UPEI's Convocation 2024 ceremonies will be held from May 14 to 17. 

Faculty and staff who are not attending the ceremonies are encouraged to gather in the quad in front of SDU Main Building at approximately 9:40 am to cheer on and congratulate our graduates as they proceed to the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Each ceremony starts at 10 am and will be livestreamed at upei.ca/live

For each ceremony—for the first time—the Eagle Feather, which was presented to the University by the Native Council of Prince Edward Island in 2023, will be carried as part of the Academic Procession and placed in a position of prominence on the Convocation stage alongside the ceremonial mace. 

Tuesday, May 14: The ceremony will include the presentation of certificates, diplomas, and degrees to graduates of the Faculty of Nursing and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Honorary degrees will be conferred jointly upon Mary Jeanette Gallant and Aggi-Rose Reddin. The valedictorian will be Jessica Watts, Faculty of Nursing.

Wednesday, May 15: The ceremony will include the presentation of certificates, diplomas, and degrees to graduates of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering and the McDougall Faculty of Business. An honorary degree will be conferred upon John Bragg. The valedictorian will be Bridget Patterson, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering.

Thursday, May 16: The ceremony will include the presentation of certificates, diplomas, and degrees to graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education. An honorary degree will be conferred upon Reginald “Dutch” Thompson. The valedictorian will be Sarah Legault, Faculty of Education. 

Friday, May 17: The ceremony will include the presentation of certificates, diplomas, and degrees to graduates of the Faculty of Science. An honorary degree will be conferred upon Gary Schneider. The valedictorian will be Charleigh Teefy, Faculty of Science.

All faculty and staff are invited to attend a Celebration of Colleagues on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 10:30 am-12:00 pm in Room 121S, UPEI Performing Arts Centre. 

In recognition of the outstanding contributions of our faculty and staff and their dedication to students and community, the annual University Awards of Excellence and 25 Year Service Awards will be presented at this event.  

Please join us on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 10:30 am-12:00 pm in Room 121S, UPEI Performing Arts Centre.  

On Sunday, May 19, ITSS will conduct routine yearly maintenance on the Moodle application and related services from 9 am to 2 pm. During this time, there will be intermittent access to and performance issues.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located in Moodle to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

The UPEI Offices of Student Affairs (5th floor Dalton Hall) and Accessibility Services (1st floor Dalton Hall) will close at 2 pm on Tuesday, May 14, for a staff meeting. The offices will re-open on Wednesday, May 15, at 8:30 am.

To submit an inquiry or book an appointment with Student Affairs, please email studentserv@upei.ca. To submit an inquiry with Accessibility Services, please email accessibility@upei.ca or astesting@upei.ca (testing inquiries only). Messages received during the closure will be answered as soon as possible.

You're Invited to a Dessert Reception for the "sweet occasion" of celebrating the 2024 UPEI masters and doctoral graduates, hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Masters and doctoral graduates and their supporters are welcome, including (but not limited to) graduates' families, deans, research supervisors and collaborators, supervisory committee members, and graduate program administrators, coordinators, and instructors.

Details:
2:00-3:00 pm, Friday, May 10
Faculty Lounge, Rm 201 SDU Main Building
Desserts and beverages (hot and cold) will be served.

There will be opening remarks to welcome the graduates, followed by an opportunity to mix and mingle and share best wishes over a selection of desserts.

For any questions about the event, please reach out to Kendra Mellish, FGS Grad Programs Officer, at kmellish@upei.ca

The UPEI Class of 2024, their friends and family, and the campus community are invited to the Mass for Graduates on Monday, May 13, at 9:30 am at the Chaplaincy Centre. The celebrant and homilist will be Bishop Joseph Dabrowski, CSMA, Bishop of the Diocese of Charlottetown. Join us afterward for light refreshments.

UPEI Ancillary Services would like to gather feedback from clients who have ordered catering on campus in the past year. The information will be used to inform our planning for the coming school year. Please complete this form if you have been a catering client in the past year. Please submit your response by May 15.
 

Thank you!

The Lab2Market Validate (L2M Validate) event, previously scheduled for May 2 at 10 am, will now take place on May 13 at 9:30 am.

Lab2Market Validate (L2M Validate) gives researchers the opportunity to critically test and evaluate their ideas in the entrepreneurial landscape by speaking to customers about their ideas. This carefully curated 16-week experience is complemented by funding, workshops, and mentorship from industry experts – all with market exploration at its core.

Applicants must be masters, PhD, or postdoctoral students within Atlantic Canada, applying with a supervisor. Each team will receive $15,000 in funding. 

Please consider joining us for a live information session. For further details or to access the application forms, visit lab2market.ca or contact our L2M Validate program manager, Dr. Michael Carew (Mwcarew@dal.ca).

Additionally, if you're a primary investigator, post-doc, or graduate student looking to learn about the entrepreneurial potential of your research, please reach out to UPEI’s Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation (OCII) for assistance. Email: OCII@upei.ca or call 902-566-6095.

Date:  Monday, May 13, 9:30 am

Location: AVC 286B N

To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lab2market-validate-information-session-upei-tickets-890212969957

There will be a basic biosafety training session on May 15, 2024, at 1:00 pm in AVC 287N. Topics will include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone, including graduate students.

