Campus Notices
In recognition of the outstanding performance and dedication of our faculty and staff, a number of annual awards have been created to acknowledge their efforts and achievements.
Up to 10 Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Faculty, Librarians, Clinical Veterinary Professionals and Clinical Nursing Instructors and four categories of Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2019. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 from 10:30am-12:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Susan Connolly, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources & Legal, will lead the process and chair the committee to select award recipients.
Nominations for both faculty and staff awards close on Friday, March 29, 2019.
For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please visit: http://www.upei.ca/president/presidential-recognition-awards-merit
At the Chaplaincy Centre, our thoughts are with students during exam time, their success and yes, of course, the chili lunch. During exam time the Chaplaincy Centre will be offering two free chili lunches for our students. As most exams are written on campus April 10 and April 12, we have adjusted our days to offer chili lunch to more students. Lunch will be served on Wednesday, April 10 and Friday, April 12 between 11:30am and 1:30pm.
About 300 students show up each day with smiles and conversation during this busy time. We are looking for faculty and staff to help out and provide encouragement for students during the exam period. If you are able to volunteer some time please sign up here.
Accessibility Services would like to communicate the following to students who receive exam accommodations:
With final exams approaching, registration can begin on Access Deck under the "Final Exams" section. Please be sure to input your exam requests in the final exams section and not the midterm/test section. All final exam requests MUST be submitted by Sunday, March 31st at midnight to secure accommodations. Requests that come in after this date may not receive accommodation.
As always, exam requests will be verified 3-4 days before the exam to provide time for professors to submit exams to Student Affairs. Please check your Access Deck Login page for information regarding exam start time, exam location, and proctor. You must have a piece of photo ID with you for each of your final exams.
For questions regarding exam requests or accommodations, please contact Amanda Squires, our Accessibility Support Facilitator at amangallant@upei.ca or 902-566-0668.
Members of the Faculty of Education will be participating in an working retreat on Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29. Faculty offices, including the administrative office, will be closed on those dates so staff and instructors can attend.
The Departments of Health Management and Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, will be interviewing candidates for the tenure-track faculty position in Animal Welfare. As part of the interview process, each candidate has been asked to present two brief seminars; one suitable for DVM students and the other a presentation of their research.
Our second candidate will be on-campus April 15th and April 16th.
Dr. Kathryn Proudfoot completed her MSc and PhD at the University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program, where her research focused on housing and management strategies that improve the welfare of dairy cattle before and after giving birth. Dr. Proudfoot’s current appointment is split between teaching, research and extension/service. She currently teaches animal behaviour and animal welfare to pre-clinical and clinical veterinary students at Ohio State. Her research focuses on themes related to maternal behaviour in dairy cattle, veal calf health and welfare, and measuring stress in animals. Through extension and service, Dr. Proudfoot provides educational opportunities focused on her research as well as animal handling and animal welfare assessment to her regional, national and international communities.
Improving the Welfare of Shelter Cats
Understanding the Maternal Behaviour of Dairy Cows
Tuesday, April 2nd @ 12:30pm
AVC Learning Commons "287N"
Any interested faculty/staff are invited to attend. A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of application are available by contacting Tracy O'Flaherty (toflaherty@upei.ca) in the Department of Health Management.
At the Chaplaincy Centre, our thoughts are with students during exam time, their success and yes, of course, the chili lunch. During exam time the Chaplaincy Centre will be offering two free chili lunches for our students. As most exams are written on campus April 10 and April 12, we have adjusted our days to offer chili lunch to more students. Lunch will be served on Wednesday, April 10 and Friday, April 12 between 11:30am and 1:30pm.
About 300 students show up each day with smiles and conversation during this busy time. We are looking for faculty and staff to help out and provide encouragement for students during the exam period. If you are able to volunteer some time please sign up here.
