Are you interested in a job with Parks Canada? Curious about what jobs they offer? The Parks Canada job application deadline is coming up! Parks Canada will be hosting an employment info booth on Wednesday, January, 17 from 11:00 am-2:00 pm in the Robertson Library Breezeway.

All students welcome! Click here to view full event listing.

Father John Lacey is on campus three days a week. All are welcome to attend Catholic Mass at the Chaplaincy Centre Sunday at 6:00 pm and Monday/Thursday at 12:05 pm.

For further information, please contact Campus Chaplain Sr. Susan Kidd, sukidd@upei.ca / 902-894-2876.

Moodle's Gradebook is a way of tracking grades and sharing them with students right inside Moodle. The E-Learning Office is hosting an introductory workshop for using the Gradebook in your courses. This session will cover the basics of setting up a gradebook, entering grades in the grader report, sending your final grades to the Registrar's Office. If you're interested in attending, please sign up here. 

The worshop will be offered on Thursday, January 18, 2018 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm in the Robertson Library - LINC Computer Lab (RL 265). If you cannot attend the session but have questions or need help, please contact us at moodle@upei.ca.

All members of the University community are invited by UPEI and Bell Let's Talk to a special announcement about mental health on campus on Wednesday, January 17 at 10 am in The McCain Foundation Learning Commons. Read the full UPEI event calendar listing.

Would you like to create a more interactive PowerPoint for your students? Something your students could view outside of class so that your in class time could be spent promoting deeper exploration of the topic?

The E-Learning Office is here to help. Give us one of your standard PowerPoint slideshows and we can turn that into an interactive learning piece. This will get learners actively engaging with the content, not just passively clicking through one slide after the other. Book an appointment to see if this opportunity is right for you or to see examples of interactive PowerPoints currently in use at UPEI.

Send an email to elearning@upei.ca.

All are welcome to attend an open house and view the refreshed student office space used by THE CADRE in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The open house will take place on Wednesday, January 10, 10:30-11:30 am. Light refreshments will be served!

Click here to view full event listing.

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held on Friday, January 12, 2018 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in the "fishbowl" of the 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 more information and full event details, click here.

The Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series, hosted by the Biology Department, will resume for the winter semester on Friday, January 12 at 12:30 in Duffy Science 204.

Dr. Tandra Fraser from Agriculture Agri-Food Canada will present “Digging deeper: The role of soil biodiversity in sustainable systems”.

For more information, please contact Sharon Maritn at samartin@upei.ca.

All are welcome!

Please note that certain parking spaces in the "Visitor Metered" parking lot between the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre and Steel Building will be reserved every Tuesday and Thursday (and some Mondays) from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm. 

The metres at these parking spaces will be marked with covers to ensure participants in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs who have limited mobility can easily and safely access Steel Building.

Please refrain from parking in these spaces, as enforcement action including towing will be immediate.

The NEW UPEI Positudes Challenge is an eight-week team building challenge that involves activities that focus on physical activity, nutrion, mental health and community (kindness, thanks,etc). The challenge involves presentations on nutrition, meditation, and the importance of sleep and water to name a few. It also includes access to the indoor track at the Sports Centre and some quiet/zen room time, a team building activity challenge, a walk across Canada challenge and meditation sessions with yoga and SoundEscapes.

The challenge is for UPEI staff, faculty and students only. Registration deadline is Thursday, January 11. Click here to view registration form.

For more information, please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator, amarchbank@upei.ca.

Father John Lacey is on campus three days a week. All are welcome to attend Catholic Mass at the Chaplaincy Centre Sunday at 6:00 pm and Monday/Thursday at 12:05 pm.

For further information, please contact Campus Chaplain Sr. Susan Kidd, sukidd@upei.ca / 902-894-2876.

Moodle's Gradebook is a way of tracking grades and sharing them with students right inside Moodle. The E-Learning Office is hosting an introductory workshop for using the Gradebook in your courses. This session will cover the basics of setting up a gradebook, entering grades in the grader report, sending your final grades to the Registrar's Office. If you're interested in attending, please sign up here. 

