12 May, 1000-1130hrs Atlantic / 1030-1200hrs NL

The national systems use a job scheduler called “Slurm”. In this session, you will learn how Slurm works and how it allocates jobs, helping you to: minimize wait time by framing reasonable requests; ask for only the resources you need, to improve efficiency; increase throughput; run more jobs simultaneously; and troubleshoot and address crashes. This workshop is designed for new HPC users, or for experienced users either transitioning to Slurm or seeking to improve efficiency with the scheduler. Prerequisites: Completion of Introduction to Linux and Introduction to Shell Scripting, or prior experience with both.

DETAILS & REGISTER: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-job-scheduling-with-slurm-tickets-607579465537

10 May, 1000-1130hrs Atlantic / 1030-1200hrs NL

Linux is the terminal interface used to enable you to use supercomputing clusters from your desktop. It's the tool you need to get your data on the clusters, run your programs, and get your data back. In this session, learn how to get started with Linux, how to create and navigate directories for your data, load files, manage your storage, run programs on the compute clusters, and set file permissions. This workshop is designed for those with no prior experience in working with a terminal interface.  

DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-introduction-to-linux-tickets-607567269057 

5 May, 1000-1200hrs Atlantic / 1030-1230hrs NL

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but will give you insight to how media, programs, and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We will provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the trade-offs to consider when buying a computer. We will provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few "pro tips" on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you!

DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-of-computers-tickets-607585112427 

Connect with Colleagues, Get Inspired, Thrive in your teaching!

The UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre has organized a  special presentation by Dr. Natasha Kenny, director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary, on "Supporting Change in Teaching and Learning Cultures, Communities, and Practices." Colleagues from UPEI and other universities and colleges in the Atlantic region are invited to attend. Part of the Teaching Matters! series, this presentation will be a hyflex offering. Click here for more details about the talk. We hope to see you online or in-person. Email questions to TLC@upei.ca.

• To register for the Zoom link
• To register in-person (so that we can order lunch) 

The University of Prince Edward Island will host an information session for students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or learning more about the new Faculty of Medicine and joint Doctor of Medicine (MD) program at UPEI in partnership with Memorial University of Newfoundland. The session will take place on Thursday, May 4, 2023, from 6:00–7:00 pm in the Kelley Memorial Building, Room 211. 

There will be a general presentation and overview of the new Faculty of Medicine, followed by a Q&A session with UPEI representatives including Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President Academic and Research; Dr. Cathy Vardy, Executive Director, Medical Program Development; Jeff MacLean, Manager of Admissions; and Paul Young, Chief Operating Officer, UPEI Faculty of Medicine.

Pre-registration is not required for this session.

The Healthy Campus Committee provides two FREE Meditation and Yoga classes per week for UPEI faculty and staff. The 45-minute class offers meditation and gentle yoga stretches. The meditation segment of the class creates more calm, inner peace, and balance that benefits your emotional well-being and overall health. Yoga instructor Pam Harris Stewart leads the 12:10--12:55 pm class on Thursdays, and yoga instructor Colleen Gallant leads the 4:15--5:00 pm class on Tuesdays.

Preregistration is required.

1.  Go to recreation.upei.ca.

2.  UPEI faculty/staff – click on green "UPEI LOGIN" button. Sign in with your UPEI email address and password.

3.  Go to Wellness (UPEI Faculty/Staff) icon and follow the prompts

Please contact Angela Marchbank, coordinator of Fitness & Wellness, at amarchbank@upei.ca with any questions.  

The Sports Centre/Fitness Centre will be CLOSED during Convocation from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, Tuesday, May 16 - Friday, May 19. We are open from 6:00 to 8:00 am and 1:00 to 9:00 pm on those days.

PEI Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) would like to share planned activities for Emergency Preparedness Week, May 7-13, 2023.  This year’s theme is “Be prepared. Know your risks.”

Activities for the week include

• Follow PEI Public Safety social media feeds at PEI Public Safety | Facebook and PEI Public Safety (@PEIPublicSafety) / Twitter all week.
• There will be a week-long Like & Share contest focusing on your at-home emergency preparedness kits. Prize draw will be on May 13. PEI Public Safety | Facebook and PEI Public Safety (@PEIPublicSafety) / Twitter
• On May 8 at 12:55 pm, PEI EMO will conduct a test of the Alert Ready system. For more information on the Alert Ready system, please check out the following link: Home - Alert Ready Emergency Alert System (Pelmorex Corp). 
• There will be personal emergency preparedness presentations by EMO staff. All are welcome to attend!  
  • May 9, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, Credit Union Place, 511 Notre Dame St, Summerside, PEI
  • May 11, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, Charlottetown Public Library, 97 Queen St, Charlottetown, PEI 

Do you have a student co-presenting at the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference in June 2023? There is one travel bursary available for up to $1000 for an undergraduate student who is co-presenting with a UPEI instructor. To apply, send a letter to the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC@upei.ca) by May 15, 2023. The letter of application should include the following:

• accepted abstract
• the name and program of the undergraduate student
• a brief explanation of the student's role in the presentation 
• a detailed budget. 

Wrapping up grading for those last student assignments for the semester?  Wondering about ways to ensure the feedback you are offering encourages and empowers your students? Here's a blog post that might have a few ideas: Feedback and language choice

NEW small group training and specialty fitness classes begin in May. To view prices and offerings, please log into recreation.upei.ca. UPEI students, staff, and faculty: When logging in, DO NOT enter your email in the space that says community. Click on the green UPEI LOGIN button, and enter your UPEI email and password. Then click on the Fitness Programming icon and then on either small group training or specialty fitness classes. Follow the prompts for the programs you wish to register in. 