All are welcome to join Senator Peter Harder on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building for a public lecture on the importance of Canada's Chamber of "second sober thought" especially to smaller provinces. He will elaborate on how the new independent system actually enhances the voices of the smaller provinces as well as those of minority groups and Indigenous Canadians. He will also discuss the need for a Senate committee to keep a close eye on Senate expenses in the wake of the spending difficulties of the last Parliament.
Senator Harder entered the Upper Chamber in April 2016, as the first Independent Senator appointed under a new non-partisan selection process that invites all eligible Canadians to submit applications. He arrived in the Senate with nearly 30 years of experience in the federal public service, and a decade serving as a volunteer in various organizations and as a member of several boards of directors.
In the Senate, Senator Harder is tasked with both shepherding government legislation through the Upper Chamber and leading efforts on reform towards a more independent, accountable and transparent institution.
The Senator’s visit to Charlottetown is day two of a two-day trip in Atlantic Canada. Earlier on Wednesday, he will visit a local school where students will sing O Canada in Mi’kmaq. Senator Harder meets later in the day with the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI.
The Climate Research Lab at UPEI is proud to host a lecture by climatologist David Phillips. Phillips will present “Not What Our Grandparents Knew” on Thursday, March 28 at 6:30 pm in room 128A of UPEI’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Building.
All are welcome.
Faculty of Education Offices Closed March 28 & 29
Members of the Faculty of Education will be participating in an working retreat on Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29. Faculty offices, including the administrative office, will be closed on those dates so staff and instructors can attend.
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to a presentation by Paul Bernard (Atlantic Veterinary College) entitled: "Auditory communicative deficits associated with early life seizures".
Everyone is welcome. This event is Friday, March 29 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre room 204.
If you have questions related to your multimedia project ideas, please contact Kristy McKinney at kmckinney@upei.ca
Closing date for applications is April 5, 2019 and completed application forms can be sent to dmoses@upei.ca with the subject line “E-Learning Multimedia Development Grant Application 2019.”
This award was created in honour of Dr. J. Regis Duffy, and is awarded annually to a graduating UPEI student who has demonstrated to an outstanding degree the qualities of scholarship and leadership within the University community, and who is not receiving a Governor General's Medal. A cash prize of $1,000 and medallion will be granted to the successful student recipient.
Further information on student nominations can be found here and can be made by any member of the university community. Recommendations can be forwarded to the Scholarships and Awards Office in Dalton Hall in person, by mail or email at scholarships@upei.ca. The deadline to nominate students will be Monday, April 1. If there are any questions, please contact our office at (902) 620-5187.
Two (2) awards will be granted annually to a UPEIFA member, staff member, and/or a volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution to the research enterprise at UPEI.
From Dr. Schultz’s letter that established the fund:
The research success of an institution rests fundamentally on the excellence, dedication and insights of its researchers and their teams of collaborators, trainees, students, and technicians. However, their success also rests on the work of those who might be labeled the “unsung heroes” of the research enterprise – that is, those whose work behind the scenes and serve to make it all possible – faculty, staff, and volunteers who focus their service on the committees that enable research to proceed; ethics, policy development, and internal grants. For example: those who bring their expertise to ensuring legislative, regulatory and best practice compliance; and those who keep the accounts, fine tune the proposals, develop contracts, and steer strategic initiatives that enable research success. These contributions could include the design or development of a new research policy or procedures, chairing, or being a member of, a compliance committee during a particularly demanding time, providing key support to the development of institutional proposals for significant research funding, and/or continuously going above and beyond to enhance the research experience at the university.
Nomination forms can be found here: https://files.upei.ca/scholarships/dr_katherine_schultz_research_awards.pdf
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jan Coffin at jdcoffin@upei.ca. Nomination material can be submitted via email to scholarships@upei.ca, or dropped off in hard copy at Scholarships and Awards in Student Accounts in 2nd Floor of Dalton Hall.
