Call for Feedback on Dean of Science Candidates

The Search Committee for the Dean of Science position is posting the video presentations for candidates Nola Etkin and Bill Whelan. They can be viewed at the following links:

Nola Etkin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10jxu1uT-1y7Tk9tAAZtpl1MqG9br2J-t/view?usp=sharing

Bill Whelan

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrXGpnB2i7Riu58amMYKbzIPV3caOJRL/view?usp=sharing

The Committee welcomes your feedback on the two candidates and requests that it be forwarded by email to vpar@upei.ca by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, February 18, 2020

All feedback remains confidential.

Thank you

September 2015 was the first UPEI Soup for the Soul. Health Promotion PEI helped create this great initiative with a Wellness Grant. This month, we invite the original donors back to host our anniversary event.  5 years strong and still growing. And the challenge is on. Soup 5.4 served 265 thanks to UPEI SU and VPAR. Can PEI HP beat them? Come and see.  

Wednesday February 12

11:30 - 1:00

UPEI Chaplaincy Centre

Want to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Interested in helping calculate UPEI’s carbon footprint? The UPEI Climate Lab (upei.ca/climate) is leading a project to account for UPEI’s greenhouse gas emissions as a key step in managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective manner. UPEI is undertaking this process in collaboration with its students, faculty, staff, and the general public. The UPEI Climate Lab invites anyone interested in helping guide this project to a meeting on Thursday, February 13 at noon in the fish bowl of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC Building). For more information, contact afenech@upei.ca.

In celebration of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Faculty of Education invites you to join them for an inspiring talk by alumna Lisa Cooper, BA’01, BEd’08, MEd’12, President and Chief of the Native Council of Prince Edward Island.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 12:25 pm
SDU Main Building ~ Faculty Lounge

Lunch will be provided

Interactive content can increase learner engagement and also help increase learning. Adding interactive content to your course is now so very easy to do. You can make videos interactive, images interactive, presentations interactive, quizzes interactive. The sky's the limit. In this workshop come learn how to get started creating your own interactive content. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, you can attend this workshop on either Wednesday, February 19th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 312 of the Robertson Library or on Thursday, March 19th from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The Island Lecture Series February lecture features a lecture by Dr. Ed MacDonald (History): The Goose and the Golden Egg: The Environmental Turn in Island Tourism, 1970-1990. Based on Dr. MacDonald's forthcoming history of Island tourism, the lecture explores how the Island's natural landscape became a tourist asset. Admission is free and all are welcome.

UPEI’s Faculty of Business will hold an information session for those interested in its Executive MBA program. The event will be Thursday, March 12 at 5:00 pm in the Boardroom at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.

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, the Faculty of Business invites you to attend this upcoming information session. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff, faculty and students.

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

On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, ITSS will be conducting mandatory updates to services accessed via the myUPEI portal (including Self Service, ColleagueUI, Web Advisor, Web API). This work will be conducted between 8 pm to 12 midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing these services.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

 Everyone is welcome to attend:

 In this talk, I examine the case of self-mummified monks whose robed remains are on display and worshipped in a few temples in the Mount Yudono area. They are revered as ‘living Buddhas’ by temple patrons who petition them in prayer and who, in some cases, claim to receive messages from them while awake or dreaming. There is, within the Mount Yudono community, a politics of authenticity between the temples with mummies, however. Living monks of the same sect but at different temples have competing claims about which mummies are forgeries and which are real. Such claims are grounded in historicities of the auto-mummification process and if it was undertaken properly but are also, as I demonstrate, connected to competition in the domestic and international tourism industry.

Call for Feedback on Dean of Science Candidates

The Search Committee for the Dean of Science position is posting the video presentations for candidates Nola Etkin and Bill Whelan. They can be viewed at the following links:

Nola Etkin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10jxu1uT-1y7Tk9tAAZtpl1MqG9br2J-t/view?usp=sharing

Bill Whelan

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrXGpnB2i7Riu58amMYKbzIPV3caOJRL/view?usp=sharing

The Committee welcomes your feedback on the two candidates and requests that it be forwarded by email to vpar@upei.ca by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, February 18, 2020

All feedback remains confidential.

Thank you

September 2015 was the first UPEI Soup for the Soul. Health Promotion PEI helped create this great initiative with a Wellness Grant. This month, we invite the original donors back to host our anniversary event.  5 years strong and still growing. And the challenge is on. Soup 5.4 served 265 thanks to UPEI SU and VPAR. Can PEI HP beat them? Come and see.  

Wednesday February 12

11:30 - 1:00

UPEI Chaplaincy Centre

Want to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Interested in helping calculate UPEI’s carbon footprint? The UPEI Climate Lab (upei.ca/climate) is leading a project to account for UPEI’s greenhouse gas emissions as a key step in managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective manner. UPEI is undertaking this process in collaboration with its students, faculty, staff, and the general public. The UPEI Climate Lab invites anyone interested in helping guide this project to a meeting on Thursday, February 13 at noon in the fish bowl of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC Building). For more information, contact afenech@upei.ca.

