The deadline for the Diamond Awards is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.

Awards are available to full time students in good academic standing in the following areas:

• Sustainability Leadership
• Health & Wellness Leadership
• Educational Leadership
• Campus Spirit

Applicants will also be assessed on the following criteria:

• Originality: Is the student demonstrating a unique initiative, or are they doing something that has been commonly done by others in the past?
• Legacy: How long will the student’s efforts impact the campus and/or the off-campus community? Will the impact be felt for a day or will others be benefiting from the student’s efforts years in the future?
• Reach: How many people did the student’s efforts impact? Did they have an impact on the lives of few, or did they impact the lives of many?
• Leadership: Was the student the individual responsible for establishing an impactful initiative, or was their support passive in nature?

The application form can be found here: Diamond Awards

Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.

The deadline for the Roderick Stirling MacDonald Scholarships is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.

Scholarships are available to Graduate and Undergraduate students based on the following criteria:

• Students must be registered in full time studies at UPEI;
• Must have maintained an academic record of 85% or greater in every course in their previous year of study (or equivalent, for pass/fail coursework); and,
• Must demonstrate an interest in developing skills that “will enhance our local and global communities”, whether academic or professional skills, to align with the original intent of the scholarship program

The application form can be found here: Roderick Stirling MacDonald Scholarships 

Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.

Are you thinking about an Honours degree in Psychology?

Do you know what an Honours degree is?

Do you have questions about an Honours degree requirement for graduate school?

Are you wondering how to get into the Psychology Honours Programme at UPEI?

Psychology Honours Programme Coordinator, Dr. Scott Greer will be hosting an information session for students interested in learning more about the Honours Programme in Psychology at UPEI. 

The session will be held on Friday, March 19 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (AST) via Zoom at the following link:

https://upei.zoom.us/j/69218220264?pwd=T2xCbnk3TEJIZkZCd0o1WFdBTUkydz09

The UPEI Health & Wellness Centre will be conducting Hand Hygiene audits on March 22-25th.  Visitors to the health centre will be asked to complete a brief survey on handwashing/sanitizing by our staff.  Proper hand hygiene alone can reduce healthcare-associated infections by 50%.  

In our mission to provide high quality, safe care, the health centre is working on quality improvements, one of them being to ensure we are performing good hand hygiene.  

Help us to find out how we are doing by completing a survey if you visit us between March 22-25th.

Thank you!!

The UPEI Health & Wellness is conducting its annual Patient Satisfaction Survey.  For the first time, the survey is digital and the link will be mailed to all patients who visit the clinic between March 8-19, 2021.  If you are not visiting during this time, but have feedback, please go to www.upei.ca/health-centre and click on the link: "We'd love to hear from you" to submit your feedback. 

Prerequisites: "C as a Second Language" or prior experience with C programming

A great deal of high-performance computing software is written in C++, but few universities offer courses in the language any more. If you have to work with "legacy code" written in C++, adding features, porting to a new machine, or patching errors, or if you need to extend packages like OpenFOAM which are written in C++, then this workshop is for you.

C++ was designed as an extension of the C language but has its own distinct idiom or style. This workshop assumes that you already know C to the level reached in the ACENET workshop, "C as a Second Language".

This session will take place on:

Thursday, March 18th - 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Atlantic time)

You do 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, ie. gmail)

Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-c-as-a-second-language-tickets-135725419383

This webinar session takes a look at the effect that the COVID pandemic has had on key aspects of our health: socialization, nutrition, physical exercise, and sleep.  Our goal is to help you reduce stress levels by providing you with the skills to recognize signs and symptoms of unhealthy coping. We will then work through the process of creating healthy coping mechanisms that can be used in your day to day life.  Presented by Third Year Nursing Students.

Date and Time: March 15th at 10:30 AM

Draw prize:  UPEI Bookstore $50 gift certificate.   Only UPEI staff and faculty eligible for draw.  Please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator for the webinar link.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Tuesday, April 6 for the April meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols select ‘applications’ and for renewal or amendment protocols select ‘events’.

To view any UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month.  The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

Prerequisites: "C as a Second Language" or prior experience with C programming

A great deal of high-performance computing software is written in C++, but few universities offer courses in the language any more. If you have to work with "legacy code" written in C++, adding features, porting to a new machine, or patching errors, or if you need to extend packages like OpenFOAM which are written in C++, then this workshop is for you.

C++ was designed as an extension of the C language but has its own distinct idiom or style. This workshop assumes that you already know C to the level reached in the ACENET workshop, "C as a Second Language".

