UPEI Panther Soccer is hosting its annual Alumni and Friends Breakfast Saturday, June 1 at 10:00 am in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

All are invited to meet current student athletes and alumni and to hear about the 2019–2020 season. Tickets are $10. For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Koren at kglenn@upei.ca.

Go Panthers Go!

To ensure that the most accurate and up to date information is submitted for online tuition waivers, Human Resources will be adhering to the following submission timeline for online Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition Waiver forms:

Fall semester – no earlier than August 1st
Winter semester – no earlier than December 1st
Summer semester – no earlier than April 1st

For any Forms submitted prior to these dates, the Staff/Faculty member will be notified and requested to resubmit their form following the above noted submission timeline. 

The Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, will be interviewing candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Anesthesia. Each candidate has been asked to present two (2) thirty-minute seminars; one that should be geared towards 3rd year DVM students and one a presentation of their research interests.

Our third candidate will be on-campus Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

May 21st & 22nd, 2019
Dr. Patrick Burns received his BVSc from the University of Queensland (1992) and in 2005 he completed a residency in Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Burns is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (2006). Dr. Burns is currently Head of Equine Anesthesia, and Project Manager at Langford Veterinary Services at the University of Bristol.

SEMINAR Tuesday May 21st, 2019 @ 12:30pm in Lecture Theatre 'B' 
Peri-operative Pain Management in Large Animal Species
"Opportunities and Collaborations in Research - My Research Story"

Any interested faculty/staff are invited to attend. A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of application are available by contacting Sonia Stewart-O'Neill (sostewart@upei.ca) in the Department of Companion Animals.

Human Resources has developed a new online Tuition Waiver fillable form. The form, for both the Employee and Spouse/Dependent waivers, can be found on the main page of MyUPEI under UPEI Forms and on the Human Resources portal under Professional Development. Please submit all Summer 2019 semester Tuition Waivers via the online form as soon as possible.

If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.

As an instructor, you’ve set up a syllabus that clearly explains your expectations for where students will end up. Then you set them on the journey to that destination. However, some will get off track along the way. The information you provide, how you provide it and when you provide it will be key to getting them back on the right path or in keeping them on the right path. In this workshop instructors will learn strategies for the use of feedback and rubrics that they can use to accompany student assessments. This workshop takes place on Wednesday, June 5th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is delighted to announce the Call for Applications for the third offering of ProGRES at UPEI this summer.

ProGRES (Promoting Girls in Research in Engineering and Sustainability) is a summer research opportunity at the FSDE at UPEI for high school girls going into grades 11 and 12. The selected students will work on their own independent research projects with a woman faculty researcher, graduate student, or undergraduate student, who will be the ProGRES student’s direct mentor. Throughout the five-week period, the selected ProGRES students will also have other unique opportunities to learn what Engineering is, and what engineers do, on a daily basis.

For more information, and to apply online, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/s82vSLSdXmgdfgcz6
(Deadline is May 31)

This year the Rotaract Club of UPEI will be working with Easter Seals PEI. Every year Easter Seals hosts an annual auction, to raise money to help Islanders living with disabilities. Rotaract will be collecting any new items or gift certificates persons might want to donate until May 22nd.

Anyone interested can drop off their donation on Dalton Hall 4th Floor at the International and Recruitment Office.

UPDATED - Registration for this FREE workshop is now open to all UPEI:
- Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
- Graduate student staff/graduate student Chairs
- Senior-level undergraduates
- Co-op students
- Staff at Career Services centre at UPEI

This workshop, co-hosted by Synapse, UPEI's technology transfer and commercialization office (www.synapsepei.com) and Mitacs, a national,not-for-profit organization that has designed and delivered research and training programs in Canada for 20 years. (www.mitacs.ca). A minimum registration of 12 participants is required in order for the workshop to go ahead, so early registration is encouraged.

Time Management – Tuesday, June 4, 2019,
9:00am-5:00pm (Registration starts at 8:30am)
Where: Rooms 286 B & C, Atlantic Veterinary College (UPEI)

This energetic, intensive one-day course will sharpen your professional time
management skills and optimize your working week. Building on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) best practices, methodologies, and productivity tactics, the course provides tools and techniques that can be applied to a partner industry project or employment-based role. Whether you’re handling dynamic timelines alone or within a team, you’ll be able to reach your project targets with the knowledge gained in this course.

