PhD candidates in Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences, Wael Alsaedi, MSc and Mark Nabuurs, will each present a seminar on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm. Wael Alsaedi's presentation is entitled “Decomposition Kinetics of Nanocomposite Materials" and Mark Nabuurs's presentation is entitled "Identification of Biopesticide Candidates for the Control of Agricultural Pests and Pathogens in Major Canadian Crops".  The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.

All are welcome!

Wednesday, February 3
7:00 pm (W) Hockey @ MtA

Friday, February 5
6:00 pm (W) Basketball @ StFX
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Acadia
8:00 pm (M) Basketball @ StFX

Saturday, February 6
2:00 pm (W) Basketball @ StFX
4:00 pm (M) Basketball @ StFX
7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Saint Mary's

Sunday, February 7
6:00 pm (W) Hockey vs DAL

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is partnering with the Parkdale Sherwood Lions Club to host the "Wendel Clark and Friends" game at MacLauchlan Arena on Thursday, February 11. Game time is 7:00 pm.

Former NHL players attending the event include:

• Wendel Clark
• Stephane Richer
• Ron Duguay
• Al Iafrate
• Gary Leeman
• Denis Maruk
• Peter Klima
• Ken Linseman
• Mike Lalor
• Roy Nolan

Panther Hockey captains Mason Wilgosh and Sam Sweet will also be on the ice, and there will be a special appearance by the Junior Panthers.

Ticket costs

$20 - Game admission
$50 - Dressing room pass (includes game admission; 20 tickets maximum each period)
$80 - "Meet and Greet" (includes game admission and post-game social; maximum 100 tickets)

Proceeds are in support of Panther Sport. For tickets, contact Bruce Donaldson at 902-566-0368, or by email at bdonaldson@upei.ca.

PhD candidates in Molecular and Macromolecular Sciences, Wael Alsaedi, MSc and Mark Nabuurs, will each present a seminar on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm. Wael Alsaedi's presentation is entitled “Decomposition Kinetics of Nanocomposite Materials" and Mark Nabuurs's presentation is entitled "Identification of Biopesticide Candidates for the Control of Agricultural Pests and Pathogens in Major Canadian Crops".  The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.

All are welcome!

The Clinic for Patient-Oriented Research at UPEI asks for the campus community’s assistance with regard to parking for its patients. The Clinic is offering a guided exercise and education program in the Steel Building to patients with moderate to severe cases of Chronic Obstructive Pulminary Disease (COPD).

Over the next number of weeks, the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering will be interviewing a number of candidates for tenure-track positions. The campus community is invited to each candidate's public presentation to learn about their research interests.

The first two of these presentations are scheduled for:

Wed, Feb 3, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, McDougall Hall, Room 243
The role of carbon capture, utilization and storage as we move towards a low-carbon energy future
Sonja Bhatia, Part-time Faculty, Division of Engineering, Saint Mary's University; PhD Candidate, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Thurs, Feb 4, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104
The advent of high performance design tools for advanced robotics design
Dr. Luc Rolland, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John's, NL

The remaining presentations are scheduled as follows with more details to follow:

Mon, Feb 8, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Hosein Marzi, Professor, Department of Information Systems, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS

Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Jean Duquette, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Thurs, Feb 11, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Location TBA
Sebastien Brideau, PhD Candidate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. David Bruce, Principal Research Scientist, ZincNyx Energy Solutions, Vancouver, BC

Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Brian Smyth, Lead Experimental Engineer, UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering

Thurs, Feb 25, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Grant McSorley, Postdoctoral Intern, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, QC

Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Chirag Variawa, Assistant Professor (Contract), College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston

Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Taufiqur Rahman, VP R&D, CaliberFour Technologies and Project Engineer, INSPIRUS Project, St. John's, NL

Thurs, Mar 3, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, Assistant Professor, Term Contract, UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering

Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Arjun Chhetri, Senior Analyst, Alberta Energy, Edmonton, AB

Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Location TBA
Matthew Hall, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Thurs, Mar 10, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Ali Ahmadi, Sessional Instructor and Research Associate, School of Engineering, UBC, Kelowna, BC

The tobacco use survey has been extended until Friday, February 5, 2016. After logging into your @upei account using the Shibboleth single sign-in service, you can access the survey at https://goo.gl/Ojpf26. It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus Committee and UPEI Student Union homepages.

Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. The Healthy Campus Committee appreciates your input.

There will be a UPEI biosafety refresher training session on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm in Kelley Memorial Buiding, Room 210.

This session is required for those who attended the Basic Biosafety course in 2013 or earlier. It is not a substitute for Basic Biosafety. Topics to be covered include a review of basic biosafety principles, a practical approach to spill cleanup, and an update on what’s new at UPEI in the field of biosafety.

To attend the Biosafety Refresher course, you must pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan, Research Services and Graduate Studies, before February 12, 2016 by email (adeighan@upei.ca) or by phone (902-628-4308). Please include 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 (rspeare@upei.ca or phone x5071).

There will be a UPEI basic biosafety training session on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 9:00 am -12:00 noon, in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 210.

Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to graduate students. Please note: those who have not attended a training session since 2013 are currently due for the Biosafety Refresher Course.

