Black Changemakers is a new CBC series that recognizes Black individuals in Atlantic Canada who are creating positive change, inspiring others, and helping shape the future. The series will spotlight 20 people from Black communities in Atlantic Canada, five from each province. 

Nominations are open until November 1, 2022. To learn more or submit a nomination, visit cbc.ca/blackchangemakers. 
 
Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee comprising members from Black communities and CBC staff in Atlantic Canada. Changemakers will be announced in February 2023.

The Internal SoTL Research Grant (ISRG) program supports research pursuits in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the funding of fully developed research proposals. Researchers are encouraged to provide high-quality student training opportunities and to propose collaborations with others from different, but complementary, disciplines.  

VALUE: up to $1,500 for a two-year term. ISRG proposals for lesser amounts will be considered favourably.  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 13, 2022, by 4 pm

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS:  Tenured, tenure-track, term and sessional UPEI faculty in Arts, AVC, Business, Education, IKERAS, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, librarians, and lab instructors who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award. A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as co-applicant with a tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member. Successful applicants must adhere to the Spending Authority Policy.  Please review general information in the guidelines for other eligibility considerations. 

Support in developing a SoTL proposal for this grant program is available through the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre. 

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.

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 

Canadian author, journalist, and historian Gwynne Dyer will give a public lecture titled “Planetary Maintenance Engineers: A Last-Ditch Climate Rescue Strategy,” on November 3 at 7 pm in the Duffy Science Centre Amphitheatre (Room 135) at UPEI. He will discuss challenges facing the world because of climate change and explore the concept of “geoengineering,” or cooling the planet by artificial means.

Mr. Dyer is a respected London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist, and military historian. In 2010 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His lecture is presented by the Saint Dunstan’s University Board of Governors, in cooperation with the University of Prince Edward Island.

All are welcome to attend. Please note that masks are required.

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.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The theme this year is "Together we RISE."  When we RISE, we Rally in Screening Everyone.  

The PEI Breast Screening Program is available to women aged 50-74 who are residents of PEI, do not have a history of breast cancer or a lump/discharge from the nipple, do not have breast implants, and have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months.

A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast that can detect changes in the breast before you can feel them. This can improve your chances of long-term survival from breast cancer.

You can schedule an appointment without a referral from your physician or nurse practitioner by calling 1-888-592-9888. 

For more information about the PEI Breast Cancer Screening Program, visit https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/health-pei/pei-breast-screening-program

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The theme this year is "Together we RISE."  When we RISE, we Rally in Screening Everyone.  

The PEI Breast Screening Program is available to women aged 50-74 who are residents of PEI, do not have a history of breast cancer or a lump/discharge from the nipple, do not have breast implants, and have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months.

A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast that can detect changes in the breast before you can feel them. This can improve your chances of long-term survival from breast cancer.

You can schedule an appointment without a referral from your physician or nurse practitioner by calling 1-888-592-9888. 

For more information about the PEI Breast Cancer Screening Program, visit https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/health-pei/pei-breast-screening-program

If you knew something would have a tremendous impact on your students, would you do it? Learn more about a research team's work exploring educators' motivation to implement active learning strategies and the impact of faculty learning communities in this blog post from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Check out Instructor Perception of Incorporating Active Learning 

Overview: Communication is critical to success in every field, especially in business and the workplace. In this certificate program, participants will gain knowledge and practical experience in all key areas of communication, including proper workplace writing, public speaking and presentation skills, blog posts, websites, social media, and other forms of communication essential to functioning and growth in the professional world, as well as in-depth communication plans. This certificate is hybrid in nature – some content is online and asynchronous and some content is in-person. (Please note – if you already have completed the Intro to Workplace Writing course, you can take the rest of the certificate, and the price of the Intro to Workplace Writing course will be subtracted from the cost.)

Designed for: People who deal with communication in businesses/organizations and in the workplace, from administrative professionals to communication officers, entrepreneurs, and executives

Type of Delivery: Virtual and in-person

Duration: Three courses for a total of approximately twenty-eight hours

Facilitators: Christine Gordon Manley, Tracy Stretch, Ann Worth

For more information, visit https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/professional-communications-certificate. 

The Internal SoTL Research Grant (ISRG) program supports research pursuits in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the funding of fully developed research proposals. Researchers are encouraged to provide high-quality student training opportunities and to propose collaborations with others from different, but complementary, disciplines.  

VALUE: up to $1,500 for a two-year term. ISRG proposals for lesser amounts will be considered favourably.  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 13, 2022, by 4 pm

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS:  Tenured, tenure-track, term and sessional UPEI faculty in Arts, AVC, Business, Education, IKERAS, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, librarians, and lab instructors who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award. A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as co-applicant with a tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member. Successful applicants must adhere to the Spending Authority Policy.  Please review general information in the guidelines for other eligibility considerations. 

Support in developing a SoTL proposal for this grant program is available through the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre. 

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.

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 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.

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

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.

The Internal SoTL Research Grant (ISRG) program supports research pursuits in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the funding of fully developed research proposals. Researchers are encouraged to provide high-quality student training opportunities and to propose collaborations with others from different, but complementary, disciplines.  

VALUE: up to $1,500 for a two-year term. ISRG proposals for lesser amounts will be considered favourably.  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 13, 2022, by 4 pm

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS:  Tenured, tenure-track, term and sessional UPEI faculty in Arts, AVC, Business, Education, IKERAS, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, librarians, and lab instructors who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award. A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as co-applicant with a tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member. Successful applicants must adhere to the Spending Authority Policy.  Please review general information in the guidelines for other eligibility considerations. 

Support in developing a SoTL proposal for this grant program is available through the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre. 

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.

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.

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!