Campus Notices
The Search Committee for the Associate Vice-President Research and Dean of Graduate Studies announces the upcoming presentations by the two short-listed candidates for this position. Each candidate will deliver a Public Presentation on a Future Vision for Research and Graduate Studies at UPEI.
Dr. Kathy Snow, Monday, October 3, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Andrew Hall, Room 142
Dr. Kathy Snow received her Ed.D. degree in 2015 from the University of Calgary. Before joining UPEI, she held a faculty appointment in the School of Education Health at Cape Breton University. After joining UPEI in 2019, she was then promoted to Full Professor of Education in 2022. Dr. Snow is one of the founding board members for the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA). At UPEI, she has served as Academic Lead for the Certificate in Educational Leadership in Nunavut (CELN), a partnership graduate program with the Government of Nunavut. Dr. Snow led UPEI's successful proposal for membership in UArctic, an international network that promotes education and research in the Arctic. She currently (co-)supervises 4 PhD students and has mentored 2 master's students at UPEI and 3 others at CBU. Her research interests lie in educational technology, social justice and sustainability, including 28 articles published in journals and books. She has contributed significantly to graduate policy development, scholarships, career pathways and mentorship of graduate students in the Faculty of Education at UPEI.
Dr. Marva Sweeney-Nixon, Friday, October 7, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Andrew Hall, Room 142
Dr. Sweeney-Nixon received her PhD degree in Neuropharmacology from Dalhousie University in 1989. Prior to joining UPEI in 1997, she held a faculty appointment in Physiology at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Sweeney-Nixon was promoted to Full Professor of Biology in 2014. She served as Department Chair of Biology during 2012 - 2019. As Chair, she led the Department's strategic plan, development of new programs (BSc in Biotechnology, BSc in Paramedicine), and a 7-year MPHEC Quality Assurance review of academic programs in Biology. In 2011, she received the UPEI Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching. From 2005 - 2008, she held the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Research Professorship in Nutrisciences and Health. Her research interests include cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, antioxidants, and diabetes, including 44 journal articles, 8 book chapters, and $1.8M of research funding in these fields. She has contributed to the supervision of over 8 MSc students and 7 Research Assistants and served on numerous supervisory committees at the MSc and PhD levels.
All are welcome to attend. For any who are unable to attend, the presentations will be recorded and available afterward for viewing from a secure site.
Written feedback on candidates can be submitted to Donna Lawless at dlawless@upei.ca by Friday, October 14, 2022. This feedback will be shared in confidence with the committee.
Noontime prayers are on Monday and Thursday, not Wednesday as previously posted. Sorry for the miscommunication. All are in the Chaplaincy Centre.
The Liturgy of the Word and Communion are on Mondays and Thursdays at 12:05 pm, and Mass is on Sunday at 6:00 pm.
One of Moodle’s great recent features is access to the open-source content collaboration framework called H5P. H5P allows a user to create vivid online learning experiences that may help enhance learner engagement and interest within the online learning environment. If you like the idea of adding interactivity but aren't sure about doing it yourself, then join us for this in-person workshop with the E-Learning Office to help get you started.
Date: Tuesday, October 4
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 am
Location: E-Learning Office (Room 230), Robertson Library Annex
Wear your green and white on campus in support of our UPEI Panther athletes for a chance to win a swag prize!
To learn more about UPEI Homecoming, visit https://www.upei.ca/homecoming
Would you like to meet new friends and be involved in an inclusive and non-judgmental environment to learn about food, health, stress, coping, and physical activity?
The staff at the Health Centered Research Clinic at UPEI is offering a free 8 session program to help connect undergraduate students to provide an environment for learning on a variety of topics around health and well-being and connecting to the student community. Snacks will be provided at each session!
The program will consist of 8 weekly group education sessions with a Registered Dietitian and Health Promoter and exercise sessions with a Kinesiologist (plus open gym times) located in the lower level of the Steel Building.
If you are interested in registering, please email Anja and Laurie at connections@upei.ca for more information or to register. We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us in celebrating UPEI Homecoming from September 28 to October 2! Whether you are a student, staff/faculty member, or alumni, homecoming is for everyone who is part of the UPEI community.
For the full schedule of homecoming events, visit upei.ca/homecoming
There are still spaces to join the Fall Reading Group this semester. The book we are reading is Inclusive Teaching, available through the library using this link. If you haven't signed up because the proposed dates and times for meetings don't work with your schedule, please reach out and we may be able to find alternate dates/times. Email TLC@upei.ca
AVC currently has a male beagle named Roddy available for adoption. He is two years old, neutered, and vaccinated; a dental cleaning will be included with his adoption. Roddy is a silly puppy with a lot of energy and loves to run and play. He loves to play with other beagles and has not shown any signs of aggression. However, Roddy doesn’t always pick up on other dog’s social cues, and sometimes other dogs become agitated with his playfulness.
Roddy would thrive in a house with a family that is able to spend a lot of time training and exercising him. It is preferable that he is placed in a home where the owners are home most of the day. Single-pet and multi-pet households would be considered if it was the right fit.
If you are interested in learning more about Roddy, please contact Melissa Hamel at mhamel@upei.ca or 902-566-0938, or fill out the online adoption application at https://bit.ly/3Rc5XrK.
Ethics protocols that involve "more than minimal risk" must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday, September 30, 2022, for review at the September meeting.
Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve "more than minimal risk"; renewals; and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.
All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.
Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.
For more information about the REB review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca.
The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments is Friday, September 30, 2022. These applications will be reviewed at the October 20, 2022, meeting.
All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.
