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The Comptroller's Office invites the campus community to attend one of the two remaining information sessions on the recently updated Spending and Signing Authority policies.

Thursday, July 10, 2:00 pm -  Kelley Memorial Building, Room 237 (in-person)

Friday, July 11, 10:30 am at this

The Department of Physics is once again hosting public viewings of the sun using our solar telescopes this summer. We invite you to join us on Friday, July 11, from 12:30-2:00 pm on the grassy area between Memorial Hall and Robertson Library. There you can view one layer of the sun's atmosphere (the chromosphere) through our ground-based telescope before climbing to the observatory and viewing another layer (the photosphere) through a different telescope. You'll get to see sunspots and prominences and learn about our nearest star.

If the weather is cloudy on Friday, we will have to cancel this event, but we will be holding additional events every two weeks throughout the summer.

Check our after 10:00 am on Friday for the status of the event.

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada and beyond are attending the , 鈥淐o-Creating Possibilities: Supportive Homes & Communities,鈥� an intensive, one-week learning experience, at 17吃瓜 from July 7 to 11.

As part of the institute, there will be a pitch competition on July 11, from 11 am to 12 noon, in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Those who wish to attend are asked to register .

Teams of participants will apply what they have learned by devising technology-based solutions that address key challenges identified by Veterans Affairs Canada; solutions will enable aging in place, support caregivers, and decrease social isolation. Each team will work with older adults and other stakeholders to develop an innovation and then will pitch it to a panel of judges at the competition. The teams have the opportunity to win cash prizes and receive additional in-kind support to further develop their innovations.

is Canada鈥檚 technology and aging network. This is the first time that the AGE-WELL Summer Institute has taken place in 17吃瓜.

Robertson Library will be CLOSED Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13, 2025

Due to required, university-wide ITSS infrastructure upgrades which require a shutdown of services, Robertson Library services will experience significant service disruptions this weekend.

Service Disruptions

The following services will be unavailable from July 12 at 4:00 PM through July 13 at 4:00 PM:

• Library Website: library.upei.ca will be unavailable
• Digital Collections: 17吃瓜 and PEI digital collections will be unavailable
• Online Catalogue: The Evergreen catalogue for browsing our physical holdings will be offline
• Printing Services: Unavailable (Building closure supersedes this)

OneSearch Access Workaround

Limited OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service) access will be available with the following workaround:

Users can create a personal "MyEBSCO" account and log in directly at to access OneSearch and individual EBSCOhost databases, bypassing campus network dependencies.

This personal MyEBSCO account must be created PRIOR to the downtime period.

Note: Access will be restricted to full text within EBSCO platforms or open access materials during the outage; non-EBSCO licensed content will remain unavailable.

Contact Information

For more details regarding this disruption, please contact the Service Desk during our regular hours:

• Phone: 902-566-0583
• Email: circdesk@upei.ca

As part of the campus-wide initiative to improve reliability of services and future campus projects, significant work is planned to upgrade critical ITSS Data Centre infrastructure. Related construction is well underway, requiring existing equipment to be relocated to make way for new.

This work鈥攚hich is scheduled from Saturday, July 12, at 4:00 pm to Sunday, July 13, at 4:00 pm鈥攔equires a full shutdown of the existing equipment resulting in a 24-hour loss of ITSS services while the work is promptly completed.  

Services impacted include those at both the 17吃瓜 Charlottetown campus and St. Peter鈥檚 Bay campus (Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation).  Specifically, those service impacts include:

• No Internet access on campus (no access to Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, Moodle, RxWorks, LIMS, Colleague, My17吃瓜, etc. using 17吃瓜 networks)NOTE: Cloud-based services will still be accessible from outside the 17吃瓜 network (Moodle, 17吃瓜.ca, Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, etc).
• No WiFi
• No authentication system access to log into 17吃瓜 classroom and lab computers
• No printer access
• No file server access (i.e., L and H drives)
• No 17吃瓜/AVC data centre-hosted services (My17吃瓜, Recruiter, RxWorks (AVC Veterinary Teaching Hospital), Robertson Library resources, LIMS, Colleague,  My17吃瓜, etc.)
• No network-based monitoring/reporting/management (i.e., Siemens panels, UPS status, AVC鈥檚 aquatic animals facility, etc.)

