Please note the Summer Catalogue is now available for viewing on myupei. The Catalogue can also be found here: http://www.upei.ca/discovermore/course-catalogue . Registration for students opens on Tuesday, February 19th.

Members of the UPEI community are invited by Mayor Philip Brown and members of Charlottetown CIty Council to attend "A Celebration of Heritage Day 2019" featuring a special focus on post-secondary education and UPEI's 50th anniversary. The event will include the City's Heritage Awards Presentation and a short lecture by UPEI's very own Dr. Edward MacDonald, professor of history. Dr. MacDonald will present "The Road to UPEI: Some Reflections on Higher Education in Prince Edward Island. There will also be an exhibit launched called "On Saints and Welshmen: The Evolution of Post Secondary Education in Charlottetown." The festivities begin at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 19 at City Hall, second level, 199 Queen Street. All are welcome.

Next article to be discussed at the Animal Welfare Journal Club is:
Fawcett A, Mullen S, McGreevy P. 2018. Application of Fraser's"Practical" Ethic in Veterinary Practice, and its compatibility with a "One Welfare" framework. Animal 8, 109; available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071015/
This event is Friday, February 22 at 12:30 pm in AVC 286B. All welcome!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus
community to a presentation by Megan Jones (Atlantic Veterinary College) entitled: "Wildlife health and environmental change". 

This event is today at 12:30 pm in room 204 of the Duffy Science Centre. 

The topic for this week's Graduate Seminar in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is "Networking with Purpose", given by Dr. Amy Hsiao, FSDE Graduate Studies Coordinator based on a National Initiative on Capacity Building and Knowledge Creation in Engineering Leadership (NICKEL) workshop.

While the topic will be focused for FSDE graduate students, all are welcomed to attend. This event is Wednesday, February 13 at 1:00 pm in FSDE room 128A.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with us!

Robertson Library Movie Talks and UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO) are presenting the Sundance Film Festival award-winning movie The Miseducation of Cameron Post on Thursday, February 14th.

“Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.” Kanopy.

FREE movie!

Thursday, February 14th
5 pm, Doors open at 4:30 pm
Duffy Amphitheatre 135

Bring a date, a friend, or come on your own! Everyone is welcome!

Having difficulty navigating purchasing and financial policies/procedures at UPEI? Procurement and Financial Services will be hosting a joint information session to highlight all aspects of the Procurement to Payment process. This session will be beneficial for any employee with budgetary and administrative responsibilities. Topics will include: Spending Authority; How to Make a Purchase; Requests for Payment (and Reimbursement), etc.

Please join Tara Judson, Ian Burge, and Deidre Smith on Thursday, February 14, 2019 in Andrew Hall (rm 142) from 11 to 12:30 pm.

During February, there will be three Triple P Positive Parenting seminars available for all dads and moms of children aged 2-12 who are looking to build better relationships with their children, raise confident children, and reduce stress. Triple P is an international parenting program that gives dads and moms the tools they need to feel confident in their skills as a parent. These seminars are open to anyone who cares for children aged 2-12– whether they be a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, or any other caregiver. At these 90-minute seminars caregivers can learn strategies to promote good behaviour, help build independence, and help their children strive for success. Seminars will take place at the Murphy’s Community Centre, 200 Richmond Street in Charlottetown. The presenter is Dr. Philip Smith, UPEI Dept. of Psychology. These sessions are free, and childcare is provided. To register , and sign-up for childcare, visit:
www.triplep-parenting.ca/can-en/find-help/triple-p-parenting-in-prince-edward-island/
The seminars are on the following dates with the following themes:

Wed, Feb 13, 7:00pm-8:30pm – The Power of Positive Parenting
Wed, Feb 20, 7:00pm-8:30pm – Raising Confident, Competent Children
Wed, Feb 27, 7:00pm-8:30pm – Raising Resilient Children

The Arts Equity and Inclusion group has a new post up for your reading and commenting! It's an episode from the CBC show Unreserved, entitled "Is There Room for Indigenous Knowledge in Academia?" We're suggesting the first interview in particular, but the whole episode is worth a listen! Head on over to http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion/category/discussions/ and let us all know your thoughts. We welcome everyone in the campus community to join the conversation!

For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite at abraithwaite@upei.ca

Providing content for your course can be the easy part in the process. Figuring out how to explain to students what impact that content will have on them and for them can be far more challenging. There are numerous ways to describe learning and just as many opinions as to which is best. Are learning targets even necessary? Come and hear what the E-Learning Office has to say about targets for learning. You can attend this workshop on either Monday, February 25th or Tuesday, March 26th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

If you use Gmail, Google as a search engine, Chrome or Google Maps, Google has access to a lot of information on your habits, information, hobbies, shopping preferences an so on. You can find out how much info Google has been collecting on you by signing into your google account (accounts.google.com) and then go to myactivity.google.com. This will show you your web activity by date, topic & service. Google is free so of course it comes at a price. You can stop Google tracking activity under Activity Controls and you can also delete by date or delete everything.
Be aware of your data and how its managed, try browsing in incognito mode, log out of your Google account when finished so as not to allow Google access to everything you do online.

The 2019 Mental Health Week Committee would appreciate hearing from you. Whether you participated in the week's activities or not, please take a few minutes to complete this short survey.
Mental Health Week 2019 Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/BLq4X32JZcDxGTdo1