A memorial service in honour of F. Alan Reesor, faculty member in the UPEI Department of Music from 1970–1997, will be held at St. Peter's Cathedral on Rochford Street in Charlottetown, on Sunday, November 13, 2022, at 2:30 pm. Alan forged an international reputation as an organist, choral director, and musicologist and was awarded the title of professor emeritus at UPEI in 1998. A variety of Alan’s friends, colleagues, and former students will gather to perform and pay tribute to his remarkable legacy of music and the far-reaching impact he had on the lives of so many people. Those unable to attend in person may watch the event through live-streaming at
https://www.youtube.com/cha.../UCDFzXrCQaxe7cj-XFaYSPIQ/live

Ashton Dougan, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the Health Science Building, Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

Ellen Taylor-Walsh, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the Health Science Building, Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

Katelyn Smallwood-MacDonald, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 10:00 am in the Health Science Building, Room 105. 

All are welcome to attend.

Overview: The Adult Learner - Course Design and Facilitation Certificate offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of adult learning for individuals who want to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to design and deliver effective and engaging adult training programs. Participants will develop new insights and techniques that will strengthen their training content and approach, learn about designing curriculum to match diverse learning styles (including in-person and online facilitation), organize engaging experiential activities that ensure the achievement of learning objectives, and deliver peer-reviewed interactive training content and facilitation sessions.

Designed for: People who are interested in becoming or improving as facilitators, trainers, consultants, subject matter experts, adult educators, human resource personnel, contract workers, tutors, or similar positions

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: Six modules for a total of 48 hours; four modules last one day (six hours each), and two modules last two days (twelve hours each)

Facilitator: Laura Johnson

For more information, check out https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/certificate-in-design-and-facilitation. 

Overview: The Certificate in Customer and Client Service is designed to give the knowledge, skills, and tools for individuals to improve customer and client service within their organization. Not only are the benefits of improved customer and client service positive feelings and loyalty, but it also improves the workplace morale, which in turn leads to better production and results.

At the end of this certificate, participants will be able to elevate customer and client service both internally and externally within their organization, turn customer and client service failures into learning opportunities—which will lead to positives—and create a culture that will make great customer and client service consistent and a priority among all members of an organization.

Designed for: All people involved with customer and client service, both in a retail and a multi-level organizational sense.  Especially relevant for all executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who deal with other people within their workplace.

Type of Delivery: In-person.

Duration: One day (six hours)

Facilitator: Tracy Stretch

For more information and to register, go to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/customer-and-client-service.  

NOTE: an earlier version of this notice listed the price as $99. The actual cost is $499. Sorry for any confusion. 

UPEI Athletics and Recreation has a new recreation portal that is used for all fitness, intramural, panther academy, and staff/faculty wellness programming.  

To gain access, log into recreation.upei.ca, and click on "Sign In" in the upper right-hand corner. Ensure that you click on the green button that states UPEI LOGIN --- use your UPEI username/email and password to gain access. Do NOT sign in on the community button, and do NOT reset the password. Use the same email/username and password that you use to log into myupei.ca.

Once you are on the site, please take some time to click and review it. For UPEI staff/faculty, click on the Wellness (UPEI Faculty/Staff) icon to view and/or register for any wellness programs. UPEI staff/faculty also have discounts on specialty fitness classes, small group training, and virtual fitness programming.   

UPEI students have access to intramural programs. Only full-time UPEI students have access to intramurals. The site includes the team they are on, game stats, and game schedules with dates, times, and locations.

Those who have purchased Sports Centre memberships and wish to attend a membership fitness class must log in and sign up for a class on a specific date and time.  As well, if they can't make the class, they have to cancel it.  Instructions are found in the class description. 

Take some time as well to view your profile. Click on your name and then your profile. This profile will give you access to program registrations, program attendance, memberships (start and end dates), etc.   

NOTE:  All UPEI staff and faculty have a "default membership." This is not a membership with any membership benefits. Instead, it is a membership that will give you access to discounts on programming and allow you to register for UPEI staff/faculty wellness programs.

This is a hands-on introductory workshop focused on fostering best practices for data organization in spreadsheets. Participants will learn how to organize their data to prioritize clarity, reproducibility, and interoperability, such that they can seamlessly load their data later into an analysis program. The spreadsheet programs covered will be Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. The examples explored will be from the field of Social Sciences, but the principles are relevant for any discipline that collects data in spreadsheets. No previous experience with spreadsheets or programming is required.

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-hss-working-with-data-series-introduction-to-spreadsheets-tickets-427314207297

Machine learning (ML) algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. In this hands-on workshop, you will use MATLAB to apply ML techniques to Signal data. Topics include fundamentals of ML (supervised learning, feature extraction, and hyperparameter tuning); building and evaluating ML models for classification and regression of signals; automatic hyperparameter tuning and feature selection to optimize model performance; and, deploying ML models.

For details and registration, go to https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/mathworksmeeting/j.php?RGID=rc1cb9cfab0ff2cf1cff1ff5b5a33e32e 

Vagabond Productions is holding auditions for Twelfth Night on November 3, 4, and 5 in the Steel Recital Hall from 7 to 9 pm on each date. 

Everyone is welcome.

An initial list of potential 2022-23 George Coles Bursary recipients will be sent to PEI Student Financial Services for review on Thursday, November 10, 2022. To be included in this initial review, eligible students must ensure that

• their Social Insurance Number is on file at UPEI;
• they are registered in full-time studies in both the 2022 Fall and 2023 Winter terms, as of November 10th, 2022 (unless they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year). Please note that only registered courses count toward student load. Waitlisted courses do not count; 
• if they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year, they have applied to graduate prior to November 10, 2022.