This session will take place on:

Thursday, March 18th - 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Atlantic time)

You do 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, ie. gmail)

Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-c-as-a-second-language-tickets-135725419383

Earlier this week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau designated March 11 a national day of observance to commemorate those who have died from COVID-19. Canada will mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic on Thursday, March 11, 2021.

The government has asked Canadians to think about those whose lives were claimed by the novel coronavirus, as well as the health-care and other essential workers who have been on the front lines.

UPEI will join governments and other organizations across the country in lowering the flags to half-mast as part of this observance.

This webinar session takes a look at the effect that the COVID pandemic has had on key aspects of our health: socialization, nutrition, physical exercise, and sleep.  Our goal is to help you reduce stress levels by providing you with the skills to recognize signs and symptoms of unhealthy coping. We will then work through the process of creating healthy coping mechanisms that can be used in your day to day life.  Presented by Third Year Nursing Students.

Date and Time: March 15th at 10:30 AM

Draw prize:  UPEI Bookstore $50 gift certificate.   Only UPEI staff and faculty eligible for draw.  Please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator for the webinar link.

The E-Learning Multimedia Development Grant is being offered for the third 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.

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

Closing date for applications is March 12, 2021 and completed application forms can be sent to dmoses@upei.ca with the subject line “E-Learning Multimedia Development Grant Application 2021.

Are you stuck on a writing assignment? Need some support with getting started, researching, planning, or revising? Not sure whether you've properly cited your sources? Looking for a qualified, interested second set of eyes to see whether your thesis is strong, your paragraphs are well structured, your sentences flow, your editing needs more attention?

Make an appointment with one of our fabulous tutors. Check out our schedule at upei.mywconline.com. Evening and weekend appointments are available. Let us help you hand in your best possible work.

ALSO, the posting is up for tutoring positions to begin in September 2021. If you're a strong writer who enjoys helping others, check it out! Go to https://www.upei.ca/hr/employment-opportunities and click on Student Positions. (Closing date for applications: March 22.)

The end is in sight for the winter, the school term, and even the godforsaken virus. Hang in there!

The UPEI Health & Wellness is conducting its annual Patient Satisfaction Survey.  For the first time, the survey is digital and the link will be mailed to all patients who visit the clinic between March 8-19, 2021.  If you are not visiting during this time, but have feedback, please go to www.upei.ca/health-centre and click on the link: "We'd love to hear from you" to submit your feedback. 

The UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation is excited to launch the UPEI Climate Webinar Series, which will feature a number of climate research topics presented by UPEI researchers. The series will run on several Fridays at 3 pm (AT) between March 12–May 28, 2021.

Join Dr. Adam Fenech, UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation for the series kick off on Friday, March 12 at 3 pm when he will speak about the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI’s campus in St. Peter’s Bay, PEI. 

Sign up to participate on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/144048887099

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences/Human Biology seminar on Friday, March 12 2021 at 12:30pm 

Jordon Condon (MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences) will present "Determination of factors affecting survival from egg to juvenile for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in PEI"

and

Kevin Douillette (MSc candidate in Human Biology) will present "Patient and Staff Perception of an Exercise Program for Cancer and Hemodialysis Patients"

The meeting will be held via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/hkg-vmhh-spg

All are welcome!

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Tuesday, April 6 for the April meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols select ‘applications’ and for renewal or amendment protocols select ‘events’.

To view any UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month.  The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

UPEI's Executive MBA program offers a high-quality learning experience for working business professionals. The program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work in, a management or leadership position. Classes are offered bi-weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the option to complete the program in 20 months.

Central to the program design is an evidence-based management approach which helps students develop the skills and knowledge to make better-informed and well-supported decisions both in the program and in applied situations in their workplaces.

To learn more about this exciting opportunity, UPEI's Faculty of Business invites you to attend an online information session on Thursday, March 11, at 5:00 pm (AST).

We encourage you to call 902-894-2866 or email mba@upei.ca to register for this event. For more information about UPEI's Executive MBA program, please visit www.upei.ca/emba 

The UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation is excited to launch the UPEI Climate Webinar Series, which will feature a number of climate research topics presented by UPEI researchers. The series will run on several Fridays at 3 pm (AT) between March 12–May 28, 2021.

Join Dr. Adam Fenech, UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation for the series kick off on Friday, March 12 at 3 pm when he will speak about the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI’s campus in St. Peter’s Bay, PEI. 

Sign up to participate on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/144048887099

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Tuesday, April 6 for the April meeting.

Please note that as of June 1, 2020 all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols select ‘applications’ and for renewal or amendment protocols select ‘events’.

To view any UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month.  The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.