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. 

The Human Resources Office in Kelley Memorial Building will be undergoing renovations, effective July 3, 2025, until further notice.

During our renovation period, the HR office will be relocated to Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Suite 213. Department staff will rotate working remotely and onsite in McDougall Hall. Our office hours are 8:30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

During the week of July 7, we encourage people to reach us via email or phone as we transition office spaces. 

If you have documents to deliver outside of normal business hours, there will be a drop box available by our main door at McDougall Hall, Suite 213. Please contact us at 902-566-0514 or by email at HRgeneral@upei.ca. 

For more information on the Human Resources Department, our services and our staff contact information, please refer to the HR Resource Guide.

The Human Resources team at 17吃瓜 has been growing and evolving鈥攁nd so have our services! To help you stay connected and know who to reach out to, we鈥檝e updated our HR Team Guide with the latest information on our team.

You can find the guide by going to: my17吃瓜 > Menu > Administrative Services > Human Resources

is just below our contact information near the top of the page.

This is a living document, so we鈥檒l be updating it regularly. Be sure to check back now and then to make sure you鈥檙e seeing the most current version.

If you have any questions, we鈥檙e always happy to help鈥攋ust reach out!

The deadline for Animal Care protocol submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 1, for the August meeting. 

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through 17吃瓜 Researcher Portal at

For new protocols select 鈥榓pplications鈥� and for renewal or amendment protocols select 鈥榚vents鈥�.

To view any 17吃瓜 ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through my17吃瓜 at . 

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

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Caroline Chamandy's defense of her PsyD dissertation titled 鈥淎s much as it was helpful, it didn't really matter: Parents Experiences of Psychoeducational Assessment in Atlantic Canada鈥�.

Date and Time: July 17, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Location: Memorial Hall, Room 104

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada and beyond are attending the , 鈥淐o-Creating Possibilities: Supportive Homes & Communities,鈥� an intensive, one-week learning experience, at 17吃瓜 from July 7 to 11.

As part of the institute, there will be a pitch competition on July 11, from 11 am to 12 noon, in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Those who wish to attend are asked to register .

Teams of participants will apply what they have learned by devising technology-based solutions that address key challenges identified by Veterans Affairs Canada; solutions will enable aging in place, support caregivers, and decrease social isolation. Each team will work with older adults and other stakeholders to develop an innovation and then will pitch it to a panel of judges at the competition. The teams have the opportunity to win cash prizes and receive additional in-kind support to further develop their innovations.

is Canada鈥檚 technology and aging network. This is the first time that the AGE-WELL Summer Institute has taken place in 17吃瓜.

Robertson Library will be CLOSED Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13, 2025

Due to required, university-wide ITSS infrastructure upgrades which require a shutdown of services, Robertson Library services will experience significant service disruptions this weekend.

Service Disruptions

The following services will be unavailable from July 12 at 4:00 PM through July 13 at 4:00 PM:

• Library Website: library.upei.ca will be unavailable
• Digital Collections: 17吃瓜 and PEI digital collections will be unavailable
• Online Catalogue: The Evergreen catalogue for browsing our physical holdings will be offline
• Printing Services: Unavailable (Building closure supersedes this)

OneSearch Access Workaround

Limited OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service) access will be available with the following workaround:

Users can create a personal "MyEBSCO" account and log in directly at to access OneSearch and individual EBSCOhost databases, bypassing campus network dependencies.

This personal MyEBSCO account must be created PRIOR to the downtime period.

Note: Access will be restricted to full text within EBSCO platforms or open access materials during the outage; non-EBSCO licensed content will remain unavailable.

Contact Information

For more details regarding this disruption, please contact the Service Desk during our regular hours:

• Phone: 902-566-0583
• Email: circdesk@upei.ca

To better support the campus community, ITSS has updated how support requests are submitted and handled. These changes help ensure tickets are created and triaged properly, with critical issues prioritized.

IT Forms
All equipment, access, and other IT forms can now be accessed via

Submit Requests via Online Form
All IT help and service requests should now be submitted through our new ticket form
This sends your request directly to our Help Desk system for faster triage.

