Over 70 high school students across the province are taking part in UPEI’s first ever open class days being held March 18 and 19. UPEI invited high school students to attend classes, have lunch, tour the university, and experience what a university class is all about.
“This is a great opportunity for students to experience UPEI in the company of friends and classmates,” said Christian Lacroix, Interim Vice-President Academic. The open class days initiative was led by the offices of the Vice-President Academic, Recruitment, and the UPEI Student Union.
Students were able to register in a variety of classes from the nursing, science, arts, and business programs including first-year to fourth-year courses. On Monday, lunch was hosted by the Atlantic Veterinary College and followed with guided tours of the facility. Tuesday’s lunch will be...
On Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm the UPEI music department will present “Sing me a Story” featuring third-year soprano students Nadine Haddad and Morgan Wagner with the assistance of Frances McBurnie on piano. The recital will include works by J.S. Bach, Enrique Granados, Henry Purcell, Richard Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, and Hugo Wolf as well as traditional and jazz selections. After months of preparation Nadine and Morgan look forward to sharing many stories in song.
UPEI music student Echo Lau will present her senior piano recital on Sunday, March 24 at 2:30 pm. The program will include Chopin’s Sonata no.3 in B minor, Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse, and Ravel’s Concerto in G, accompanied by Dr. Frances Gray. Echo was born in Hong Kong and moved to PEI with her parents in 2004. She studied piano with Frances...
CIBC has generously donated $125,000 to the University of Prince Edward Island and its School of Business to assist UPEI business administration students.
The CIBC Awards in Business Administration will be granted on an annual basis over a five-year period, to ten undergraduate students enrolled full-time in the bachelor of business administration program. The scholarships are valued at $2,500 each.
“We are delighted to present the CIBC Awards in Business Administration to ten deserving students this year,” said Alan Duncan, dean of the School of Business. “We can’t thank CIBC enough for their support. These students best reflect the vision and commitment of CIBC and are so grateful to be the first recipients of these new awards.”
Award recipients had the opportunity to thank representatives from CIBC during a...
The UPEI curling team is off to Kamloops, BC, for the 2013 CIS/CCA University Curling Championship which takes place March 20–24 at the Kamloops Curling Club. The team, consisting of skip Veronica Smith, Jane DiCarlo, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty, is coached by Paul Smith.
UPEI and Saint Mary’s University had strong showings at the AUS curling championship back in January—UPEI advances to nationals as Atlantic B final winners, while Saint Mary’s advances as A winners. Both teams will represent the Atlantic conference with the hope of earning national medals.
“It’s always a special feeling of pride when teams have the opportunity to compete on the national stage for the UPEI community and the province as a whole,” said UPEI Director of Athletics and Recreation, Bill Schurman.
UPEI will take on Thompson Rivers...
Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, on the Takhini River. She will read and talk about her poetry on Monday, March 18 at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building as part of the Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series.
Here Is Where We Disembark, her debut collection, consists of two sections. The first follows cycles of the season and domestic life. “You know you’ve found a real poet when she observes that mud, in a Yukon springtime, was ‘never so exotic, / tracked across the kitchen floor,’” writes poet and critic Gary Geddes. The second section portrays the people and backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush. We hear a pioneer wife speak to the river, a prostitute to a sergeant, and a woman to a king salmon. Roberts gives voice to river, fish, and fire, as well as to human settlers and sojourners.
“From many...
UPEI’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program and the PEI Business Women’s Association partnered on a workplace bullying presentation on Wednesday, March 13. The event took place in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, on the UPEI campus.
Jodi Murphy, a UPEI EMBA graduate and teacher with the Prince Edward Island English-language School Board shared her research findings from her signature project, an independent research project and key component of the UPEI EMBA program. These signature projects provide structure for students to conduct a deep examination of a particular area, advised by a faculty member. It also provides students with the opportunity to apply management concepts and skills that they have acquired during the EMBA program.
Her project focused on the current state of workplace bullying in Canada and the implications that this...
Fourth-year Panthers hockey forward Jordan Knox received the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Dr. Randy Gregg Award at the SaskTel Awards Presentation at TCU Place in Saskatoon on Wednesday, March 13. Knox was honoured with the award for his excellence in hockey, academics, and community service.
The Skinners Pond native also received an Academic All-Canadian mention in each of the four seasons he played in the Atlantic conference. He finished this past season 16th in AUS scoring with nine goals and 16 assists to give him 25 points in 28 games. During his Panther career, he has collected 33 goals and 67 assists for a total of 100 points in 108 regular season games.
Knox’s volunteer efforts have not gone unnoticed. He was instrumental in raising funds for two families during times of tragic loss—families of former Panther Drew Power, and Kameron...
The Signal, an online publication of the United States Library of Congress that chronicles trends in digital preservation, recently profiled the work of UPEI Librarian Mark Leggott. The article, entitled “Islandora’s Open-source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott,” can be read in full here.
The article is part of a series from The Signal on open-source software and the role it plays in digital preservation. Leggott is the founder of Islandora, an open-source software package which marries content management and presentation with long-term preservation.
“The Islandora project is a great example of a sustainable open-source ecosystem,” said Leggott....
Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the public are invited to The Wave in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre on Wednesday, March 13 at 6:30 pm as four outstanding alumni take the stage to discuss their experiences at UPEI and how they have transitioned into successful careers.
Joining the panel will be Shannon MacDonald (BBA'90), managing partner with Deloitte; Spenser MacPherson (BSc'93) owner of SEM Partnerships specializing in safety management; Erin McGrath-Gaudet (BA'03), director of provincial affairs for Prince Edward Island with the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, and David McMillan (BA'97) owner of Home Instead Senior Care (PEI) and Island Ease Concierge.
“Whenever UPEI alumni are able to connect with UPEI students and share their experiences, it is a win-win situation. Students have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of those that...
The UPEI music department is pleased to present a series of junior and senior recitals throughout the month of March. This week, Nik Dragatakis (jazz guitar) and Cora Wong (flute) will be presenting their junior recital on Friday, March 15 at 7:30 pm at UPEI’s Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Wong, of Westville, Nova Scotia is a third-year music major in flute performance. She has competed extensively in the New Glasgow Music Festival and the Nova Scotia Provincial Music Festival and has also represented Nova Scotia in the National Music Festival for woodwinds. Her junior recital program will feature works of Bach, Feld, Clarke, and Casella. Wong will be accompanied by Frances McBurnie.
Dragatakis will be performing jazz classics by Kenny Wheeler, Jimmy VanHeusen, Wayne Shorter, and Bobby Timmons. His trio will feature Isaac Williams on bass and Patrick LeClair on...
