Have your exercise, sleep, or sedentary habits changed compared to before the pandemic? Yes? No? We want to hear about it! Alexander Norris, a fourth-year kinesiology student, and Dr. Hayden Atkinson are conducting a brief 10-15 minute survey to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the ability of people living in Canada to meet 24-hour movement guidelines.

To participate, you must meet the following criteria:

1. 18-64 years of age

2. Living in Canada for the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic

3. Can complete the short survey, which is offered in English

Click the link or scan the QR code to complete our survey on any device. Your participation is very important to us and is much appreciated!

Link to survey: https://forms.gle/NMhvGLWrGKRYmyRf7

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Hayden Atkinson (hatkinson@upei.ca).

We have a visual tea(ching) break this week with some points about feedback as we move toward the end of the semester.  

Later this week, ITSS is launching a four-step cyber awareness program for staff and faculty. This voluntary online program will help increase awareness and provide knowledge that we as staff and faculty need to feel confident in the cybersecurity environment.

All you have to do is complete a survey from our partners, Beauceron Security, which will provide you with a short course on four modules covering cybercrime, hacking, malware, and protecting yourself online. 

Keep an eye on your inbox for the Beauceron Security welcome email this week!

Calling all UPEI students! Your voice and experiences are important, and we want to hear from you. Please take a few minutes and complete the Canadian Post-secondary Education Alcohol and Drug Use Survey. Your input will be used in developing programs and services and updating our policies to better support our UPEI student community. 

If you agree to participate in this survey, please click or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser to continue: https://s.advanis.ca/cpads21?r=UPEI

Washing your hands properly is one of the most important things you can do to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses. Good hand hygiene will reduce the risk of things like flu, COVID-19, food poisoning, and healthcare-associated infections being passed from person to person.

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre is conducting hand hygiene audits on March 8, 9, and 10. We are asking any patients who visit us on these days to provide us direct observational feedback on our hand hygiene. This helps us to identify gaps or moments where we may not be doing as well as we should so that we can make improvements.  

If you have feedback on our hand hygiene or anything else at the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre, please do not hesitate to contact us at healthcentre@upei.ca or visit our website: https://www.upei.ca/health-centre, and click on "We'd love to hear from you" in the right-hand menu or complete a compliments/complaints card located in the waiting room.

Liturgy of the Word and Communion will take place each Monday and Thursday at 12:05 pm in the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre. Sister Sue will lead prayers and reflection. 

The annual UPEI Career Fair is just around the corner! This year's fair will be held virtually in March as a series of lunchtime events with live employer presentations and Q&A sessions. It will feature employers from various industries that are hiring students for full-time, part-time, or seasonal positions. There will also be information sheets on each employer, and a YouTube playlist of pre-recorded videos. 

The first live events will be held on March 8 and 9 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm.

Students can learn more on the Fair website, and pre-register for the live events.

Hosted by the UPEI Experiential Education department and UPEI Career Services.

The OER Development Program is once again offering grants ($2000--$6000) for the development of Open Educational Resources.These grants support the creation of a new open textbook, the adaptation of an existing open textbook (new edition or combining chapters from several open textbooks), or the creation of lab manuals, guide books, test banks, slide decks, etc. Past project examples include

• Applied Statistics in Healthcare Research by William J. Montelpare, Emily Read, Teri McComber, Alyson Mahar, and Krista Ritchie
• Engineering Mechanics: Statics by Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, Gayla Cameron, and Emma Christensen

The application and more details are available at https://library.upei.ca/OERProgram/grants. The application deadline is Friday, March 25, 2022. 

Do you have questions about your project and whether it qualifies as an OER? Attend a Zoom information session to chat with Kim Mears about your project:

• Monday, March 7, 2022, 9:00--9:30 am
• Thursday, March 10, 2022, 4:00--4:30 pm
• Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00 noon--12:30 pm
• Friday, March 18, 2022 3:00--3:30 pm
• Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 10:00--10:30 am

All meetings will use the same Zoom Meeting link: https://upei.zoom.us/j/69644379544?pwd=cy96TC9TNmduaDI3S3l5UzFWSHpyQT09 

Meeting ID: 696 4437 9544, Passcode: 185297

As Russian troops advance and Ukraine fights off attacks, the world watches the war unfolding in Eastern Europe. On Monday, March 7, at 3:00 pm (AT), political scientist and strategic analyst Gustavo Calvo, UDELAR University of Uruguay, will examine the latest developments with the talk, "Beyond the Dnieper River: the Boundaries of Empires."  As well, Dr. Yuliya Rashcupkina, UPEI Department of Political Science, will give a talk titled "Russia's war in Ukraine: the roots of the conflict and implications for the future of collective security."

