Campus Notices
The PEI chapter of the Council of Canadians is very pleased to be hosting a virtual evening with Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
This event is presented in partnership with Bookmark, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookshop, and the Climate Emergency Unit. It is happening on Thursday, September 23rd at 7 p.m.
This evening is free but registration is required.
During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause. In A Good War, Seth Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal.
More than just a how-to, A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives.
The evening will feature a traditional opening by Knowledge-keeper and PEI Poet Laureate Julie Pellissier-Lush. The event will be moderated by Todd MacLean – a PEI musician and climate activist who composed special music for the event.
Seth Klein’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a panel discussion.
The panel features:
- Sweta Daboo, Executive Director at the PEI Coalition for Women in Government
- Stephanie Arnold, PhD candidate in PEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation
- Colin Jeffrey, educator, musician and local climate advocate.
Please be sure to share the event on Facebook and register on Zoom.
The Health Centred Research Clinic at UPEI is offering an 8 session Chronic Disease Self-Management program for any UPEI Staff or Faculty that have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
The program will consist of weekly group exercise and education sessions at the Health Centred Research Clinic located in the lower level of the Steel Building. To participate individuals must be currently employed by the University of Prince Edward Island either permanently, or a contract lasting for the duration of the program (early October finishing early December) and have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
If you are interested in learning more about this program, please reach out to the Program Coordinator, Laurie Michael at lmichael@upei.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!
The deadlines for the following scholarships have been extended. Please follow the link for the application form and note the extension date provided below:
- Scotiabank Scholarship Series – Friday, September 24th, 2021
- Dr. Arnold A. Hiltz Memorial Scholarship – Friday, October 1st, 2021
- Janet Lovering Graduate Scholarship for Science – Friday, October 1st, 2021
Applicants who have already submitted applications do not need to reapply and will be included in the applicant pool.
Students are encouraged to review the other separate application Fall awards with similar deadlines on our 1st Semester Award Cycle webpage. Separate applications and any required supporting documents should be sent electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
WELCOME TO THE FALL TERM, EVERYONE!
A limited number of Writing Centre appointments will become available on Monday, September 20. Our full schedule will go into effect on Monday, October 4.
You can see our schedule and book your appointment now at upei.mywconline.com.
Both online and in-person appointments are available, as well as evening and weekend appointments. In-person appointments will take place in the Writing Centre (Robertson Library) following all UPEI COVID-19 protocols.
Don't succumb to confusion or frustration! Visit us early with your questions about any writing assignment in any discipline. Our friendly, knowledgeable tutors will help you find answers and produce your best work.
Stay safe and sane! Have a terrific semester!
(Questions? Email Jarmo at jjpuiras@upei.ca.)
If you're looking to brush up on your communications skills this fall and winter, we've got some great online courses for you!
Each course can be completed at your own pace, with new content added each week. The short assignments will help you develop a portfolio of your work AND you'll receive a digital badge for each course that you complete.
Click here for more information: https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/professional-communications-certificate or contact pdp@upei.ca with any questions.
Health, Safety and Environment is holding a UPEI Basic Biosafety Training session.
Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone including graduate students.
To attend the Basic Biosafety course, you must pre-register by contacting Shelly Kavanagh, before the end of the day September 24, 2021 by email (shkavanagh@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901).
Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address, and phone number in your email or voice message. Please indicate if you are a graduate student
Mark your calendar for this upcoming event. Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek (co-editor of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada and Vice-President Equity, People and Culture at York University) will be giving a book talk on October 15 at 2:00 pm. This event will have a follow-up book club facilitated by Dr. Sherry Pictou (First female District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Law and Management, Dalhousie University). These events are being hosted jointly between Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University and Dalhousie University, and are open to all educators at AAU institutions.
For more details and to register, check out these posters for Dr. Cote-Meek's Book Talk and the follow-up Educators' Book Club or email the Teaching and Learning Centre TLC@upei.ca
If you’re an international student in your final year of study in PEI, we’d like to encourage you to apply for the Study & Stay PEI Program. Program participants receive free exclusive access to networking, career supports, immigration resources and more. Applicants from one of the following PEI post-secondary institutions are welcome to apply:
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University of Prince Edward Island
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Holland College
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Collège de I’île
Please click here to view more details and find out how to apply: http://studypei.ca/.
If students have any questions or need help with the application, please drop by at the Robertson Library 225 anytime Monday - Friday between 10 AM - 12 PM, and 1 PM - 3 PM or email us at studyandstaypei@upei.ca!