Please note that the IBC has instituted a new category of protocol amendment: biosafety permit minor amendment. This event form is included in the Researcher Portal. Minor amendments that are strictly limited to changes in personnel and/or funding can be submitted at any time but require up to a two-week review period. They are normally reviewed by the IBC chair or designate and the BSO or designate. If the amendment is approved, then an approval notification will be sent to the PI. Submissions via this route may be sent for full committee review at the discretion of the IBC chair and the BSO.
For more information about the IBC review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca
Would you like to meet new friends and be involved in an inclusive and non-judgmental environment to learn about food, health, stress, coping, and physical activity?
The staff at the Health Centered Research Clinic at UPEI is offering a free 8 session program to help connect undergraduate students to provide an environment for learning on a variety of topics around health and well-being and connecting to the student community. Snacks will be provided at each session!
The program will consist of 8 weekly group education sessions with a Registered Dietitian and Health Promoter and exercise sessions with a Kinesiologist (plus open gym times) located in the lower level of the Steel Building.
If you are interested in registering, please email Anja and Laurie at connections@upei.ca for more information or to register. We look forward to seeing you there!
Saturday, October 1, 2022, 8:30 am
Free all ages 5km Fun Run event starting on the UPEI campus!
First 100 people to register will receive complimentary Homecoming Fun Run swag.
To register now, visit https://forms.gle/KHBKLcpZsH8PD9HX7
To learn more about UPEI Homecoming, visit https://www.upei.ca/homecoming
Join us in celebrating UPEI Homecoming from September 28 to October 2! Whether you are a student, staff/faculty member, or alumni, homecoming is for everyone who is part of the UPEI community.
For the full schedule of homecoming events, visit upei.ca/homecoming
There are still spaces to join the Fall Reading Group this semester. The book we are reading is Inclusive Teaching, available through the library using this link. If you haven't signed up because the proposed dates and times for meetings don't work with your schedule, please reach out and we may be able to find alternate dates/times. Email TLC@upei.ca
TO BE RESCHEDULED
Pride/Swell+: Exploring Intergenerational Art & Activism with 2SLGBTQ+ community members in Atlantic Canada (Talk and Workshop)
Location: Education Learning Commons Memorial Hall 302
This talk and workshop is open to all UPEI Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students and Staff.
Please RSVP to Dr. Lyndsay Moffatt lemoffatt@upei.ca if you would like to participate!
Dr. Casey Burkholder (UNB) will give a brief talk and facilitate an art making workshop on Pride/Swell+, a physically distanced project with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth from Atlantic Canada that explored community-building through art-activism and participatory archiving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her talk will focus on the development of a mail-based approach to engaging in art production with 2SLGBTQ+ youth, and the co-curation of a participatory digital archive.
Workshop participants will be invited to interact with the Pride/Swell archive, which is made up of 12 art practices and prompts.
To demonstrate and invite active participation in this workshop, participants will partake in a gallery “walk about” of the Pride/Swell art (Mitchell, 2015, p. 141). Participants will be guided in creating collages (remixing, cutting, and pasting images and words to create a new image) in response to the participatory archive.
All necessary tools and materials to engage in the collage-making will be provided.
Dr. Burkholder is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick. Her work is grounded in feminist participatory visual research practices that highlight participants’ identities, ways of knowing, and ways of representing the world through visual approaches.
Some Hellish, the debut novel by Prince Edward Island writer Nicholas Herring, will be launched on Thursday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. at The Gallery Coffee House and Bistro at 82 Great George Street in Charlottetown.
A Murray Harbour-based carpenter and fisherman, as well as a University of Toronto creative writing graduate, Herring has set his novel—heart-breaking, hilarious, and heartwarming—in the vividly portrayed fishing community of eastern PEI.
The launch is sponsored by the UPEI Faculty of Arts and Department of English. Admission is free.
Contact:
Dr. Richard Lemm
Department of English, UPEI
Panther Fitness has a number of Specialty Fitness Classes which include Gentle Yoga, Slow Flow Yoga, Kettlebells, Pilates! UPEI Staff/Faculty have a discounted price of $30 +HST for 1 session (12 classes per specific class), UPEI Full Time student fee is $20 +HST for 1 session (12 classes per specific class), all other participants $105 +HST for 1 session (12 classes per specific class).
Small group training sessions in a group of six individuals. UPEI Staff/Faculty have a discounted price of $55 +HST for 1 session (12 classes), UPEI Full Time student fee is $35 +HST for 1 session (12 classes), all other participants $140 +HST for 1 session (12 classes).
Log into recreation.upei.ca to find out more details and to register.
Our Specialty Fitness Class instructors and Personal Trainer include Colleen Gallant, Karina Boswell, Pam Harris Stewart, Ouma Cuniah and Derek Smith.
This week's Tea(ching) Break is from the column, Bad Ideas about Teaching, by Rebecca Weaver. In this column, you can read about how she links learning how to do a flip turn in swimming with better ideas for teaching! Read Everyone is the Same!
UPEI faculty and staff are welcome to attend a free online ACENET workshop, "Introductory Programming: Unix Shell, Version Control and Python," which will be held on September 27 and 29, and October 4 and 6, from 12 noon to 4 pm.
This is a beginner-level, hands-on series based on Software Carpentry materials (software-carpentry.org) 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. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. The goal is to teach the practical knowledge needed to start programming, debugging and using Python in everyday tasks.
DETAILS & REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introductory-programming-unix-shell-git-and-python-tickets-413034967707
UPEI faculty and students are invited to attend a free online workshop, "ACENET Basics: Job Scheduling with Slurm," on September 23 from 10 to 11:30 am.
This workshop is designed for new HPC users, or for experienced users either transitioning to Slurm or seeking to improve efficiency with the scheduler. The Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s (Alliance) 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. 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-413033914557
