Campus Notices
Career Services will be hosting the Campus Job Fair on February 15th, 2017 in the Louis W. MacEachern Market Street from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. Students are encouraged to attend and meet with on-campus employers. 69传媒departments and faculties that offer employment opportunities for students throughout the year are invited to attend to promote their available and/or upcoming positions. Registration for the fair ends on Friday, January 27.
To register for the fair, please fill out the form .
Graduate Student Evan MacDonald (MSc-c) will give the next presentation in the Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series. Evan鈥檚 seminar entitled 鈥淎re vegetation index maps from sUAS mounted multi-spectral sensors a good predictor of yield in potatoes?鈥� will take place on Friday, January 27, 2017 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.
All are welcome!
Career Services will be hosting the Campus Job Fair on February 15th, 2017 in the Louis W. MacEachern Market Street from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. Students are encouraged to attend and meet with on-campus employers. 69传媒departments and faculties that offer employment opportunities for students throughout the year are invited to attend to promote their available and/or upcoming positions. Registration for the fair ends on Friday, January 27.
To register for the fair, please fill out the form .
Dylan Michaud, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "Sex-biased genes and their rates of evolution in salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)" on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 3:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre "A". Everyone welcome!
Which do universities value more 鈥� research or teaching? to read this week鈥檚 SCENT blog post: 鈥淐hanging the Value of Teaching in Universities.鈥� And be sure to leave a comment!
Call for applications from potential graduate students for the 2017 Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Graduate Scholarship. The scholarship will support the training of researchers at the masters or doctoral level to pursue animal welfare research at the UPEI. Both applied or more fundamental approaches to research pertaining to animal welfare are welcome. Students may take up their award at any time of the year but must do so within 12 months of the date of the letter of offer. Applications for 2017 will be accepted until 12 noon AST on Friday, February 17.
For more information please click here.
69传媒has a weekly knitting and crocheting group open to all students, staff, faculty, and friends.
From beginner to expert, all levels are welcome. Supplies and guidance are currently available for beginner knitters and we hope to be set up to teach crocheting in the near future.
Yarn & Soul meets weekly Tuesday evenings in the lounge area on the second floor of Kelley Memorial Building. Drop in between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. For more information please contact Kathryn Harrison kharrison@upei.ca, 902-566-0901 or check out our .
When phoning anyone in the Department of Development and Alumni Engagement, you must dial all ten digits. Simply dialing the last four will no longer work for this department.
Matthew Dunlop, MSc student and Christian Agatemor, PhD student, will each present a seminar on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 12:30 pm. Matthew Dunlop's presentation is entitled "Nanocrystalline Cellulose Sourced from Island Tunicates鈥� and Christian Agatemor's presentation is entitled 鈥淥rganoiron-Mediated Synthesis of Functional Macromolecules". The seminars will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.
All are welcome!
69传媒has a weekly knitting and crocheting group open to all students, staff, faculty, and friends.
From beginner to expert, all levels are welcome. Supplies and guidance are currently available for beginner knitters and we hope to be set up to teach crocheting in the near future.
Yarn & Soul meets weekly Tuesday evenings in the lounge area on the second floor of Kelley Memorial Building. Drop in between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. For more information please contact Kathryn Harrison kharrison@upei.ca, 902-566-0901 or check out our
The my69传媒portal will be unavailable this Saturday from 6:30 pm to 12:30 am due to ITSS applying updates to the system.
Please contact ITSS with any concerns or questions. 902-566-0465 / helpdesk@upei.ca
In recognition of the outstanding performance and dedication of our faculty and staff, a number of annual awards have been created to acknowledge their efforts and achievements.
Up to 10 Presidential Awards of Merit for 69传媒Faculty, Librarians and Clinical Veterinary Professionals and four Presidential Awards of Merit for 69传媒Staff will be awarded in 2017. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 2:00-4:00 in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Susan Connolly, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources & Legal, will lead the process and chair the committee to select award recipients.
Nominations for both faculty and staff awards close on Friday, March 31, 2017.
For further details on the awards and the nomination process, .
Friday, January 20
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Acadia "Celebrating 1987 & 1988 Championship Teams"
Saturday, January 21
1:30 pm (W) Hockey vs UdeM
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs SMU "Men's Hockey Alumni Night"
The Second Annual Destination Imagination (DI) PEI Provincial Tournament takes place March 11, 2017 at East Wiltshire Intermediate School. The Department of Education, Early Learning, and Culture is seeking volunteers to help in a number of areas. Most importantly is the need for appraisers (judges). Training will be provided on Thursday, March 2 (Stormdate of Friday, March 3) in Room 208 A&B in the Holman Building in Summerside.
Information on Destination Imagination can be found .
If you have any questions, please contact either Kieran Hennessey at kjhennessey@edu.pe.ca or Vicki Allan-Cook at vlallen-cook@edu.pe.ca
Featuring Chef Emily Wells of The Mill & Local 343.
$30 Per seat; 8 per table.
Saturday January 28, 2017 5:00-8:00 pm at the Jack Blanchard Hall, 3 Pond St. Charlottetown.
Storm Date: Sunday January 29th.
For ticket purchase contact: Carolyn Francis
Small group training offers training sessions with a focus on individual progression and skill development. Sessions are two times per week, and will include a small group of six clients who will work together with a certified personal trainer. Pre-registration required!
Lyndsey Paynter 鈥� Mon/Wed 12:05-12:50 pm, January 23-March 6
Kris Lutwick 鈥� Mon/Wed 4:30-5:15 pm, January 23-March 6 or Tue/Thu 12:05-12:50 pm, January 24-March 2
Fee for Sports Centre Members and 69传媒full-time students is $129 + hst /person/group. Non-Members - $139 + hst /person/group. To register contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca or 902-566-0606.
Calling all singers! The 69传媒Multicultural Choir and Song Circle will be meeting this Wednesday, January 18th, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in the Robertson Library Building, in the basement, Rm 103. This area is also accessible by an elevator, if needed (call or email - see below).
The multicultural choir is in its 6th year, and is a non-audition, open, free and fun activity which brings people from campus and the community together, sharing songs from cultures all around the world!
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the AIRS lab at 902-566-6023, or airs@upei.ca.
Wafa Al-Faifi, MSc student, will present a seminar entitled "Design of eight Arms Dendrimer (Tripentaerythritol)鈥� and Spencer Gallant, MSc student, will present a seminar entitled "Chemical Novelty in Wild Humulus lupulus from the Maritime Region".
The seminars will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212 on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 12:30 pm.
All are welcome!
Please be advised that the Government of Canada is once again sponsoring the Canada Summer Jobs program designed to help employers create summer job opportunities for students. Canada Summer Jobs provides funding to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers and small businesses to create summer job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in Fall 2017.
Public and private-sector employers are eligible for a wage subsidy of up to 50% of the provincial/territorial adult minimum hourly wage 鈥� in PEI the minimum wage will be $11. For additional information and application information for this program please .
To apply for this Program you will need to contact Monique Geurts, Human Resources, 902-566-0515. The closing date for applications is January 20, 2017.
When phoning anyone in the Department of Development and Alumni Engagement, you must dial all ten digits. Simply dialing the last four will no longer work for this department.
