Campus Notices

Departments of Biomedical Sciences & Pathology and Microbiology Seminar - Tuesday, February 2
 
Louise-Marie Roux, Biomedical Sciences will present a seminar called "Lobsters in hot water:  The effect of temperature on American lobster experimentally infected with WSSV" on Tuesday, February 2 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre C.
 
Everyone is welcome.

Have an opinion about tobacco use on campus? The Healthy Campus Committee wants to know!

The tobacco use survey is NOW OPEN. You can access the survey here after logging into your @upei account through the Shibboleth single-in service. The survey is also accessible from the Healthy Campus committee and Student Union homepages.

Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. All participants are eligible for entry into a draw for one of two gift cards to the bookstore.

With 4 Atlantic University Sport men’s hockey games taking place in three provinces on Bell Let’s Talk Day, January 27, fans around the conference are invited to come out and show their support. At UPEI, the Men's Hockey Panthers will host the Université de Moncton Aigles Bleus at 7 pm at MacLauchlan Arena.

The first few hundred fans to arrive at the CARI Complex will receive a Bell Let’s Talk toque and thunder sticks. Stations will be set up at each venue where fans can participate by creating personalized speech bubbles, taking photos to share on social media and signing banners to show their support. Subway gift cards will be given out as prizes throughout the game.

Student and staff volunteers from UPEI Student Affairs, Residence Services, and Athletics and Recreation along with Bell Aliant representatives will be out in force, supporting the effort to help end the stigma around mental illness. Please come out and support your Panthers and #BellLetsTalk! 

To read more about Bell Aliant's partnership with AUS, link to the UPEI News story.

 

The UPEI Multicultural Choir meets on Wednesdays in the lower level of the Robertson library at 4:30 - 5:30. 
This is a non-audition choir open to all members of UPEI - students, staff, and faculty. 
The group is now in its 5th year and sings songs of the various cultures and languages represented on the UPEI campus, as an initiative of the AIRS Research project. 
All are welcome.

The Human Biology and Environmental Sciences seminar series continues on Friday, January 29, 2016 when Dr. Travis Saunders from Applied Human Sciences at UPEI will present:

“Is Sitting Killing You?”

Date: January 29
Time: 12:30 pm
Duffy Science 204

All are welcome

 

The PEI History of Medicine Society is pleased to host a talk by Dr. Susan Brown (History) on "Retiring from the Stage: Old Age and Disability among 18th Century Theatrical Performers" at 7:00, Wednesday, February 10, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge-- Main 204. All are welcome: coffee, tea, and snacks provided. For More information, contact Shannon Murray (smurray@upei.ca).

Christian Agatemor, PhD student will present a seminar on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 12:30 pm.  Christian's presentation is entitled “Biomaterials from Lactones and Organoiron Monomers".  The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.

All are welcome!

 

The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the Atlantic Veterinary College (UPEI)  is calling for applications from potential graduate students for the 2016 Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Graduate Scholarship. The Scholarship will support the training of researchers at the masters or doctoral level to pursue animal welfare research at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Both applied or more fundamental approaches to research pertaining to animal welfare are welcome. Applications for 2016 will be accepted until 12pm (noon) (AST) Friday March 4, 2016, with decisions to be announced by the end of April. Students may take up their award at any time of the year but must do so within 12 months of the date of the letter of offer. 
 
Application and selection guidelines are at upei.ca/awc

Payroll SIN Reminder to International Employees

Payroll would like to remind all international employees to please provide updates/changes to temporary Social Insurance Numbers to the Payroll/Human Resources department for T4 purposes.

Updates/changes should be made in person at the Human Resources department.

If you have moved in the last year, Payroll requires your current mailing address for T4 purposes. 

The UPEI system stores two addresses; current mailing and home. You can check the status of your current mailing address through the UPEI website by clicking on Acampus login@ - menu item AChange Current Address (+email)@. Changes to your home address must be done in person at the Registrar=s office or in Human Resources.

When updating your current mailing address on-line, please follow these Canada Post addressing conventions:

Do not use the pound sign (#) anywhere in your address;
Do not use spaces or periods between PO or RR;
Apartment numbers before civic addresses on first line (no # symbol) e.g. 32-25 Brown=s Court;
PO on next line after civic, RR on third line if needed;
ACanada@ not required in country field.

Alternately, updates can be directed via e-mail to:

jhelps@upei.ca
hparry@upei.ca

or telephone (902) 566-0464.

Please remember to provide us with your full name and UPEI ID number.

Have you signed up to receive your electronic T4 slip? If you completed the consent form for the 2014 tax year, you will automatically receive your 2015 tax slip electronically. There is no need to complete the consent form again. New consents must be received no later than January 29, 2016.

Online tax slips will be available, through Campus Login, to current and former employees, who received taxable earnings or benefits in 2015. Online T4s are official tax slips accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). 
However, CRA requires employees to give their consent in order to access their tax slips electronically. Your consent will be valid for all subsequent tax years. New employees can grant consent for online T4s after they have received their first pay cheque.

Employees who do not provide consent will have their 2015 T4s mailed to the address on file no later than February 29, 2016. Electronic T4s will be available sooner than the printed versions due to a lesser processing time. 

The consent form can be accessed through Campus Login:
https://secure.upei.ca/cls/login.html. The consent form must be completed by January 29, 2016, in order to receive your 2015 T4 slip electronically.

Daily Mass times at the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre
Monday 12:05 (time change from last semester)
Thursday 12:05
 

Check the web page to current with event times.  
http://www.upei.ca/studentlife/student-affairs/chaplaincy-centre

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 30 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.

Have an opinion about tobacco use on campus? The Healthy Campus Committee wants to know!

The tobacco use survey is NOW OPEN. Using your @upei login, you can access the survey until Friday, January 29, 2016.

It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus committee and Student Union homepages.

Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. All participants are eligible for entry into a draw for one of two gift cards to the bookstore.

Have an opinion about tobacco use on campus? The Healthy Campus Committee wants to know!

A tobacco use survey will be open to all members of the UPEI campus community from Monday, January 25, until Friday, January 29, 2016.
 
The survey will be accessible from the Healthy Campus Committee and Student Union webpages beginning on January 25. All participants are eligible for entry into a draw for prizes. Stayed tuned!

Current UPEI Tobacco Use Policy 

The phone services changeover to Eastlink that was scheduled for Wednesday, January 20, 2016 was postponed. When a new date is selected, a further notice will be issued by Procurement Services. The transition will not affect end users or cause changes to the services they now have.

If you have any questions or concerns about the phone services in your area, please contact either Peggy Court at 902-566-0424 or mcourt@upei.ca or Roger Cook at 902-566-0315 or rcook@upei.ca.

There will be an artist talk with Monica Lacey on January 20 from 7pm-8pm. The event will take place in Dawson Lounge, located on the 5th floor of Main Building. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there!

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, February 5th for the February meeting. 

Ensure you always…

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.

Monday 12:05 (time change from last semester)

Thursday 12:05

Check the web page to current with event times.  

http://www.upei.ca/studentlife/student-affairs/chaplaincy-centre

Library tours are ongoing until the end of January, so encourage students to take a Library tour soon in order to learn about the Library's resources and be entered to win weekly prizes!

Tours are available on weekdays, evenings, and weekends and last about 30 minutes.

Students can sign up in advance online at library.upei.ca/tours.