The Canadian Biosafety Handbook, Second Edition,(CBH) a companion document to the Canadian Biosafety Standard (CBS) Second Edition is now available. While the CBS details the biosafety and biosecurity elements required by containment laboratories, the CBH provides information and guidance on how to achieve these specifications. Both should be readily available for all CL2 laboratory staff. It can be accessed at http://canadianbiosafetystandards.collaboration.gc.ca/cbh-gcb/index-eng.php
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Rhoda Speare (rspeare@upei.ca, or 902-620-5071)

As part of National Health and Fitness Day in Canada on Saturday, June 4 we invite everyone to come in and work out at the UPEI Sports Centre for FREE! We also have a FREE spin class at 11:30 am with spin instructor Melinda Martell. Space is limited with the spin class and first come, first serve. The UPEI Sports Centre has a fitness centre, indoor track, 2 squash courts and a gymnasium. All welcome!

A 1 day Hazmat Spill Clean-up Training session will be offered on campus Thursday, June 16. This training is aimed at individuals who work with a moderate to high amount of chemicals in areas such as labs, workshops, shipping & receiving, chemical storage, etc.  

For a course agenda please visit:  http://www.upei.ca/research/health-and-safety/training.

Each session holds 20 people so please sign up early. If there is a need for more than one session then that will be arranged. This training will be covered by the Health and Safety Budget. 
Please preregister with Angela Deighan at adeighan@upei.ca by Friday, June 3.

Hi everyone, we are in the process of doing our spring inventory and would greatly appreciate if you would contact Marc at 902-628-4370 if you have any of our dishes and we will send someone to pick them up.
Thanks.

There will be a UPEI blood borne pathogen training session:

Friday, June 10, 9:00am--11:00 am, Kelley Memorial Building, room 222

This session is for those people whose research involves human blood, tissue, and other bodily fluids. If you wish to attend, you must pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan, Office of VP Academic & Research, before June 7th by email (adeighan@upei.ca) or by phone (902-628-4308). Please provide your name, department, email address and phone number in your email or voice message. If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Angela or Dr. Rhoda Speare by email (rspeare@upei.ca) or phone (902-620-5071).

The Healthy Campus Committee is coordinating a FUN Challenge for UPEI Employees and Students over the summer. This FREE challenge involves a number of ways to boost your wellness!!! Kickoff activity on Wednesday, June 1. More details at www.upei.ca/ar/wellness To register, contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca or 566-0606. 

Challenge Kickoff - Wednesday, June 1, 12:15 pm. Stephanie Knickle will lead a walk, lunge, plank workout walk around cmapus. Meeting at the clock tower in the Quad area.

http://www.upei.ca/ar/wellness

There is still limited space available for the 2016 UPEI Panther Golf Classic presented by Stewart McKelvey.

On June 16, 2016 we hope you can join us at BELVEDERE GOLF COURSE to help develop the future of Panther Sport.

All funds raised will go towards UPEI Alumni Engagement Athletic Awards which are granted annually to deserving members of our varsity sport teams who demonstrate an interest in furthering public and alumni interest in their respective sports.

Register yourself or your team today! 

The Department of Chemistry & School of Sustainable Design Engineering invites you to attend Research Seminars presented by the four candidates on the following dates:

Dr. Marya Ahmed, Monday, May 30, at 10:00 am, entitled “Development of Synthetic Polymers, and Peptides, for the Delivery of Biological Therapeutics In Vitro and In Vivo"

Dr. Yingli Rao, Tuesday, May 31, at 10:00 am, entitled "From Serendipity to Functional Design: Stimuli-Responsive Materials"

Dr. David Wolstenholme, June 01, at 10:00 am,  entitled “The Missing Link in the Evolution of Hydrogen from Metal Hydrides”

Dr. Daniel Harrison, June 03, at 10:00 am, entitled "Reactions of Metal Perfluorocarbenes with Tetrafluoroethylene and Implications for Perfluoroalkene Metathesis"

The seminars will all be held in  the KC Irving, Lecture Theatre,  104.

All are Welcome!  

We have printer toner cartridges for LaserJet HP printers: 2100, 2100M, 2100TN, 2100SE, 2100XI, 2200D, 2200DN, 2200DSE, 2200DT, 2200DTN, HP C40496A. If anyone can use these cartridges please let me know at (902)566-0620.

If you have any questions or concerns contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.