The Master in Global Affairs program invites the community to join the MGA faculty, students, and directors in the conversation via Zoom: https://upei.zoom.us/j/66744284285?pwd=ZTVFNy83dGJyOXpidmxNcjgxWXFlUT09.

Please email Dr. Doreley Coll if you have questions.

The Robertson Library’s OER Development Program is accepting grant applications for the creation or adaptation of open educational resources (OERs). The grant types include:

• Open Textbook Grant: up to $6000
  • the development of a new open textbook on a topic that is currently not covered by an existing open textbook; 
• Open Textbook Adaptation Grant: up to $4,000
  • the adaptation of one or more open textbooks to create a new version or edition of an open textbook (i.e. a Canadian edition of an existing open textbook);
• Supplementary Resources Grant: up to $2,000
  • the creation of ancillary materials for existing open textbooks, including, but not limited to test banks, slide decks, or interactive media, etc.

Applications that support first year courses will be given priority as they reach the most amount of students, but all applications will be reviewed and considered. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 25, 2022, with work expected to begin during Spring or Summer. More information is available at https://library.upei.ca/OERProgram/grants.

Questions about your grant idea? Contact Kim Mears at kmears@upei.ca. Questions about OERs? Read more at http://opencontent.org/definition/.

Please join us for the second webinar in the "Resistance, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq'ik to the Mayan Nation" series, presented by Dra. Vera Tiesler. The webinar is titled "What we know about the first nations of Mesoamerica by studying their human remains"/"Lo que sabemos de los pueblos originarios de Mesoamérica a través del estudio de sus restos humanos".

The physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mesoamerica has been revealing deep and interesting data that allow us to delve into the ancestral past. This webinar will bring us closer to much new knowledge obtained through bone analysis of men and women who lived in pre-Columbian cultures. // La antropología  fìsica de los pueblos originarios de Mesoamérica ha ido revelando profundos e interesantes datos que nos permiten adentrarnos en el pasado ancestral. Esta conferencia nos acercará a muchos nuevos conocimientos obtenidos a traves del análisis oseo, de hombres y mujeres que vivieron en las culturas precolombinas. 

Please register for the webinar at https://tinyurl.com/y5p4dr7t

The "Resistance, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq'ik to the Mayan Nation" webinar series is coordinated by Dr. John Doran, University of Prince Edward Island, and Dr. Víctor Hugo Medina Suarez, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán.

Additional webinars coming up in the series include:

• April 8, 2022, at 2 pm AST: “Intercultural Education of the Mexican State: An autopsy”/“Educación Intercultural del Estado Mexicano: una autopsia” - Dr. Juan Carlos Mijangos (UADY) 
• May 13, 2022, at 2 pm AST: "Mayan feminism in the literary works of Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim"/“El feminismo maya en las obras literarias de Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim” - Dra. Cristina Leirana (UADY)
• June 10, 2022, at 2 pm AST: “The Mayan language in history: from instrument of colonization to means of modernization” “La lengua maya en la historia: de instrumento de colonización a medio de modernización” - Dr. Lorgio Cobá Noh (UADY)

We would like to thank our sponsors, The Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) and the UPEI Faculty of Education, for their help in making this event possible.

The 2022 Winter Exam Schedule has been posted. You can find the schedule posted in your Toolbox on MyUPEI as well as on your course schedule. 

Best of luck with your exams!

-Office of the Registrar 

Washing your hands properly is one of the most important things you can do to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses. Good hand hygiene will reduce the risk of things like flu, COVID-19, food poisoning, and healthcare-associated infections being passed from person to person.

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre is conducting hand hygiene audits on March 8, 9, and 10. We are asking any patients who visit us on these days to provide us direct observational feedback on our hand hygiene. This helps us to identify gaps or moments where we may not be doing as well as we should so that we can make improvements.  