Have you ever ACCIDENTALLY TYPED WITH THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON ON? Highlight the text and hit ‘Shift + F3’ and it will change anything from uppercase to lowercase and vice versa.
The PEI chapter of the Council of Canadians is very pleased to be hosting a virtual evening with Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
This event is presented in partnership with Bookmark, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookshop, and the Climate Emergency Unit. It is happening on Thursday, September 23rd at 7 p.m.
This evening is free but registration is required.
During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause. In A Good War, Seth Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal.
More than just a how-to, A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives.
The evening will feature a traditional opening by Knowledge-keeper and PEI Poet Laureate Julie Pellissier-Lush. The event will be moderated by Todd MacLean – a PEI musician and climate activist who composed special music for the event.
Seth Klein’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a panel discussion.
The panel features:
- Sweta Daboo, Executive Director at the PEI Coalition for Women in Government
- Stephanie Arnold, PhD candidate in PEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation
- Colin Jeffrey, educator, musician and local climate advocate.
Please be sure to share the event on Facebook and register on Zoom.
The Health Centred Research Clinic at UPEI is offering an 8 session Chronic Disease Self-Management program for any UPEI Staff or Faculty that have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
The program will consist of weekly group exercise and education sessions at the Health Centred Research Clinic located in the lower level of the Steel Building. To participate individuals must be currently employed by the University of Prince Edward Island either permanently, or a contract lasting for the duration of the program (early October finishing early December) and have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
If you are interested in learning more about this program, please reach out to the Program Coordinator, Laurie Michael at lmichael@upei.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!
Join the UPEI Concussion Awareness Program and the PEI Department of Health and Wellness for PEI’s first annual Concussion Awareness Week happening September 27 to 29, 2021. Activities will include an art contest, a social media campaign, and an opportunity for all to engage with an interdisciplinary panel session.
Great information and resources will be shared on social media leading up to and during the week so be sure to find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @UPEICAP.
The Teaching and Learning Centre invites you to Weekly Coffee Chats, informal get-togethers over coffee (or tea) to chat with peers and colleagues. Meet new friends or connect with old ones across departments and disciplines. These are not technical help-sessions, but we welcome all faculty, librarians and instructional staff (CNIs, lab instructors, etc.) with questions, comments, or concerns in addition to a warm, friendly conversation. No RSVP needed, just drop in anytime.
Date and Time:
Weekly Wednesdays at 10:30 am beginning on Wednesday, September 22, 2021
How to Attend the Coffee Chats:
Zoom Link on the Teaching & Learning Centre Events webpage: https://upei.zoom.us/j/61404770972?pwd=TlRZd2ppWURPMUNMS2w4cHJBcUQ4Zz09
In consideration of the difficulties that exposure to scented products cause to sensitive individuals UPEI asks for your cooperation in making our campus a scent-free environment. We ask that all faculty, staff, students, and visitors refrain from wearing or using products with strong scents/fragrances while on campus. A few examples of products to refrain from wearing or using are: colognes/perfumes, strongly scented body sprays and lotions, hair care products with strong scents, strongly scented shaving lotion, air fresheners, scented candles and Aromatic Oils (used in aromatherapy).
UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative Policy can be viewed here.
If you have any questions about UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative please contact the Health, Safety and Environment Department at 902-566-0901 (Shelly Kavanagh) or 902-566-0516 (Liz Rostant- MacArthur).
To report an exposure to scented products please follow UPEI’s incident reporting process.
The PEI chapter of the Council of Canadians is very pleased to be hosting a virtual evening with Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
This event is presented in partnership with Bookmark, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookshop, and the Climate Emergency Unit. It is happening on Thursday, September 23rd at 7 p.m.
This evening is free but registration is required.
During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause. In A Good War, Seth Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal.
More than just a how-to, A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives.
The evening will feature a traditional opening by Knowledge-keeper and PEI Poet Laureate Julie Pellissier-Lush. The event will be moderated by Todd MacLean – a PEI musician and climate activist who composed special music for the event.
Seth Klein’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a panel discussion.
The panel features:
- Sweta Daboo, Executive Director at the PEI Coalition for Women in Government
- Stephanie Arnold, PhD candidate in PEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation
- Colin Jeffrey, educator, musician and local climate advocate.
Please be sure to share the event on Facebook and register on Zoom.