As part of the UPEI Hearing Conservation Program, audiometric testing will take place on June 9 and 16, 2023 in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 313. These tests take approximately ten minutes to complete. 

It is important, especially in high-volume workplaces, to have your hearing tested annually. All are welcome to attend.

Please pre-register for audiometric testing by contacting Jacky Buell at HSE@upei.ca  or 902-566-0901 by June 1, 2023.

The Faculty of Nursing is pleased to announce the upcoming Master of Nursing thesis defense on Wednesday, May 3, at 1:30 pm.

Sydney Gaudet, supervised by Dr. Christina Murray, will present her thesis titled "Exploring the Experiences of Young Adults Living with an Eating Disorder on Prince Edward Island." The presentation and examination will be held in person in HSB 105.

On Wednesday, May 10, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the Moodle application and related services from 9 pm to 12 midnight. 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 search committee for the Dean, Faculty of Education, announces upcoming public presentations by each of the finalist candidates. Since the search process began last summer, the committee has undertaken a comprehensive search and selected the following finalists for a series of stakeholder meetings on campus. Presentations are scheduled on the following dates/times: 

Dr. Miles Turnbull, Professor of Education, and Vice-Principal, Academic and Research, Bishop's University:

• Public Presentation: Monday, May 8, 2023, 2:00 to 3:00 pm, AVC, Room 205N 

Dr. Douglas Gosse, Professor of Education, and Associate Dean, Faculty of Education and Professional Studies, Nipissing University: 

• Public Presentation: Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 2:00 to 3:00 pm, AVC 205N

 All are welcome to attend. For any who are unable to attend, the presentation will be recorded and available afterward for viewing from a secure site. Paper copies of each candidate's CV will be available for viewing in the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research. Following each presentation, you are invited to provide feedback on the candidate’s suitability for the role to vpar@upei.ca.

Convocation is almost here! UPEI employees and faculty are invited to attend the Convocation exercises being held from May 16 to 19, at 10:00 am each day at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Each ceremony is preceded by a procession of graduates across campus. 

• Tuesday, May 16—Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of Nursing
• Wednesday, May 17—Faculty of Business and Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
• Thursday, May 18—Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Faculty of Graduate Studies (Master in Global Affairs only)
• Friday, May 19—Faculty of Science

Although the new format of four ceremonies allows more flexibility in terms of seating, guests are asked to present invitations in order to be admitted to the Sports Centre. Staff/faculty members can pick-up their invitation by contacting Eileen Kinch at kinch@upei.ca. Guests must present their invitations in order to be admitted to the Sports Centre. Staff/faculty members can pick-up their one invitation by contacting Eileen Kinch at kinch@upei.ca.

Faculty members who have regalia and wish to participate in the Academic Procession, are asked to line up with the graduates in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building concourse 45 minutes before each ceremony. 

For those faculty members who would like to order regalia online through UPEI’s official gown supplier, GradCo, they are encouraged to do so asap at https://www.gradco.ca/upei/. The deadline for ordering is Friday, May 5. Any faculty members who wish to purchase their regalia may contact GradCo at info@gradco.ca for information.  

For more information about Convocation 2023, please visit: upei.ca/convocation.

11 May, 1000-1130hrs Atlantic / 1030-1200hrs NL

Shell scripting helps you save time, automate file management tasks, and better use the power of Linux. You’ll learn how to use the command line to carry out repetitive tasks, extract information from files quickly, combine commands in powerful ways, learn about job scripts, shell variables, and looping commands, and capture a workflow so you can re-use it easily. Save time, reduce errors, and use Linux more effectively. This workshop is designed for either new High Performance Computing (HPC) users who are familiar with working in a Linux environment, or for experienced users seeking to get more out of shell scripting. It is one of the core courses to help users get up and running on ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada systems. Prerequisite: ACENET Basic Series Introduction to Linux, or previous experience with Linux.  

DETAILS & REGISTER: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-introduction-to-shell-scripting-tickets-607593868617

5 May, 1000-1200hrs Atlantic / 1030-1230hrs NL

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but will give you insight to how media, programs, and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We will provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the trade-offs to consider when buying a computer. We will provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few "pro tips" on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you!

DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-of-computers-tickets-607585112427 

4, 11, 18, 25 May, 1300-1630hrs Atlantic / 1330-1700hrs NL

This is a beginner-level series that is hands-on, covering the fundamentals of Unix Shell, Version Control with Git and R. It covers the fundamentals of R, including data types, functions, importing, manipulating and analyzing data and data visualization as well as program design, version control, data management, and task automation. The goal is to teach the practical knowledge needed to start programming, debugging and using R in everyday tasks. You do not need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented or previous programming experience but intermediate-level experience with a computer is highly recommended.

DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introductory-programming-unix-shell-git-and-r-tickets-607622373877

4, 11, 17, 24 May, 1300-1630 hrs Atlantic / 1330-1700hrs NL

This is a beginner-level, hands-on series based on Software Carpentry materials (https://software-carpentry.org/). It covers the fundamentals of Python including data types, conditional statements, loops and functions, as well as program design, version control, data management, and task automation. The goal is to teach the practical knowledge needed to start programming, debugging, and using Python in everyday tasks. You do not need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented or previous programming experience but intermediate-level experience with a computer is highly recommended.

DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introductory-programming-unix-shell-git-and-python-tickets-607596416237