Campus Notices
The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday, June 8 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in the "fishbowl" of the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre (NRC). All neuroscience research students as well as faculty, scientists and staff with an interest in neuroscience topics are welcome to attend.
For a copy of the paper to be discussed please contact Joel Ross (pjross@upei.ca) or Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca).
ITSS would like to inform the UPEI campus community that the network password reset function is no longer available via the Campus Login menu. Instead, you can reset your UPEI network password by clicking on the new reset password button on the myUPEI home page or the "forgot password" link on the myUPEI sign-in page. If you have any issues or questions about this change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at helpdesk@upei.ca.
The interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program at UPEI will host an international conference on Asian Studies from June 14 to 15 in Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.
The conference, Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality: Korean Ideas and their Global Implications, will have five panels on several interesting and engaging themes with sixteen prominent and promising scholars from USA, Canada, Korea, and Japan.
The opening keynote speech, “Evil and Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition,” by Dr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Irving and Jean Stone, Endowed Chair in Humanities at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, and Founding Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies and the Center for Korean Studies, UCLA.
This conference is hosted and funded by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Korean Studies Project, and co-organized by UPEI’s Asian Studies and the North American Korean Philosophy Association affiliated with American Philosophical Association (APA). For more information, please click the attached conference program and poster links.
All are welcome to attend!
The Charlottetown Fire Department will be on campus Thursday June 7th from 1-3:30 p.m. to provide Fire Extinguisher Training to any interested members of the campus community. If you have never used a fire extinguisher this is a great opportunity to gain hands on experience without any danger, fully simulated training.
This is a drop in event and will be held in the outdoor area between Kelley Memorial Building and the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. In the case of rain the training will move indoors to the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Stop by between 1 and 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, get trained (only takes a few minutes) and you will be entered to win a 5 lb fire extinguisher donated by K & D Pratt for your personal use. This event is open to all members of the UPEI campus community.
Questions can be directed to Kathryn Harrison at kharrison@upei.ca or 902-566-0901.
Dr. Stephanie Landry is a candidate for the two-year term small animal surgery lecturer position in the Department of Companion Animals. As part of this interview process, Dr. Landry will deliver a seminar entitled "Prevention and Management of Surgical Site Infections".
All are welcome to attend on Friday, June 8 at 9:00 am in Lecture Theatre B, AVC.
The Charlottetown Fire Department will be on campus Thursday June 7th from 1-3:30 p.m. to provide Fire Extinguisher Training to any interested members of the campus community. If you have never used a fire extinguisher this is a great opportunity to gain hands on experience without any danger, fully simulated training.
This is a drop in event and will be held in the outdoor area between Kelley Memorial Building and the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. In the case of rain the training will move indoors to the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Stop by between 1 and 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, get trained (only takes a few minutes) and you will be entered to win a 5 lb fire extinguisher donated by K & D Pratt for your personal use. This event is open to all members of the UPEI campus community.
Questions can be directed to Kathryn Harrison at kharrison@upei.ca or 902-566-0901.
An upgrade to the UPEI Firewall wil cause a service outage on June 22 and 23.
Systems Affected: Entire UPEI Network (inbound & outbound traffic)
Outage Times: Friday June 22, 08:00 pm - Saturday June 23, 07:00 am
Details: As a precursor to our network revitalization project, ITSS will be performing an upgrade of our campus firewall service. During this 11 hour maintenance window any network traffic entering or leaving the UPEI campus will be affected. Internal network traffic will continue to function normally.
Examples of systems that will only be accessible on Campus:
- MyUPEI
- Moodle
- Medical Records System
- File and Print services
- UPEI Website
Examples of systems that will be only accessible off Campus:
- Google Apps and Gmail
- Any external websites or systems hosted offsite (i.e. in the cloud)
If you have any questions or concerns about this scheduled maintenance please contact ITSS at helpdesk@upei.ca or 902-566-0465.
Registration for the University of Prince Edward Island’s popular Faculty Development Summer Institute on Active Learning is now available. REGISTER
Here are a few important details:
• The Institute will be held from the evening of July 23rd till the evening of July 26th.
• The venue is the lovely Stanley Bridge Resort in Stanley Bridge, PEI. The Resort has set aside a block of rooms for workshop participants. If you wish to stay there, you can reserve your room by contacting the resort:
https://stanleybridgeresort.com/
• When you reserve your room, mention that you are a participant in FDSI, and you will get a 10% discount. The Resort asks that you book your room by June 22nd at the latest.
• Registration for the workshop will be $800.00 CDN, all taxes and fees included. That fee covers all learning materials; all breakfasts and lunches plus two nutrition breaks a day; the Monday-night reception; and the Thursday-night barbeque banquet. There will be an extra charge of $50.00 for each guest you bring to the banquet. If you are interested in the optional deep-sea fishing expedition, there will also be an extra charge (which you can pay once you have arrived).
• The Resort is a beautiful old Island venue that is not, unfortunately, wheelchair accessible.
• Because there is a limit of 30 participants, please register as soon as possible and by June 15th at the latest.
• If you have any questions, please write to Gerald Wandio, Program Coordinator of UPEI’s Faculty Development Office, at gwandio@upei.ca
Beginning Tuesday May 29, the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall will be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner Monday through Thursday with only breakfast and lunch being served on Friday. Please note the hours of operation below (subject to change):
- Breakfast: 8:00AM - 9:00AM
- Lunch: 12:00PM - 1:15PM
- Dinner: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
The interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program at UPEI will host an international conference on Asian Studies from June 14 to 15 in Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.
The conference, Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality: Korean Ideas and their Global Implications, will have five panels on several interesting and engaging themes with sixteen prominent and promising scholars from USA, Canada, Korea, and Japan.
The opening keynote speech, “Evil and Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition,” by Dr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Irving and Jean Stone, Endowed Chair in Humanities at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, and Founding Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies and the Center for Korean Studies, UCLA.
This conference is hosted and funded by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Korean Studies Project, and co-organized by UPEI’s Asian Studies and the North American Korean Philosophy Association affiliated with American Philosophical Association (APA). For more information, please click the attached conference program and poster links.
All are welcome to attend!
Planning is underway for Health & Fitness Week 2018, and the Athletics and Recreation department is seeking interested students, staff and faculty to join the planning committee.
As in past years, a variety of people on the committee are needed in order to reach the many areas of the UPEI community. Committee work will entail approximately 5 meetings between June and October in preparation for Health & Fitness Week which is scheduled for October 22 - 26. The planning committee will be responsible for brainstorming ideas to showcase the theme, "Be Strong, Be Healthy, Be Happy", setting the schedule and making the necessary contacts and bookings.
If you are interested, please email Angela Marchbank, amarchbank@upei.ca. The first meeting will be held Monday, June 4, 10:00 - 11:00 am in HSB 104.
Registration is now open for the UPEI Department of Music Brass & Woodwind Summer Studios 2018, running June 25-29. This week-long music experience is perfect for motivated young musicians to hone their craft and technique.
It's open to students from Grade 10 to second-year university studying any of the following instruments: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, French horn, and tuba. The tuition fee is $225 (financial assistance is available). For more information or to register, email Nicole Strum at nstrum@upei.ca.
Spaces are limited, so register now!
ITSS would like to inform the UPEI campus community that the network password reset function is no longer available via the Campus Login menu. Instead, you can reset your UPEI network password by clicking on the "forgot password" link on the myUPEI sign-in page. If you have any issues or questions about this change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at helpdesk@upei.ca.
The University Senate at UPEI recently appointed a University (Chief) Librarian Search Committee, which had its first meeting on May 24.
UPEI Vice President Academic and Research Dr. Robert Gilmour was confirmed as Committee chair at this meeting. Other committee members are: Nino Antadze (nantadze@upei.ca), Matthew Coleman (mcoleman@upei.ca), Greg Doran (gdoran@upei.ca / 566-6013), Robert Gilmour (rgilmour@upei.ca / 902-566-0637), Rosie Le Faive (rlefaive@upei.ca / 566-0533), Simon Lloyd (slloyd@upei.ca / 566-0536), Chris MacLauchlan (cmaclauchlan@upei.ca / 566-0445), Philip Smith (smithp@upei.ca / 566-0549).
