Attention: 2016 T4/T4As are now available electronically through your Campus Login. For those who did not select the electronic option, your T4/T4A will be mailed to your home address.

Please be advised that Konica Minolta photocopiers have now been set to order toner automatically directly from Konica. The machine monitors the levels, and a notification is electronically sent to Konica when a photocopier has 20% life left in a toner cartridge.  The toner will arrive in shipping and receiving within 3-5 business days and it will be delivered to your office at no charge.  

If you happen to run out before your toner arrives there are extra toners available in Procurement and Payment Services. If your office has a high usage of toner you might like to have an extra cartridge available for immediate use. For more information please email procurement@upei.ca

In an effort to reduce the Eco footprint at UPEI we ask that you send any empty toner cartridges, imaging units, fusers, developer units and drums from any manufacturer to Shipping and Receiving in a box labeled Recycle. We will ship these items back to Konica for recycling! 

If there is a change in location required for a unit please contact Carolyn Garro, cgarro@upei.ca, to have the machine moved.  
 

The UPEI community is invited to celebrate on Wednesday, March 1 at 11:30 am, in McMillan Hall, as we kick off this year's Mental Health Week 2017 with guest speaker, former UPEI Student Union President, Anastasia Smallwood, who will share her story about coming to terms with her mental illness, Trichotillomania.

Come to great activities all week, check out the Info Booth and Zen Zone, support one another, and be reminded of the relationships that matter to you. For day-by-day activities and partner events, click here for the full MHW 2017 schedule.

The UPEI Mawi'omi Student Centre invites members of the University and Island community to the annual Connecting Aboriginal Cultures event taking place today, Tuesday, February 28, 2017 in McMillan Hall at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The Grand Entry will begin at 10:00 am followed by a mini Pow Wow, with drumming, dancing, cultural presentations.  All are welcome!

Thank-you to partners: Aboriginal Women's Association of PEI, Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI, Native Council of PEI, UPEI Aboriginal Students Association, and the Department of Canadian Heritage

We hear (and talk) a lot about indigenization and decolonization in the university – but what do we actually mean by those terms? This week’s SCENT article, “Doing the Work: The Historian’s Place in Indigenization and Decolonization,” goes some way towards answering that question.

Read the article and, as always, please leave a comment!

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 and Clinical Veterinary Professionals and four Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2017.  These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 2:00-4:00 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 31, 2017.

For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please click here.

The E-Learning Office has moved to Robertson Library 302/303.  Faculty and staff are invited to come visit our new location on Thursday, March 2nd from 9:00 am - 11:00 am. Come enjoy some refreshments, meet our staff, and find out how we can help support you!

The AVC Wildlife Service will hold its first Midwinter Pub Night for Wildlife at Upstreet Craft Brewing, 41 Allen Street, Charlottetown, on March 2, 2017, from 7-11 pm. There will be an art raffle and silent auction to raise funds in support of ongoing updates to the outdoor wildlife facility and care for wildlife. For more information, contact Fiep de Bie at (902) 620-5166.

A sample of the art work will be shown, and pre-sale tickets will be sold on Tuesday, February 28, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm, in the AVC lobby near the cafeteria.

All are welcome!

Tuesday Noon Yoga, which usually takes place at the Chaplaincy Centre, will be held in Fitness Studio #2 at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on Tuesday, February 28.

Aleya Quilty and Mathew Larade, MSc students, will each present a seminar on Wednesday, March 01, 2017 at 12:30 pm. Aleya Quilty's presentation is entitled "Anthocyanin Derived Pigments” and Mathew Larade's presentation is entitled "Applying Neural Networks to Predict Atomic Energies: Leveraging Data for More Efficient Calculations".  The seminars will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.

All are welcome!

The Campus Life program is hosting this event for people with children. Let's Talk Science will be here to do fun experiments and projects with the kids, and we'll be showing the movie Meet The Robinsons.

Snacks will be provided, and there will be coffee and tea for parents. Current students, recently graduated students, staff, and faculty, are all invited to bring their kids/grandkids/children in their care.

Join us Saturday March 4, 2017, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm in Student Affairs, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

If you have any questions please contact Elyse Cottrell at ecottrell@upei.ca.

Tuesday Feb 28 is Pancake Tuesday and the Chaplaincy Centre is hosting a pancake and sausage lunch complete with real butter and maple syrup from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.  Load up on carbs, fats and sugar before Lent begins the next day!

Wednesday March 1 is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of the Lenten Season.  Two masses and distribution of ashes will be held at 12:05 pm and 4:00 pm.  Remember, it's a day of fasting (cutting back) and abstaining from meat for those who choose.

Questions may be directed to UPEI Chaplain, Sister Susan Kidd at sukidd@upei.ca.

Come and learn about UPEI's new Actuarial Program and careers for Actuaries.

Mr. Louis Doiron is a Professor and Director of Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences. He will be giving a talk entitled "Being an Actuary" on March 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm in Health Science Building, Room 104.

All are welcome to attend!

Every time we think politics can’t get worse, it sinks to a new low. We complain about the problems, but what is the solution? Join Dr. Gordon MacDonald while he discusses a proposal for a new form of government, Ikanocracy, where decision making is by a dynamic form of weighted direct democracy, and look at the mathematical and computational science behind it.

This lecture will take place Monday, February 27, 3:00 - 3:50 pm in Rm. 246, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.

All are welcome!

The UPEI community is invited to celebrate on Wednesday, March 1 at 11:30 am, in McMillan Hall, as we kick off this year's Mental Health Week 2017 with guest speaker, former UPEI Student Union President, Anastasia Smallwood, who will share her story about coming to terms with her mental illness, Trichotillomania. 

Come to great activities all week, check out the Info Booth and Zen Zone, support one another, and be reminded of the relationships that matter to you. 

For day-by-day activities and partner events, click here for the full MHW 2017 schedule.

Notice from the Comptroller's Office-Revised Travel Expenses Policy and Procedures

The University's Travel Expenses Policy and Procedures have been revised following approval by the Board of Governors. These revisions include changes to Research travel authorization, travel reporting requirements, and other minor revisions. Please click here to review the full Policy and Procedures.

For further information, please contact Carolyn Garro, Assistant Manager, Procurement & Payables, by email: cgaro@upei.ca, or at extension 0315.

Every time we think politics can’t get worse, it sinks to a new low. We complain about the problems, but what is the solution? Join Dr. Gordon MacDonald while he discusses a proposal for a new form of government, Ikanocracy, where decision making is by a dynamic form of weighted direct democracy, and look at the mathematical and computational science behind it.

This lecture will take place Monday, February 27, 3:00 - 3:50 pm in Rm. 246, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.

All are welcome!

Tuesday Feb 28 is Pancake Tuesday and the Chaplaincy Centre is hosting a pancake and sausage lunch complete with real butter and maple syrup from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.  Load up on carbs, fats and sugar before Lent begins the next day!

Wednesday March 1 is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of the Lenten Season.  Two masses and distribution of ashes will be held at 12:05 pm and 4:00 pm.  Remember, it's a day of fasting (cutting back) and abstaining from meat for those who choose.

Questions may be directed to UPEI Chaplain, Sister Susan Kidd at skidd@upei.ca.

Chartwells would like to hear from you, please answer this short survey to help improve food services on campus!

Maria Soriani, Biomedical Sciences, will give a seminar entitled "Effects of low dose neonicotinoid pesticides on CNS function in the rat" and  Kim Foote, Pathology and Microbiology, will give a seminar entitled "Hemophagocytic Histiocytic Sarcoma - A Diagnostic Dilemma?" on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre "A".  Everyone welcome!