Campus Notices
Sunday April 3 mass at the Chaplaincy Centre will be at 7:00 pm. Bishop Richard Grecco will be with us as we celebrate the sacrament of Confirmation with 5 69传媒students. So for this week only, mass will be at 7:00 and not 6:00
The Psychology department is presenting their final Department Colloquium of the semester this Friday afternoon, April 1, from 3:00- 4:00 pm in Memorial 215. The talk will be given by Dr. Thomy Nilsson and is entitled "The Amazing Discovery and Small Compromises that enabled Great Music."
Join us for an interesting afternoon of discovery in music.
All are welcome.
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 2016. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 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, April 1, 2016.
For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please visit:
If you have difficulty carving out uninterrupted time for writing, if you struggle with motivating yourself to write, or if you would simply like the supportive collaboration of a writing retreat, consider Time to Write, UPEI's faculty writers retreat.
When: Wednesday, May 11 to Sunday, May 15.
Where: Stanley Bridge Resort
Cost to participants: $200, which includes four nights accommodation, meals and snacks
Your project must be at a stage where sustained writing time makes sense. Your research and/or data collection and analysis must be completed to the point that you are ready to write. You must also be prepared to commit to the full program: a total of 3陆 days focused on writing.
The retreat is open to tenured and tenure stream 69传媒 faculty in any Department/Faculty/School.
Email Research Communications Officer Dave Atkinson, datkinson@upei.ca, with a brief summary of the project you plan to work and your writing goals for the retreat. There is room for six participants at Time to Write.
69传媒 and TD Wealth Private Client Group would like to invite you to a panel discussion on Women & Philanthropy. This exciting session presents the findings of a TD report entitled "Time, Treasure, Talent: Canadian Women and Philanthropy" which was conducted independently by iNVESTOR ECONOMICS and provides reflections from the perspective of a unique group of female philanthropic leaders in our community.
Please join us for an insightful discussion on the findings of this groundbreaking report. Guest Panelists are Alicia Bremner, Catherine Callbeck, Kathy O鈥橰ourke and Shauna Sullivan Curley while the featured keynote speaker and panelist is Jo-Anne Ryan, VP Philanthropic Advisory Services, TD.
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
4:30 pm 鈥� 6:30 pm
Don and Marion McDougall Hall
Panel discussion followed by Cocktail Reception
RSVP by Thursday, April 7th to Jo-Ann Thomsen: jthomsen@upei.ca or 902 628 7984
(This is not a fundraiser. No cost to attend. Space is limited.)
The Wave will be closing at 4pm today, Friday April 1st.
Courtyard Cafe in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre
- Closing at 2:00 pm, Tuesday, April 5 for the summer. It will reopen in early September.
AVC Cafeteria
- No change in operational hours for the summer: Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm
Samuel's in the Robertson Library
- No change in operational hours up to and including April 15
- Saturday, April 9: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Starting April 18 hours of operation will be Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm
Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall
- Monday to Friday: 700 am to 9:00 pm
- Saturday & Sunday, Continental Breakfast - 9:30 to 10:30 am; Hot Meal Service - 10:30 am-9:00 pm
- Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall will close for the academic year at 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 16.
Summer hours of operation for the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall will be advertised at a later date.
The 69传媒Wind Symphony will present a Symphonic Gala of 鈥淐ontemporary Works for Wind Band鈥� on Sunday, April 3 at 2:30 PM at Zion Presbyterian Church, 135 Prince Street in Charlottetown. This is the final recital of the academic year for the Wind Symphony which received much acclaim for this program in its performance in Halifax on March 12.
The recital will feature several emerging masterworks of the genre. Among the centerpieces is Magnolia Star, a programmatic work by American Steve Danyew. This piece, written using a blues scale, captures the sounds typically associated with train travel. Another work, Jug Blues & Fat Pickin鈥�, by Don Freund, conveys music styles of Tennessee, inspired by the Memphis Jug Band (Beale Street, late 1920's) and bluegrass banjo playing. The program will begin with Fanfarria, a powerful and heroic fanfare by Spanish composer Javier Perez Garrido, and reminiscent of Aaron Copland鈥檚 Fanfare for the Common Man. Additional works by Percy Grainger and Luke Ellard will be performed.
The 69传媒Wind Symphony received the 2014 Music PEI award for Achievement in Classical Music. With performances throughout the Maritimes, partnerships with PEI school music programs, and utilizing unique performance spaces, the 69传媒Wind Symphony is known as one of the region鈥檚 most respected large ensembles and features outstanding student and professional soloists.
Members of the public are invited to attend this performance. Admission is $10 for Adults; $5 for Students.
Dr. Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the 69传媒 and the 69传媒International Relations Office cordially invite you attend an on-campus roundtable on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, Mr. David Lametti MP.
Moderated by 69传媒Director of International Relations, Dr. Barbara Campbell, the Roundtable is part of the series of local consultations led by the Government of Canada, with provincial leaders, local industry representatives, and members of the public on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and on international trade.鈥�
Thursday, March 31 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building
All members of the 69传媒community are welcome to attend!