Email and Phone Use Changes
We are moving away from using the helpdesk email and phone as the main contact methods for general issues.

• The helpdesk email inbox will still be checked throughout the day, but it is no longer the primary way to request support and should not be used for urgent issues.
• The ITSS phone number is now for live critical issues only. We will do our best to answer, but there may be times when all agents are assisting others. 
  • Please note: If your issue is not critical, you will be asked to submit a ticket through the online form.

If you are experiencing a live critical issue and cannot reach anyone by phone, you may escalate to Deryl Gallant, Manager of ITSS Operations.

We appreciate your understanding as we adapt to current staffing realities and continue working to provide the best possible service to the campus.

If you have questions or feedback, please contact Deryl Gallant, Manager of ITSS Operations. 

The Application Review Committee invites campus community members to provide feedback on the candidate who visited for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Equity in Nutrition, Physical Activity, or Health. Below is a summary of the candidate and a link to the recorded research seminar.  

Dr. Waldman has a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia (2020) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Dr. Waldman's research program is comprised of three lines of socio-cultural inquiry in sport, physical culture, and health: 1) the local and global postcolonial politics and implications of sport and health focused 'new city' developments in the Global South; 2) sport, international development, and gendered/racialized inequalities; and 3) global ethnography as a qualitative research methodology, relations of power in research settings, and the politics of knowledge production. These three lines of inquiry come together to address questions about how colonialism shape sport-led urban and regional land development, the politics of inclusion/exclusion in urban planning, and sustainable community development in the Global South.

Feedback is requested by 4 pm on July 11, 2025, and can be provided to mlsteele@upei.ca.

As part of the campus-wide initiative to improve reliability of services and future campus projects, significant work is planned to upgrade critical ITSS Data Centre infrastructure. Related construction is well underway, requiring existing equipment to be relocated to make way for new.

This work鈥攚hich is scheduled from Saturday, July 12, at 4:00 pm to Sunday, July 13, at 4:00 pm鈥攔equires a full shutdown of the existing equipment resulting in a 24-hour loss of ITSS services while the work is promptly completed.  

Services impacted include those at both the 17吃瓜 Charlottetown campus and St. Peter鈥檚 Bay campus (Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation).  Specifically, those service impacts include:

• No Internet access on campus (no access to Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, Moodle, RxWorks, LIMS, Colleague, My17吃瓜, etc. using 17吃瓜 networks)NOTE: Cloud-based services will still be accessible from outside the 17吃瓜 network (Moodle, 17吃瓜.ca, Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, etc).
• No WiFi
• No authentication system access to log into 17吃瓜 classroom and lab computers
• No printer access
• No file server access (i.e., L and H drives)
• No 17吃瓜/AVC data centre-hosted services (My17吃瓜, Recruiter, RxWorks (AVC Veterinary Teaching Hospital), Robertson Library resources, LIMS, Colleague,  My17吃瓜, etc.)
• No network-based monitoring/reporting/management (i.e., Siemens panels, UPS status, AVC鈥檚 aquatic animals facility, etc.)

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. 

The Human Resources Office in Kelley Memorial Building will be undergoing renovations, effective July 3, 2025, until further notice.

During our renovation period, the HR office will be relocated to Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Suite 213. Department staff will rotate working remotely and onsite in McDougall Hall. Our office hours are 8:30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

During the week of July 7, we encourage people to reach us via email or phone as we transition office spaces. 

If you have documents to deliver outside of normal business hours, there will be a drop box available by our main door at McDougall Hall, Suite 213. Please contact us at 902-566-0514 or by email at HRgeneral@upei.ca. 

For more information on the Human Resources Department, our services and our staff contact information, please refer to the HR Resource Guide.

The deadline for Animal Care protocol submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, August 1, for the August meeting. 

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through 17吃瓜 Researcher Portal at

For new protocols select 鈥榓pplications鈥� and for renewal or amendment protocols select 鈥榚vents鈥�.

To view any 17吃瓜 ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through my17吃瓜 at . 

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

Epjila鈥檚i, Kulahsihkulpa, Welcome! 