Learning Outcomes
You will learn to:
- Optimize your professional days and weeks
- Effectively define targets and goals so that they are clear and sustainable
- Accurately estimate activity duration
- Improve focus and better manage interruptions
- Reduce corrective communication
- Better defend project schedules without sacrificing relationship quotient
- Improve and leverage personal energy for sustainable follow-through on activities

To learn more about this course, please visit:
https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/training/workshops/time-management

To register for a workshop, learners will need to:
1. Create an account or sign in to EDGE at this
link:https://edge-reg.mitacs.ca
After signing in, click on ‘Catalog’ tab on your dashboard
2. You can then search and register for the course you are interested in (eg:
Time Management) by clicking the ‘Enroll’ tab
3. You then need to choose available sessions at a location (eg: Prince Edward Island).

Questions? please feel free to reach out to training@mitacs.ca

The Faculty Development Office and Indigenous Education Advisory Circle's faculty development committee are not letting summer stop us! Join us for another in our ongoing series of discussions about indigenizing and decolonizing the university. On Wednesday, May 22, 12:00-1:00pm, in HSB 104, we'll discuss Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz's article "Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization:navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy":

https://www.ualberta.ca/-/media/3CB5BB4AAA7F4A6F92DFCF0B9E273837 

Read the article, bring a colleague, and join us in continuing the conversation!

Following 29 years of teaching in the Music Department at UPEI, Dr. Greg Irvine will be retiring at the end of this academic year. On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 7:00 PM you are welcome to gather at the Pourhouse in downtown Charlottetown to celebrate Dr. Irvine. Alumni, current students, colleagues, friends, supporters will have the opportunity to speak with Greg, while enjoying food and drink, and the fellowship of one another. There will be a few toasts and an opportunity of an open mic for those who wish to recall special moments of Dr. Irvine's career. Those unable to attend may send expressions of appreciation about the retiree to Karem Simon at ksimon@upei.ca. These will be communicated to Greg.

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday May 31, 2019. 

These applications will be reviewed at the June 2019 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 July 2019 meeting. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

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 May 31 2019. They will be reviewed at the June meeting. 

Please note: The REB does not usually meet during July or August so protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are submitted in July and August will be held until September for review at the September 2019 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 at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

The Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, will be interviewing candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Anesthesia. Each candidate has been asked to present two (2) thirty-minute seminars; one that should be geared towards 3rd year DVM students and one a presentation of their research interests.

Our third candidate will be on-campus Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

May 21st & 22nd, 2019
Dr. Patrick Burns received his BVSc from the University of Queensland (1992) and in 2005 he completed a residency in Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Burns is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (2006). Dr. Burns is currently Head of Equine Anesthesia, and Project Manager at Langford Veterinary Services at the University of Bristol.

SEMINAR Tuesday May 21st, 2019 @ 12:30pm in Lecture Theatre 'B' 
Peri-operative Pain Management in Large Animal Species
"Opportunities and Collaborations in Research - My Research Story"

Any interested faculty/staff are invited to attend. A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of application are available by contacting Sonia Stewart-O'Neill (sostewart@upei.ca) in the Department of Companion Animals.

The Faculty Development Office and Indigenous Education Advisory Circle's faculty development committee are not letting summer stop us! Join us for another in our ongoing series of discussions about indigenizing and decolonizing the university. On Wednesday, May 22, 12:00-1:00pm, in HSB 104, we'll discuss Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz's article "Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization:navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy":

https://www.ualberta.ca/-/media/3CB5BB4AAA7F4A6F92DFCF0B9E273837 

Read the article, bring a colleague, and join us in continuing the conversation!

Following 29 years of teaching in the Music Department at UPEI, Dr. Greg Irvine will be retiring at the end of this academic year. On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 7:00 PM you are welcome to gather at the Pourhouse in downtown Charlottetown to celebrate Dr. Irvine. Alumni, current students, colleagues, friends, supporters will have the opportunity to speak with Greg, while enjoying food and drink, and the fellowship of one another. There will be a few toasts and an opportunity of an open mic for those who wish to recall special moments of Dr. Irvine's career. Those unable to attend may send expressions of appreciation about the retiree to Karem Simon at ksimon@upei.ca. These will be communicated to Greg.

Processing cut off date - fiscal 2018-19

May 17, 2019 will be the final day for submitting Travel and/or Expense claims for reimbursement out of the 2018-19 fiscal year. Departmental authorities must have all vouchers entered in myUPEI and documentation submitted to invoices@upei.ca by end of day May 17th, 2019. Any claims submitted after this date will be processed out of the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

In a flipped classroom learners engage with lectures or other materials outside of class to prepare for an active learning experience in the classroom. Flipping some classes can add some variety and a change of pace and create more interest for both the learners and the instructor. This workshop will introduce you to flipped instruction tools and techniques that can aid in creating a more active and engaging learning environment. Take this workshop on one of two dates: Thursday, May 30th or Wednesday, June 26th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER