Campus Notices
Please go to Health, Safety, and Environment - Home (sharepoint.com) and go to the Communicable Diseases tab to see the latest COVID-19 guidance for UPEI.
Once again, the UPEI Bookstore will be offering Christmas staff shopping to all staff and faculty.
Faculty and staff will be able to charge purchases from the UPEI Bookstore to their personal account between Monday, November 20, and Saturday, November 25, 2023.
Payroll deductions will be from January 19 to April 26, 2024.
Your 20% discount will apply.
Please contact bookstore@upei.ca if you have questions.
The Office of Study Abroad and International Partnerships is hosting an information session for ANY students interested in learning more about Study Abroad opportunities that are available to them! Pizza will be provided. Please RSVP! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/study-abroad-info-session-tickets-748479912567
On Wednesday, November 8, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.
We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email directly using https://outlook.office.com.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
This two-part session is the second of our beginner-level Humanities and Social Sciences data organization and analysis series. Many web applications, research project websites, and library and archival repositories store data in relational databases. A relational database can help you keep your data separate from your analysis, improve quality control of data entry, reduce duplication of data, and improve your ability to search across large and complex datasets. Structured Query Language, or SQL, is a powerful language used to search and manipulate relational databases. This workshop teaches participants about relational databases and SQL using SQLite. You will learn how to write queries in SQL and how to use aggregate functions to combine data. It uses examples and challenges from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and uses librarycarpentry.org materials. There are no prerequisites.
This beginner-level session is the first in our Humanities and Social Sciences data organization and analysis series. To use tools that make computation and analysis more efficient, such as programming languages like R or Python, we need to structure our data the way that computers need the data. In this workshop, you will learn good data entry practices, how to avoid common formatting mistakes, approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, basic quality control and data manipulation, and exporting data from spreadsheets. We will focus on examples and challenges from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and use librarycarpentry.org materials. There are no prerequisites.
Join the multi-faith community on Tuesday, November 7, at 12:05 pm for about 30 minutes at the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre to pray for peace in our troubled world.
A quick reminder to faculty and graduate students of the Show Up & Write sessions hosted in the Teaching and Learning Centre (RL230) every Tuesday and Friday morning from 9:30 to 10:30: grab a friend and bring along any writing project and join us for an hour of focused writing. You don't need to RSVP, just show up and write.
The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, invites all to attend Shauna Reddin's public dissertation defence presentation of her PsyD research titled, Planting the Seeds of Evidence-Based Practice in a Child Protection Clinical Service.
Please join us virtually on Zoom on Tuesday, November 14, at 2:30 pm Atlantic; 1:30 pm Eastern at this link: https://upei-ca-healthcare.zoom.us/j/62143663852?pwd=c1FkWEpDemNIM0pjODQ1Nmw0azl5QT09
The Animal Care Committee does not meet in December. The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions--new, renewal, or amendment--is Friday, January 5, 2024, for the January meeting.
Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through the UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/
For new protocols, select "applications," and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."
UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx.
Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.
As part of engaging with and listening to the University community, Dr. Greg Keefe, UPEI's interim president and vice-chancellor, has been holding a series of moderated sessions with various audiences on campus. The feedback received at these sessions will be provided to the UPEI Action Plan Advisory Group, which is developing the framework for the comprehensive action plan in response to Rubin Thomlinson’s University of Prince Edward Island Review.
A listening session for all UPEI students, moderated by UPEI Student Union President Camille Mady, will take place:
Monday, November 6, 2023
3:00–4:30 pm
Performing Arts Centre (PAC 121S) (new residence building)
All students are welcome to attend!
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2023--2024 Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series on Friday, November 3, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 237.
Dr. Nick Mercer, UPEI Environmental Studies/Island Studies, will present “Assessing energy [in]justice and resistance in diesel-powered Labrador.”
All are welcome.
ITSS will be upgrading the campus wireless network from 8:00--10:00 am on Saturday, November 4.
During this time, the wireless network across the campus may be unavailable. Normal services should resume after 10:00 am.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The ITSS Team
On Wednesday, November 8, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.
We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email directly using https://outlook.office.com.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
This beginner-level session is the first in our Humanities and Social Sciences data organization and analysis series. To use tools that make computation and analysis more efficient, such as programming languages like R or Python, we need to structure our data the way that computers need the data. In this workshop, you will learn good data entry practices, how to avoid common formatting mistakes, approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, basic quality control and data manipulation, and exporting data from spreadsheets. We will focus on examples and challenges from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and use librarycarpentry.org materials. There are no prerequisites.
As part of engaging with and listening to the University community, Dr. Greg Keefe, UPEI's interim president and vice-chancellor, has been holding a series of moderated sessions with various audiences on campus. The feedback received at these sessions will be provided to the UPEI Action Plan Advisory Group, which is developing the framework for the comprehensive action plan in response to Rubin Thomlinson’s University of Prince Edward Island Review.
A listening session for all UPEI students, moderated by UPEI Student Union President Camille Mady, will take place:
Monday, November 6, 2023
3:00–4:30 pm
Performing Arts Centre (PAC 121S) (new residence building)
All students are welcome to attend!
Please go to Health, Safety, and Environment - Home (sharepoint.com) and go to the Communicable Diseases tab to see the latest COVID-19 guidance for UPEI.
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2023--2024 Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series on Friday, November 3, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 237.
Dr. Nick Mercer, UPEI Environmental Studies/Island Studies, will present “Assessing energy [in]justice and resistance in diesel-powered Labrador.”
All are welcome.
The IRG and SERG programs support stand-alone projects through the funding of fully developed research proposals.
VALUE: up to $5000 for a one-year term
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 15, 2023, by 4 pm
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Tenured, tenure-track, term, and sessional UPEI faculty in Arts, Business, Education, IKERAS, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, and librarians, who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award. Faculty members in Veterinary Medicine may participate as a co-applicant but cannot be the principal investigator. A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as a co-applicant with a tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Program guidelines and application instructions can be found at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/resources-and-tools/internal-funding.
Apply using the UPEI Romeo Researcher Portal.
ITSS will be migrating staff, faculty, and student devices onto our new network. Wired and wireless services in Duffy Science Centre will be intermittently disrupted between 8:00 am and noon.
No action is required from staff, faculty, or students in DSC.
If you experience any issues after this migration window, please reboot your computer. If you are still having connectivity issues after a reboot, please email helpdesk@upei.ca or call the Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Thank you,
The ITSS Team
