BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Use BlackBoard Collaborate to record your teaching for days when your face-to-face class has been cancelled. Share your PowerPoint or use the interactive whiteboard, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. It’s simple, easy and reliable. This workshop takes place on March 12th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

As part of 'Pharmacy Awareness Week', the PEI Pharmacist Association is hosting a 1-hour information session on Wednesday, March 6 starting at 11:30 in the Health Sciences Building, room 105.

This session will provide information about pharmacy programs, in an effort to not only guide those contemplating pharmacy as a career, but to further inform students about what 'goes in to' becoming a pharmacist so that the expanded role of pharmacists is better understood.

There will also be a hands-on Naloxone-administration demo, which will be of interest to students in leadership/supervisory roles.

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 

Call for Nominations: The UPEIFA’s Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement Subcommittee is currently calling for nominations for this award for 2018-2019.

The deadline for nominations and all supporting documentation, is Friday, March 22, 2019.

Nominations should be sent ELECTRONICALLY:
Chair, UPEI Faculty Association Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement c/o Faculty Association Office upeifa@upeifa.org.

Information about the award can be found on the UPEI Faculty Association website: http://www.upeifa.org.

Join us Wednesday, March 13th for this year's Career and Summer Job Fair!

This event is free to attend for all post-secondary Students, and offers a great opportunity to meet with employers and recruiters to start networking, find a summer job, or kick start a career. Be prepared to present yourself professionally.

The event will take place in MacMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, and will run from 10:30am until 3:00pm with a storm date on Thursday, March 14th.

This year's fair will be co-hosted by UPEI Career Services and the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering and will feature employers from various industries across PEI and the Maritimes. 

For more information and to see what organizations will be present at this year's fair, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/upei-career-and-summer-job-fair

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at careerfair@upei.ca.

The UPEI Health & Wellness Centre is pleased to offer 3 brief STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) presentations on Wednesday March 6 at 1:30, 2:00 and 2:30 in room 238 (beside the clinic). These are the original talks that were to have taken place on our storm day during Love & Sex Week! We have a limited number of gift bags for attendees and you can also enter our draw for a gift card! Hope you can join us in the W.A. Murphy Centre North, 2nd floor (above the bookstore) to improve your STI awareness!

The UPEI Faculty of Arts, Asian Studies Programme, and Korean Studies Project are pleased to announce the following special lecture by a prominent international scholar, our 2019 annual speaker: 

Professor Charles K. Armstrong, Department of History, Columbia University, NYC, will give a special lecture entitled “North Korea and the Prospects for Peace” on March 25 (Monday) from 1:30 to 2:45 pm in the Faculty Lounge (room 201), SDU Main building. We will begin at 1:00 with reception and healthy refreshments. (Storm-day backup: Tuesday, March 26, 2:30-3:45 pm).

This is a wonderful opportunity to understand or discuss “the latest development in US-Korean relations especially after the 2nd Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, as well as the history of conflict on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace between North and South Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.”

Everyone is invited. You are most welcome to attend. 

Dr. Charles K. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University, NYC. He is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013); The Koreas (Routledge, 2014); Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006); Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2006); and The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Cornell…, 2003). His current publication projects include a history of modern East Asia (forthcoming) and American cultural policy in East Asia during the Cold War. He holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Yale University, an MA in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago. 

Special acknowledgement: 
This international seminar and speaker series project is supported by an international Seed Program for Korean Studies grant (AKS-2017-INC-2230001) through the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS), the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). 

March 8th is International Women's Day - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. 

In celebration of International Women’s Day, WUSC UPEI Local Committee, the Rotaract Club of UPEI, and Robertson Library will be showing the documentary To Educate A Girl: Empowering Women and Girls in the Developing World, by filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky.

“What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, TO EDUCATE A GIRL takes a ground-up and visually stunning view of that effort through the eyes of girls out of school, starting school or fighting against the odds to stay in school.” Kanopy

The purpose of the film will be to raise money for the Shine A Light Program, an initiative that provides women and girls within refugee camps the opportunity to better their educational prospects.

Admission is free, but there will be donations accepted at the door. Any amount can make a difference in someone's life.

Friday, March 8th
Robertson Library, Room 312 
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Show starts at 5:45 pm

All are welcome!

