Campus Notices
Please be advised the email address for the music department administrative assistant has changed. Please send all requests / messages to the new address : music@upei.ca.
The AVC Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) is excited to announce our online pet store (mvVETstore), where every purchase supports training the next generation of veterinarians. This online store offers UPEI faculty and staff the convenience of shopping for your pet’s products at whatever time suits you, with 24/7 service and a huge selection of food, treats, toys, and supplies for cats, dogs, pocket pets, and exotics.
With current COVID restrictions, it can be inconvenient and time consuming for you to come into the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Ordering through the myVETstore website is faster and safer for you. If your pet needs a prescription diet, these are strictly controlled by your AVC veterinarian through our myVETstore.
Ordered products can be shipped directly to your home, cottage, or office, or picked up at the VTH. We will send you an email letting you know when your order has been shipped or is available for pickup.
We invite you to sign up and create your account (please use your UPEI email address to get your staff discount) for the AVC myVETstore through the link below:
https://www.myvetstore.ca/avcvth
The UPEI Music Department is pleased to present a showcase recital featuring selected student solo and chamber performancesl to be held at UPEI Dr. Steel Building, on Thursday, November 26, at 7:30 pm. Admission is FREE, however anyone interested in attending must fill out the attendance sheet found at this link by no later than noon, Tuesday, November 24.
There have been a few incidents on campus recently where crows have swooped individuals in what we assume is an attempt to obtain food. Members of the campus community are reminded to refrain from feeding birds and other wildlife such as foxes.
While birds and other wildlife might seem hungry, feeding them just isn't a good idea. Here's why:
1. “People” food isn’t good for animals.
2. It makes wild animals lose their natural fear of people and they can become a nuisance.
3. Wild animals who depend on people for food can cause injuries or spread disease.
Thank-you for your co-operation!
The Experiential Education department is hosting a series of virtual Lunch & Learn sessions for faculty on Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) through COVID. These sessions will highlight projects where faculty have created or adapted WIL opportunities for students since COVID restrictions have been in place. Each Lunch and Learn will feature an invited guest for an informal conversation about their work. Come, chat with your colleagues, and share some best practices.
Thursday, November 19, 12-1 pm, with Inge Dorsey
Inge Dorsey will speak about facilitating Service Learning placements for her Leadership students through the spring, summer and fall semesters.
Wednesday, November 25, 12-1 pm, with Dr. Christina Faye Murray
Dr. Christina Faye Murray will speak about coordinating a large teaching team guiding 80 nursing students through remote clinical nursing placements where students developed projects to support population health.
Monday, November 30, 12-1 pm, with Dr. Laurie Brinklow
Dr. Laurie Brinklow will speak about leveraging the Public Service Commission’s Policy Hackathon to provide graduate and undergraduate students with high-level policy training and experience alongside networking and professional development opportunities.
Visit https://forms.gle/Nf6GigHSxRXJJfgV8 to register for the session(s) above.
Email smsnow@upei.ca with any questions.
The Animal Care Committee does not meet in December. The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, January 8, 2021 for the January 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.
The deadline for Winter 2021 Tuition Waivers to be submitted to Human Resources is December 10th, 2020. We encourage you to have tuition waivers
Online Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition
If you have any questions, please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hrgeneral@upei.ca.
There will be a UPEI Basic Biosafety training session held at the KMB Room 237 on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, at 1:00 pm.
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 November 13, 2020 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.
NOTE: An online Basic Biosafety Training Refresher course is currently being organized. Please continue to watch Campus Notices for more information on this upcoming course.
Call for mentors! Atlantic Canada Study and Stay Prince Edward Island
Are you a professional looking to share your knowledge, experience and skills? If so, become a mentor today and support a graduating international student in starting his/her career in Prince Edward Island.
To become a mentor, sign up at:
https://atlanticcanadastudyandstay.com/atlantic-canada-study-and-staytm-prince-edward-island
Thank you for helping more and more graduating international student stay in this lovely island after graduation. Please help us share with your network.
If you have any questions, please contact us at studyandstaypei@upei.ca.
Please be advised the email address for the music department administrative assistant has changed. Please send all requests / messages to the new address : music@upei.ca.
The Experiential Education department is hosting a series of virtual Lunch & Learn sessions for faculty on Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) through COVID. These sessions will highlight projects where faculty have created or adapted WIL opportunities for students since COVID restrictions have been in place. Each Lunch and Learn will feature an invited guest for an informal conversation about their work. Come, chat with your colleagues, and share some best practices.
Thursday, November 19, 12-1 pm, with Inge Dorsey
Inge Dorsey will speak about facilitating Service Learning placements for her Leadership students through the spring, summer and fall semesters.
