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.
 

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. 

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.

Overview: This course will review the basics of marketing and promotion in the digital age, including the foundations of marketing and promotion. The course will be a mix of some lectures, video content, interactive polling and discussions, and practical application through breakout sessions. For more information, go to https://files.upei.ca/professionaldevelopment/upei_pd_marketing_and_promotion_for_beginners.pdf. 

Designed for: People who want to do some marketing and promotion but have no formal training or education

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: One course for six (6) hours

Facilitators: Lee Gallant

The University of Prince Edward Island community is saddened to learn of the passing of the Honourable Doris Margaret Anderson, CM, of St. Peter’s Bay, PEI, aged 100 years. 
 
Dr. Anderson attended Prince of Wales College and graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1944 and from Cornell University with a Master of Science degree in 1951. She founded the home economics program at UPEI where she was a professor from 1969 until 1988. In 1994, she was named professor emerita, and in 2009, was honoured with a Distinguished Alumni Award.  Read the full message

The flags on campus have been lowered to half-mast in her memory.