UPEI’s Executive MBA program offers a high-quality learning experience for working business professionals. The program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Classes are offered bi-weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the option to complete the program in 20 months.

To learn more about the program and to meet with staff, faculty and students from the School of Business, we invite you to attend an information session on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 5 pm in the Richmond Room, Rodd Charlottetown Hotel.

Please call (902) 566-6474 or email mba@upei.ca to reserve a seat. For more information, please visit upei.ca/emba
 

Dr. Knut Wiik Vollset, a Postdoctoral Fellow from Uni Research Environment, Bergen, Norway, will be giving a seminar on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 1:30 pm in AVC Room 286B/C entitled: "Disentangling the role of ​salmon lice on the marine survival of Atlantic Salmon:  A Norwegian perspective". Everyone is welcome.

The effects of salmon lice on the recruitment survival of salmon is widely debated and has huge economic and political ramification through its limitations on the further development of the salmon aquaculture industry, and the impacts on conservation and harvestable surplus of salmon. In Norway, this conflict of interest has reached an important crossroad as the Norwegian state has limited the increase of biomass and new license for production of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout in Norway. Recently the Norwegian government suggested a new regulation frame work, where regulation of salmon lice levels and biomass in fish farms should be more directly linked to impacts on wild fish. Some key scientific studies on the effect of salmon lice on marine survival of Atlantic salmon and the ongoing NFR project BaseLice will be presented. A recently held workshop which aimed at scrutinizing the new regulation frame work will also be discussed.

Chapman Brothers Construction Ltd. has been contracted to do some improvements to the parking lot located east of the Steel Building, which will include the addition of 12 metered parking stalls. This parking lot will be closed during this construction, beginning Thursday, November 10, 2016. The work is anticipated to take approximately one week to complete.

While the contractor has been instructed that the work should be executed with the least possible distruption to the campus community, a certain amount is inevitable. Your patience and understanding is appreciated as we proceed with this project.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at 902-566-6034 or jmacphail@upei.ca or Troy Gallant at 902-566-6033 or trogallant@upei.ca

Calling all singers! The UPEI Multicultural Choir and Song Circle will be meeting today, Tuesday, November 8, from 4:30 to 5:30pm in the Robertson Library Building, in the basement, room 103. This area is also accessible by an elevator, if needed (call Hailey – see below). 

The multicultural choir is in its 6th year, and is a non-audition, open, free and fun activity which brings people from campus and the community together, sharing songs from cultures all around the world! 

if you have any questions or comments, please contact Hailey at 902-566-6023, or airs@upei.ca. 

This study is evaluating whether standing desks reduce workplace sitting time.

What is expected of participants?

-Participants will need to visit the lab on 3 occasions, for 10-30 minutes each visit
-Participants will be asked to wear an activity monitor for 2 weeks
-Participants will be asked to use a sit-stand desk for 1 week

This research project has received approval from the UPEI Research Ethics Board. If you have any concerns about this study, please contact the University of PEI Research Ethics Board (902) 620-5104, or by e-mail at reb@upei.ca. You can also contact the study Principal Investigator, Dr. Travis Saunders at 902 566 0641.

If interested in participating please contact:

upeiexerciselab@gmail.com or 902 566 0641 

Our Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) is Tuesday November 8 from 4:30–6pm in Main Building room 420 (there will be pizza & drinks). 

It is really important for a large number of students to attend and give us input and suggestions about graduate student life at UPEI.

If you have questions, please email gsa@upei.ca

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Andrew Clark, Masters student, will be defending his thesis entitled, "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONVENTIONAL AND EMERGING METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING COASTAL MORPHOLOGY AND CHANGE" on Monday, November 7, 2016 at 10 am.

Location: Duffy Research Centre, Meeting Room #1 UPEI Campus.

Calling all singers! The UPEI Multicultural Choir and Song Circle will be meeting this Tuesday, November 8, from 4:30 to 5:30pm in the Robertson Library Building, in the basement, room 103. This area is also accessible by an elevator, if needed (call Hailey – see below). 

The multicultural choir is in its 6th year, and is a non-audition, open, free and fun activity which brings people from campus and the community together, sharing songs from cultures all around the world! 

if you have any questions or comments, please contact Hailey at 902-566-6023, or airs@upei.ca. 

