Campus Notices
The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, November 1st for the November meeting.
Ensure you download the current forms from http://upei.ca/research-services/research-certifications/animal-care, use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms (only current forms will be accepted). 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.
Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date.
- Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302
- Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca
Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.
For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Administrative Assistant at 902-566-0973.
Please welcome new staff members Lily Reaman, Program Officer and Melanie Faye, Administrative Assistant who will be located on the second floor of McDougall Hall, offices 224 & 225.
Sherilyn Acorn Leclair will take on management of OCEPD in addition to her International Liaison and Study & Stay portfolio and will work in collaboration with the Department of Experiential Education and Work Integrated Learning on non-credit programming.
To learn more please visit https://www.upei.ca/professional-development. The site will be refreshed with new content in the coming weeks.
Several staff from UPEI's Office of Experiential Education will be attending an online Professional Development session offered as part of CEWIL's Annual General Meeting. The session will take place on Thursday, October 17 from 4-6pm (AST). Details of the sessions, as well as the rest of the AGM details, can be found at https://www.cewilcanada.ca/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=94. If you are a faculty or staff member who is interested in learning more about models of work integrated learning, feel free to join us in Memorial Hall, Room 308, to listen in. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Shannon Snow at smsnow@upei.ca.
On Wednesday October 16 at 3pm, in HSB 104, Dr. Ben Kuo from the University of Windsor will be speaking on the relationship between culture and coping styles in his talk: "Culture and Coping: International programmatic research to examine collective coping."
In this presentation, we will explore the issues frequently encountered by thesis/dissertation supervisors and their students who are researching and writing in their second language. The presentation focuses on practical strategies, suggestions, and resources (for the supervisor and the student) as recommended by Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield in their text "Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Supervisors".
The PEI History of Medicine Society, the UPEI Department of History, and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation are pleased to co-host this year's Macphail Memorial Lecture by Dr. Sasha Mullally, Foreign Practices: Physician Immigration and the History of Medicare in Canada. Hailing from Gowan Brae, PEI, Dr. Mullally is a professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at UNB, and a former President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. Her talk will examine several extremely topical issues, including immigration (particularly the so-called 'global search for talent') and the history of Medicare (with a special interest in problem of recruiting and retaining doctors in under-serviced areas, notably Atlantic Canada). There will be a cash bar reception at the Homestead at 6:30, with the lecture beginning at 7:00. Funding support from the Robert Pope Foundation for this lecture is gratefully acknowledged.
The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering invites the campus community to this week's Graduate Research Seminar by Dr. Trung Dung Ngo, Associate Professor, entitled "How to prepare a good PhD/Master study plan".
This event is Wednesday, October 16 at 11:30 am (please note the change in time) in the FSDE building, room 212.
Everyone is welcome.
Effective October 6, 2019, employees who enter a timesheet through Campus Login (Aestiva) will now enter hours through the new "Employee Time Entry" system, which will be accessible through myUPEI. The "Employee Time Entry" link is posted in the "Employee Toolbox" under the "Time and Leave Information" section as well as the "Student Toolbox".
We ask that all staff and student employees who submit hours, and supervisors responsible for approving hours, make every effort to attend a training session as we will be demonstrating how to submit hours and approve hours. For those employees and supervisors who have not yet attended a training session, there is still training sessions scheduled and available for you to attend. Please click on the link to sign up for a training session:
Please note the following time-entry requirements for the following payroll periods:
- November 1, 2019 pay — hours worked from October 6 to October 19 will be entered in the new "Employee Time Entry" system that will be accessible through myUPEI. Deadline for hours/approval is October 21, 2019.
- Effective October 7, 2019 — Employees, who previously submitted overtime hours through a timesheet accessible through Campus Login (Aestiva), will now submit these hours through the "Employee Time Entry (Exceptions)" form located on the "Employee Toolbox" of myUPEI.
On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, ITSS will be performing maintenance on our campus DNS (domain name system) servers between 8 pm and 11:59 pm. Devices on campus that are connected to wireless or wired networks may experience intermittent delays when communicating with websites or services during this time.Off-campus access to UPEI websites and services will be unaffected.
If you receive an error message and are unable to access a service during this window, please wait at least five minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI invites all Grade 7-10 girls and one parent/guardian to attend Go ENG Girl Day on Saturday, October 26, 2019. Go ENG Girl Day is a fun opportunity to spend an afternoon learning about the wonderful world of engineering, meeting women currently studying engineering, learning about some of the amazing things women engineers are doing, and participating in cool hands-on activities. We are excited to be one of 15+ other Engineering programs at universities across Canada all holding this event in October! Registration is FREE but space is limited and closes on Tuesday, October 22 at 12 noon: http://www.onwie.ca/programs/go-eng-girl. For more information: https://sites.google.com/upei.ca/go-eng-girl2019/home
The PEI History of Medicine Society, the UPEI Department of History, and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation are pleased to co-host this year's Macphail Memorial Lecture by Dr. Sasha Mullally, Foreign Practices: Physician Immigration and the History of Medicare in Canada. Hailing from Gowan Brae, PEI, Dr. Mullally is a professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at UNB, and a former President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. Her talk will examine several extremely topical issues, including immigration (particularly the so-called 'global search for talent') and the history of Medicare (with a special interest in problem of recruiting and retaining doctors in under-serviced areas, notably Atlantic Canada). There will be a cash bar reception at the Homestead at 6:30, with the lecture beginning at 7:00. Funding support from the Robert Pope Foundation for this lecture is gratefully acknowledged.