Member of Parliament (LaSalle-脡mard-Verdun) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, David Lametti
David Lametti was recently a Professor of Law at McGill University. He was Associate Dean (Academic) between 2008 and 2011. He is a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and was a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP); he served as its Director from 2009 to 2012. Professor Lametti obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989. He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled 鈥淓thical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property鈥�. Professor Lametti was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. He is an internationally-recognized expert in property and intellectual property, with numerous publications, and has taught or lectured in many of the world鈥檚 most well-known universities.
Title: Entropy, Maximum Entropy and Invariant Measures
Speaker: Dr. Shafiqul Islam
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2:30 pm
Location: AVC C (Lecture room C)
Note: This talk will be delivered (Live) to Acadia and StFx via technology.
Abstract: Invariant measures play important roles for describing chaotic behavior of dynamical systems. In this talk, we consider Boltzmann entropy and describe a maximum entropy method for the approximation of invariant measures for position dependent random maps. We present a proof of convergence of the maximum entropy method.
As part of the Science Atlantic Physics Lecture Tour, Dr. Daniel Stolarski, Department of Physics, Carleton University will present a talk on Friday, April 01, 2016 at 3:00 pm. Dr. Stolarski's presentation is entitled "The Nature of the Higgs Boson". The seminar will be held in the AVC Lecture Hall A.
All are welcome!
鈥婽heme: 鈥婣CCESS & INCLUSION What is an Edcamp?
These cross-sector free gatherings have been popping up around the globe and charming people from all sorts of professional sectors thanks to their free-flowing, organic and democratic freshness. They focus on broad education themes and seek to trigger cross-community dialogues by bringing people together, beyond their usual 鈥榮ilo鈥�, in spontaneous and innovative exchanges.
This first Charlottetown Edcamp hopes to attract education professionals, from both the K-12 and post-secondary sector, but also researchers, advocates, members of the care professionals, the industry and policy makers 鈥� without forgetting of course students and parents in a day of vibrant professional learning鈥� and dialogue鈥�.
Saturday, April 2, 2016 9am-4pm MacDougall Hall, 69传媒Building Code MCDH (#12)
Book now!
#edcampcharlottetown
The coordinating committee for Soup for the Soul invites the campus community to donate re-usable bowls and spoons to be used during future Soup for the Soul events at the 69传媒Chaplaincy Centre. One of our objectives is to employ sustainable measures in the delivery of this project.
New and previously enjoyed soup sized bowls (plastic, glass, ceramic, china) and metal spoons (soup or teaspoon) are welcome donations. Please drop off your items to the collection table at the Chaplaincy Centre before March 30. Please sign our donation book and feel free to use the marker provided to write an uplifting message on your donated bowl.
Soup for the Soul is a project of the 69传媒Chaplaincy Centre to promote healthy eating and positive mental health that hosts free, homemade soup lunches for students in a welcoming atmosphere. Our project is funded through a grant from PEI Wellness Strategy, Charlottetown Royalty Rotary Club and the 69传媒Student Union and is staffed by a student led volunteer coordinating committee and various 69传媒campus groups. Contact Sister Sue if your department would like to join this initiative.
A reminder that on Tuesday, March 29th from 2:30 - 4:00 pm, in Main's Faculty Lounge, there will be a Retirement Reception for Roger Cook who is retiring on April 1. Please drop by to wish Roger all the best in his retirement!
SCENT blog post #8 is now up and ready for your reading and commentary. Only a few more to go -- all leading up to the April 27th public talk and workshop by Dr. Len Findlay, University of Saskatchewan; stay tuned for more info about this event very soon. Meanwhile, in this week's blog post, entitled "Students Aren't Coddled, They're Defeated," author John Warner argues that we have divorced school from learning, with the result that students don't see what they do here as applying, for the most part, to the rest of their lives. Go to projects.upei.ca/scent to read more!
For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Chair of SCENT, abraithwaite@upei.ca, or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, at fdo@upei.ca
The 69传媒International Relations Office is excited to host and invites you attend an on-campus roundtable on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, David Lametti.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
3:30-4:30 pm
Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, UPEI
Moderated by 69传媒Director of International Relations Barbara Campbell, the Roundtable is part of the series of local consultations led by the Government of Canada, with provincial leaders, local industry representatives, and members of the public on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and on international trade.鈥� All members of the University community are welcome to attend!
Biography
David Lametti was recently a Professor of Law at McGill University. He was Associate Dean (Academic) between 2008 and 2011. He is a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and was a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP); he served as its Director from 2009 to 2012. Professor Lametti obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989. He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled 鈥淓thical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property鈥�. Professor Lametti was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. He is an internationally-recognized expert in property and intellectual property, with numerous publications, and has taught or lectured in many of the world鈥檚 most well-known universities.
