Campus Notices
This workshop is designed for those who are new to program evaluation or those who want to ensure their knowledge and skills used in evaluation practice encompass basic aspects of program evaluation. The workshop is delivered over four days: April 20 and 21, and May 4 and 5. Registration is due by April 13, 2022. The workshop is sponsored through the Canadian Evaluation Society: PEI Chapter. Contact Tess Miller (tmiller@upei.ca) for a workshop flyer.
The Virgin Pulse GO program includes new health and well-being content, improved user experiences, and a new mental well-being challenge. Participation in the VP GO Challenge is individual, not team-based. Access to the program to register is now open. The team-based Destination GO challenge, which is part of the VP Go Challenge, will start at the end of May.
How to register: Participants can register by logging into recreation.upei.ca, and clicking on the wellness (UPEI Faculty/Staff) icon.
The Virgin Pulse GO program is for UPEI faculty and staff only and is offered by the Healthy Campus Committee, with support from the UPEI Employee Wellness Strategy. If you have questions, contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator, at amarchbank@upei.ca.
Yoga instructor Pam Harris will guide you through a 45-minute class of meditation and gentle yoga stretches. The meditation segment of the class creates calmness, inner peace, and balance, which benefits your emotional well-being and overall health. The class is free. Participants can sign up on a weekly basis by logging into recreation.upei.ca, click on the wellness (UPEI Faculty/Staff) icon. The class will take place on Thursdays, 12:10--12:55 pm, from May 9 to June 23.
The yoga class is for UPEI faculty and staff only and is offered by the Healthy Campus Committee, with support from the UPEI Employee Wellness Strategy. If you have questions, contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator, at amarchbank@upei.ca.
The UPEI E-Learning Office and the Teaching and Learning Centre are hosting UPEI's fifth Teaching Community Conference online on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. This year's theme is "Moving Forward."
The call for proposals on presentations about your teaching or how you support teaching at UPEI is now open with a deadline of Thursday, April 14. Please review our submission form for more information.
Dr. Amy Taylor, candidate for the tenure track position with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, will give two public presentations.
The first, entitled "Successful Identity Transition After a Developmental Crisis: Lessons from a Case Study of a Man with Physiological Impotence," will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 1:00 pm via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/62529761076?pwd=NlhFT2ZjbUNiYWIwb3dUSnFOQ3JTUT09.
The second, a teaching demonstration entitled "Therapist as assessment instrument: A phenomenological and psychodynamic approach to formulation," will be held on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:15 am via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/68129422646?pwd=eVNkaHA3S093K01oZU5KdmJUTVk2QT09
All are welcome to attend.
The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for Convocation scholarships and awards! The application deadline for the following awards is Friday, April 1, 2022.
Click the links provided to access the application and/or recommendation forms for more information. Please submit your application(s) and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca or in person to the Scholarships and Awards Office at 202 Dalton Hall.
Arlie Parks Scholarship - In Memory of Dr. Kenneth MacIntyre (Science)
Marylou Hughes Scholarship (Science)
Gerald M. Gerry Birt Memorial Award (Science/Nursing/Arts)
David Austin O'Malley-Keyes Memorial Award (Arts/Music)
Frank J. Costello Scholarship (Arts/Education)
Hon. Justice Mark R. MacGuigan Memorial Scholarship (Arts/Law)
Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Scholarship (Law)
PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award (Arts/Campus Community)
Dr. Graeme and Alberta Bryant Boswall Award (Campus Community)
Dr. Regis Duffy Academic Achievement Award (Campus Community)
UPEI Class of 1989 Award (Campus Community)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introduction-to-natural-language-processing-tickets-264349194557
Join ACENET for a brief introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
About this event
How do computers understand language? It seems impossible that zeroes and ones could ever add up to words that humans can understand, but machine language has come a long way in the past few years. Let us take you behind the code to explain how machines simulate language comprehension, and why it’s a far more complicated problem than “bonjour = hello”. This talk is aimed at an audience that is not necessarily familiar with computers or language comprehension but would like a primer to the field and what it can realistically do. We will explain natural language processing from the perspective of machines that cannot understand words but capture semantic meaning by processing data.
This session will take place on Thursday, April 6, 12:00 pm--3:00 pm (Atlantic time)
You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages.
Participants must register using their institutional/organizational email address (not a personal email, i.e., gmail)
Instructions about how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.
The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty and staff--to attend a virtual research presentation by Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM).
Candidate's Bio:
Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in organizational behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.