The Health Centred Research Clinic at UPEI is offering an 8 session Chronic Disease Self-Management program for any UPEI Staff or Faculty that have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
The program will consist of weekly group exercise and education sessions at the Health Centred Research Clinic located in the lower level of the Steel Building. To participate individuals must be currently employed by the University of Prince Edward Island either permanently, or a contract lasting for the duration of the program (early October finishing early December) and have been diagnosed with a chronic condition for at least one year or longer.
If you are interested in learning more about this program, please reach out to the Program Coordinator, Laurie Michael at lmichael@upei.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!
Brenda Dowel, yoga teacher E-RYT-1000 and Licensed Holistic Practitioner will lead the four-part series of 90-minute classes with a focused approach. The six week series will feature a different area each week: Hips & Glutes, Back & Core, Shoulders & Upper Bod and Legs & Lower Body.
Session 1: Wednesdays 10:00 am - 11:30 am September 22 - October 27
Session 2: Wednesdays 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm November 3 - December 8
The class is FREE and for current UPEI employees only, provided by the Healthy Campus Committee and supported by the UPEI Employee Wellness Strategy. You do not need to have a sports centre membership in order to take this class.
Participants can only register for one session per semester.
UPEI FACULTY/STAFF: Please sign in using your UPEI email address and password at our new portal: recreation.upei.ca. Then click on the Fitness Programs Icon. In the drop-down menu on the left, click on Campus Staff/Faculty Wellness programs. Sign up information is at that site.
Applications and nominations are being accepted for the 2021 MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing!
Returning undergraduate students, faculty, and staff are eligible to apply for a MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing by October 6, 2021. The learning community is encouraged to review the criteria of the four prize categories through the links below, noting that there are numerous awards available, valued at $500 each. Applications should be sent electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing (Community)
MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing (Course Work)
MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing (Faculty and Staff)
MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing (Webster Centre)
In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning. The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada.
The Robertson Library is interviewing two candidates for a two-year position as Metadata Librarian. Both candidates will present on the following topic for 45 minutes, plus 15 minutes for questions: “Metadata, old and new, schemas and contexts.”
Our first candidate, Mackenzie Johnson, earned his Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario. He is currently an Assistant Community Librarian at the Okanagan Regional Library and a Digital Asset Specialist for Canadian Tire.
- Date: Monday, September 20, 2021, 11:30 am
- Join the Zoom Meeting: https://upei.zoom.us/j/65513273069?pwd=Tk54YmMxVjdrb0pLVU9STkxMMmhMUT09
- Meeting ID: 655 1327 3069
- Passcode: 167683
Our second candidate, Emily Cooke, earned their Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario. They are currently a Collection Assessment and Development Librarian at the Atlantic School of Theology.
- Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 10:45 am
- Join the Zoom Meeting: https://upei.zoom.us/j/69370738288?pwd=OW9leHhwUy9xYlZoMkwxSGVTSWg5UT09
- Meeting ID: 693 7073 8288
- Passcode: 881015
This core session is designed to help new users at ACENET and Compute Canada get up and running.
About this event
This session teaches participants how to use Compute Canada’s queuing environment on the national systems, using the job scheduler Slurm. Learn how the scheduler works, how it allocates jobs, what are reasonable requests to minimize wait time, how to make the best use of the resources to be more efficient, how to get more throughput, how to get more jobs running at the same time, and how to troubleshoot and deal with crashes. This workshop is designed for either new HPC users familiar with Linux and Shell Scripting, but who have not had experience with using Slurm, or, for experienced users transitioning to Slurm or seeking to improve efficiency with the scheduler. In order to get the most from the session, participants are strongly encouraged to have a Compute Canada/ACENET account and to bring a laptop to do the exercises.
This session will be delivered online.
To get the most from ACENET basics, please register for a Compute Canada Account. To register contact your supervising professor, ask for their CCRI, then visit https://ccdb.computecanada.ca/account_application. If your professor is not registered with Compute Canada, please have them register, then follow up with you. In addition to a Compute Canada account, you will want a computer with Windows, MacOS X, or a Unix-based operating system (not a ChromeBook), and a stable internet connection. A registered account is not mandatory, just recommended to get the most out of our lessons. You can attend the first session to see how ACENET can assist in accelerating your computational research before you decide to obtain an account, if you wish.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).
Connections details for the session as well as further preparation information will be sent out prior to the session.
To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-job-scheduling-with-slurm-tickets-170714420427
