Campus Notices
Message from ITSS: Network maintenance September 21st
IT Systems and Services will be performing network maintenance on our commercial internet service on September 21 from 10pm to 11pm. During this time there will be intermittent connectivity on the campus network.
If you are off campus, many services such as Microsoft solutions (including email), Google, Zoom, upei.ca, Moodle etc., that are in the cloud will not be impacted.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.
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.
ITSS would like to welcome all our new students, staff, and faculty.
The best way to contact ITSS is through our helpdesk.
The helpdesk is staffed Mon-Fri from 8am-4pm.
You can call us on (902) 566 0465 or email us at helpdesk@upei.ca.
We are located in the AVC building if you want to stop in and say hello.
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.
The UPEI Faculty of Business invites members of the campus to attend an in-person teaching demonstration by Dr. Kia Jiang for the Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Tourism Management.
Lecture Title: Environmental Sustainability in a 3rd year “tourism management” course.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 9:30 am (Atlantic Time) in SDU Main Building, Room 311.
For further information, please contact Sharon McCormack at businessfac@upei.ca.
The UPEI Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community to attend an in-person research presentation by Dr. Kai Jiang for the Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Tourism Management.
Presentation Title: Tourism, Hospitality, Events, and Leisure (THEL)
The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 8:30 am (Atlantic Time) in SDU Main Building, Room 113.
For further information, please contact Sharon McCormack at businessfac@upei.ca.
As a consensus value, peace is about freedom from harm, want, and oppression, and promotes safety, prosperity, and quality of life for all. It involves the meaningful engagement of civil society and government in systems, policies, and practices through multidimensional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative efforts addressing justice, equity, poverty, food security, and environmental protection.
On the International Day of Peace (September 21), we are organizing a series of events on the theme, Together for Peace, from sunrise to sunset, bringing together members of the community to advance peace through music and songs, promotion of disarmament, a souvenir giveaway, gentle yoga and meditation for wellness, and a panel discussion. These events are open to all in the community and are held at different locations including UPEI, Holland College, and Victoria Park, to encourage maximum participation.
Building the infrastructure of peace is a long-drawn legacy-building effort that is strengthened with everyone’s unique contribution. UPEI is a proud supporter of this peace-promoting initiative. How each one of us promotes peace is reflective of the challenges and the needs in our families and local community. Through the use of art, music, dialogue, discussions, discourses, and collective action, we gain a deeper understanding and broader perspective to reach mutually appreciable agreements, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and build a better more sustainable place for all to thrive and realize their full potential.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a wake-up call and presented us with an opportunity to implement new ideas and strategies and collaboratively rebuild stronger while embracing inclusive diversity and furthering gender equity and social justice.
For information about the schedule of events and to RSVP, email 2022PeaceForAll@gmail.com, or visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/4942340449221159/
Volunteers are welcome.
#Peace #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #internationalcitiesofpeace
UPEI has launched a new Mental Health Toolbox microsite in collaboration with Holland College. This resource will provide UPEI employees and their dependents with quick access to assessment tools to help determine where you are on the mental health continuum and what resources will be most helpful. The site also hosts a comprehensive guide of available resources through UPEI and within the province to help you access services more quickly.
You can access this resource through myUPEI or at https://mentalhealth.ca.gobenefits.net/upei-holland. If you have any questions or require assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact employeeservices@upei.ca.
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: Introduction to Linux," on September 21, 2022, from 10 to 11:30 am.
This core session is designed to help those with no prior experience working with a terminal interface. Linux is the terminal interface used to enable you to use the ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) HPC 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 computing 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-413030263637
The UPEI Health & Wellness Centre will be offering mass flu clinics around the third week of October in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. These clinics will be open to all students, faculty, staff, and families. There will be no charge for the flu vaccine (free); it has been provided by the Chief Public Health Office (CPHO) of Prince Edward Island. Please bring a provincial health card or student ID (if an international student) as we need to track vaccinations for the CPHO.
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 course for a total of six (6) hours
Facilitator: Tracy Stretch
For more information, go to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/customer-and-client-service
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.
Throughout the Fall 2022 and Winter 2023 semesters, UPEI Career Services will host monthly virtual sessions called Employer and Volunteer Showcases. These showcases will feature representatives from local organizations who are seeking student volunteers or employees. Students can attend any of these sessions to network and learn about opportunities directly from recruiters in our community.
If any students are seeking work or volunteer experience, encourage them to attend these showcases!
Learn more on the Experiential Education website.
Questions? Contact Susie Zavala at szavala@upei.ca or 902-894-2817
Lab2Market is a 16-week training program in research commercialization and entrepreneurship. Graduate students, PhD students or postdocs can apply alongside their principal investigator and may receive $15k in funding to explore their research's commercial market.
UPEI graduate students, Ph.D. students, Postdocs, and supervisors are eligible to apply to Lab2Market programs.
The Manager of Lab2Market will also provide one-one-one meetings before and after the session.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Health Sciences Center Room 103
10:30 Am - Noon
Please RSVP for the info session and one-on-one meetings to: researchservices@upei.ca
UPEI Kinesiology students are seeking volunteers to participate in a four-week supervised personal training program in the fall of 2022. No experience necessary. Participants must be 30 to 70 years old, with stable health. The program cost is $30 + HST and includes four in-person sessions in the UPEI Fitness Centre, as well as fitness testing before and after the program. For questions or to register, email trsaunders@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.
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
UPEI faculty and students are invited to register for a free online ACENET training session, "ACENET Basics: Introduction to Shell Scripting," on September 22, 2022, from 10 to 11:30 am.
This core session is designed for both new and experienced users. You’ll learn how to use the command line to carry out repetitive tasks, extract information from files quickly, combine commands in powerful ways, and capture a workflow so you can re-use it easily. Save time, reduce errors, and use Linux more effectively. 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-413030755107