Presentation Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Professional Gig Workers: Identifying Challenges and Psychosocial Resources for Resilience
Abstract:
Scholarship on stress and resilience at work has repeatedly overlooked professional gig workers despite the rapid growth of this independent workforce. Studying such workers, especially under conditions of global disruption, offers an opportunity to expand theory on the role of personal resources in promoting resilience and well-being in the absence of contextual resources traditionally offered by organizations. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) and using unique qualitative and quantitative data gathered prior to and during the COVID-19 global pandemic, we investigate the pandemic’s impact on an international sample of professional gig workers and test the relationship between psychosocial resources and workers’ resilience. Results suggest that workers experienced the pandemic as an environmental jolt (Meyer, 1982), which affected their working lives through shrinking gig work availability, and greater challenges with fluctuating emotions, organizing day-to-day work, and maintaining relationships. Further, we examined the role that pre-pandemic levels of two theoretically informed personal resources—work meaningfulness and the emotional carrying capacity of these workers’ networks—and find that work meaningfulness is associated with cognitive and affective well-being, and emotional carrying capacity is associated with social and affective well-being, as well as psychological resilience. Taken together, this research provides novel insights into professional gig workers’ resilience and well-being during the pandemic and contributes to our understanding of gig workers’ experiences of environmental jolts.
The presentation will take place on April 1, 2:00--3:00 pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:
https://upei.zoom.us/j/68210211032?pwd=ZjIwelE4UE04dmlZck81WWJ4TXY0UT09
Meeting ID: 682 1021 1032
Passcode: 070531
For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff--to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM).
Candidate's Bio:
Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in Organizational Behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.
Lecture Title: The Next Best Safety Dollar: Using Evidence to Decide How to Invest in Workplace Safety
The lecture will take place on April 1, 10-10:45 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:
https://upei.zoom.us/j/68600200264?pwd=L2FSZ2l0anJmdzh1MFJzUzBvSks3Zz09
Meeting ID: 686 0020 0264
Passcode: 570029
For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.
On June 1, 2021, eye protection became mandatory in all UPEI laboratories. This includes Containment Level One and Containment Level Two laboratories that manipulate biohazardous materials, and laboratories in chemistry, physics, and engineering that handle materials other than biohazardous substances that could pose an ocular risk. At a minimum, safety glasses that meet the standards and specifications of CSA Standard Z94.3-20 are required. However, if a task presents a higher risk, then the laboratory supervisor is responsible for completing a workplace hazard risk assessment to identify appropriate eye and face protection, as necessary. Please visit Section 4.5 Eye and Face Protection in the UPEI Laboratory Safety Manual on the UPEI website for more information. The definition of "laboratory" is provided on page 3 of the manual.
For any questions regarding eye and face protection in your lab, please contact the Health, Safety, and Environment Manager, Liz Rostant-MacArthur at lrostant@upei.ca or call (902)-566-0516.
Welcome to Spring!
If you need some support getting started on a final assignment, or perhaps another pair of eyes to identify revision needs, our tutors are available. Check out our schedule, offering both in-person and online appointments at https://upei.mywconline.com/.
Reminder: The Writing Centre will NOT offer appointments during exams. Our final day is Friday, April 8.
Also, the posting is now available for tutoring positions beginning in September 2022. If you know someone who you believe would be a terrific writing tutor, encourage that person to apply. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 4. The posting is available at Employment Opportunities at UPEI under Student Positions: https://www.upei.ca/hr/employment-opportunities.
The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for the UPEI Student Adversity Awards. Eligible students are encouraged to review the award criteria online and submit an application through the Scholarships and Award Application portal, which can also be found listed in the UPEI Forms section on MyUPEI. The application deadline is Thursday, March 31, 2022.
If you have questions about the application process or award criteria, please contact scholarships@upei.ca or visit us in Dalton Hall, Room 202.
Dr. Amy Taylor, candidate for the tenure track position with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, will give two public presentations.
The first, entitled "Successful Identity Transition After a Developmental Crisis: Lessons from a Case Study of a Man with Physiological Impotence," will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 1:00 pm via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/62529761076?pwd=NlhFT2ZjbUNiYWIwb3dUSnFOQ3JTUT09.
The second, a teaching demonstration entitled "Therapist as assessment instrument: A phenomenological and psychodynamic approach to formulation," will be held on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:15 am via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/68129422646?pwd=eVNkaHA3S093K01oZU5KdmJUTVk2QT09
All are welcome to attend.
Work-integrated learning provides students with real-world experiences, helping them to prepare for the future of work. Through UPEI's partnership with Riipen, a Canadian software platform, you can integrate WIL into your upcoming courses, connecting your students with local and global partners.
Riipen’s easy-to-use platform enables students to collaborate with employers on instructor-designed projects as part of their coursework. We encourage every instructor to think about how this opportunity applies to their curriculum and students. If you're teaching this summer and are interested in learning more, please book a call with our account manager, Liz Lambert: Book an appointment or email her at liz.lambert@riipen.com.
Register now for a live orientation webinar.
Our EFAP provider, LifeWorks, is holding orientation webinars for all employees, faculty members, and their dependents who want to know more about how their UPEI EFAP benefits work.
2022 dates offered: January 27, February 17, March 24, April 14, May 26, June 23, July 14, August 25, September 22, October 13, and November 17.
To register:
- Click this link to view the brochure.
- Choose the best date (please note the time zone is listed in EST).
- Click the date to open the registration window.
