Anne Webb, Program Officer, Scholarships and Fellowships
Women in Science and Engineering

NSERC is conscious of and concerned about gender equity and diversity in natural sciences and engineering research. For decades, we have been implementing initiatives to increase women and girls’ participation in these fields. These initiatives are now being complemented by additional institutional commitments and a Council-wide action plan to increase gender equity as an element of research excellence. Our current strategic plan, NSERC 2020, has as one of the five strategic goals “Building a Diversified and Competitive Research Base” which includes gender equity as a key priority.

This presentation addresses the current participation of women in science and engineering in Canada, what some of the equity issues are as NSERC understands them, and presents the initiatives and actions NSERC is committed to undertaking to increase gender equity in science and engineering research.

Thursday, August 25
10:00 am - 11:00 am
HSB 104

Tea and coffee will be served
Please rsvp to Lisa Sanderson, lmsanderson@upei.ca by Tuesday, August 16.

The Offices of the Comptroller and VP Admin. & Finance have a surplus of legal size hanging file folders and binders. If you are in need of, or have a use for these items, please visit our office in Kelley 205 and we will be happy to supply you with some. First come first served.

If you have difficulty carving out uninterrupted time for writing, if you struggle with motivating yourself to write, or if you would simply like the supportive collaboration of a writing retreat, consider Time to Write, UPEI's faculty writers retreat.

When: Wednesday, November 9 to Sunday, November 13

Where: TBD

Cost to participants: $200, which includes four nights accommodation, meals and snacks

Your project must be at a stage where sustained writing time makes sense. Your research and/or data collection and analysis must be completed to the point that you are ready to write. You must also be prepared to commit to the full program: a total of 3½ days focused on writing. The retreat is open to tenured and tenure stream University of Prince Edward Island faculty in any Department/Faculty/School.

Email Research Communications Officer Dave Atkinson, datkinson@upei.ca, with a brief summary of the project you plan to work and your writing goals for the retreat. There is room for six participants.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, September 2^nd for the September meeting.

Ensure you always…

·        Download the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/research-services/research-certifications/animal-care
·        Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms and only current forms will be accepted.

Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date.

·        Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302
·        Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca

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.

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 September 2 2016. They will be reviewed at the September meeting. Protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are received after September 2 will be reviewed at the October 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 that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete forms.

Submit the following: 
• one hard copy of the signed application form and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building and 
• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

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 Friday August 26 2016. These applications will be reviewed at the September 2016 meeting. Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete the forms.

Submit the following: 
• 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 and 
• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

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 IRO now has a newsletter. You can see the latest edition online. Our next edition will be December 2016

Island Construction will be on campus the week of August 15,  patching asphalt on various parking lots, walkways, and areas of the Perimeter Road. This work is anticipated to take approximately 1-1/2 weeks to complete.

Everyone is welcome.

As the roll-out of Active Directory continues across campus, the classroom computers will now have a different look when signing in. The newly configured classroom PCs are still accessed with your current UPEI credentials.

Please note users will not have access to their network drive mappings (H:/drive for example) on the Academic Network which were previously provided through Novell. We apologize for this inconvenience; however, it will only be temporary until the drive mappings are configured in our new Active Directory service.

Users can access the files on their Novell drives by visiting the NetStorage website. Alternative, users may wish to use Google Drive, email, or a USB thumb drive to access their presentation files.

Please contact the ITSS Helpdesk at helpdesk@upei.ca or 902-566-0465 for questions.

New students, current students, as well as recently graduated students, who have children, as well as staff and faculty at UPEI who have kids/grandchildren are invited to bring their children to the FREE UPEI Family Friendly NSO event. Pregnant students are also welcome to attend!

This is a great opportunity for students to network with each other, staff and faculty members, learn the support systems available to them and ask questions to other students who are also parents!

There will be a "hunt" at noon (like an easter egg hunt), and Pride will be coming from 1pm-3pm, (you can take pictures with Pride), and we'll be showing a movie and will have crafts and snacks.

For more information visit the Facebook event or contact Elyse Cottrell at ecottrell@upei.ca.

Tuition Waiver forms for the Fall 2016 semester must be submitted to Human Resources by no later than August 15, 2016. When completing the form, please include all of the required information (Course name, time, start and end date, cost and the number of semester hours) to avoid any delays in processing the waiver. Please submit original forms directly to Human Resources (lower level Kelley building, room #143).

If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Krista Gill, PhD candidate from the Department of Chemistry, will be defending her thesis entitled "Discovery of novel microbial natural products using a chemical screening approach and identification of gene clusters responsible for biosynthesis" on Thursday, August 11, 2016.

Time
Tuesday August 11, 2016 - 1:00 PM

Location
Room 212, Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre

Additional Information
All PhD defenses are open to the public and you are welcome to attend. Please note seating may be limited.

The second annual UPEI Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference is being held this week, August 11-13, in Don and Marion McDougall Hall. All presentations, workshops, and speaker events are open to all. 

On Thursday, please join us for a day of workshops.

On Friday, please join us for the keynote speaker presentation by Rebecca Thomas, 9:00 am in MCDH 242, followed by graduate student presentations, a plenary presentation by Julie Bull at 4 pm in MCDH 242, and then the President's Reception in Schurman Square from 5 to 6 pm

On Saturday, please join us for a poster presentation session and oral presentations from graduate students

Information about the conference, including the full program, can be found here.

UPEI Employees Personal Training Subsidy Program - Current UPEI Faculty and Staff only. We are pleased to offer UPEI employees a discount/training subsidy towards either a Panther Fit Pack or small group training at the UPEI Sports Centre. Complete a program registration form found on here - http://www.upei.ca/ar/wellness