Message from IT Systems & Services

Replacement of Windows XP Computers

As part of the IT Risk Management Plan, many Windows XP Computers will be replaced on campus over the summer months. Standard Dell PC have already been acquired and are being configured for implementation.As part of this plan,the cost of these standard Dell PCs will not be charged to individual departments. If you have special equipment and/or software that requires the Windows XP platform and cannot be switched out, please notify the ITSS HelpDesk at helpdesk@upei.ca.

Migration from Novell Directory Services (NDS) to Microsoft Active Directory 
Services (AD).

To support Project Beacon and to extend our capability to provision end users, ITSS is migrating from Novell Directory Services (NDS) to Microsoft Active Directory Services (AD). In order to do this, ITSS will need to visit your location and update software and configurations on your computer. We will need you to be available at this time to enter passwords to complete this process. We are estimating this process will take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete on each computer. 

Migration from Novell Groupwise to Gmail

To improve our email service, maintain consistency and access from any device, anywhere, and to a have a universal email experience for all UPEI Faculty, Staff, and Students, UPEI will be migrating all users to the Google Apps for Education platform which includes Google mail web service.

The Google Mail service will improve uptime, availability and usability from the multitude of devices that users interact with eir email ( PCs, laptops, smart devices, mobile devices) and access from anywhere internet service is available. As well Google mail is an integrated part of Google Apps for Education and this integration offers many benefits such as collaboration. 

ITSS is currently drafting a plan to schedule these desk visits and will be communicating with departmental staff to coordinate the date and time for each department migration.

ITSS asks that you make every effort to be available when your department is scheduled to be visited as the replacement of Windows XP computers and the migration of the email program is to be completed by August 26th. Users who systems have not been migrated by this time may experience network login and email issues.

ITSS thanks you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

UPEI's Faculty of Education is proud to be hosting PEI's inaugural Digital Pedagogy Lab institute from July 13-15, 2016. Faculty, sessionals, graduate students, and staff are welcome at this in-depth exploration of the role and application of digital technologies in teaching. UPEI is also invited to engage in the event via the #digped hashtag and the public keynote by celebrated edtech writer and critic Audrey Watters, 3pm July 13 in McDougall Hall.

#DigPed participants choose between one of two tracks - Networks and Digital Literacies - and work collaboratively in small workshop-style classes. The learning community that participants create together will give educators hands-on experience with key digital tools AND concepts to engage in successful, sustained innovative practice. 

To register, click here. Registration fees include HST, and are eligible for both faculty Professional Development Travel Reimbursement and for UPEISU Student Academic Enrichment funding. There are also a limited number of full #DigPed fellowships available to UPEI faculty and sessional faculty thanks to the Office of the Vice President Academic and Research. If you are interested in applying for fellowship support, please fill out and submit this form by Friday May 20th. Successful applicants will be notified by May 31st and given a code to secure a free EventBrite ticket.

Save the date and join us for this community- and capacity-building event at UPEI!

A glucose and cholesterol clinic will be held on Thursday, May 26 from 8:30 am - 1:00 pm. To book your FREE 10 minute appointment please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca or 566-0606.

May 25, 2016 - 9 am - noon. Master of Science Thesis Defence
Osama Alharbi
"Synthesis and Characterization of Thermoplastic Polymers". 

May 26, 2016 - 9 am to noon. Master of Science Thesis Defence
Wael Alsaedi
"Decomposition Kinetics of Polymer-Nanocomposite Materials"

Location for both is ICC 104

UPEI, through Interuniversity Services Incorporated (ISI), has recently partnered with Staples Advantage to offer a convenient and cost-effective solution to order office and stationary supplies. Staples Advantage will now be the direct, preferred supplier for the entire campus while the UPEI Bookstore will focus more on retail services.

As a next step and to facilitate the transition to our new supplier, we request that all UPEI personnel who have signing authority to purchase office supplies and stationary products please complete a Staples Advantage form.  

This form will gather your name, delivery information and all University account(s) you will use to purchase supplies. This will allow Staples Advantage to set up your individual user accounts within their Eway.ca online ordering system. Staples Advantage will deliver directly to your individual campus locations so please ensure the delivery information you provide is the campus location you wish the products to be delivered to.

Staples Advantage will arrange and hold 10- to 15-minute WebEx training session(s) in the coming weeks (location, date and time to be determined) for those who will now be using the new ordering system.

Please take a moment to continue reading more about Staples Advantage and the University’s purchasing guidelines regarding what types of products should now be purchased through Staples Advantage.

Please note that Central Printing will be closed at 12:00 pm
on both Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 18 for the day.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

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 June 3 2016. They will be reviewed at the June meeting. Protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are received after June 3 will be reviewed at the July 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