The Association of Atlantic Universities Committee on Faculty Development is pleased to partner with the University of New Brunswick to host the 2025 Annual Atlantic Universities' Teaching Showcase on the unsurrendered and unceded traditional lands of the Wolastoqiyik peoples, in beautiful Fredericton. The 2025 AAU Teaching Showcase will take place in person on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at the University of New Brunswick鈥檚 Fredericton campus. This year's theme of Reimagining Higher Education calls on educators, scholars, and learners to rethink the purposes, practices, and possibilities of teaching and learning.

Proposal Deadline: August 25, 2025 

Troy Life and Fire Safety will be conducting the annual fire alarm inspections throughout campus beginning on Thursday, June 26. 

As part of the inspections, there will be an audible notification stating "this is a test" at the beginning and ending of each test. The building occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience; however, the ringing of the alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. 

Please see the schedule below for June and July. 

• June 26 - Daycare Building and Chaplaincy Centre
• June 27 - Alumni Hall and Alumni Canada Games Place 
• July 2 and 3 - Duffy Science Centre 
• July 3 - Cass Science Hall 
• July 7 and 8 - Central Utility Building 
• July 8 - SDU Main Building 
• July 9 - Robertson Library 
• July 14 and 15 - Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
• July 15 - Memorial Hall 
• July 16 - W.A Murphy Student Centre 
• July 17 - Don and Marion McDougall Hall 
• July 21 - Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre and Dalton Hall 
• July 22 and 23 - Bill and Denise Andrew Hall 
• July 23 - Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall 
• July 24 - K.C Irving Chemistry Centre and Kelley Memorial Building 
• July 28-31 - Performing Arts Centre and Residence 

A schedule for August will be posted in by mid-July. 

Contact fmcapitalprojects@upei.ca with any concerns or questions. 

The Application Review Committee invites campus community members to provide feedback on the candidate who visited for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Equity in Nutrition, Physical Activity, or Health. Below is a summary of the candidate and a link to the recorded research seminar.  

Dr. Waldman has a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia (2020) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Dr. Waldman's research program is comprised of three lines of socio-cultural inquiry in sport, physical culture, and health: 1) the local and global postcolonial politics and implications of sport and health focused 'new city' developments in the Global South; 2) sport, international development, and gendered/racialized inequalities; and 3) global ethnography as a qualitative research methodology, relations of power in research settings, and the politics of knowledge production. These three lines of inquiry come together to address questions about how colonialism shape sport-led urban and regional land development, the politics of inclusion/exclusion in urban planning, and sustainable community development in the Global South.

Feedback is requested by 4 pm on July 11, 2025, and can be provided to mlsteele@upei.ca.

As part of the campus-wide initiative to improve reliability of services and future campus projects, significant work is planned to upgrade critical ITSS Data Centre infrastructure. Related construction is well underway, requiring existing equipment to be relocated to make way for new.

This work鈥攚hich is scheduled from Saturday, July 12, at 4:00 pm to Sunday, July 13, at 4:00 pm鈥攔equires a full shutdown of the existing equipment resulting in a 24-hour loss of ITSS services while the work is promptly completed.  

Services impacted include those at both the 17吃瓜 Charlottetown campus and St. Peter鈥檚 Bay campus (Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation).  Specifically, those service impacts include:

• No Internet access on campus (no access to Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, Moodle, RxWorks, LIMS, Colleague, My17吃瓜, etc. using 17吃瓜 networks)NOTE: Cloud-based services will still be accessible from outside the 17吃瓜 network (Moodle, 17吃瓜.ca, Outlook (email), SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, etc).
• No WiFi
• No authentication system access to log into 17吃瓜 classroom and lab computers
• No printer access
• No file server access (i.e., L and H drives)
• No 17吃瓜/AVC data centre-hosted services (My17吃瓜, Recruiter, RxWorks (AVC Veterinary Teaching Hospital), Robertson Library resources, LIMS, Colleague,  My17吃瓜, etc.)
• No network-based monitoring/reporting/management (i.e., Siemens panels, UPS status, AVC鈥檚 aquatic animals facility, etc.)

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.