- You will receive an email confirmation that has the log-in and call-in details.
EFAP offers a short-term, solution-focused approach to professional counselling to assist you in resolving your concerns and issues. EFAP provides counselling that best suits your needs and busy schedules, whether it is in person, by telephone, or online [e-counselling], as well as immediate help with crises.
In addition to professional counselling, employees and their eligible family members can access a wide range of programs that provide telephonic consultation with qualified advisors who can help answer questions and clarify concerns that affect us all. Services include legal, financial, family, and nutritional.
For EFAP counselling, work-life programs, and information services 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year, call (English) 1-844-880-9142. Or visit: www.workhealthlife.com
More information on the UPEI EFAP benefit can be found on MyUPEI STAFF or FACULTY.
The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for Convocation scholarships and awards! The application deadline for the following awards is Friday, April 1, 2022.
Click the links provided to access the application and/or recommendation forms for more information. Please submit your application(s) and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca or in person to the Scholarships and Awards Office at 202 Dalton Hall.
Arlie Parks Scholarship - In Memory of Dr. Kenneth MacIntyre (Science)
Marylou Hughes Scholarship (Science)
Gerald M. Gerry Birt Memorial Award (Science/Nursing/Arts)
David Austin O'Malley-Keyes Memorial Award (Arts/Music)
Frank J. Costello Scholarship (Arts/Education)
Hon. Justice Mark R. MacGuigan Memorial Scholarship (Arts/Law)
Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Scholarship (Law)
PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award (Arts/Campus Community)
Dr. Graeme and Alberta Bryant Boswall Award (Campus Community)
Dr. Regis Duffy Academic Achievement Award (Campus Community)
UPEI Class of 1989 Award (Campus Community)
Work-integrated learning provides students with real-world experiences, helping them to prepare for the future of work. Through UPEI's partnership with Riipen, a Canadian software platform, you can integrate WIL into your upcoming courses, connecting your students with local and global partners.
Riipen’s easy-to-use platform enables students to collaborate with employers on instructor-designed projects as part of their coursework. We encourage every instructor to think about how this opportunity applies to their curriculum and students. If you're teaching this summer and are interested in learning more, please book a call with our account manager, Liz Lambert: Book an appointment or email her at liz.lambert@riipen.com.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-the-whys-and-hows-of-machine-learning-tickets-264192194967
What do you need to need to make a machine learning project successful?
About this event
How can you make smart decisions about setup and execution of a machine learning project? How should you hire and support the staff working on the project? We hope to provide clear, thoughtful answers to these and other common questions to get you thinking about whether machine learning is a technology that you and your company or group should think about investing in. We will discuss topics like data collection, the trade-offs involved in choosing a model, and what to expect from a successful project, as well as how to salvage useful by-products and skills when projects don’t go as planned.
This is a beginner session oriented to business owners and project managers curious to learn more about machine learning, or who may have an idea that involves machine learning and want to know where to begin.
This session will take place on Thursday, March 24, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Atlantic time)
You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc).
Participants must register using their institutional/organizational email address (not a personal email, i.e., gmail).
Instructions about how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event to those who've registered with an institutional or organizational email.
Dr. Jennifer Altman, candidate for the tenure-track position with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, will make two public presentations.
The first, entitled "How can psychology integrate mindfulness & body?," will take place on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 1:00 pm in Memorial Hall, Room 308.
The second, a teaching demonstration entitled "Chronic Pain: Assessment & Intervention," will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022, at 10:15 am in Memorial Hall, Room 308.
All are welcome to attend.
UPEI fiscal year ends on April 30, 2022.
Purchasing cut-off: April 14, 2022
The last day to create a requisition/purchase order for 2021-22 will be on Thursday, April 14, 2022, at noon with guaranteed delivery date on or before April 30, 2022.
Requisitions/purchase orders created after April 19, 2022, must have a requisition date changed to May 1, 2022, and the good and services must be delivered on or after May 1, 2022.
Receiving goods/services cut-off: April 30, 2022
Goods and services must be received on campus by Friday, April 30, 2022. Only the goods that have been physically received or completed services should be accepted at this time. This will ensure that these goods and services are paid in the 2021-22 fiscal year. Any items received in myUPEI after April 30, 2022, will be considered new fiscal year goods and services and will then be deducted from your new fiscal year budget (2022-23).
All departments are required to look at their outstanding purchase order list to see if there are any purchase orders that need to be cancelled. This functionality can be accessed through the myUPEI Self-Service Menu under "Financial Information" and the “Receive Goods and Services” selection.
If the items have been back ordered for some time, you will need to check with the supplier to see if they are still on their records as back ordered. If they are not back-ordered, then please email procurement@upei.ca to cancel your purchase order.
If you are in receipt of vendor invoices, forward these to invoices@upei.ca ASAP. Please contact apadmin@upei.ca with questions or concerns regarding billing and invoicing.
Need assistance?
Please take a look at the “Financial Tools Reference Guide” under the "Self-Service Help" tab on myUPEI.