In celebration of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Faculty of Education invites you to join them for an inspiring talk by alumna Lisa Cooper, BA’01, BEd’08, MEd’12, President and Chief of the Native Council of Prince Edward Island.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 12:25 pm
SDU Main Building ~ Faculty Lounge

Lunch will be provided

Please join Dr. Nola Etkin, Interim Dean of Science, at the IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast  on February 12 at 7:30am at Smitty's Restaurant at 449 University Avenue. This year’s theme is “Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders".

 Scientists from around the world are invited to participate in the IUPAC 2020 Global Women’s Breakfast (GWB2020). This global event will be held on a single day, February 12, 2020, one day after the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The overall purpose of GWB2020 is to establish an on-going virtual network where women in the chemical and related sciences can connect with each other in a meaningful way to support their professional aspirations. The theme for GWB2020 is “Bonding to create future leaders” with a focus on leadership development. Women and men from all types of educational and scientific organizations from high schools to universities, to scientific societies, government and industry organizations are welcome! Please join the conversation with others around the world by using the Hashtag #GWB2020.

Students, faculty, and staff at UPEI are invited to participate in a research project titled Evaluating UPEI Student and Faculty/Staff Interest in WOOFS (Wellness-Oriented Outreach for Students & Staff). Honours student Amy MacQuarrie, under the supervision of Dr. Tracy Doucette in the Psychology Department here at UPEI, is conducting a campus-wide survey on this topic.

The purpose of this research project is to examine UPEI student and faculty/staff interest in a proposed comfort dog program on campus (WOOFS). In addition, it will also explore
connections between pet attitudes and comfort/therapy dog programs. Students enrolled in PSY 1020 will receive a 1% bonus credit in PSY 1020 for participating. Students and faculty/staff not enrolled in PSY 1020 will be entered into a draw for the chance to win a $50 gift card! Students enrolled in PSY 1020 who do not wish to complete the survey may complete an alternative writing assignment for extra credit.

If you are interested, please click on the link to the survey to access the participant information letter and more information about the project! Survey Link: http://survey.upei.ca/index.php/781549/lang-en

To continue its ongoing work of encouraging the campus community to expand its thinking about equity and inclusion, the Arts Equity and Inclusion group is now starting up a reading group! Our focus is to think broadly about what terms like equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mean in our work at UPEI, both in the classroom and outside of it. For our first meeting, we’ve selected a chapter by Dr. Malinda Smith from her co-authored book The Equity Myth, “A Dirty Dozen: Unconscious Race and Gender Biases in the Academy.” As you know, Dr. Smith was a speaker on campus last semester, and starting with her is a good way to return to some of the issues she raised then. The library has a copy of the book, but we’ve also put a PDF of the chapter on a shared Google folder, at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-Kp3Rgic3p4Beu_26WK5h4i0ZD4LZmv?usp=sharing (accessible to anyone with a UPEI email address; we’ll be putting future readings in the same folder). Take a look, grab a colleague, and come join the conversation on Wednesday Feb 12, at 3:00pm, in Cass 305. Everyone welcome!

 Everyone is welcome to attend:

 In this talk, I examine the case of self-mummified monks whose robed remains are on display and worshipped in a few temples in the Mount Yudono area. They are revered as ‘living Buddhas’ by temple patrons who petition them in prayer and who, in some cases, claim to receive messages from them while awake or dreaming. There is, within the Mount Yudono community, a politics of authenticity between the temples with mummies, however. Living monks of the same sect but at different temples have competing claims about which mummies are forgeries and which are real. Such claims are grounded in historicities of the auto-mummification process and if it was undertaken properly but are also, as I demonstrate, connected to competition in the domestic and international tourism industry.

Want to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Interested in helping calculate UPEI’s carbon footprint? The UPEI Climate Lab (upei.ca/climate) is leading a project to account for UPEI’s greenhouse gas emissions as a key step in managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective manner. UPEI is undertaking this process in collaboration with its students, faculty, staff, and the general public. The UPEI Climate Lab invites anyone interested in helping guide this project to a meeting on Thursday, February 13 at noon in the fish bowl of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC Building). For more information, contact afenech@upei.ca.

Attention Dads, Moms and Guardians:

Do you want to learn how to stay positive and confident as a parent and reduce stress in your
family? Free Triple P-Positive Parenting Seminars will be held February 18th, 25th and March
3rd at Murphy’s Community Centre (room 207) from 7:00-8:30pm. Triple P is an international
project promoted and supported by the Government of Prince Edward Island. There are three
sessions in the seminar series, and each session addresses a different theme. Fathers,
mothers, grandparents, foster parents and guardians are welcome!

For more information, contact Catherine Noseworthy at cnoseworthy@upei.ca

It's not too late - flu shots are still available.  he second wave of Influenza has not come yet and you can still protect yourself and others by getting the flu shot. Contact the UPEI Health & Wellness Centre at 902-566-0616 or healthcentre@upei.ca to get your flu shot today. Available free of charge to all students as well as faculty, staff, and families.