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.

The UPEI Events Calendar is the perfect place to promote your student, staff, faculty, or campus-related event on the upei.ca website!

Anyone with a upei.ca email address can log into the website and create an event to help spread the word to the UPEI campus community. Your event will appear in the complete list of UPEI events and on the UPEI homepage as the actual date of your event approaches.

Visit the Submit a Campus Notice or UPEI Calendar Event page to add events that are UPEI "owned" or hosted, or is affiliated with UPEI.

Questions? Contact communications@upei.ca.

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.

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance from 8 pm to 12 midnight. During this time, Colleague and myUPEI will be offline.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca

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. 

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,

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 UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre is looking forward to our panel discussion on  “What Makes an Effective Educator?” on Thursday, October 27, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in the Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library Annex, Room 230. Join award-winning colleagues from across the UPEI campus as they share their perspectives on what makes an effective educator in university-level classes. 

This session is one of the courses in the Professional Growth, Development, and Identity domain of the Academic Instructional Skills Program. This is a great opportunity for graduate students and early-career instructors to start the program. For more information about the AISP, go to https://www.upei.ca/teaching-and-learning-centre/learning/academic-instructional-skills-program

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.

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.

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.