To attend, you must pre-register by contacting Jacky Buell by the end of the day on May 10, 2024, by email (hse@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901). Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address, and phone number in your email or voice message. Please indicate if you are a graduate student. 

NOTE: An online basic biosafety training refresher course is available for those who need it. 

You're Invited to a Dessert Reception for the "sweet occasion" of celebrating the 2024 UPEI masters and doctoral graduates, hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Masters and doctoral graduates and their supporters are welcome, including (but not limited to) graduates' families, deans, research supervisors and collaborators, supervisory committee members, and graduate program administrators, coordinators, and instructors.

Details:
2:00-3:00 pm, Friday, May 10
Faculty Lounge, Rm 201 SDU Main Building
Desserts and beverages (hot and cold) will be served.

There will be opening remarks to welcome the graduates, followed by an opportunity to mix and mingle and share best wishes over a selection of desserts.

For any questions about the event, please reach out to Kendra Mellish, FGS Grad Programs Officer, at kmellish@upei.ca

The UPEI Class of 2024, their friends and family, and the campus community are invited to the Mass for Graduates on Monday, May 13, at 9:30 am at the Chaplaincy Centre. The celebrant and homilist will be Bishop Joseph Dabrowski, CSMA, Bishop of the Diocese of Charlottetown. Join us afterward for light refreshments.

UPEI Ancillary Services would like to gather feedback from clients who have ordered catering on campus in the past year. The information will be used to inform our planning for the coming school year. Please complete this form if you have been a catering client in the past year. Please submit your response by May 15.
 

Thank you!

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Emily MacQuarrie's public dissertation defence presentation of her PsyD research titled "Examining Predictive Factors of Relational Aggression Engagement Among Adolescents."

Please join us via Zoom on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 3:30--5:30 pm ADT: 
https://waypointcentre-ca.zoom.us/j/62944608183?pwd=S0hKRG1DeDFZWCs0N21WdU5pMGozZz09

Meeting ID: 629 4460 8183
Passcode: 032829 

Canadian criminal defence lawyer James Lockyer, CM, will speak about wrongful convictions in Canada during the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law presentation on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at The Guild, 111 Queen Street, Charlottetown, at 4:30 pm. All are welcome to attend.

A partner in the Toronto office of Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh, Mr. Lockyer is a founding director of Innocence Canada (formerly known as the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted), a Canada-wide organization that advocates for the wrongly convicted. In this capacity, he has been involved in more than 30 high-profile wrongful conviction cases including those of Guy Paul Morin (1995), David Milgaard (1997), Clayton Johnson (2002), Steven Truscott (2007), Robert Baltovich (2008), William Mullins Johnson (2008), Romeo Phillion (2010), Tammy Marquardt (2011), Leighton Hay (2014), John Salmon (2015), Maria Shepherd (2016), Frank Ostrowski (2018), Joyce Hayman (2021), Jacques Delisle (2021), Bernard Doyle (2023), Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse (2023), and Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie (2024).

Co-sponsored by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island, the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law honours Thane A. Campbell, Rhodes Scholar, former premier of Prince Edward Island, and first chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.

For more information, please email artsadmin@upei.ca.

June 1 is the deadline for additions, modifications, or drops of software on UPEI machines in labs and classrooms.

Please send requests to Steve Mahar at smahar@upei.ca before this date.

A list of current software is available on our website.

If you have any questions, please contact Steve or Amy at amfitzgerald@upei.ca

There will be a basic biosafety training session on May 15, 2024, at 1:00 pm in AVC 287N. Topics will include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone, including graduate students.

To attend, you must pre-register by contacting Jacky Buell by the end of the day on May 10, 2024, by email (hse@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901). Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address, and phone number in your email or voice message. Please indicate if you are a graduate student. 

NOTE: An online basic biosafety training refresher course is available for those who need it. 

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, June 7, for the June meeting. 

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications" and for renewal or amendment protocols. select "events."

TUPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

Note:  All investigators are reminded that any deviations in animal use, including unexpected mortality, must be reported to the ACC and University Veterinarian Jonathan Spears at 902-620-5026.

The Province of PEI would like to notify all residents that an Alert Ready test is scheduled for 12:55 pm today, Wednesday, May 8, 2024.  

This is part of a routine and pre-scheduled national preparedness exercise. The alert will clearly indicate that it is a test, and no further action is needed.

You're Invited to a Dessert Reception for the "sweet occasion" of celebrating the 2024 UPEI masters and doctoral graduates, hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Masters and doctoral graduates and their supporters are welcome, including (but not limited to) graduates' families, deans, research supervisors and collaborators, supervisory committee members, and graduate program administrators, coordinators, and instructors.

Details:
2:00-3:00 pm, Friday, May 10
Faculty Lounge, Rm 201 SDU Main Building
Desserts and beverages (hot and cold) will be served.

There will be opening remarks to welcome the graduates, followed by an opportunity to mix and mingle and share best wishes over a selection of desserts.

For any questions about the event, please reach out to Kendra Mellish, FGS Grad Programs Officer, at kmellish@upei.ca

The UPEI Class of 2024, their friends and family, and the campus community are invited to the Mass for Graduates on Monday, May 13, at 9:30 am at the Chaplaincy Centre. The celebrant and homilist will be Bishop Joseph Dabrowski, CSMA, Bishop of the Diocese of Charlottetown. Join us afterward for light refreshments.