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The UPEI Charity Club invites the campus community to the showing of Ryan’s Well, on Wednesday, February 4 from 2:00–3:30 pm in K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, room 104, in celebration of UPEI's International Development Week. "Ryan's Well" is an inspirational story about a boy who was determined to make a difference in the lives of the people living Angolo, Uganda. Through Ryan Hreljac’s fundraising efforts, thousands of dollars was raised to build a well for the village. This documentary follows Ryan’s story from his first conversations with his Ugandan pen pal to the day he visited Angolo and saw the well for the first time. Refreshments will be provided! All are welcome to attend.

The 2015 theme of this year’s IDW week is “We Make a Difference.” Join the campus community in learning about how UPEI students, staff, and faculty make a difference through their work and studies, and how you can make a difference abroad or in your community. AVC faculty Dr. Shauna Richards, and Dr. Crawford Revie will host the third set of presentations in the Brown Bag Lunch Series, on Wednesday, February 4 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Dr. Richards's presentation is titled “Improving Dairy Farming in Kenya,” and will be followed by Dr. Revie's presentation titled “What relevance does Big Data have to health care in developing economies?” Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee! For a full schedule of IDW events, visit upei.ca/idw.

Have you signed up to receive your electronic T4 slip? If you completed the consent form for the 2013 tax year, you will automatically receive your 2014 tax slip electronically. There is no need to complete the consent form again. New consents must be received no later than January 30, 2015. Online tax slips will be available, through Campus Login, to current and former employees, who received taxable earnings or benefits in 2014. 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 2014 T4s mailed to the address on file no later than February 28, 2015. 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 30, 2015, in order to receive your 2014 T4 slip electronically.

UPEI’s first Campus Job Fair, hosted by the Office of Skills Development and Learning, will take place Thursday, February 19, 2015 from 11:00am-2:00pm, Schurman Market Square in Don and Marion McDougall Hall. UPEI departments and faculties that offer employment opportunities for students throughout the year are invited to attend. Registration for the fair ends on Friday, February 6. To register, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/a/upei.ca/forms/d/1Ko2nPBPw-1RHZ7GzDzIl3SwFDXpR…

Central Printing is operating on the hours of 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Monday-Friday until further notice. Please contact Wendy at 902-566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca.

After 35 years of service to the University of Prince Edward Island, Dr. Philip G. Davis retired this month. Please join the Department of Religious Studies in extending our warm wishes for his well-deserved retirement at a reception in his honour. Refreshments will be served. The event will take place on Thursday January 29 from 2:30-4:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. For more information, please contact Maureen Mackay at mmackay@upei.ca.

The 2015 theme of this year’s IDW week is “We Make a Difference.” Join the campus community in learning about how UPEI students, staff, and faculty make a difference through their work and studies, and how you can make a difference abroad or in your community. UPEI students Jayoda Tennekone, and Rhyanne Beatty will host the second set of presentations in the Brown Bag Lunch Series, on Tuesday, February 3 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Jayoda Tennekone's presentation is titled "Improving International Relations in Your Own Community: Learning From the Diverse People Around you," and will be followed by Rhyanne Beatty's presentation titled “How to make a difference through the study of languages.” Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee! For a full schedule of IDW events, visit upei.ca/idw.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology has two candidates for Adjunct Graduate Faculty who will be presenting on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:30 and 11:15 am in room 287N, AVC McCain Learning Commons. The first candidate is Huimin Xu, Research Scientist, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. His seminar is titled "Regulatory Testing of Potato Viruses - Situation Today and Future Development." His seminar will start at 10:30 am. The second candidate is Tiago Hori, Post Doctoral Fellow, with the Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada. His seminar is titled "Bioinformatics: Powering Discovery From Genomics Data" and will follow at 11:15 am. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Research on Tap returns for its sixth season of public discussion, debate, and ideas presented by researchers from the University of Prince Edward Island. Join our next conversation on Monday, February 2 at 7 pm at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Dr. John McIntyre, an associate professor in the department of English, will lead a discussion entitled: "Beyond Flanders Fields: Representing the Great War in Literature and Culture." The 2014/2015 season of Research on Tap is presented in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Atlantic Chapter. The RSC is Canada’s national academy and is the senior national body of distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists. Research on Tap meets the first Monday of every month from October to April. The full schedule of speakers can be found at upei.ca/research/research-on-tap.

UPEI friends and faculty who participated in the Devonport Scotch Tasting raised $267 for the UPEI food bank. Thanks to all who attended and made donations to an important charity.

