The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas sale! Featured on Wednesday, December 14: Day Passes $5 (+HST). For a list of all specials please visit our webpage. Note: Some conditions may apply.

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Hannah Gehrels, Masters student from the Department of Biology, will be defending her thesis, "A Study of Green Crab (Carcinus Maenas) Interactions, Cannibalism, and a first approach to model the effects of harvesting on its populations", on Wednesday, December 14 at 2 pm in Room 204 of the Duffy Science Centre. All are welcome!

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Khalid Alshammari, Masters student, will be defending his thesis, "On the solutions of linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients", on Thursday, December 15 at 2 pm in Room 104 of the Health Sciences Building.  All are welcome!

UPEI has lowered the flags in front of Kelley Memorial Building to half-mast in honour of former athletics director and UPEI Founder Barb Mullaly, who passed away on December 10 (read the UPEI news release). The flags will remain lowered until after the funeral service on Thursday, December 15 at 11 am at the Belvedere Funeral Home.  View obituary/funeral arrangements

Ethics protocols that involve ‘more than minimal risk’ must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board. The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday January 6 2017. They will be reviewed at the January meeting. Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve ‘more than minimal risk’, renewals, and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

Please ensure you always:

• Download and use the current forms, found here
• Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms
• Submit an electronic copy to reb@upei.ca
• Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building

For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Tuesday January 3 2017. These applications will be reviewed at the January 2017 meeting. Please ensure that you always:

• Download and use the current forms, found here
• Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete the forms
• Submit one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca
• Submit one hard copy of the application form with signatures and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building 

Please note that applications received after this deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, January 6th. These applications will be reviewed at the January 2017 meeting. Please ensure you always: 

• Download and use the current forms, found here
• Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms
• Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca
• Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302

Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date. Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications. For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Admin. Assistant @ 902-566-0973.

The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas sale! Featured on Tuesday, December 13 : Punch Cards BOGO 50% off. Check out all 12 Days of Christmas Sales on our webpage. Note: Some conditions may apply.

The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas sale! The feature for Monday, December 12 is that UPEI Staff/Faculty members can renew thier one-year membership and save 15%. Check out all 12 Days of Christmas at www.upei.ca/ar/fitness/december-specials.  Note: Some conditions may apply.

Beginning in January 2017, the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research will make available up to two awards per year to support the publication of manuscripts written or edited by UPEI faculty (including contract and sessional faculty). The awards of $7,500 each will be disbursed to Island Studies Press to cover publication costs (including editing, photo and other permissions, design, printing, marketing, and other costs associated with publishing a book). Authors will be offered ISP’s standard publication contract, which ensures authorial copyright and includes a royalty structure. Authors will also see their manuscript reviewed through a peer-review process. For more information 
Deadline: May 31, 2017. Depending on demand, a second call may be made with an October deadline.

There will be a necessary, campus-wide power shutdown on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in order to complete the high voltage power tie-in to the new School of Sustainable Design Engineering Building. The work will begin at 4:00 am and take between 2-4 hours to complete. This will result in the power being shut down for the entire campus. Emergency power will not be affected.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca, 902-566-6034 or Troy Gallant at trogallant@upei.ca, 902-566-6033.

Facilities Management needs to do some hot water line repairs in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre and Duffy Science Centre that require a shutdown of domestic hot water for the buildings on Saturday, December 17, 2016.  Work at the Duffy Science Centre will begin at 8:00 am and is expected to take 4 hours to complete.  Work at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre will begin at 12:00 pm, and is expected to take 2 hours to complete.

This shutdown is for domestic hot water only, cold water will not be affected.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca, 902-566-6034 or Troy Gallant at trogallant@upei.ca, 902-566-6033.
 

Graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the GSA Ugly Holiday Sweater Social on Saturday, Dec 10 from 6 to 9 pm in the AVC Learning Commons. There will be food and drinks, door prizes, a silent auction, and we will announce the recipients of the GSA Faculty and Staff Awards.

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Hannah Gehrels, Masters student from the Department of Biology, will be defending the thesis, "A Study of Green Crab (Carcinus Maenas) Interactions, Cannibalism, and a firat approach to model the effects of harvesting on its popultions" on Monday, December 12, 2016 at 1 pm.

The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas sale! Featured on Friday, December 9 are Punch Cards BOGO 50% off; on Saturday, December 10 Community memberships renew with a savings of 15%; on Sunday, December 11 save 10% on 3-month memberships.

See the full offer on our webpage. Note: Some conditions may apply.

All pay changes, PTFs, overtime submissions, paper timesheets, etc., must be received by Human Resources by noon:

November 30, 2016 for the December 16, 2016 payroll
December 5, 2016 for the December 30, 2016 payroll
December 19, 2016 for the January 13, 2017 payroll

Electronic timesheet deadline – December 19, 2016 for December 30, 2016 pay

The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas sale! Featured on Thursday, December 8 are Day Passes for just $5 (+HST).  See the full offer on our webpage. Note: Some conditions may apply.

Please be advised that in order to contact employees at the Department of Development and Alumni Engagement - all ten digits are required when dialling. Individual phone numbers remain the same, but it is no longer possible to just dial the last four digits when contacting employees in this department.

In 1854, British travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird visited Prince Edward Island for six weeks and published an account of her stay that was both scathing and charming. Paris may be the gayest city in the world, she wrote, and London the richest, but Charlottetown was the most gossiping. "I never saw a community,” she continued,” in which people appear to hate each other so cordially.”

Contemporary Island poet Jane Ledwell was both fascinated and exasperated by Bird’s haughty, privileged judgement and decided to “write back”—160 years later. The result is Bird Calls, the latest title published by Island Studies Press at UPEI. Bird Calls weaves the travel prose of Isabella Lucy Bird with Ledwell’s poems written in response, and delivers an intriguing conversation for the reader, which contrasts PEI then and now, and showcases the talents of two accomplished writers, from very different generations.

Bird Calls is being launched Wednesday evening, December 14 at Upstreet Craft Brewery on Allen St., Charlottetown, at 7 pm.

The book will also be available in local bookstores and the UPEI bookstore. For more information contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press: ispstaff@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Amanda Sproule, Masters student from the Department of Chemistry, will be defending her thesis, "Discovery of cryptic microbial natural products using induction strategies and characterization of a novel biotransformation product", on Friday, December 9, 2016 at 1 pm in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre lecture theatre. All are welcome!