The UPEI Food Bank continues to respond to student needs due to the generosity of the UPEI community and off-campus donors.  Many offer their time, welcoming students and helping them with food choices while at the food bank. The sign-up sheet for November and December is ready. Please use this link. Don't hesitate to contact Sister Sue <sukidd@upei.ca> or Lauren van Vliet <lvanvliet@upei.ca> for further information.  

Thank you!

Keeping your computing devices up to date with all the latest available updates is critical to keeping your systems running smoothly and securely. Quite often, your UPEI workstation will require a restart after applying important updates. However, many systems are restarted very infrequently. 

Starting October 25, all UPEI Windows workstations will be automatically restarted within 2 days after an important security update is installed. 

As these updates are applied, there will be pop-up notifications on your workstation informing you of when your workstation will be restarted. 

Every effort will be made to have these automatic workstation restarts occur overnight. However, there may be occasions where the automatic restart is necessary during the workday. 

As a best practice, we recommend saving your work frequently throughout the day, signing out of your workstation each evening, and restarting your computer as soon as possible when prompted. 

Please note that this change only applies to Faculty and Staff workstations managed by IT Systems & Services. This does not apply to shared workstations found in classrooms or student computer labs (they have their own separate update schedule). 

If you have any questions about this change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) for more information. 

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 

Through live demonstrations and examples, learn how MATLAB can be used to visualize and analyze data, perform numerical computations, and develop algorithms. Topics will include accessing data from many sources; using interactive tools for iterative exploration, design, and problem solving; automating and capturing your work in easy-to-write scripts and programs; and sharing your results with others by automatically creating reports. This session is designed for those new to MATLAB, or more experienced users, as it will include some tips and tricks.

For details and registration, go to https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/mathworksmeeting/j.php?RGID=r37b01e8b86a4572649ef47d7db531552 

Reminder: UPEI Career Services will host an in-person information session about Ross University School of Medicine TOMORROW, Thursday, October 27, at 12:00 pm, in the Atlantic Veterinary College, Room 286C. A representative from RUSM will share information about the program and application process. 

All UPEI students and graduates interested in a career in medicine are encouraged to attend. Pizza will be provided to those attending the session.

Those interested can learn more and register on Eventbrite. The registration deadline is tomorrow morning at 8:00 am. 

Questions? Email careerservices@upei.ca or call (902) 566-0336.

Overview: This course will review the basics of fundraising and sponsorship and give participants the tools and knowledge to lead a successful fundraising campaign. The material will be presented through various lectures, media, and interactive polling and discussion, followed by breakout sessions and group discussions. For more information, go to https://files.upei.ca/professionaldevelopment/upei_pd_successful_fundraising_and_sponsorship.pdf

Designed for: People who are required to fundraise and/or obtain sponsorships for their place of employment or a local volunteer organization

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: One course for six (6) hours.

Facilitators: Lee Gallant

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.

Lindsey Smith, 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, October 26, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the UPEI Health Science Building, Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

The call for written submissions for the UPEI Arts Review has officially opened! If you would like to see your writing published in Volume XII of the Arts Review, we strongly encourage you to send your creative or academic work to artsreview@upei.ca with a ~200-word abstract to introduce your piece. 

The Arts Review provides UPEI students with the opportunity to have their work published during their degree program. Our goal is to see student work strengthened, published, and celebrated. We accept any form of writing — essays, poems, short stories, science papers, scripts, etc.

The deadline to submit is December 21, 2022. 

Multiple submissions are allowed. We can't wait to see what you have to offer!

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre will be offering its third and final flu clinic at the Atlantic Veterinary College on Wednesday, October 26, from 1-7 pm.  The clinic is open to students as well as faculty, staff, and their families (aged 2+).  Please bring your provincial health card or proof of international insurance. The clinic is first-come, first-served.

The IRG and SERG programs support stand-alone projects through the funding of fully developed research proposals.

VALUE: up to $5,000 for a one-year term

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 15, 2022, by 4 pm

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Tenured, tenure-track, term, and sessional UPEI faculty in Arts, Business, Education, IKERAS, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, and librarians, who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award. Faculty members in Veterinary Medicine may participate as co-applicant but cannot be the principal investigator. A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as co-applicant with a tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Program guidelines and application instructions can be found here: https://www.upei.ca/research-services/resources-and-tools/internal-funding.