As the semester winds down, we still have a few more resources for you to consider, to help us all think more deeply about equity and inclusion in our everyday practices. This week's entry is an article entitled “How to use gender neutral words…and why they’re important." What many of us might think is just mundane and ordinary uses of language can have a huge impact on others of us and how we are included, or not. Head on over to http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion, click on the 'discussions button,' and let us know what you think.
Accessibility Services would like to communicate the following to students who receive exam accommodations:
With final exams approaching, registration can begin on Access Deck under the "Final Exams" section. Please be sure to input your exam requests in the final exams section and not the midterm/test section. All final exam requests MUST be submitted by Sunday, March 31st at midnight to secure accommodations. Requests that come in after this date may not receive accommodation.
As always, exam requests will be verified 3-4 days before the exam to provide time for professors to submit exams to Student Affairs. Please check your Access Deck Login page for information regarding exam start time, exam location, and proctor. You must have a piece of photo ID with you for each of your final exams.
For questions regarding exam requests or accommodations, please contact Amanda Squires, our Accessibility Support Facilitator at amangallant@upei.ca or 902-566-0668.
The UPEI Multicultural Choir holds its next rehearsal Wednesday, March 25, 4:30 - 5:30, in SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge. Students, staff, faculty all welcome. The final rehearsal of the term is the following Wednesday, April 3, 4:30 - 5:30, followed by refreshments. Join in sharing voices, songs, and cultures- take a break for relaxation, fun, and camaraderie.
We are in the final week of four weeks of our FSDE graduate students presenting their thesis research in three minutes, for the purpose of preparing and practicing clear, concise, and inspired talks. This week we have four 3-minute presentations:
"Reducing the cost of floating wind turbine farms using shared mooring lines”
Patrick Connolly
"The development and scale up of a continuous system for processing tunicates”
Charles Terrio
“Growing the difficult to grow: Into the design of a microbial growth device”
Tartela Alkayyali
“A surf and turf approach to bioprinting of neuron cells”
Haley Butler
Wednesday, March 27, 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM in SDE 212, all are welcomed!
All are welcome to join Senator Peter Harder on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building for a public lecture on the importance of Canada's Chamber of "second sober thought" especially to smaller provinces. He will elaborate on how the new independent system actually enhances the voices of the smaller provinces as well as those of minority groups and Indigenous Canadians. He will also discuss the need for a Senate committee to keep a close eye on Senate expenses in the wake of the spending difficulties of the last Parliament.
Senator Harder entered the Upper Chamber in April 2016, as the first Independent Senator appointed under a new non-partisan selection process that invites all eligible Canadians to submit applications. He arrived in the Senate with nearly 30 years of experience in the federal public service, and a decade serving as a volunteer in various organizations and as a member of several boards of directors.
In the Senate, Senator Harder is tasked with both shepherding government legislation through the Upper Chamber and leading efforts on reform towards a more independent, accountable and transparent institution.
The Senator’s visit to Charlottetown is day two of a two-day trip in Atlantic Canada. Earlier on Wednesday, he will visit a local school where students will sing O Canada in Mi’kmaq. Senator Harder meets later in the day with the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI.
In ever increasing numbers, grandparents are taking on the responsibility of raising their grandchildren. Grandparents who are the primary care providers to their grandchildren are faced with multiple complexities. Currently, there is a lack of awareness and understanding about the complexities of this family form. As a way to more fully understand the issues and opportunities facing grandparents raising grandchildren, a post-conference symposium will be held at UPEI in MacMillian Hall on March 29, 2019. In partnership with the Central Eastern Grandparents Initiative (CEGI), UPEI and the Vanier institute of the Family this symposium builds upon the two day Families in Canada conference being hosted at UPEI on March 27-28, 2019.
This post-conference symposium will examine issues facing grandparents raising grandchildren. During the day, delegates from the private, public and social sectors will come together to focus on the concept of “the child in the center” and to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and communication among those study, serve and grandparents raising children locally, provincially and nationally.
Click here for more information about the families in Canada post-conference symposium.
