Ethics protocols that involve ‘more than minimal risk’ must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB).  The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday January 3, 2020. They will be reviewed at the January meeting.  Protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are received after January 3, 2020 will be reviewed at the February 2020 meeting.

Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve ‘more than minimal risk’, renewals, and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete forms.

Submit the following:

• one hard copy of the signed application form and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building and

• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

For more information, please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday January 3, 2020. These applications will be reviewed at the January 2020 meeting.

Please ensure that you use the new electronic forms available at http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. 

Submit the following:

• one hard copy of the application form with signatures and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building and
• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

Please note that applications received after this deadline will be reviewed at the February 2020 meeting. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

As the end of semester peeks at you from beyond piles of grading, you may find yourself thinking about your upcoming winter courses. There are a number of one-on-one appointments available through December for faculty who want to meet and discuss ways they can incorporate more experiential learning into their courses. If you are interested in exploring how you could make your coursework more hands-on and relevant to students' career goals, email Shannon at smsnow@upei.ca to set up a meeting.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Lomeharshan Lall's public presentation of his MEd research titled: Teachers' Experiences Creating and Delivering Indigenous Curricula On Prince Edward Island In Response To The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Recommendations.

The UPEI Concert Choir, under the direction of Sung Ha Shin-Bouey, will perform The Messiah-Part I (plus the Hallelujah Chorus), in collaboration with the Atlantic String Machine and the UPEI Voice Majors as soloists. Other ensembles sharing the stage will be the UPEI Chamber Singers, Le Ragazze Girls Vocal Ensemble, and the Ragazzi Jrs Singers in collaboration with pianist Leo Marchildon.

The concert will take place at UPEI’s Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Sunday, December 8, 2019, at 2:00 pm.

Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15 for adults, $10 for students.

The University of Prince Edward Island and the UPEI Alumni Association invite you to the annual UPEI New Year's Levee!

Join us as we wrap-up the celebrations of UPEI's 50th Anniversary in 2020!

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 ~ 11:30 am–1:00 pm
Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering ~ Room 128

See you there!

Cheryl Carmichael, a student in the MA Island Studies program, will be defending her thesis entitled, "SPARTECA, PICTA and WTO: How the Pacific Island states are impacted by free trade agreements" Cheryl's defence will take place on Friday, December 6th at 10:00am in Rm. 104 Health Sciences Building. Seating is limited so please RSVP (Jim Randall  jarandall@upei.ca or 620-5013) if you wish to attend.

The Island Lecture Series December 10 lecture in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge features a visiting scholar from Jamaica, Dr. Dacia Leslie, speaking about Jamaica’s prison system: “'Don’t Discard the Utilitarian Aims': Revisiting the UK Prison Offer." One of the extended controversies surrounding the J$5.5 billion ($51.8 million CAD) offer of the United Kingdom in 2016 to help build a modern prison in Jamaica concerns the extent to which the offer was a form of “penal humanitarianism.” Dr. Leslie’s talk offers a pragmatic lens through which we might gain deeper insight into the justifications for Jamaica’s rejection of the offer. Dacia Leslie is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. She is also a 2019 recipient of the Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership Scholarship that is being hosted by the Institute of Island Studies. The lecture gets under way at 7 p.m. All are welcome.  

Mental Health First Aid is a nationally accredited program designed to increase awareness, challenge attitudes, and introduce intervention skills related to mental health issues and supporting those experiencing difficulties.  The two-day, 12-hour workshop will be offered by the Department of Student Affairs on December 18 and 19, 2019 free of charge to UPEI faculty, staff and students.  Enrollment is limited.  Please email saworkshops@upei.ca to register or to make inquiries.

Early on Wednesday morning, December 4, 2019, Facilities Management discovered a main water line break in SDU Main Building. The main water line break has now been repaired and the water is back on in the SDU Main Building, while clean-up and drying continues in the west end of Level 1. A "Do Not Drink Water" order remains in place until the water line is flushed and tested; however, the washrooms have been re-opened. The elevator will remain shut down until further notice. For students who have exams scheduled in SDU Main Building, please check the my.UPEI.ca student portal for updated locations. Thank you for your patience as we work to restore services.

Do you have any empty #10 envelope boxes kicking around? I am on the hunt for a bunch now and would love to have any that you empty from now on. Please drop them off to Alumni Hall or give Sarah a call at (902) 894.2888 for pick up.

Thank you for recycling!

The workshop will aid in understanding what fascia/connective tissue is and how important it is to your overall health - it affects everything. Brenda Dowel will target major areas of the body using yoga, therapeutic essentials, conditioning movements, ball and roller work, stretches, and breath in order to release tension and stress in the fascia and muscles. 

Brenda Dowel, a registered Yoga Teacher E-RYT-1000 and Licensed Holistic Practitioner. She provides Myofascial Release Therapy, Lomilomi, Fascial Stretch Therapy, Life Stretch & Thai Yoga Massage with her business. After many years of teaching, Brenda is  continually uplifted, and wishes to continue to inspire and empower others to come home to their hearts through their bodies and live their true passion.