Approved recipients will have funding applied to their student account in the 2023 Winter term. Any questions relating to this message or the George Coles Bursary can be directed to scholarships@upei.ca.

Need more storage on your android phone? 

Some phone models allow you to increase storage with a microSD card. Not only does this let you store more media and apps on your phone, but it also offers a way to transfer large amounts of file data between your phone and other devices. Another advantage is that you can plug some Android phones into an external USB storage drive and browse its files. If your phone has a USB-C port, you can simply plug in a USB flash memory drive with a Type-C connection.

The UPEI Department of Music will present a faculty recital, "Autumn Colours," featuring string players Jeffrey Bazett-Jones (viola), Sean Kemp (violin), and Natalie Williams Calhoun (cello); Magdalena von Eccher (piano); and Karem Simon (clarinet) presenting music by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Brahms. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for students and may be purchased at the admissions desk.

PhD Thesis Presentation and Examination, Environmental Sciences

Kimberly Wishart Chu Foon

Friday November 4, 2022, at 1:00 pm in AVC 286N

Title:  Networks, Governance, and Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract:

Effective conservation approaches are essential for the future sustainability of island natural resources. This study was conducted on Trinidad and Tobago to examine organizational networks and their effectiveness in addressing conservation. A mixed methods approach was used to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Broadly, the organizational networks are poorly connected, and there is limited cross collaboration between organizations working in different ecosystems. When comparing three local protected areas, the partially co-managed protected area had better-connected networks, more positive views about conservation goal achievement and network performance and evidence of ecological outcomes as a direct result of this co-management approach. All networks faced several challenges including conflict issues, lack of state cooperation, and lack of time. Overall, this research has expanded our understanding of conservation networks in an island context. It provided useful data that can be utilized by both conservation practitioners and policymakers locally to improve conservation.

Overview: Project management is a core competency in our rapidly changing environment. This certificate discusses and evaluates what is a project, what defines success, management of stakeholders, communication, leadership, project lifecycles, risk, budgets, and schedules. The program emphasizes agile and change management skills, which are important in today’s project environment. At the certificate completion, participants will have the confidence and ability to plan, manage, and complete almost any project size.

Designed for: Professionals who are responsible for managing projects, programs and portfolios, project team leads, managers whose resources are allocated to projects or who support project work, business analysts, project sponsors

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: Six courses for a total of forty-two hours; the “Foundations of Project Management” course is two days, and all other courses are one day

Facilitator: David Boyce

For more information, head to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/project-management-certificate. 

The UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre is currently looking for instructors or graduate and post-doctoral students who want to teach and would be interested in taking this course. We need participants to sign up for the synchronous portions of the course.

Part of the Academic Instructional Skills program, the three-part course investigates ways to create a positive classroom environment and encourage more effective discussion and productive groups, as well as look at ways of dealing with common group work and discussion dilemmas. Part one and three are delivered asynchronously online. Part two is a choice between taking a one-hour in-person class focused on practicing the delivery of discussion and group work in an in-person environment or a one-hour online class focused on practicing the delivery of discussion and group work in an online environment. Participants are welcome to take both the in-person and online sessions if they choose.

SIGN UP for the synchronous in-person practice class.

SIGN UP for the synchronous online practice class.

ENROL in the asynchronous online portions of this course (Part One of the asynchronous content must be completed before participating in Part Two).

For further information, please contact Joel MacDonald, instructional designer in the UPEI E-Learning Office, at joelmacdonald@upei.ca,

Are you aware of a student writer whose work deserves recognition and a broader audience? Perhaps that student is you! Here's a fantastic opportunity. The call for submissions to the UPEI Arts Review, Volume XII, is out. Our goal is to encourage and celebrate excellent, engaging writing on campus, both creative and academic (any faculty). For all relevant information, including electronic access to several previous editions, visit https://www.facebook.com/UPEIArtsReview.

Faculty members, please encourage your students to submit their exemplary course work.

Dr. Ed MacDonald, professor of history, will give a public lecture titled "Enshrined: Island Tourism and the Confederation Story" on November 15 at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. For over a century, the three staple constants in Prince Edward Island tourism have been our pastoral landscape, Anne of Green Gables, and the Island's claim as the "Birthplace of Confederation." But becoming the "Cradle of Confederation" was not as easy as it sounds, and the story of how Island tourism promoters recognized the tourism potential of that claim and then gradually convinced Canadians that it was both true and important presents a fascinating case study of "site sacralization" and branding in Canada's Garden Province. For this lecture, Dr. MacDonald will draw upon research conducted by him and his co-author, Dr. Alan MacEachern, for their new book, The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island.

All are welcome to attend.

One of the challenges in software development is to integrate different technologies or product stacks efficiently, streamlining development and facilitating collaboration between teams. In this session we will discuss how to work together with Python and MATLAB, thus expanding the possibilities when carrying out data science projects. Highlights include calling Python libraries directly from MATLAB; calling a live MATLAB session from Python; and packaging MATLAB analytics as royalty-free .py libraries.

For details and registration, go to https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/mathworksmeeting/j.php?RGID=r6f554bd5af185118daf71d7a8ffa5a19 

This tutorial, delivered by the Acadia Institute for Data Analytics and hosted by ACENET, is a gentle hands-on introduction to developing predictive models using deep learning artificial neural networks. It provides a high-level overview of the key elements of neural networks and deep learning (BP, CNN, LSTM), along with recent advances that allow deep networks to solve challenging problems such as object recognition in images (e.g., classification of animal or letter) and sequence prediction (e.g., next word in a sentence, like Google auto-complete). Participants will build their own deep models using prepared software (Keras and Tensorflow) working in the browser. All necessary code is provided; however, a basic level of Python programming experience is needed. 

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introduction-to-deep-learning-tickets-427327557227