Year Four. Event Five.
Come and get it. Lentil and Black Bean Soup. Potato and Roasted Red Soup. Prepared and served by UPEI Recruitment and Advisement Office. They got you here, let them feed you here! Today at 11:30 am in the Chaplaincy Centre. 

As part of the Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences Seminar Series, two topics will be presented: 

Riley Jackson: "Building a Novel Transition State Search Algorithm using Machine Learning" 

Will McCombs: "Characterization of Phosphorus Speciation and Mineralization in PEI Soil."

This event is today at 12:30 pm in KC Irving Centre, room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

Nazanin Behzadan is visiting the Economics Department, Thursday, February 28th. and will be giving a presentation in Main 211 at 4:00 pm. The topic presenting is "The Paradox of Transfers: Distribution and the Dutch Disease". 

“Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms” -- that includes having access to all reading materials!

We encourage you to come to the Robertson Library foyer to check out books that have been challenged or banned in our Freedom to Read Week display. We also have a selection of books “under wraps”, which were banned/challenged in Canada, with an excerpt of why they were challenged. Test your knowledge to see if you can guess their titles!

Fill out a Freedom to Read puzzle or word search to win a $15 gift card to Indigo. And, don’t forget to share your favourite banned or challenged book on social media! Check out the Freedom to Read Week website at http://www.freedomtoread.ca/

Books in the display may be borrowed from the Library.

The Academic Integrity Working Group launched the Academic Integrity Portal on the Robertson Library website Fall semester 2018. Our goal is that students and faculty may understand the importance of academic integrity, and be able to confidently apply this understanding to all aspects of their academic lives. The portal includes a variety of resources for both learning and teaching about academic integrity.

A feature which may be of particular interest is our Academic Integrity Tutorial, which is an interactive video hosted on Moodle, teaching students the basics of plagiarism, citing, and paraphrasing. Completing the tutorial with correct answers will award students with the Academic Integrity Badge. By following the instructions on our Course Design page, faculty may set up their Moodle course so that assignment submissions are not allowed until the student earns the badge. The portal can be accessed at the following url: https://library.upei.ca/academic-integrity

Year Four. Event Five.

Come and get it on Wednesday, February 27 at 11:30 am in the Chaplaincy Centre. Lentil and Black Bean Soup. Potato and Roasted Red Soup.

Prepared and served by UPEI Recruitment and Advisement Office. They got you here, let them feed you here!

Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and anyone who cares for children are invited to "Raising Confident, Competent Children", the second in three free Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars, presented by Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology. It's not necessary to have attended the first session to attend this one. For more information, and to sign up for free child care, visit triplep-parenting.ca. The event is today at 7:00 pm at Murphy's Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown.

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.

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 

The Faculty of Science graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to Pradeepa Gunasena's MSc Thesis defense. Her presentation is entitled "Establishing the test retest reliability of contralateral auditory suppression of transient evoked oto-acoustic emissions in a cohort of normal healthy individuals"

Everyone is welcome. This event is today t 9:00 am in HSB 323. 

All faculty members planning to attend Convocation 2019 ceremonies will need to order their regalia before March 1, 2019 to ensure their hood from a Canadian university will be available. Please note that GradCo will take orders after this date, but cannot guarantee delivery of the proper hood.

GradCo Gown Service is UPEI's official provider for all hoods and gowns. Orders can be placed online: www.gradco.ca/upei

The Faculty of Science graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to Pradeepa Gunasena's MSc Thesis defence on Wednesday, February 27 at 9 am in the Health Sciences Building, room 323. Her presentation is entitled "Establishing the test retest reliability of contralateral auditory suppression of transient evoked oto-acoustic emissions in a cohort of normal healthy individuals."

Are you interested in submitting a story for Grain Magazine's Indigenous Writers and Storytellers Issue (www.grainmagazine.ca/indigenous-writers-and-storytellers-issue) but are having issues making your story sound just right? Well, the Mawi'omi Centre will be hosting a writing workshop in the Robertson Library on February 26 from 12 noon to 2 pm to help you send in the best story you can!

Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and anyone who cares for children are invited to "Raising Confident, Competent Children", the second in three free Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars, presented by Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology on Wednesday, February 27 from 7:00-8:30 pm at the Murphy's Community Centre at 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown. It's not necessary to have attended the first session to attend this one. For more information, and to sign up for free child care, visit triplep-parenting.ca.

After a break for reading week, the Arts Equity and Inclusion group has another new article up for your discussion! Entitled "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege," it provides a provocative compilation of examples that while not specific to teaching, highlight everyday things many people do, in and out of the classroom, that bear rethinking. Go to http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion and click on the 'join the discussions' button there. Share your thoughts with your colleagues! And remember that all previous articles are always still available under 'discussions' too--and you can comment on them at any time.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite you to a public presentation by Dr. Andre P. Grace, The Comprehensive Sexual Health of Canadian Youth: Employing the Comprehensive Health Education Workers Project to Emphasize Education and Intervention. This event is Tuesday, February 26 from 12 noon-1:00 pm in Memorial Hall 417. (In an earlier Campus Notice, the day was incorrectly listed as Monday and time at 1:00 pm.)

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre reminds members of the campus community that February is Heart Month.  Major risk factors for cardiovascular disease include: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and family history of early cardiovascular disease. Other important risk factors include obesity and lack of physical activity. Here are the facts:

• 1/5 Islanders over the age of 18 have hypertension (high blood pressure)
• 1/12 slanders aged 20+ are living with heart disease
• 1,200 Islanders will experience an acute cardiac event each year
• Heart attacks happen more frequently in men; however, other cardiovascular events happen more commonly in women.

Contact the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre for more information or to book an appointment: healthcentre@upei.ca or 902-566-0616