An email was sent out from the UPEI WHMIS program this week in error. This email advised users that they were due to complete WHMIS supervisor training. The vast majority of folks receiving this email are required or due to take this training. 

If you received this email, please disregard it. Also, please pass this information along to your students as this email targeted all users of WHMIS.

If you have any questions about the WHMIS program, or if you are due to take WHMIS, please contact Kathryn Harrison kharrison@upei.ca or 902-566-0901.

UPEI 103 students and University 303 students will be taking on a co-curricular project. It will be held on Tuesday, November 8 and Wednesday, November 9, 10:00-1:00 pm in W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The students are setting up a "Swap for Supplies" yard-sale event to support second-year engineering students who are travelling to Mikinduri, Kenya in February to help support communities alongside the "Children of Hope" organization. Supplies needed include: pens, pencils, flashlights, band-aids, sealed pain medication (Tylenol, Aspirin, etc), and toothbrushes. Clothing donations will also be accepted. Individuals who bring in supplies will have the opportunity to swap their supplies for various gently-used items including books, clothing, decorations, etc. Don't have these supplies? Monetary donations are also greatly appreciated. There will also be a raffle to win some UPEI goodies!

 For more information, please contact UPEI students at mjcharles@upei.ca.

Thursday, November 3 @ 11:00 am -12:00 pm

Held in: AVC 286A N

Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine will be on the UPEI campus to deliver information about the admission requirements and the application process to their medical school. Any student who has ever considered a career in medicine should attend and learn more about what is required in the application process. Students from all faculties and year levels are encouraged to attend.

This is a reminder that the UPEI Biosafety Policy requires that all Principal Investigators confirm the security and complete inventory of all biohazardous materials being used or stored, due in November of each year. This is accomplished by updating your entries, then confirming this action, as follows:

Access your inventory at http://biosafety.vre3.upei.ca/ 

Ensure your inventory is up to date, and then confirm this by following the steps as listed below.
1. Select User Menu (Top right of screen) then My account from the left side of the drop down screen.
2. Click Edit (just below the user name)
3. Click on Information, on the top right section of the screen.
4. Scroll down this page. Below the box with the phone number, you will notice a box next to I accept. If you have not already done so, please read this section and, if you agree, please check this box.
5. To report your inventory is up to date, please enter the date that you confirm this in the 2016 box. 
6. 6. Hit Save! Task completed.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you are not yet a user of this site, but store or use biohazardous materials, please contact me to arrange access. 

Rhoda Speare
Biosafety Officer 
Phone 620-5071
Email: rspeare@upei.ca

An honours project at the University of Prince Edward Island is being performed on the effects of eccentric and concentric leg press exercises on dietary intake, delayed onset muscle soreness, muscle swelling, and physical activity.

Participants are asked to visit the UPEI Fitness Centre 4 times. The first will be gathering baseline data, while the second, third and fourth will involve workouts on a leg press, or a rest day. You will be asked to track your diet for 72 hours, as well as appetite and soreness after each visit. You will also be asked to wear a pedometer for 72 hours after each trial. It is expected each session will last roughly 1 hour. 

This research project has received approval from the UPEI Research Ethics Board. If you have any concerns about this study, please contact the University of PEI Research Ethics Board (902) 620-5104, or by e-mail at reb@upei.ca. You can also contact the study Principal Investigator, Kurt McInnis, at kmmcinnis@upei.ca or 902-940-6217. You can contact his supervisor, Dr Travis Saunders, at trsaunders@upei.ca or 902-566-0641.

Dr. Michelle Evason, a candidate for the open, tenure-track small animal internal medicine position in the Department of Companion Animals, will be interviewing on Wednesday, November 2 & Thursday, November 3, 2016. As part of this interview process, Dr. Evason has been asked to provide two seminars geared towards 3rd year DVM students. You are invited to attend. 

SEMINAR - Wednesday, November 2nd @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'C'
Canine Lower Respiratory Diseases

SEMINAR - Thursday, November 3rd @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'C'
Canine and Feline Urolithiasis: Rock On !

Please contact Dr. Stephanie Hamilton, Chair of the Selection Committee (smhamilton@upei.ca) or Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca) if you would like to meet individually with Dr. Evason.