Work is expected to start Wednesday July 16, 2025, on the retaining wall outside of Bill and Denise Andrew Hall. This area includes the staircase outside of Andrew Hall that leads to K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre. During construction, the flow of traffic near KCI, the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, and the Daycare will not be changed; however, the lane nearest Andrew Hall will be reduced in width. Please exercise caution while driving through this area.

Construction is scheduled to finish by the end of August.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to get in touch with the Facilities Management – Capital Projects office at fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca.

All are invited to attend Aaron Prosper's defense of his Master of Applied Health Services dissertation titled “A Comprehensive Appraisal of the Applications of Two-Eyed Seeing in Health Services Research: An Integrative Review”.

Date and Time: July 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 226

Join Dr. Stacey MacKinnon and Matt Rainnie for Toast2Peace in support of the Mattie Stepanek Peace Foundation mattiespeacefoundation.org, Thursday July 17, from 6-9 pm at the Village Green Nanobrewery in Cornwall. There will be a fundraising bbq, entertainment, activities for kids, and an opportunity to contribute to a global peace mosaic. This event will be simulcast with concurrent celebrations in Maryland, Toronto, New York, California, Mexico, and the UK including several special guests! Peace projects from UPEI students will also be featured. Join us as we “Choose Peace”!

An exciting opportunity to volunteer with Academics Without Borders! 

AWB-USF is seeking a volunteer for a project on strengthening capacity in competency based curriculum at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, in Kakamega, Kenya. More complete information and application details found HERE . This is a terrific opportunity especially for a faculty member (working or retired) with a PhD in Education and experience in curriculum development and pedagogy. The deadline for applications is August 11, 2025, with the work being carried out both remotely and in person, until May 2026. For more information about AWB-USF, visit the website https://www.awb-usf.org/. (And if you scroll through a few pages you'll see pictures of some folks who used to work in Student Affairs, who went to Namibia on a volunteer project many years ago). Feel free also to contact Board member Ann Braithwaite at abraithwaite@upei.ca, or AWB-USF Associate Executive Director - Projects & Network, Corrie Young, at cyoung@awb-usf.org.

On Wednesday, July 16, ITSS will conduct a short maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

Epjila’si, Kulahsihkulpa, Welcome! 

The Association of Atlantic Universities Committee on Faculty Development is pleased to partner with the University of New Brunswick to host the 2025 Annual Atlantic Universities' Teaching Showcase on the unsurrendered and unceded traditional lands of the Wolastoqiyik peoples, in beautiful Fredericton. The 2025 AAU Teaching Showcase will take place in person on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus. This year's theme of Reimagining Higher Education calls on educators, scholars, and learners to rethink the purposes, practices, and possibilities of teaching and learning. Full details about the theme and guidelines for submitting a proposal are available in this document.   

Proposal Deadline: August 25, 2025 

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Caroline Chamandy's defense of her PsyD dissertation titled “As much as it was helpful, it didn't really matter: Parents Experiences of Psychoeducational Assessment in Atlantic Canada”.

Date and Time: July 17, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Location: Memorial Hall, Room 104

Join Dr. Stacey MacKinnon and Matt Rainnie for Toast2Peace in support of the Mattie Stepanek Peace Foundation mattiespeacefoundation.org, Thursday July 17, from 6-9 pm at the Village Green Nanobrewery in Cornwall. There will be a fundraising bbq, entertainment, activities for kids, and an opportunity to contribute to a global peace mosaic. This event will be simulcast with concurrent celebrations in Maryland, Toronto, New York, California, Mexico, and the UK including several special guests! Peace projects from UPEI students will also be featured. Join us as we “Choose Peace”!

An exciting opportunity to volunteer with Academics Without Borders! 

AWB-USF is seeking a volunteer for a project on strengthening capacity in competency based curriculum at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, in Kakamega, Kenya. More complete information and application details found HERE . This is a terrific opportunity especially for a faculty member (working or retired) with a PhD in Education and experience in curriculum development and pedagogy. The deadline for applications is August 11, 2025, with the work being carried out both remotely and in person, until May 2026. For more information about AWB-USF, visit the website https://www.awb-usf.org/. (And if you scroll through a few pages you'll see pictures of some folks who used to work in Student Affairs, who went to Namibia on a volunteer project many years ago). Feel free also to contact Board member Ann Braithwaite at abraithwaite@upei.ca, or AWB-USF Associate Executive Director - Projects & Network, Corrie Young, at cyoung@awb-usf.org.

On Wednesday, July 16, ITSS will conduct a short maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

New in IslandScholar profile is an option for Scholars to indicate if they are or are not seeking graduate-level research students/trainees as research supervisors.

If you hold an IslandScholar profile, and are interested in updating that IslandScholar profile to indicate if you currently are or are not seeking research graduate students/trainees, read on for details on how.

Robertson Library and Grad Studies have developed a short primer on how to submit a request to add this to your IslandScholar profile, including preview views on how each selected status would display. Status options span: do not display (current default), no (not seeking student/trainees), and yes with the options for masters-level only, doctoral-level only, or both masters & doctoral level.  