Wednesday, November 25, 12-1 pm, with Dr. Christina Faye Murray
Dr. Christina Faye Murray will speak about coordinating a large teaching team guiding 80 nursing students through remote clinical nursing placements where students developed projects to support population health.
Monday, November 30, 12-1 pm, with Dr. Laurie Brinklow
Dr. Laurie Brinklow will speak about leveraging the Public Service Commission’s Policy Hackathon to provide graduate and undergraduate students with high-level policy training and experience alongside networking and professional development opportunities.
Visit https://forms.gle/Nf6GigHSxRXJJfgV8 to register for the session(s) above.
Email smsnow@upei.ca with any questions.
The Animal Care Committee does not meet in December. The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, January 8, 2021 for the January 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.
The deadline for Winter 2021 Tuition Waivers to be submitted to Human Resources is December 10th, 2020. We encourage you to have tuition waivers
Online Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition
If you have any questions, please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hrgeneral@upei.ca.
This is a reminder that the UPEI Biosafety Policy requires that all Principal Investigators confirm the security and complete inventory of all biohazardous materials being used or stored, due in November of each year. This is accomplished by updating your entries if required, then confirming the accuracy of your inventory as follows:
1. Access your inventory at https://biosafety.vre3.upei.ca/. Please copy and paste into your url.
2. Ensure your inventory is up to date, and then confirm this by following the steps as listed below.
3. Select User Menu (top right of screen) then My account (from the left side of the drop down screen).
4. Click Edit (just below the user name)
5. Click on Information (on the top right section of the screen).
6. Scroll down this page. Below the box with the phone number, you will notice a box next to I accept. If you have not already done so, please read this section and, if you agree, please check this box.
7. To report your inventory is up to date, please enter the date that you confirm this in the 2020 box.
8. Hit Save! Task completed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you are not yet a user of this site, but store or use biohazardous materials, please contact me to arrange access.
Rhoda Speare
Biosafety Officer
Phone 620-5071
rspeare@upei.ca
Synapse at UPEI is hosting a second session on how to improve professional and personal pitches.
This entire workshop is interactive as the trainer takes you through real pitches to show you how to strengthen them into more compelling presentations. Attendees interested in direct feedback on their pitches should submit written pitches or materials to trainer Linda Plano for consideration before 11 pm, Nov 11. Instructions for how to submit pitches will be sent in the registration confirmation.
Be better prepared to succeed the next time you face: grant managers and funding agencies; hiring managers; investors; family and friends; potential customers and partners; colleagues and classmates; and sought-after collaborators.
The event is Friday, November 13 from 12:30 to 2 pm. The Pitch Clinic will run 90 minutes.
Registration is now open: http://bit.ly/PEI-PCW.
There will be a UPEI Basic Biosafety training session held at the KMB Room 237 on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, at 1:00 pm.
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 November 13, 2020 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.
NOTE: An online Basic Biosafety Training Refresher course is currently being organized. Please continue to watch Campus Notices for more information on this upcoming course.
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences/Human Biology seminar on Friday, November 13 at 12:30 pm, which will be held via Google Meet:
Dr. Deivid Rodrigues of the Hospital for Sick Children will present “Regulation of gene expression during human neurogenesis: a multilayered paradigm”
All are welcome.
The Chartered Professional Accountants Atlantic School of Business is hosting an online information session for UPEI students and alumni on Tuesday, November 17th at 12:00pm.
Anyone interested in getting their CPA designation can attend this free event. Work in any sector, anywhere in the world, and at any level of the organization you can imagine. Find out where the CPA designation can take you.
Please RSVP to John Thomas at jthomas@cpaatlantic.ca to get access to the virtual session.
Questions? Email careerservices@upei.ca
Synapse at UPEI is hosting a second session on how to improve professional and personal pitches.
This entire workshop is interactive as the trainer takes you through real pitches to show you how to strengthen them into more compelling presentations. Attendees interested in direct feedback on their pitches should submit written pitches or materials to trainer Linda Plano for consideration before 11 pm, Nov 11. Instructions for how to submit pitches will be sent in the registration confirmation.
Be better prepared to succeed the next time you face: grant managers and funding agencies; hiring managers; investors; family and friends; potential customers and partners; colleagues and classmates; and sought-after collaborators.
The event is Friday, November 13 from 12:30 to 2 pm. The Pitch Clinic will run 90 minutes.
Registration is now open: http://bit.ly/PEI-PCW.
The Chartered Professional Accountants Atlantic School of Business is hosting an online information session for UPEI students and alumni on Tuesday, November 17th at 12:00pm.
Anyone interested in getting their CPA designation can attend this free event. Work in any sector, anywhere in the world, and at any level of the organization you can imagine. Find out where the CPA designation can take you.
Please RSVP to John Thomas at jthomas@cpaatlantic.ca to get access to the virtual session.
Questions? Email careerservices@upei.ca