The worshop will be offered on Thursday, January 18, 2018 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm in the Robertson Library - LINC Computer Lab (RL 265). If you cannot attend the session but have questions or need help, please contact us at moodle@upei.ca.

Beginning January 15, the Robertson Library Movie Talks will take place in the LINC (Room 265) from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

Each week will highlight a timely movie available from our National Film Board Campus collection. There will be a discussion after each movie led by an interdisciplinary panel of UPEI faculty, staff, students, and community members.

The first film to be viewed is the documentary, Abegweit. Click here for full event details!

A number of specialty fitness classes begin this week and next week. There is still time to register! Classes which have spaces include Beginner Yoga (starting January 15), Kettlebell Circuit (starting January 17), Morning Yoga (starting January 13), Yoga Sculpt (starting January 9), Hatha Yoga (starting January 11) and Fusion Yoga (starting January 10).

Fee: eight classes/session/program. Sports Centre Members: $47 + hst, Non-Members: $60 + hst. To secure your spot visit Panther Central at Sports Centre to register.

Please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca for more information.

The NEW UPEI Positudes Challenge is an eight-week team building challenge that involves activities that focus on physical activity, nutrion, mental health and community (kindness, thanks,etc). The challenge involves presentations on nutrition, meditation, and the importance of sleep and water to name a few. It also includes access to the indoor track at the Sports Centre and some quiet/zen room time, a team building activity challenge, a walk across Canada challenge and meditation sessions with yoga and SoundEscapes.

The challenge is for UPEI staff, faculty and students only. Registration deadline is Thursday, January 11. Click here to view registration form.

For more information, please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator, amarchbank@upei.ca.

The UPEI Music Department Recital Series 2017-2018  presents "Intimate Letters // eklektikos" directed by Dale Sorensen on Saturday January 13 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI Campus. Admission is $20 for adults and $15 for students. Snow date for this concert is Sunday, January 14 at 2:30 pm.

All are welcome!

Our latest version of Moodle now allows you to create drag & drop interactions. These can be created as part of a quiz or as their own stand alone activity. Instructors are invited to attend a workshop on how to create a basic drag & drop interaction.

Delivered by the E-Learning Office, the workshop is offered on two separate occasions: Monday, January 15 10:00 to 11:00 am (please note the change to event time from previous notices) or Thursday, January 18 1:00 to 2:00 pm. The location is Robertson Library, Room 265. Register

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm Dr. Tony Couture will give a talk titled  “Anarchism Applied to Higher Education” as part of the Department of Philosophy Speaker Series.

Click here to view abstract and full event details.

All are welcome to attend an open house and view the refreshed student office space used by THE CADRE in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The open house will take place on Wednesday, January 10, 10:30-11:30 am. Light refreshments will be served!

Click here to view full event listing.

The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre and the AVC Animal Welfare Club are starting a journal club. The group will meet once a month starting January 19, 2018 to discuss articles in the areas of:

• animal welfare science
• animal ethics
• animal behaviour
• anesthesia and analgesia

Please email acrook@upei.ca or jdamico@upei.ca to be on the e-mail list for future information.

Here is the plan:

• Meet at lunch hour (12:30-1:20) the third Friday of the month, starting January 19(Room TBD).
   
• Anyone can sign up for the e-mail list. You will then receive an e-mail notice of the upcoming article for discussion about a week before the journal club meets, in which we will tell you who will be presenting the article, the citation of the article, a link to download it, and the abstract (so people can decide if they would like to attend and/or download the full article via UPEI paid access). This is better than attaching the pdf to the e-mail, for copyright reasons.)
   
• One article will be presented per session (rotating presenters). The person who has chosen the article will submit it to Alice Crook a week ahead of time so attendees will have the opportunity to read the article before the meeting, but presenters should be aware that not everyone will have had time to read it and should address this in their presentation of the article i.e. begin with a background to the study before the critique.
   
• The first 20 minutes or so will be the person who has chosen it taking us through the background to it (and why they chose it – why they think we should know about it) and the study itself (with critique). The next 15/20 minutes will be a group discussion around the subject invoked by the article. e.g. what can we learn from it? What can we do better? Critical appraisal is encouraged.

All are welcome to sign up and join these interesting discussions!