The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences welcomes the campus community to a public research presentation by Dr. Faiza Khan Khattak, candidate for tenure track position in Data Analytics, on Monday, March 4th at 3:00 pm at Cass Science Hall, Room 101. 

Presentation Title: Automatic extraction of information from patient-clinician dialogues

Abstract: AutoScribe is a system for automatically extracting pertinent medical information from dialogues between clinicians and patients. The system parses the dialogue and extracts entities such as medications and symptoms, using context to predict which entities are relevant. It also classifies the primary diagnosis for each conversation. A novelty of this work is that, unlike most of the existing systems which primarily use lexicon-based term matching, AutoScribe uses linguistic context and time information to extract entities and also determines which entities are relevant. 

All are welcome to attend.

Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and all who care for children are invited to "Raising Resilient Children", the final is a series of free Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars, presented by Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology. It's not necessary to have attended the first sessions to attend this one. For more information, and to sign up for free child care, visit triplep-parenting.ca/pei. This event is Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm at Murphy's Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown.

And no, not at the same time! This year, Wednesday March 6 marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. So before we fast, we feast!
Tuesday March 5 - Pancake Tuesday @ Chaplaincy Centre 11:30-1:00 in collaboration with Connection Point Christian Church
Wednesday March 6 - Ash Wednesday Masses 12:05 and 4:05 pm.
All are welcome!

Karma Yoga at Chaplaincy Centre is cancelled on Tuesday, March 5. The program will return on March 12 at noontime.

With the Our Story competition (our-story.ca) coming at the end of March, why don't you come on out to the Mawi'omi Centre for some help with your story?

Come for the sweets and stay for the writing tips!

Think BIG! Exploring Issues and Opportunities to Promote Family Well-being on Prince Edward Island

As the province’s only university, the University of Prince Edward Island is committed to advancing family well-being, and is proud to be partnering with the Vanier Institute of the Family for the Families in Canada Conference 2019. Through dynamic local programming and the national livestream from Ottawa, this satellite conference event will explore issues and opportunities facing PEI families today. Local panelists will share their experiences representing different perspectives as individuals with lived experience, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers. For more information about the UPEI satellite conference or to register go to https://familiesincanada.ca/upei/

Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize!

Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25. 

Enjoy the game!

As part of 'Pharmacy Awareness Week', the PEI Pharmacist Association is hosting a 1-hour information session on Wednesday, March 6 starting at 11:30 in the Health Sciences Building, room 105.
This session will provide information about pharmacy programs, in an effort to not only guide those contemplating pharmacy as a career, but to further inform students about what 'goes in to' becoming a pharmacist so that the expanded role of pharmacists is better understood.

There will also be a hands-on Naloxone-administration demo, which will be of interest to students in leadership/supervisory roles.

Sobia Ali-Faisal (Dept of Psychology ) and Dawne Knockwood (Dept of Education) will be facilitating a workshop on building solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities on campus for our well-being. We will be applying liberation psychological theory to:
explore ways in which colonization impacts our well-being
determine ways in which to challenge colonial understandings of being to create safe spaces for ourselves
build solidarity among BIPOC communities on campus

When: March 4th, 1 - 3pm
Where: Andrew Hall, Room 142
For: Faculty, staff, and students

It is a free workshop and refreshments will be provided.

Please feel free to email Sobia (sali@upei.ca) or Dawne (daknockwood@upei.ca) if you have any questions.

The next event in the series being presented by the Faculty Development Office and the Indigenous Education Advisory Circle’s faculty development committee will occur on Wednesday, March 6, from 3:00-4:00 in HSB 106. Dr. Ann Braithwaite will facilitate a discussion of the article "Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms" by Shannon Morreira and Kathy Luckett. African Skies blog. 2018. Please read the article and come join the discussion! Available here. 

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), on behalf of the granting agencies and in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research, is hosting a workshop at UPEI on the implementation of the “made-in-Canada” Athena SWAN program on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 from 9 am to 12 noon.

We hope you can attend this workshop and share your insights on how we can best implement this initiative in Canada and provide comments on the proposed draft Charter. The workshop is a half-day event. Refreshments and treats will be provided. For more information on the made-in-Canada Athena SWAN initiative and to register for the workshop, please visit NSERC’s website.