Apply using the UPEI Romeo Researcher Portal.

Always forgetting to cancel subscriptions after the free trial runs out? Cancel on your iPhone: Open settings, select your Apple ID -> Select iTunes & App Store -> Tap Apple ID -> View ID -> Paid Subscriptions -> Tap on the subscription and hit "Cancel." 

Unfortunately, you still need to remember the date, so set a reminder!

The Institute of Island Studies at UPEI will host a public lecture titled “Anticosti: Metropolitan Finisterre” on October 25 at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.

Part of the Institute’s Island Lecture Series, the talk will be presented by Dr. Matthew Hatvany, professor of geography, at Université Laval in Quebec City.

“Two large islands lie at the heart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,” says Hatvany. “Despite their relative proximity and comparable sobriquets, one “Garden of the Gulf,” the other “Paradise Found,” the similarities end there. It is the smaller of the two, Prince Edward Island, that realized provincial autonomy through the development and control of its human, agricultural, forest, and fish resources. The larger, Anticosti, experienced little internal development despite abundant resources, being purposely constructed by external decision makers as a Finisterre Insulaire or Land’s End, controlled and dependent upon metropolitan decision makers and investors to assure the well-being of its small population. While Anticosti is little known in Quebec or by its nearest neighbours in Atlantic Canada, the island is celebrated by the upper classes of distant North American and European metropoles as a natural paradise as well as an aspiring UNESCO heritage site for its unique fossil and sedimentary strata.”

All are welcome.
 

The UPEI Food Bank continues to respond to student needs due to the generosity of the UPEI community and off-campus donors.  Many offer their time, welcoming students and helping them with food choices while at the food bank. The sign-up sheet for November and December is ready. Please use this link. Don't hesitate to contact Sister Sue <sukidd@upei.ca> or Lauren van Vliet <lvanvliet@upei.ca> for further information.  

Thank you!

Here's another podcast. This episode talks about alternative assessment and how to use technology in creative ways to assess student learning. If you’re looking for new ways to engage students and integrate more creative and authentic assessments into your courses, then this is the episode for you! Episode 126: Alternative Assessment: Creative Ways to Use Technology to Engage Students and Assess Learning

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

Overview: This course will review the basics of being on a board, whether it’s a for-profit or non-profit organization. Content will be reviewed through lectures, videos, and other media, and that information will be used during practical group work. By the end of this course, participants will be able to walk into a board meeting with a great deal of knowledge of prior rules, roles, and etiquette. For more information, go to https://files.upei.ca/professionaldevelopment/upeI_pd_board_member_basics.pdf. 

Designed for: People who are on a board of directors, or employees who are employed by a board of directors

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: One course for six (6) hours

Facilitators: Lee Gallant 

Valerie Abd-El-Aziz, candidate for a term appointment faculty position, will give a presentation titled Teaching presentation: Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing on Monday, October 24, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the UPEI Health Science Building (HSB), Room 104.

All are welcome to attend.

Dawn Inman-Flynn, candidate for a term appointment faculty position, will give a presentation titled "Teaching presentation: Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing" on Monday, October 24, 2022, at 11:30 am in the UPEI Health Science Building (HSB), Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

The Institute of Island Studies at UPEI will host a public lecture titled “Anticosti: Metropolitan Finisterre” on October 25 at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.

Part of the Institute’s Island Lecture Series, the talk will be presented by Dr. Matthew Hatvany, professor of geography, at Université Laval in Quebec City.

“Two large islands lie at the heart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,” says Hatvany. “Despite their relative proximity and comparable sobriquets, one “Garden of the Gulf,” the other “Paradise Found,” the similarities end there. It is the smaller of the two, Prince Edward Island, that realized provincial autonomy through the development and control of its human, agricultural, forest, and fish resources. The larger, Anticosti, experienced little internal development despite abundant resources, being purposely constructed by external decision makers as a Finisterre Insulaire or Land’s End, controlled and dependent upon metropolitan decision makers and investors to assure the well-being of its small population. While Anticosti is little known in Quebec or by its nearest neighbours in Atlantic Canada, the island is celebrated by the upper classes of distant North American and European metropoles as a natural paradise as well as an aspiring UNESCO heritage site for its unique fossil and sedimentary strata.”

All are welcome.