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
E mail: rspeare@upei.ca

The UPEI Student Health Centre, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the Bookstore), is offering a Flu Vaccination Clinic on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- by appointment only-- for faculty, staff, and students.

Cost for the vaccination is $10. Valid provincial health card information will be required when scheduling and your health card must be provided at the appointment.

Please call 902-566-0616 to book your appointment. 

UPEI Catholic Students Association is hosting the national conference this weekend in Charlottetown. Conference delegates will be going to the 10:30 Sunday morning mass at St. Dunstan's Basilica. There will be NO Sunday evening mass on campus October 30.

Calling all singers! The UPEI Multicultural Choir and Song Circle will be meeting this Tuesday, November 1st, 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! All are welcome.

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

Wednesday, November 2 from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 
Held in: Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall (MCDH)

The Department of Health and Wellness and Career Services want to education and promote different health careers. There will be a range of health professionals available to meet and talk with students about their specific health-based career. Faculty and staff are asked to encourage students to come and meet these health professionals to learn more about their career path. Health care professionals have a wide range of educational backgrounds and students from all faculty are invited to attend. 

“Digital, Verified and Less Open” by Paul Fain is the next SCENT blog post. “More colleges are issuing digital badges to help their students display skills to employers or graduate programs, and colleges are tapping vendor platforms to create a verified form of the alternative credentials.” Read the short article and comment on what you think at http://projects.upei.ca/scent/ Questions? Write to Gerald at fdo@upei.ca.

The UPEI Student Health Centre, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the Bookstore), is offering a Flu Vaccination Clinic on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- by appointment only-- for faculty, staff, and students.

Cost for the vaccination is $10. Valid provincial health card information will be required when scheduling and your health card must be provided at the appointment.

Please call 902-566-0616 to book your appointment. 

Wednesday, November 2 from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 
Held in: Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall (MCDH)

The Department of Health and Wellness and Career Services want to education and promote different health careers. There will be a range of different health professionals available to meet and talk with students about their specific health based career. Faculty and staff are asked to encourage students to come and meet these health professionals to learn more about their career path. Health care professionals have a wide range of educational backgrounds and students from all faculty are invited to attend. 

UPEI Alumni and Friends Chapter events will be taking place in Toronto on November 29th and Ottawa on December 1st. The alumni office would like to extend an invitation to these events to any staff or faculty traveling in those areas during that time period. 

You are Invited to Attend A Public Talk by Robert Dennis, Ph.D
(Candidate for a tenure-track position in Religious Studies at UPEI)

Title: "Assessing The General Decline of Religion in Today's Society Canada and Beyond"

Time: Monday, October 31st, 2016, 1:30 - 3:00
Place: SDU Main Building, 420

TONIGHT! Thursday, October 27th at 7:00 pm Robertson Library 312

Robertson Library will partner with the Open Data Book Club to host a special event. First, the Open Data Book Club will introduce
its activities related to Open Data. Following that we will have two speakers: Dr. Adam Fenech, Director of UPEI Climate Lab, will speak on "The Value of Open Data in Research" and Mary-Ann MacSwain, Data Analyst at the UPEI Centre for Health and Community Research will speak on "Health Data in an Open Data World."
https://library.upei.ca/open-data-book-club-guest-speakers-adam-fenech-mary-ann-macswain-oct-27

Contact: Donald Moses dmoses@upei.ca

The event is OPEN to the community.

The City of Charlottetown has posted that CSA approved helmets are now required by all individuals using the City of Charlottetown rinks. Currently, the IRO has an active ice-skate lending service. However, in order for our UPEI students to continue to enjoy this popular skate service, we will now need to offer helmets. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. Contact rgreathouse@upei.ca.

The Open Pages series at UPEI’s Robertson Library welcomes John Cousins to discuss his book New London: The Lost Dream. The event is Wednesday, November 16 at 7 pm, in the second floor common area of the Robertson Library.

New London: The Lost Dream tells the true story of brave Quakers from London, England who settled along PEI’s north shore in 1773. This book is an excellent recreation of how some of the Island’s first European settlers arrived, survived, and occasionally thrived in the “new world.”

New London: The Lost Dream is published by Island Studies Press at UPEI. For more details, see “Recent Titles” at http://projects.upei.ca/isp/.

Open Pages features local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, and what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this evening, which takes place in the common area on the second floor of the UPEI Robertson Library. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be for sale and signing by the author.

For more information, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press at ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd in the Robertson Library, slloyd@upei.ca. 

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

It is really important for a large number of students to attend to give input and suggestions about graduate student life at UPEI. If you have questions, please email gsa@upei.ca

The UPEI Student Health Centre, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the Bookstore), is offering a Flu Vaccination Clinic on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- by appointment only-- for faculty, staff, and students.

Cost for the vaccination is $10. Valid provincial health card information will be required when scheduling and your health card must be provided at the appointment.

Please call 902-566-0616 to book your appointment.

Donald Moses will demonstrate the new IslandScholar, UPEI’s institutional repository of faculty and staff publications, graduate theses, and graduate projects on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 am in Robertson Library 312. The session will also include a demonstration of data.upei.ca, a service that provides UPEI researchers with a suite of tools that include a data management planning tool, a locally hosted “WorkSpaces” to store and manage research data files, and a publishing/archiving platform for research data sets. Contact Donald Moses for more information.