The regular May 2018 Island Studies Lecture takes place on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus and will feature L.M. Montgomery scholar Dr. Kate Scarth speaking about “Anne of Charlottetown and Summerside: L.M. Montgomery’s Urban PEI.” This presentation follows Anne of Green Gables to urban PEI: to Charlottetown and Summerside. In Anne of Green Gables, Anne goes to Queen’s College—a fictional version of Prince of Wales College—and in Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne is the principal of Summerside High School. Of course, Anne of Green Gables and its author L.M. Montgomery usually conjure up images of rural Avonlea and Cavendish, the beaches and farms of PEI’s north shore. Montgomery’s rural island is reflected in her own writings, and later film and TV adaptations and the many tourist sites like Green Gables that celebrate the author. While the rural looms large in her life and work, Montgomery was also a chronicler of urban Canada. She wrote journals and letters about her life in Charlottetown, Prince Albert, Halifax, and Toronto, while three novels, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, and Jane of Lantern Hill, have significant urban settings. How does one of the most insightful writers of PEI and Canada’s literary landscapes grapple with the tensions between modernizing, globally linked, growing towns and a traditional rural, agriculturally based island? The presentation offers an urban dimension to a writer usually steeped in rural tradition, but who was writing about a Canada starting to become the urban nation it is today. Dr. Kate Scarth is the Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies and Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) at UPEI. Her research focuses on English and Canadian literature written from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century and she is particularly interested in fiction about urbanism and the environment. Her book, Romantic Suburbs: Sensibility, Ecology, and Greater London, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press. She is also leading a digital humanities, public engagement project about literary Halifax, Nova Scotia. Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. This concludes our regular lecture series for the spring ― unless something too good to pass up comes our way! Watch for the series to resume in the fall. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

The Atlantic Veterinary College is excited to host this annual event that celebrates graduates of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program.  

The Faculty of Nursing is excited to host this event that celebrates class of 2018 graduates. The cost is $40 per person. Please RSVP to Julie Grant (jugrant@upei.ca) or Molly Tingley (mtingley@upei.ca).

Dean Juergen Krause, faculty and staff invite graduating business students to attend the Faculty of Business 2018 Undergraduate Graduating Class Reception. Bring your family and friends (up to two guests per student) to celebrate and acknowledge all the great things you have done as individuals and as a class throughout your time at UPEI. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided and there will be a cash bar. Dress: Business Attire RSVP by Tuesday, May 8th (business@upei.ca)

  President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz cordially invites the University community to University Update 2018 on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 2:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.  All are welcome.

On August 9th and 10th, graduate students from UPEI and across Canada will come together for a two-day conference held in Don and Marion McDougall Hall. There will be multiple events open to the campus community and conference attendees: presentations, poster session, workshops, keynote, and president's reception. More information will be posted to our website as it is confirmed.  Any questions and comments can be directed to gsa@upei.ca. 

The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences welcomes the campus community to a tenure-track faculty candidate presentation by Mr. Kyle Harrison, PhD candidate, on May 3 at 11:00 am in the Cass Science Hall, Room 101. For more information, please email smcs@upei.ca.

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday May 16, 17, 18, 2018, the School of Graduate Studies will be holding its Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference. This will be the first time that grad students from all UPEI faculties will jointly participate in presenting their research at a university-wide event.  These three days are a celebration of the accomplishments of our Graduate Students and their research efforts. Over the course of the two days, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from multiple faculties will present their research orally or in poster sessions. Opening ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 9:00 am on Wednesday, May 16. Students (undergraduate and graduate), researchers, and faculty are encouraged to attend as much of the conference as their schedule permits. Most activities will occur in AVC Lecture Theatre A and the McCain Foundation Learning Commons at AVC. This year, we are instituting a no-cost registration to facilitate planning and communication to participants. Register today!

UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the *New* MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to an information session on Thursday, May 10th, from 12:15 to 1:15 in AVC 218S. The MBA Coordinator will be there to give an overview of the program and there will be a representative from the Registrar’s Office there to assist candidates in making their application to the program. The $75 application fee will be waived for those in attendance that apply at the session. Pizza and refreshments will be available. Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to reserve a seat.

President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites members of the Indigenous, University, and Prince Edward Island community to the historic raising of the Mi'kmaq National Flag at the University of Prince Edward Island on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 3:00 pm at UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place. Please enter at the main entrance of the track facility at the north end of campus, and follow along the fence to access the flag pole area.