Workshop will be held Friday, December 13, Noon – 2:00 pm in Andrews Hall Room  #142. Pre-registration is required, no cost.   Please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca to register. This workshop is provided for UPEI employees by the Healthy Campus Committee. Space limited to 20 participants.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology invites members of the campus community to attend a seminar presentation by Dr. Abdul Lone, the third and final candidate interviewing for the tenure-track faculty position in Molecular Clinical Bacteriology.  As part of the interview process, Dr. Lone will be presenting a seminar entitled Partnerships and Service: Teaching Clinical and Research Microbiology with Staphylococci as an Example on Thursday, December 5 at 1:30 pm in Room 205N (AVC Lecture Theatre B).

A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of intent are available by contacting Karen Roche (kroche@upei.ca) in Pathology & Microbiology. 

Everyone is welcome.

The UPEI Concert Choir, under the direction of Sung Ha Shin-Bouey, will perform The Messiah-Part I (plus the Hallelujah Chorus), in collaboration with the Atlantic String Machine and the UPEI Voice Majors as soloists. Other ensembles sharing the stage will be the UPEI Chamber Singers, Le Ragazze Girls Vocal Ensemble, and the Ragazzi Jrs Singers in collaboration with pianist Leo Marchildon.

The concert will take place at UPEI’s Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Sunday, December 8, 2019, at 2:00 pm.

Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15 for adults, $10 for students.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 Atlantic Award of Excellence in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Care.  The Atlantic Veterinary College seeks nominees who demonstrate:

- participation in the community

- advancement of the profession

- the highest values of compassion, leadership and dedication to the profession

- exceptional service and contributions to the profession

For more detailed criteria and a nomination form, visit upei.ca/avc/community

The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2020.

UPEI's faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Education, and Science have partnered with Farmers Helping Farmers (FHF) over the past two decades, providing students with valuable practical experience and an opportunity to contribute to vital projects in Kenya. FHF has embarked on a 2019 Holiday Campaign to help raise its matching share of Global Affairs Canada funding for its latest project, More Food, Better Food: Empowering Kenyan Women Farmers, and invites you to visit the FHF website to see donation options. For eligible items, your donation will grow fivefold! In return for your donation you will receive a tax deductible receipt and a card acknowledging your gift (please donate by December 15 to receive in time for Christmas).

Once again the UPEI Bookstore will be offering Christmas staff shopping to all staff/faculty. 

Staff will be able to charge purchases from the UPEI Bookstore to their personal account between Monday December 9 and Saturday December 14, 2019.

Payroll deductions will be from January 24-April 17, 2020. 

Your 20% discount will apply.

On December 6, 1989, at approximately 5 pm, what should have been a joyful celebration of camaraderie and the end of the school semester turned into a tragedy. A man entered a classroom at École Polytechnique de Montréal with an assault weapon. He ordered the men to go to one side of the room and the women to go to the other. He targeted the female engineering students and shot them.

The murder of 14 brilliant and creative women sparked a deep outrage among the population and became a tragic part of Canadian history. Governments quickly declared December 6th as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

In order to keep the memory of these young victims alive, a new memory committee was formed at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2014. Since then, 14 beams of light have lit up the evening sky in Montreal every December 6 in memory of the victims. This year, Polytechnique has reached out to partner engineering schools across the country to commemorate this event by beaming a giant light into the sky. 

Join faculty members, students, and others as we mark this event, and reflect on diversity within engineering and the work that has been done and continues to be needed. The event begins at 5 pm at the Learning Staircase of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Building with UPEI’s light being lit just after 6 pm. All are welcome.

Feeling overwhelmed? Studying getting you down? Do you need to just take a time-out?

Back by popular demand, the Robertson Library is hosting the Stress Free Zone! Step into the Zone to relax and have some fun.

Play a game, colour, get crafty, smile for a selfie fashion shoot, get creative with Lego, or just unwind in our beloved bean bag chairs.

And, there will be a daily pop-up surprise in the Library for students during the exam period. Study break activities, snacks, crafts, etc  Check the Library’s social media each day for details or drop by the Library!

Special treat Saturdays! Chartwells and the Robertson Library are co-sponsoring two afternoons of cupcakes, cookies, & hot chocolate on Saturday, November 30th and Saturday, December 7th.

Good luck with your exams!

Cheryl Carmichael, a student in the MA Island Studies program, will be defending her thesis entitled, "SPARTECA, PICTA and WTO: How the Pacific Island states are impacted by free trade agreements" Cheryl's defence will take place on Friday, December 6th at 10:00am in Rm. 104 Health Sciences Building. Seating is limited so please RSVP (Jim Randall  jarandall@upei.ca or 620-5013) if you wish to attend.