The search committee hopes to finalize a job advertisement and detailed position profile for distribution by mid-June: as part of that process, we wish to receive input from as many interested parties as possible on-campus, in the Island library community, and from the Robertson Library team. Any feedback you share will be held in confidence by the Committee, and can be communicated to any one of the committee members individually, or directly to Dr. Gilmour, as Chair (rgilmour@upei.ca / 902-566-0637). It would be appreciated if responses to this initial call for feedback could be received by Friday, June 8.
As another avenue for feedback, the Committee will also be holding an initial "listening session" for interested individuals to speak to us directly: this will be held in Library Computer Lab 312, from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM on Friday, June 8.
As noted, this is a fairly open-ended call, but given the committee’s current focus, it would be most helpful if you could highlight items that you believe should appear in a position posting. As a “prompt”, you will find below some links to some recent Canadian postings for “head librarian”-type positions.
You should be aware that this will not be the last opportunity to contribute feedback to the committee. Any site visits by candidates will likely include an open presentation, for example, and the committee will certainly be interested in hearing from you again after that. You can also feel free to communicate informally at any time with any member of the search committee, or with Dr. Gilmour: while we must respect the measure of confidentiality inherent in any job search, we will certainly do our best to keep the lines of communication open as we move forward with this important process.
For reference, recent Canadian University [Head] Librarian Job Postings:
Registration is now open for the UPEI Department of Music Brass & Woodwind Summer Studios 2018, running June 25-29. This week-long music experience is perfect for motivated young musicians to hone their craft and technique.
It's open to students from Grade 10 to second-year university studying any of the following instruments: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, French horn, and tuba. The tuition fee is $225 (financial assistance is available). For more information or to register, email Nicole Strum at nstrum@upei.ca.
Spaces are limited, so register now!
—Power Shutdown—
There will be a power shutdown for Dalton Hall, Robertson Library, K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Duffy Science Centre, Cass Building, Chaplaincy Centre, Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, Andrew Hall, Bernardine Hall and Blanchard Hall. The Shutdown is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 3, 2018 beginning at 5:00am and is expected to take approximately 2 hours to complete. Emergency power will not be affected.
This shutdown is necessary to complete work on the electrical power for Dalton Hall as part of the on-going renovations for this building.
Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.
This summer UPEI will be welcoming over one hundred students from around the world to our beautiful campus. These students will be here to participate in short-term intensive language camps, and enjoy summertime in PEI. Program lengths vary, and students will be here for anywhere from two weeks to six weeks.
Hosts are needed in August for two or three week programs. If you are interested in hosting one of these students or would like to find out more about Homestay Host obligations and remuneration please visit the website or contact Amy Palmer at homestay@upei.ca.
Looking for an enriching volunteer experience this summer? The UPEI English Language Centre is looking for volunteers to join us in assisting with afternoon socio-cultural activities and acting as conversation partners in hosting this year’s English language Camps for International students!
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and strengthen valuable skills, experience other cultures, and of course have a blast doing it! Activities may include things such as trips to Anne of Green Gables, scavenger hunts, tours, on-campus workshops, beach visits, and more! If you are interested, please email Owen Shaw at oshaw@upei.ca, or call 902-566-0529.
—Power Shutdown—
There will be a power shutdown for Dalton Hall, Robertson Library, K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Duffy Science Centre, Cass Building, Chaplaincy Centre, Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, Andrew Hall, Bernardine Hall and Blanchard Hall. The Shutdown is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 3, 2018 beginning at 5:00am and is expected to take approximately 2 hours to complete. Emergency power will not be affected.
This shutdown is necessary to complete work on the electrical power for Dalton Hall as part of the on-going renovations for this building.
Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.
There will be a UPEI Basic Biosafety training session on Thursday June 7, 2018, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm in AVC, room 287N.
Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone including graduate students.
Please note: those who attended training in 2015 or earlier are currently due for the Biosafety Refresher Course.
To attend the Basic Biosafety course, you must pre-register by contacting Kathryn Harrison, before June 4, 2018 by email (kharrison@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901).
Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address and phone number in your email or voice message. Please indicate if you are a graduate student.
If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Kathryn at kharrison@upei.ca.