To attend the Basic Biosafety course, you must pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan, Research Services and Graduate Studies, before February 12, 2016 by email (adeighan@upei.ca) or by phone (902-628-4308). Please include your name, department, email address and phone number in your email or voice message. If you are a graduate student, please indicate this and include your supervisor’s name.
If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Angela or Dr. Rhoda Speare (rspeare@upei.ca or phone, x5071)

We invite all students, staff and faculty to complete our survey for your chance to win one of three $50.00 Bookstore gift cards. Submission deadline is Friday, February 5th. We appreciate your feedback!

upei.ca/bookstoresurvey

Kevin Rogers
UPEI Bookstore Manager
902-566-0380
kerogers@upei.ca

One focus area of Project Beacon, UPEI's cross-campus transformational initiative, is to enhance the room booking process, making it easier to book and manage spaces on campus. This first phase of the process is complete. Starting today, February 1, people interested in booking meeting space and athletics facilities, and requesting classroom changes can now visit the new Room Booking web page at www.upei.ca/facilities/room-booking-forms.

Thank you,

Project Beacon Room Booking Team

Please be advised that the Government of Canada is once again sponsoring the Canada Summer Jobs program designed to help employers create summer job opportunities for students.  Canada Summer Jobs provides funding to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers and small businesses to create summer job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in Fall 2016.

Public and private-sector employers are eligible for a wage subsidy of up to 50% of the provincial/territorial adult minimum hourly wage – in PEI the minimum wage will be $10.75 an hour as from June 1, 2016. For additional information and application information for this program please refer to: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/epb/yi/yep/programs/scpp.shtml

The process of applying for Canada Summer Jobs has changed this year. To apply for this Program you will need to contact Monique Geurts, Human Resources, 566-0515, before February 22, 2016.

Effective Monday, February 1, 2016, the front counter in the Registrar's Office will have new hours of operation. From September to April, the office will be open for counter service from 9 am-4:30 pm.  From May to August, the office will be open for counter service from 9 am-4:00 pm.

Staff will be available by phone and email from 8:30 am onwards.

The best university alumni hockey group in Canada will be holding its Panther Hockey Alumni Night on Saturday, February 6.  It actually starts in the afternoon with a mini-tournament comprised of four teams of alumni players using both ice surfaces at MacLauchlan Arena. Leading up to UPEI-SMU game that night is the walk-on introduction of all former players followed up by a reception in the south end of the arena where the full-length windows provide an ideal viewpoint for the UPEI-SMU game. (Game time is 7:00 pm.)

For more information, contact Panther Hockey Alumni Night Committee Organizer and former Panther captain Ron Carragher at racarragher@gov.pe.ca

Karem Simon in Collaboration with Atlantic String Machine

UPEI Clarinet Professor Karem J Simon will partner with the Atlantic String Machine in Strings Attached II, an intimate evening of chamber music, on Saturday, January 30th at 7:30 PM at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Works by Johannes Brahms and Carl Maria von Weber will be performed. Tickets -- $15 Adults, $10 Students – may be acquired at the music department office or at the admission’s desk prior to performance.

The "Ask UPEI" button (usually found in the bottom-right corner of all UPEI.ca web pages) has temporarily been removed as our third-party service provider troubleshoots an ongoing issue with the service. Until a solution is implemented, please forward all UPEI.ca page edits to Marketing and Communications' web team via email, at web@upei.ca. Please also include the URL of the page requiring an edit in your message. 

We regret any inconvenience this may have caused during Thursday's service outage.

UPEI Marketing and Communications

The tobacco use survey has been extended until Friday, Feb 5th. After logging into your @upei account using the Shibboleth single sign-in service, you can access the survey at https://goo.gl/Ojpf26. It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus committee and Student Union homepages.

"Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. The Healthy Campus committee appreciates your input."

As part of its winter 2016 series of events, the Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching is organizing a blog—with short articles about academic freedom as it relates to pedagogy and curriculum, and some short responses from committee members to get some conversation going! We invite everyone on the campus community to read and comment—on the original article or on other people’s contributions. Let’s get a conversation going about what this issue means and some of its implications for teaching and learning at UPEI. 

The blog is on the new SCENT website, at projects.upei.ca/scent – it’s on the homepage there. But feel free to peruse the rest of (still under construction) website too, where you’ll find more information about SCENT and the FDO. 

For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, chair of SCENT, at abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, at fdo@upei.ca.

The presentation of a learning/career e-portfolio is a requirement for each student in the Bachelor of Education program at UPEI.

We would like to invite the campus community to attend one or more sessions during which a small group of pre-service teachers will each present his/her e-portfolio to demonstrate individual growth in becoming a professional educator through the various aspects of the B Ed program.

Each pre-service teacher will present for approximately 15 minutes after which the audience will be invited to discuss or ask questions.

Please see below for scheduled times and locations.

English B ED program:
Feb 3rd 5:00-7:00 Memorial Hall 301 (ELC)
Feb 4th 5:45-7:45 AVC 286A N or AVC 286B N (2 groups)
Feb 5th 4:00-6:00 Memorial Hall or 308 Memorial Hall 215 (2 groups)
Feb 8th 4:00-6:00 Main 113 or Main 116 or ELC (3 groups)
Feb 9th 4:00-6:00 AVC 287N or AVC 286A N (2 groups)
Feb 10th 4:00-6:00 Main 116 

French B Ed program:
Feb 4th 5:45-7:45 Kelley 211
Feb 10th 5:45-7:45 Kelley 210 

We hope to see many of you in attendance.

For further information, contact Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or Jill Ross at jbross@upei.ca or by telephone at 620-5155.