2025 Fall pre-arrival online session: Tips for preparing for your language exam
Hi future Panthers!
In this session, we will focus on preparing you for the upcoming language assessment. Whether you're new to the language or looking to brush up on your skills, we'll go over key strategies, tips, and resources to help you feel confident and ready.
Topic: Tips for Preparing for your Language Exam as a new incoming international student
Time: March 27, 2025 9:00 am Atlantic Time (Canada)
2025 Fall pre-arrival online session: Budget 101
Hi Future Panthers!
Living expenses in Canada for international students vary from city to city and depending on where the school is located. This session will be mainly focused on the cost of living in PEI. We will cover the expenses in terms of study, utility, rent, and so on just to give you an idea of how much you should be expected to spend in daily life with a realistic budget.
Time: March 26, 2025 at 9:30 am Atlantic Time (Canada)
PEI Cleantech Collaborations: UPEI Program Launch
Please join us for an in-person event at the Kings Playhouse in Georgetown, PEI, on Monday, March 24, 2025, from 10:00 am–2:00 pm, to officially launch UPEI's new Master of Cleantech Leadership and Transformation (MCLT). This event will be a good opportunity to network, collaborate, and learn with leaders shaping the future of cleantech innovation and education on Prince Edward Island and who designed the MCLT program.
Student Engagement Mixer
Calling all Students!
First annual Student Engagement Mixer
Join Dr. Wendy Rodgers, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor, and members of the UPEI Board of Governors and UPEI Student Union for the first annual Student Engagement Mixer!
Thursday, March 27, 2025
5:00–7:00 pm
McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre
UPEI Asian Studies hosts seminars on March 27 and April 3
The UPEI Department of Asian Studies is presenting two seminars, one on March 27 and the other on April 3.
On March 27, Dr. Richard Kim, associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, will give a lecture titled “The Contemporary Significance of Confucianism: A Guide to Wellbeing and Good Life” from 2:15–4:00 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building, UPEI. The lecture is part of the Asian Studies International Seminar: Confucian Studies Speaker Series 2025.
UPEI Choral Concert
The UPEI Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Voice majors as soloists, under the musical direction of Sung Ha Shin-Bouey, will present Mozart's Requiem. Included in the program are a variety of choral gems. Director Shin-Bouey is especially excited to premiere one of her recent arrangements, Sae Ta-Ryeong (Bird Song), a traditional Korean folk song.
Atlantic Veterinary College unveils new Foreign Animal Disease Testing Laboratory
The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has completed construction of its new Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) Testing Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility that will be instrumental in monitoring infectious diseases in the Atlantic provinces.
UPEI Nursing Student Society holds teddy bear clinic for children in Campus Kids Daycare
Children in the Campus Kids Daycare Centre’s kindergarten class took their beloved stuffed toys to a teddy bear clinic hosted by the UPEI Nursing Student Society on March 17 in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Much to the children’s delight, the students showed them how to check their teddies’ hearts, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. The students also x-rayed and treated “broken” and “sprained” limbs and tails, treated sore tummies, and made all the toys—and their young owners—feel better.
AVC Diagnostic Imaging Candidate Presentation
The Department of Companion Animals will interview Dr. Julia Cusack for a tenure-track faculty position in Diagnostic Imaging. Dr. Cusack will be on campus on Wednesday, March 19, and Thursday, March 20,2025.
Dr. Cusack received her DVM in 2019 from the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI. She then completed a large animal rotating internship and is currently completing an DVSc and clinical residency program in Diagnostic Imaging at the Ontario Veterinary College.
UPEI Philosophy reading group meeting
The UPEI Philosophy reading group will meet on Thursday, March 20, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in downtown Charlottetown (the exact location is TBD). All are welcome.
During this gathering, we will discuss Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? The following passages capture the spirit of the book:
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
