November 5-9 is Atlantic Canada Career Week on campus! 
Staff and Faculty, please share with students:
UPEI Career Services is offering a week full of career development events for students, including panel discussions, workshops, "Resumania!" and much more! See the full list of events here .

Depending upon the work requirements of University departments, the holiday schedule will be in effect from noon on December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019, inclusive. Office and regular business hours will resume on January 2, 2019. Please note the pay date deadlines below. Additional information regarding the Christmas Holiday Schedule can be found here. 

December Pay Dates - Deadline Changes
All pay changes, PTF’S, overtime submissions, paper timesheets, etc., must be received by Human Resources by noon:

November 28, 2018 for the December 14, 2018 payroll
December 5, 2018 for the December 28, 2018 payroll
December 19, 2018 for the January 11, 2019 payroll
Electronic timesheet deadline – December 17, 2018 at 10:00 am for the December 28, 2018 payroll

In an ongoing effort to provide our staff and faculty with value-added opportunities, we are pleased to offer preferred group rates and employee discount options. 

To review the discounts available to you, please visit the Employee Discount Program listing on the myUPEI Human Resources intranet site under “Other Resources”.  

UPEI's Mawi'omi Student Centre once again will host their annual Mawi'omi on campus on Friday, November 2, in McMillan Hall at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The gathering features a Grand Entry at 10:00 am, followed by drumming, dancing, and cultural presentations, until 2 pm. All are welcome!

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to the next two seminars of the Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Series: 

Carissa Grove (MSc-ESC Candidate) will present "Atlantic salmon intercourse and its implications for conservation and management on PEI". 

Followed by Kyle Knysh (PhD-ESC Candidate) who will present "Exploiting aquatic animal behaviors to quantify ecological populations and assemblages."

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

Everyone is welcome

Students on the Faculty of Arts Dean's List will be receiving their certificates and Award Winners and Donors will be recognized.

This event is Monday, November 5 at 7:00 pm in Schurman Market Square of UPEI's Don and Marion McDougall Hall. 

The University of Prince Edward Island expresses its condolences to the entire Jewish community on the senseless act of hate and violence that took place at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday. UPEI wishes to inform the campus that PEI's Jewish Community is holding a Candlelight Vigil in memory of the 11 victims of the shooting rampage and in support of those wounded. The Vigil will take place Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3 pm in front of Founders Hall, at the corner Water Street and Prince Street in downtown Charlottetown. All are invited and encouraged to attend in solidarity as a way to show their support.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend a session presented by Dr. Tess Miller entitled “Tips for Online Learning.” This presentation will highlight best practices in online learning. Information about best practices was gathered from an international online learning conference held in Toronto in October. Please join us for a discussion on online learning. 

Location: 415 Memorial Hall 
Date: Thursday November 1
Time: 12 - 1:00 pm

Privacy breaches on campus should always be internally reported. However, on November 1, 2018 the law will change to create new legal requirements which affect parts of UPEI. In certain circumstances, UPEI will be required by law to report privacy breaches to Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada and directly notify the people impacted by the breach.

The change was made to PIPEDA (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act).  While these rules do not apply to the core functions of UPEI, it does apply where UPEI collects, uses, or discloses personal information in the course of true commercial activities.

To ensure compliance with our legal obligations, and to manage the situation properly, a privacy breach should be reported immediately to the Vice-President Administration and Finance, Jackie Podger. Failure to comply with the new rules could be an offence under the regulations, with a possible fine of up to $100,000.

Employees should also be aware that while this change only applies to commercial activities, UPEI is subject to a number of privacy obligations, and employees should seek guidance in any privacy breach.

If you have questions about these changes please contact the Chief Access to Information and Privacy Officer Patti Wheatley at pjwheatley@upei.ca or 902.894.2840.

Join us at UPEI for Fall Open House on Friday, November 9, 2018!

Beginning at 8:15 am in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, our recruitment team is offering on-site admission, waived application fees, campus tours, faculty informations sessions (arts, business, science, engineering, nursing) and free lunch! We'll wrap our Open House activities at 1:00 pm.

Please join us for a very special Theology on Tap, as we remember the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice. Dr. Mark McGowan, Professor of History, University of Toronto will speak on “The Roman Catholic Church and the Great War: Ideas of Peace, Patriotism, and the Paschal Mystery.” Theology on Tap is presented by the SDU Institute of Christianity and Culture. Details: Wednesday 7 November 2018, 7 pm, the Pourhouse, 189 Great George Street. We look forward to seeing you.

Speaker: Zacharie Maw, Biomedical Sciences
Title: Induction of silent natural product biosynthesis using surface-active molecules in marine Streptomyces and using molecular networking as a dereplication strategy.

This event is Tuesday, November 6 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B. 

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to the next two seminars of the Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Series: 

Carissa Grove (MSc-ESC Candidate) will present "Atlantic salmon intercourse and its implications for conservation and management on PEI". 

Followed by Kyle Knysh (PhD-ESC Candidate) who will present "Exploiting aquatic animal behaviors to quantify ecological populations and assemblages"

Everyone is welcome. This event is Friday, November 2 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre 204. 

Students on the Faculty of Arts Dean's List will be receiving their certificates and Award Winners and Donors will be recognized. This event is Monday, November 5 at 7:00 pm in Schurman Market Square of Don and Marion McDougall Hall. 

Learners assessing learners is a great way to promote active learning and collaboration as well as deeper content understanding. However, it can also pose a bevy of problems if it is not introduced properly and monitored correctly. This workshop, offered by the E-Learning Office, will cover the basics of peer assessment as well as provide examples of peer assessment tools for face-to-face settings as well as online settings. The workshop will take place on November 14th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability invites submissions for its upcoming conference, co-hosted with the University of Aruba: Island States/Island Territories: Sharing Stories of Island Life, Governance and Global Engagement, to be held in Oranjestad, Aruba, March 26-29, 2019. Deadline for abstracts: October 31. More info at: http://projects.upei.ca/unescochair/island-statesisland-territories-an-international-conference/

Screening for breast cancer can detect cancers at an earlier and more treatable stage. Mammography is an X-ray of the breast and can be done at either the Queen Elizabeth Hospital or Prince County Hospital. If you are at average risk and over 40 years of age, check out the following website: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/health-pei/pei-breast-screening-program.
If you are considered higher risk (family history of breast cancer, have had radiation to the chest prior to age 30 or have a gene mutation such as BRCA1 or BRCA2) talk to your primary care provider about what screening is right for you or contact the UPEI Health & Wellness Centre at 902-566-0616.