Having houseplants is a great form of self-care and encouragement. Stop by McMillan Hall in the Student Union building to paint a pot and plant a seed to add a touch of greenery to your living space. View the full UPEI Mental Health Week 2019 schedule

The event will feature a safe-listening and non-judgemental environment where various students, staff and faculty members will share their stories and encounters with mental illness. These stories will provide us with an opportunity to learn, care, and be inspired to help ourselves and those around us living with mental illnesses, and remind us all, that relationships matter. Pub grub, kindly provided by the UPEI Student Union.  All are welcome to attend! View the full UPEI Mental Health Week 2019 schedule

Dr. Sam Kolahgar, Finance Candidate, Faculty of Business will give a public presentation on Wednesday, January 23, at 10 am in MCDH room 329. Topic: Corporate Communications as a Self-governing Mechanism, Evident From Substitution/Complementary Effect All are welcome to attend

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by Timothy McRoberts. Timothy will be defending his dissertation titled "Applying an Experiential Learning cycle to Inform a Deeper Understanding of Teaching and Learning in a Changing Canadian community College." All are welcome to attend Timothy's public presentation, taking place Friday January 25, 2019 from 2:30 - 3:00 pm in Memorial Hall 417.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee and the Faculty of Sustainable Design Egnineering invite the campus community to a seminar by Ahmad Bhatti (PhD-Environmental Sciences) entitled "Climate change impact assessment and mitigation strategies for sustainable water and agriculture management in PEI".  Everyone is welcome.

Speaker: Anna Kuznetsova, Biomedical Sciences Title: The role of fermentation temperature on natural product biosynthesis in streptomycetes

Starting in Fall 2019, UPEI’s Island Studies department will be offering three versions of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program. In addition to the thesis degree option, we will be offering two specializations in the new course and work-study-based version of the program; one in Island Tourism, and another in Sustainable Island Communities.  Scholarships and bursaries are available. To learn more about these innovative degrees, join us on Tuesday, January 29th, from 3:00 to 4:00pm or from 6:00 to 7:00pm, in Rm. 237 of the Don and Marion McDougall Hall. For more information, contact Jim Randall, the Program Coordinator, at mais@upei.ca or 902-620-5013.  

Starting in Fall 2019, UPEI’s Island Studies department will be offering three versions of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program. In addition to the thesis degree option, we will be offering two specializations in the new course and work-study-based version of the program; one in Island Tourism, and another in Sustainable Island Communities.  Scholarships and bursaries are available. To learn more about these innovative degrees, join us on Tuesday, January 29th, from 3:00 to 4:00pm or from 6:00 to 7:00pm, in Rm. 237 of the Don and Marion McDougall Hall. For more information, contact Jim Randall, the Program Coordinator, at mais@upei.ca or 902-620-5013.

Two presentations will be made:  Brittany Handke will be speaking on " "Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent MOFs made with Terephthalic Acid and 2-Hydroxyterephthalic acid." This will be an uUpdate on the study and optimization of synthetic methods to create fluorescent MOF structures and the comparison of fluorescence and chemical structure between frameworks made with terephthalic acid versus 2-hydroxyterephtalic acid using various characterization techniques.  Also presenting will be Maysun Benaaisha on the "Nanocomposites based on Dendrimers and layered Molybdenum Disulfide.:  All are welcome to attend.

This winter we will be reading and discussing "Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island" (2016). Our discussions will probe into past and present environmental changes on PEI, and how and why the Islanders are particularly sensitive to environmental issues and enmeshed in their landscape in a way that is unique among Canadians. During our second discussion, we will talk about energy transitions in PEI history and will focus on the chapter by Kathleen Stuart: “Two centuries of energy on Prince Edward Island.” Those interested in more information about the province’s energy policies in the 1973-1990 period can also read the book by Alan MacEachern "The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable" (2003). We are thrilled that the authors and editors of these books, Ms. Kathleen Stuart, Dr. Alan MacEachern, and Dr. Josh MacFadyen, will join our discussion.  Date and time: February 15, 2019 at 4pm Place: The Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, UPEI campus. All are welcome! "Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island" and "The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable" are available at the UPEI library. The former is available as an e-book at https://library.upei.ca/ and the first chapter of the latter book is available on library reserves as a digital file.  If have any questions/suggestions, please feel free to contact Dr. Nino Antadze at nantadze@upei.ca