Campus Notices
The Healthy Campus Committee is pleased to offer $100 subsidy grants for current 69传媒Employees (student staff not eligible for grant) for this academic year. We have a total of 16 grants left. The grant can be used towards the cost of either the Healthy U Club or Small Group Training Programs. To apply please fill out and return to Angela Marchbank. Employees who have received the subsidy in previous years can apply again. /ar/wellness
a) Healthy U Club - An eight-week program involves two training sessions per week, one weigh-in and healthy eating meeting per week. Fee: $169 Sports Centre members and $209 for non-members. For those receiving the grant the cost will be $69 or $109 plus hst.
Weekly weigh in, meal plan, log book and healthy eating discussion/presentation with Simply For Life consultant: Mondays 5:00 pm 鈥� 5:45 pm (Start Date: September 28)
Training sessions: Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00 pm 鈥� 5:45 pm
Trainer: Lyndsey Paynter (Start Date: September 29)
b) Small Group Training 鈥� An eight-week, two times per week small group of seven working with a certified personal trainer. Fee: $135 + taxes per person. Cost for those receiving the grant will be $35 plus hst.
- Group 3: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:05 pm 鈥� 12:50 pm. Trainer: Lyndsey Paynter (Start Date: September 29)
- Group 4: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:45 pm 鈥� 5:30 pm. Trainer: Kris Lutwick (Start Date: September 29)
The Department of Biology will host two presentations by Dr. P. Joel Ross, The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, on September 14& 15, 2015. Dr. Ross is a candidate for a Tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Biology and will present the following talks:
Research Presentation: Using stem cells to explore brain epigenetics and the neurobiology of autism
Monday, September 14, 2015
9:30 am
DSC 204
Teaching Presentation: Cellular communication in antiviral defence
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
1:00 pm
AVC 286A N
All are welcome to attend and provide comments to the selection committee via email to biologychair@upei.ca
Please be advised that the 69传媒 Student Health Centre, located in the Student Affairs office in the WA Murphy Student Centre, will be opening this year on October 19.
Until October 19, Dr David Reid will be seeing students, by appointment, at his clinic in Sherwood, 15 Brackley Point Road, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Please see for a map of the exact location. When the Health Centre opens on campus, Dr Reid will continue to see students Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Appointments can be made for Dr Reid, for before or after October 19, by contacting Bethany Holland at healthcentre@upei.ca
As always, call 911 if you are experiencing a health emergency. 811 is available 24/7 to speak to a registered nurse.
Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Treena Smith
Manager, Student Affairs
trlsmith@upei.ca
69传媒professor and author Deirdre Kessler will give a public reading on Saturday, 12 September, 7 pm, at the Macphail Homestead in Orwell.
Deirdre will reading new poems, excerpts from a recently published memoir, Mother Country, and from a novel in progress.
The setting will be the Great Room of Sir Andrew Macphail鈥檚 house in Orwell. The free public reading is sponsored by The Writers鈥� Union of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Macphail Homestead.
Deirdre Kessler is a poet and author of 15 books for young people and a dozen books of nonfiction for adults. Recently published are a memoir, Mother Country, published by Oberon Press (Dec. 2014) and Born! A foal, five kittens, and Confederation, a children鈥檚 book illustrated by Brenda Jones set in Charlottetown in 1864, which received a 2015 P.E.I. Museum & Heritage Foundation writing award and a 2015 City of Charlottetown Heritage Award. Deirdre teaches creative writing, children鈥檚 literature, and the course on L.M. Montgomery with UPEI鈥檚 Department of English. She is a recipient of a 69传媒Award for Teaching Excellence.
Reading from 7:00 to 8:00 pm
There will be a cash bar.
The Macphail Homestead, 271 Macphail Park Road, Orwell, is a 20-minute drive from Charlottetown.
Contact: Doreen Huestis, Macphail Homestead Site Director:
902-651-2789 or macphailhomestead@pei.aibn.com
Facilities Management wishes to advise the campus community that general parking lot spaces are still available for purchase, but spaces for designated lots have now been sold out.
Students can purchase a campus parking permit at the Parking Kiosk located on the main level of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm, until September 26. After that date they will be available from the Facilities Management Office (in the Central Utility Building) from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm weekdays or until permits sell out.
Staff and faculty can purchase campus parking permits from the Facilities Management Office (Central Utility Building) starting August 10, 2015, Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm; or at the Parking Kiosk located on the main level of the W. A. Murphy Student Centre (kiosk operating August 26 to September 26, 2015 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm).
For more information on parking services at UPEI, visit .