The AAU's Aboriginal Education Committee is hosting a regional conference focused on "Best Practices in Aboriginal Post-secondary Education." The Conference is organized around three streams: 1. Student Leadership and Campus Involvement 2. Innovation in Aboriginal Programming and Pedagogy 3. Innovative Practices in Aboriginal Student Support and Advisement The conference will be hosted by Mount Saint Vincent University on March 9 and 10, 2015. It has received generous support from the governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island and the federal department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. We are encouraging members of the communities, university faculty, university/secondary students, student/aboriginal services professionals, Education Directors and Elders to attend. For more information on the conference or to register, visit the following link: http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/studentservices/aboriginalstudentcentre/defa… We would like to coordinate UPEI members attending the conference. Please notify Krystal Mayne at kmayne@upei.ca, in Student Affairs, if you are attending. If you have any questions, please email Treena Smith, Manager of Student Affairs at trlsmith@upei.ca.

UPEI friends and faculty who participated in the Devonport Scotch Tasting raised $267 for the UPEI food bank. Thanks to all who attended and made donations to an important charity.

The AAU's Aboriginal Education Committee is hosting a regional conference focused on "Best Practices in Aboriginal Post-secondary Education." The Conference is organized around three streams: 1. Student Leadership and Campus Involvement 2. Innovation in Aboriginal Programming and Pedagogy 3. Innovative Practices in Aboriginal Student Support and Advisement The conference will be hosted by Mount Saint Vincent University on March 9 and 10, 2015. It has received generous support from the governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island and the federal department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. We are encouraging members of the communities, university faculty, university/secondary students, student/aboriginal services professionals, Education Directors and Elders to attend. For more information on the conference or to register, visit the following link: http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/studentservices/aboriginalstudentcentre/defa… We would like to coordinate UPEI members attending the conference. Please notify Krystal Mayne at kmayne@upei.ca, in Student Affairs, if you are attending. If you have any questions, please email Treena Smith, Manager of Student Affairs at trlsmith@upei.ca.

After 35 years of service to the University of Prince Edward Island, Dr. Philip G. Davis retired this month. Please join the Department of Religious Studies in extending our warm wishes for his well-deserved retirement at a reception in his honour. Refreshments will be served. The event will take place on Thursday January 29 from 2:30-4:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. For more information, please contact Maureen Mackay at mmackay@upei.ca.

The 2015 theme of this year’s IDW week is “We Make a Difference.” Join the campus community in learning about how UPEI students, staff, and faculty make a difference through their work and studies, and how you can make a difference abroad or in your community. UPEI students Jayoda Tennekone, and Rhyanne Beatty will host the second set of presentations in the Brown Bag Lunch Series, on Tuesday, February 3 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. Jayoda Tennekone's presentation is titled "Improving International Relations in Your Own Community: Learning From the Diverse People Around you," and will be followed by Rhyanne Beatty's presentation titled “How to make a difference through the study of languages.” Light refreshments will be provided, and a door prize will be given out to one lucky attendee! For a full schedule of IDW events, visit upei.ca/idw.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology has two candidates for Adjunct Graduate Faculty who will be presenting on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:30 and 11:15 am in room 287N, AVC McCain Learning Commons. The first candidate is Huimin Xu, Research Scientist, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. His seminar is titled "Regulatory Testing of Potato Viruses - Situation Today and Future Development." His seminar will start at 10:30 am. The second candidate is Tiago Hori, Post Doctoral Fellow, with the Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada. His seminar is titled "Bioinformatics: Powering Discovery From Genomics Data" and will follow at 11:15 am. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Research on Tap returns for its sixth season of public discussion, debate, and ideas presented by researchers from the University of Prince Edward Island. Join our next conversation on Monday, February 2 at 7 pm at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Dr. John McIntyre, an associate professor in the department of English, will lead a discussion entitled: "Beyond Flanders Fields: Representing the Great War in Literature and Culture." The 2014/2015 season of Research on Tap is presented in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Atlantic Chapter. The RSC is Canada’s national academy and is the senior national body of distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists. Research on Tap meets the first Monday of every month from October to April. The full schedule of speakers can be found at upei.ca/research/research-on-tap.

Free aerobic fitness tests will be offered on the afternoons of February 10 (2:30-4:00pm) and February 13 (1:30-3:00pm). The tests will be overseen by students in KINE 343 (under the supervision of a Certified Exercise Physiologist) and will involve walking or riding a bike at sub-maximal intensities (50-85% of max effort). Volunteers will be provided with the results on their aerobic fitness at the end of the test. Anyone interested in participating should contact Travis Saunders (trsaunders@upei.ca) to sign up.

Dr. Megan MacLellan will interview for the open, tenure-track faculty position in radiology & diagnostic imaging in the Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Dr. MacLellan graduated from AVC in 2011; completed an internship at Tufts Veterinary Emergency & Treatment Specialists and is now completing a Medical Imaging Residency program at the University of Minnesota. As part of the interview process, Dr. MacLellan has been asked to present a 50-minute lecture suitable for 3rd year DVM students on Friday, January 30 at 12:30 pm in AVC, Lecture Theatre A. Any interested faculty and staff are invited to attend. A copy of her CV and letter of application will be available from Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca) in the Department of Companion Animals.