The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering invites the campus community to this week's Graduate Research Seminar by Dr. Trung Dung Ngo, Associate Professor, entitled "How to prepare a good PhD/Master study plan".
This event is Wednesday, October 16 at 11:30 am (please note the change in time) in the FSDE building, room 212.
Everyone is welcome.
The UPEI Department of Music, in partnership with Yamaha Canada Music and the PEI Symphony Orchestra, is pleased to host a brass masterclass with Montreal Symphony Orchestra principal trumpeter Paul Merkelo. Merkelo’s masterclass will give students of all brass instruments an opportunity to learn from a master performer and teacher. The class will be held on Monday, October 21, 9:30-11:30 am, in the Steel Recital Hall at UPEI. Admission is free, and all are welcome.
Please join us for a talk with Dr.Terry Whitebeach, Australian author and UPEI's Writer-in-Residence to learn about colonialism and the Stolen Generation in Australia.
Effective October 6, 2019, employees who enter a timesheet through Campus Login (Aestiva) will now enter hours through the new "Employee Time Entry" system, which will be accessible through myUPEI. The "Employee Time Entry" link is posted in the "Employee Toolbox" under the "Time and Leave Information" section as well as the "Student Toolbox".
We ask that all staff and student employees who submit hours, and supervisors responsible for approving hours, make every effort to attend a training session as we will be demonstrating how to submit hours and approve hours. For those employees and supervisors who have not yet attended a training session, there is still training sessions scheduled and available for you to attend. Please click on the link to sign up for a training session:
Please note the following time-entry requirements for the following payroll periods:
- November 1, 2019 pay — hours worked from October 6 to October 19 will be entered in the new "Employee Time Entry" system that will be accessible through myUPEI. Deadline for hours/approval is October 21, 2019.
- Effective October 7, 2019 — Employees, who previously submitted overtime hours through a timesheet accessible through Campus Login (Aestiva), will now submit these hours through the "Employee Time Entry (Exceptions)" form located on the "Employee Toolbox" of myUPEI.
On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, ITSS will be performing maintenance on our campus DNS (domain name system) servers between 8 pm and 11:59 pm. Devices on campus that are connected to wireless or wired networks may experience intermittent delays when communicating with websites or services during this time.Off-campus access to UPEI websites and services will be unaffected.
If you receive an error message and are unable to access a service during this window, please wait at least five minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Your feedback is important to help the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre identify priorities and define its new three-year strategic plan. The centre values quality and excellence, confidentiality, shared responsibility, and safe and ethical care. We want to make sure that we are carrying out these values and that we deliver quality service to students, staff, faculty and families.
We invite you to join our facilitator, Wendy Drake (MRSB) to share feedback about the Centre during a focus group to be held from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm on Thursday, October 17, 2019. During the focus group, participants will be asked to identify what is working well and should continue, areas for improvement, and opportunities for the future. If you are able to attend, please confirm your attendance at mbarrett@upei.ca by October 15, 2019.
Lunch will be provided.
We hope you are able to join us!
The Island Lecture Series gets under way October 22, featuring the UPEI students who participated in the International Community Energy Challenge in the Faroe Islands last May. Student teams, comprised of students from universities in Iceland, Norway, Scotland, the Faroe Islands, and Canada, researched, developed, and proposed solutions for community clients while being immersed in the culture of the Faroe Islands.
Please join us to hear students Catherine Kennedy (Environmental Studies), Daniel Wartman (Engineering), Stephanie Arnold (Climate Change), Jane Lillian Mac Isaac (Math), Jordan Torrealba (Engineering), and Ellen Ross (Business), along with their professor, Dr. Anna Demeo (Engineering), talk about their experience.
In this presentation, we will explore the issues frequently encountered by thesis/dissertation supervisors and their students who are researching and writing in their second language. The presentation focuses on practical strategies, suggestions, and resources (for the supervisor and the student) as recommended by Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield in their text "Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Supervisors".
The PEI History of Medicine Society, the UPEI Department of History, and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation are pleased to co-host this year's Macphail Memorial Lecture by Dr. Sasha Mullally, Foreign Practices: Physician Immigration and the History of Medicare in Canada. Hailing from Gowan Brae, PEI, Dr. Mullally is a professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at UNB, and a former President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. Her talk will examine several extremely topical issues, including immigration (particularly the so-called 'global search for talent') and the history of Medicare (with a special interest in problem of recruiting and retaining doctors in under-serviced areas, notably Atlantic Canada). There will be a cash bar reception at the Homestead at 6:30, with the lecture beginning at 7:00. Funding support from the Robert Pope Foundation for this lecture is gratefully acknowledged.
