UPEI Class of 2022 Mix and Mingle
Join us as we welcome the UPEI Class of 2022 to our alumni family! This event is open to all 2022 grads and UPEI/SDU/PWC alumni.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
5:00–7:00 pm
The Fox and Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre
Refreshments, live entertainment, fun door prizes to be won, and more!
GRAND PRIZE DRAW: Two lucky grads will each win a $500 cash prize* sponsored by TD Insurance.
RSVP to Owen Shaw at oshaw@upei.ca or 902-566-0687.
Masks are required.
Puppy receives surgery that is first of its kind at the Atlantic Veterinary College
At a puppy’s first checkup, veterinarians will perform a physical examination to ensure there aren’t any signs of health problems. This allows them to flag anything that might be wrong and then refer services if needed.
UPEI researchers receive funding from provincial climate change fund
Three UPEI research projects have received funding through the Government of PEI’s Climate Change Challenge Fund.
The provincial government recently announced in a media release that 16 Island groups will receive over $1.48 million for projects designed “to help Islanders adapt to climate change, develop new technologies and opportunities, and reduce greenhouse emissions in innovative ways.”
UPEI to observe National Day of Mourning on April 28
The National Day of Mourning (or Workers’ Mourning Day) originated in Canada in 1984 and is now observed annually in over 100 countries. Marked annually on April 28, the National Day of Mourning is dedicated to remembering those who have lost their lives, or suffered injury or illness on the job or due to a work-related tragedy.
Dr. Gary Conboy selected as the 2021 recipient of the Atlantic Award of Excellence in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Care
The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Gary Conboy, professor emeritus, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Atlantic Award of Excellence in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Care. The award was presented by Dr. John VanLeeuwen, interim dean, AVC, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), on Sunday, April 24, during the Atlantic Provinces Veterinary Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
UPEI Cross Country welcomes running prospect Benji Dueck to squad
UPEI cross country head coach Mike Peterson believes he has found a diamond in the rough in running prospect Benji Dueck.
A native of Morden, Manitoba, the 18-year-old Dueck is the first runner to join the UPEI team this off season. Peterson envisions him being a key piece to a young nucleus that already includes Jack Roberts and Riley Fitzpatrick but will be without graduating senior and top runner Dan Maguire.
“Benji will have an immediate impact on our team and will add depth to our steadily improving men's side,” Peterson said.
Meet Wayne Peters, interim dean of UPEI's Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
What's your job title here at UPEI, and what do you spend most days doing?
I'm the interim dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI and also an associate professor. As the interim dean, I'm the academic head of the Faculty which means I'm responsible for the overall operation, delivery and quality of both our undergraduate and graduate degree programs. I spend almost all my time as an administrator working with faculty, staff, and students to ensure we're delivering the best experience possible for our students.
ACENET: Parallel Computing School 2022
ACENET's Parallel Computing School seeks to educate participants in common tools and techniques used in high-performance computing and scientific computation. The format is two 2-hour sessions per week over six weeks (omitting the week of May 24). In the course of 12 sessions, we will cover general parallel computing, Dask, Machine Learning, OpenMP programming, GPU accelerator programming, and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming.
ACENET Basics: Job Scheduling with Slurm
This session teaches participants how to use the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s queuing environment on the national systems, using the job scheduler Slurm. Learn how the scheduler works, how it allocates jobs, what are reasonable requests to minimize wait time, how to make the best use of the resources to be more efficient, how to get more throughput, how to get more jobs running at the same time, and how to troubleshoot and deal with crashes.
