where she works on projects related to livable income, inclusion and food sovereignty. Much of her work involves engaging with community, and helping to ensure that all people have a chance to make their voices heard in agency and governmental decisions and policy-making that impact our lives.
The next presentation in the Human Biology and Environmental Sciences seminar series, hosted by the UPEI Biology Department, will take place on Friday, October 2, 2015 at 12:30 pm in the Duffy Science Centre, Room 204. Mark Leggott, Robertson Library will present: “Open Data, VREs and RDMPs: The brave new world of open science.” All are welcome!
On Friday, October 2, 2015, the PEI Quakers in cooperation with the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre will sponsor “A Simple Meal: So That Others Might Eat.” This free meal is open to UPEI university students, faculty and staff, with a suggested donation of $5-10, payable in either cash or canned foods. All foods and/or funds collected will be donated to the UPEI Food Bank.
The meal will take place at the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre from 12 noon to 2:00 pm. The menu will consist of Cuban beans & rice, a salad, beverage and fruit.
During the meal, at 1:00 PM, Ann Wheatley, a founding member and current co-chair of the PEI Food Security Network will speak on the topic of food security and how it impacts Islanders. Ms. Wheatley is also a member of Cooper Institute, where she works on projects related to livable income, inclusion and food sovereignty. Much of her work involves engaging with community, and helping to ensure that all people have a chance to make their voices heard in agency and governmental decisions and policy-making that impact our lives.
The International Relations Office would like to welcome Richelle Greathouse to the team. Richelle is the new Homestay and International Programs Assistant. With this new position, all "Homestay" requests from international students will now be handled in-house. You can find Richelle in room 226 of the International Relations Office, or reach her via phone or email at 902-894-2850, rgreathouse@upei.ca
Kings County Construction was unable to complete all of the work for the installation of the new catch basin between Kelley Memorial Building and Don and Marion McDougall Hall within the time previously indicated.
With Founders Day this coming Friday and rain anticipated during the week, we have asked them to hold off on the remaining work until next Monday, October 5. The remaining work will take approximately four days to complete with curing, therefore the walkway will be closed during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.
Dr. Amer Ebied, Malvern Instruments, will present a seminar on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 12:30 pm. Dr. Ebied’s presentation is entitled “Light Scattering and SEC/GPC Technologies”. The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212. (Please note that a previous Campus Notice indicated the incorrect speaker. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.)
Are you planning to apply to Dalhousie Medical School? We invite you to attend a presentation: "Admission requirements for the Faculty of Medicine" on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm at the Atlantic Veterinary College - 287N. All prospective applicants are welcome to attend.
Jo Cullen, MEd, CCC
Career Counsellor
Office of Skills Development and Learning
