President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites you and a guest to a special 50th Anniversary Event. Join together with alumni and friends of UPEI and celebrate 50 years of People, Excellence, and Impact. Tide and Boar Gastropub 700 Main Street Moncton, NB  E1C 1E4May 2, 2019 5:00–7:00 pm Please RSVP by to Anthony at adgill@upei.ca or call 902-566-0761

UPEI's Bachelor of Integrated Studies (BIS) program is a 90-credit degree designed to accommodate the personal, educational, and career goals of adult students, most of whom already possess diverse learning and who study part-time. Come find out more about the program! You can: apply to the Bachelor of Integrated Studies receive onsite conditional acceptance to UPEI have your records evaluated for transfer credit (e.g., previously earned university or college courses) receive program and course advising If you have previously earned UPEI credit, please email your UPEI student number by Wednesday, May 8, 6:00 pm to bis@upei.ca. For non-UPEI credits, please bring a hard copy of your official or unofficial transcripts. Complete a UPEI account and register today!

AVC will be celebrating the Class of 2019 as they leave AVC and enter the profession of veterinary medicine. Their White Coat Ceremony takes place on Friday, May 10 at 4:30 pm in the Gray Palmer Pope rooms at the PEI Convention Centre/Delta Hotel. For those unable to attend, the Ceremony will be live-streamed at this link, starting at 4:30 pm.

The monthly UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held Friday May 10, 2019 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" conference room of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All faculty, staff and students with an interest in neuroscience research are very welcome so wake up your brain and spend an hour with some like-minded friends and colleagues. For a copy of the papers to be discussed please contact Thomy Nilsson (nilsson@upei.ca) or Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

Venture for Canada is coming to PEI to host our next Innovation Jam! Our Innovation Jam is a unique mashup of a hackathon, case competition and training event with cash prizes up for grabs. We invite you and your friends to spend a day with us — work as a team to solve a local business problem, network with other students and connect with the entrepreneurial ecosystem. With our support, each team will pitch their solutions to a panel of judges, for a chance to win a cash prize of $1000! Agenda: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Challenge Prep, Training & Networking  6:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Pitch Presentations Full schedule, guest speakers and challenge coming soon! Who Should Attend: Canadian Citizens & Permanent Residents currently enrolled in college or university. Please note: This event is FREE to participate. We charge a $10 FULLY REFUNDABLE deposit to hold your spot at the event. Register as an individual or as a team! Please note additional team members may be assigned based on team size.

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 15, 16, and 17, 2019, the Faculty of Graduate Studies will be holding its annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference. These three days are a celebration of the accomplishments of our graduate students and their research efforts. Over the course of the three days, graduate students from multiple faculties will present their research orally. Opening ceremonies are schedule to begin at 9:00 am on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Students (undergraduate and graduate), researchers, and faculty are encouraged to attend as much of the conference as their schedule permits. Most activities will occur in McDougall Hall, in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium and Schurman Market Square. There is a no-cost registration to facilitate planning and communication to participants. For conference materials, please go here: http://www.upei.ca/graduatestudies/student-research/graduate-studies-an…  

You are cordially invited to an event announcing the Janssen - Prince Edward Island Health Innovation Partnership (JPEI_HIP), a collaboration between Janssen Inc. and UPEI's Dr. William Montelpare, Professor and Wallace McCain Chair in Human Development and Health. This collaboration will focus on Real World Evidence projects that involve data access/generation aimed at understanding and improving the PEI health system and patient outcomes. Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 1:00 pm Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall University of Prince Edward Island

UPEI Panther Soccer is hosting its annual Alumni and Friends Breakfast Saturday, June 1 at 10:00 am in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. All are invited to meet current student athletes and alumni and to hear about the 2019–2020 season. Tickets are $10. For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Koren at kglenn@upei.ca. Go Panthers Go!

Is it a fiat, a decree? Italian vehicle with an edge? A party? No, indeed – It’s a Reading Series! Join The Writers Union of Canada members Carol Malyon & Deborah Stiles in their Maritimes interactive reading of poetry & prose, highlighting the connections between women & sustainability. Monday, June 3rd @ 7 pm Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, UPEI All are welcome! Free admission! Co-sponsored by Robertson Library, CUPE 1870, & Diversity and Social Justice Studies, UPEI.

The Department of Health Management invites the campus community to a seminar by Dr. Kerry Kuluski.  Dr. Kuluski is a Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, in Toronto, Ontario. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (University of Toronto). She is an Applied Health Services Researcher and a Social Worker by training. She received her PhD in Health Services and Policy Research from the University of Toronto followed by a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. At the U of T she supervises graduate students and teaches a foundational course on Canada’s health care system. Her research focuses on quality and health system performance from the perspectives of people with multimorbidity and their caregivers in the contexts of community based primary health care, homecare, hospital care, Alternate level of Care and transitions between care settings. She uses multi methods, including co-design to understand what is required for care services to be person centred.  Attributes of Person Centered Care from the Perspectives of Patients and Caregivers Friday, June 7th @ 10:00 am AVC Lecture Theatre B  EVERYONE WELCOME