Primer: IslandScholar - Seeking Students Profile Option

Note - Requests for IslandScholar profile updates are completed manually, expect 2-3 business days before a change is implemented to a Scholar profile.

For questions about updating this option of the IslandScholar profile, contact: Keri McCaffrey, One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian at knmccaffrey@upei.ca

An exciting opportunity to volunteer with Academics Without Borders! 

AWB-USF is seeking a volunteer for a project on strengthening capacity in competency based curriculum at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, in Kakamega, Kenya. More complete information and application details found HERE . This is a terrific opportunity especially for a faculty member (working or retired) with a PhD in Education and experience in curriculum development and pedagogy. The deadline for applications is August 11, 2025, with the work being carried out both remotely and in person, until May 2026. For more information about AWB-USF, visit the website https://www.awb-usf.org/. (And if you scroll through a few pages you'll see pictures of some folks who used to work in Student Affairs, who went to Namibia on a volunteer project many years ago). Feel free also to contact Board member Ann Braithwaite at abraithwaite@upei.ca, or AWB-USF Associate Executive Director - Projects & Network, Corrie Young, at cyoung@awb-usf.org.

On Wednesday, July 16, ITSS will conduct a short maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

To better support the campus community, ITSS has updated how support requests are submitted and handled. These changes help ensure tickets are created and triaged properly, with critical issues prioritized.

IT Forms
All equipment, access, and other IT forms can now be accessed via go.upei.ca/itforms 

Submit Requests via Online Form
All IT help and service requests should now be submitted through our new ticket form go.upei.ca/itrequest
This sends your request directly to our Help Desk system for faster triage.

Email and Phone Use Changes
We are moving away from using the helpdesk email and phone as the main contact methods for general issues.

• The helpdesk email inbox will still be checked throughout the day, but it is no longer the primary way to request support and should not be used for urgent issues.
• The ITSS phone number is now for live critical issues only. We will do our best to answer, but there may be times when all agents are assisting others. 
  • Please note: If your issue is not critical, you will be asked to submit a ticket through the online form.

If you are experiencing a live critical issue and cannot reach anyone by phone, you may escalate to Deryl Gallant, Manager of ITSS Operations.

We appreciate your understanding as we adapt to current staffing realities and continue working to provide the best possible service to the campus.

If you have questions or feedback, please contact Deryl Gallant, Manager of ITSS Operations. 

Bring your craft project (or art, or writing, or other work-in-progress) to Robertson Library on Mondays between 12:00 and 1:00 pm. Show off your skills, ask for advice, see what others are working on, and make some progress in community!

All are welcome, including employees, students, and visitors; feel free to bring your lunch as well. We will meet in the comfortable seating area near the Library stairs. Some basic supplies will be available for those who want to drop in without an ongoing project.

Contact Katelyn Browne (krbrowne@upei.ca) with any questions.

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Caroline Chamandy's defense of her PsyD dissertation titled “As much as it was helpful, it didn't really matter: Parents Experiences of Psychoeducational Assessment in Atlantic Canada”.

Date and Time: July 17, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Location: Memorial Hall, Room 104

On Wednesday, July 16, ITSS will conduct a short maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please fill out our new Help Form: https://go.upei.ca/itrequest

New in IslandScholar profile is an option for Scholars to indicate if they are or are not seeking graduate-level research students/trainees as research supervisors.

If you hold an IslandScholar profile, and are interested in updating that IslandScholar profile to indicate if you currently are or are not seeking research graduate students/trainees, read on for details on how.

Robertson Library and Grad Studies have developed a short primer on how to submit a request to add this to your IslandScholar profile, including preview views on how each selected status would display. Status options span: do not display (current default), no (not seeking student/trainees), and yes with the options for masters-level only, doctoral-level only, or both masters & doctoral level.  

Primer: IslandScholar - Seeking Students Profile Option

Note - Requests for IslandScholar profile updates are completed manually, expect 2-3 business days before a change is implemented to a Scholar profile.

For questions about updating this option of the IslandScholar profile, contact: Keri McCaffrey, One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian at knmccaffrey@upei.ca

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 11, 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.

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada and beyond are attending the AGE-WELL Summer Institute, “Co-Creating Possibilities: Supportive Homes & Communities,” an intensive, one-week learning experience, at UPEI from July 7 to 11.

As part of the institute, there will be a pitch competition on July 11, from 11 am to 12 noon, in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Those who wish to attend are asked to register here.

Teams of participants will apply what they have learned by devising technology-based solutions that address key challenges identified by Veterans Affairs Canada; solutions will enable aging in place, support caregivers, and decrease social isolation. Each team will work with older adults and other stakeholders to develop an innovation and then will pitch it to a panel of judges at the competition. The teams have the opportunity to win cash prizes and receive additional in-kind support to further develop their innovations.

AGE-WELL is Canada’s technology and aging network. This is the first time that the AGE-WELL Summer Institute has taken place in UPEI.