If you have feedback on our hand hygiene or anything else at the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre, please do not hesitate to contact us at healthcentre@upei.ca or visit our website: https://www.upei.ca/health-centre, and click on "We'd love to hear from you" in the right-hand menu or complete a compliments/complaints card located in the waiting room.

Liturgy of the Word and Communion will take place each Monday and Thursday at 12:05 pm in the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre. Sister Sue will lead prayers and reflection. 

Today (March 4) is the last day to register for Bridge to PEI Conference on March 5!

More than 170 international students have already registered to attend the virtual Bridge to PEI Conference on Saturday, March 5, from 11 am to 4 pm (AST). If you’re a current international student from the University of Prince Edward Island, Holland College, or Collège de l'Île and strive to create your future in the province, don’t miss this great opportunity to learn more! Register today to reserve your spot: https://lnkd.in/dF-qigju.

Presentations will be given by the Immigrant & Refugee Services Association PEI, a Holland College Employment and Career Advisor, PEI Community Navigators, Office of Immigration PEI, and more!

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Study & Stay PEI Program team members at studyandstaypei@upei.ca!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar on Friday, March 4, 2022, at 12:30 pm. 

Choyce Chappell (MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences) will present "Design of a Mobile App for Natural Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery on Prince Edward Island," and Shahreen Rahman (MSc candidate in Human Biology) will present "Investigating the function of Schwann cells in impaired diabetic wound healing."

The meeting will be held via Google Meet: meet.google.com/vim-dgtm-ugf

All are welcome.

The annual UPEI Career Fair is just around the corner! This year's fair will be held virtually in March as a series of lunchtime events with live employer presentations and Q&A sessions. It will feature employers from various industries that are hiring students for full-time, part-time, or seasonal positions. There will also be information sheets on each employer, and a YouTube playlist of pre-recorded videos. 

The first live events will be held on March 8 and 9 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm.

Students can learn more on the Fair website, and pre-register for the live events.

Hosted by the UPEI Experiential Education department and UPEI Career Services.

The OER Development Program is once again offering grants ($2000--$6000) for the development of Open Educational Resources.These grants support the creation of a new open textbook, the adaptation of an existing open textbook (new edition or combining chapters from several open textbooks), or the creation of lab manuals, guide books, test banks, slide decks, etc. Past project examples include

• Applied Statistics in Healthcare Research by William J. Montelpare, Emily Read, Teri McComber, Alyson Mahar, and Krista Ritchie
• Engineering Mechanics: Statics by Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, Gayla Cameron, and Emma Christensen

The application and more details are available at https://library.upei.ca/OERProgram/grants. The application deadline is Friday, March 25, 2022. 

Do you have questions about your project and whether it qualifies as an OER? Attend a Zoom information session to chat with Kim Mears about your project:

• Monday, March 7, 2022, 9:00--9:30 am
• Thursday, March 10, 2022, 4:00--4:30 pm
• Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00 noon--12:30 pm
• Friday, March 18, 2022 3:00--3:30 pm
• Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 10:00--10:30 am

All meetings will use the same Zoom Meeting link: https://upei.zoom.us/j/69644379544?pwd=cy96TC9TNmduaDI3S3l5UzFWSHpyQT09 

Meeting ID: 696 4437 9544, Passcode: 185297

As Russian troops advance and Ukraine fights off attacks, the world watches the war unfolding in Eastern Europe. On Monday, March 7, at 3:00 pm (AT), political scientist and strategic analyst Gustavo Calvo, UDELAR University of Uruguay, will examine the latest developments with the talk, "Beyond the Dnieper River: the Boundaries of Empires."  As well, Dr. Yuliya Rashcupkina, UPEI Department of Political Science, will give a talk titled "Russia's war in Ukraine: the roots of the conflict and implications for the future of collective security."

The Master in Global Affairs program invites the community to join the MGA faculty, students, and directors in the conversation via Zoom: https://upei.zoom.us/j/66744284285?pwd=ZTVFNy83dGJyOXpidmxNcjgxWXFlUT09.

Please email Dr. Doreley Coll if you have questions.

The E-Learning Multimedia Development Grant is being offered for the fourth time as an opportunity for faculty and staff members to create a multimedia course resource with the help of the E-Learning Instructional Multimedia Specialist. Find out more about the grant here. The closing date for applications is March 11, 2022.

If you have questions related to your multimedia project ideas, please contact Kristy McKinney at kmckinney@upei.ca.