Campus Notices
Communicating as a Leader - November 14
Introduction to Project Management - November 18, 19 and 20
Budgeting/Managing Against Projections - November 27
Interest-Based Mediation - December 2, 3 and 4
Effective Teams - December 10 and 11
For more information, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/2014-2015-course-schedu… or contact us at (902) 566-0336, lifelong@upei.ca
UPEI students are going door-to-door in surrounding neighbourhoods to collect non-perishable food items on Friday, October 31 from 5:00–7:00 pm in support of UPEI’s food bank.
Trick or Eat® is a youth-led national event that puts a new spin on the annual night of giving – Halloween. Instead of candy, thousands of Trick or Eaters across the country raise money online and go door-to-door to collect non-perishable food items for local food agencies. We also raise awareness about hunger in Canada through household flyers, educational materials, and online resources.
Suggested items include: pasta products/pasta sauce, rice, canned meats and fish, peanut butter, cereal, canned vegetables, dry and canned soups, fruit juices, canned/powdered milk, baby food, diapers, and beans and legumes.
UPEI students, staff, and faculty can drop off any food donations to the Residence Office, Bernadine Hall, 340 (first floor). The office is open from 9:00 am-8:00 pm. All proceeds will support UPEI’s Food Bank.
Interested in canvassing for the campaign? Contact Aaron Patton at apatton@upei.ca or Mitchell McIntosh at mrmcintosh@upei.ca
UPEI faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Friday, October 31 in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 242 at 1:30 pm. This lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Prince Edward Island and the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island. The lecture series was named to honour Thane A. Campbell, Rhodes Scholar, former Premier of Prince Edward Island, and first Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.
This year's speaker is Mary Anne Waldron, QC, Professor of Law at the University of Victoria and Associate Vice-President Faculty Relations and Academic Administration, who will present her lecture entitled "Equality and Conscience: Can the Law Protect Both?" Waldron's current research relates to questions of freedom of conscience and religion. Her most recent book "Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada" was awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association 2014 prize for best book on issues of law and society. This lecture is free and all are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact (902) 566-0307.
UPEI’s Department of Student Affairs, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, and the PEI Breast Cancer Information Partnership will introduce Breast Health 101 to the UPEI campus. This will be the first time that Breast Health 101 is offered on a Canadian university campus.
Breast Health 101 will be offered by a pioneer in the development and implementation of the PEI Breast Screening Program on PEI, Norah Smith. Norah is the PEI Provincial Breast Screening Coordinator, represents PEI nationally on a number of boards, and has over 20 years of experience in breast health. UPEI faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to sign-up for a session.
Sessions will be held on November 13, 14, and 20 from 12:15-1:00 pm in the Student Affairs boardroom. A boxed lunch will be provided for attendees. Sign-up is required, as space is limited to 10-12 participants per session. To sign up, please contact Krystal Mayne at kmayne@upei.ca.
Please come and join us for a great discussion about breast health.
Communicating as a Leader - November 14
Introduction to Project Management - November 18, 19 and 20
Budgeting/Managing Against Projections - November 27
Interest-Based Mediation - December 2, 3 and 4
Effective Teams - December 10 and 11
For more information, visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/2014-2015-course-schedu… or contact us at (902) 566-0336, lifelong@upei.ca
Dr. Sarah Malek, Department of Biomedical Sciences will present a seminar called "FTIR spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool in canine osteoarthritis" on Tuesday, October 28 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre C. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Join the UPEI Panthers and the Charlottetown Islanders as they host Hockey Day in Prince Edward Island on Saturday, October 25 at the Eastlink Centre. The UPEI Panthers will take on the StFX X-Men at 3:00 pm, and the Charlottetown Islanders will take on the Quebec Remparts at 7:30 pm. UPEI faculty, staff, and students can purchase a special combo ticket for $10 to enjoy both action-packed games. Live music, free food, face painting, a beer garden, 50/50 tickets, happy hour prices, bouncy castle, and more will be
available! To purchase tickets, book them at the Eastlink Centre Box Office (M-F 11:00 am-5:00 pm and on game day 12:00 pm-game time), or by calling (902) 629-6625. For more information, contact Ron Annear at (902) 566-0991 or annear@upei.ca
You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, October 27 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines:
-be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca
-sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document
-be no longer than 250 words
-maximum one photo per story
The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca.
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On Monday, November 3, 2:00-4:00 pm, a safety inspection workshop (location TBD) will be held to learn more about workplace inspection processes. It is open to everyone, free of charge! The session will educate attendees on how to prepare, inspect, report, and follow-up on workplace hazards. The workshop, led by Lori Wakelin, Education Consultant with the Occupational Health and Safety Division of the PEI Workers Compensation Board, uses group and individual activities involving common hazard scenarios and sample forms to guide you along in your next workplace safety inspection.
During the last 15 minutes of the session, Denise Bustard will review the University's internal inspection procedures and forms. A short nutrition break will be provided.
Please pre-register with Lacey Myers by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 28 at ljmyers@upei.ca.
On Sunday, October 26 at 2:30 pm, the UPEI Music Department will play host to a "triple header" at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.
The "Piano Collective," a group of four pianists playing eight-hand music on two pianos will make their debut in a performance featuring beloved music of J.S. Bach, Mozart, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, and Bizet. The occasion also marks a celebration for Professor Emerita, Dr. Frances Gray who officially retired this year after serving forty-five years as Professor of Piano and Theory in the Music Department of the University of Prince Edward Island. Dr. Gray will be accompanied by three alumnae of UPEI who all studied piano with her in the Music Department, Stephanie Cole, Morgan Saulnier, and Jacqueline Sorensen Young.
As a tribute to Dr. Gray's years of contribution to the Music Department, the afternoon will launch a Music Scholarship for outstanding student performers in the Music Department.
Heather Taves returns home to PEI and the UPEI Music Department on Friday, October 24 at 7:30 pm where she will present her solo piano recital entitled Come From Away at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Drawing on the stories her parents, and her aunts and uncles told about their lives, Taves' recital at UPEI will trace the history of her family as refugees from Russia in the 1920s to 1968 when her family moved to Prince Edward Island. Heather’s musical journey will include pieces by Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, contemporary composer Keenan Reimer--‐Watts, as well as Taves' own composition “My Mom and Glenn Gould: A Two Part Invention.”
On Monday, October 27 from 9:00 am-12:00 pm the School of Business invites the campus community to a drop-in social in the Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 207 to wish Mollie Cooke well in her retirement. Mollie has been with the School of Business for over 30 years and is retiring at the end of this month. If you have any questions, please call (902) 566-0564.
Join the UPEI Panthers and the Charlottetown Islanders as they host Hockey Day in Prince Edward Island on Saturday, October 25 at the Eastlink Centre. The UPEI Panthers will take on the StFX X-Men at 3:00 pm, and the Charlottetown Islanders will take on the Quebec Remparts at 7:30 pm. UPEI faculty, staff, and students can purchase a special combo ticket for $10 to enjoy both action-packed games. Live music, free food, face painting, a beer garden, 50/50 tickets, happy hour prices, bouncy castle, and more will be available! To purchase tickets, book them at the Eastlink Centre Box Office (M-F 11:00 am-5:00 pm and on game day 12:00 pm-game time), or by calling (902) 629-6625. For more information, contact Ron Annear at (902) 566-0991 or annear@upei.ca
The Environmental Sciences and Human Biology research seminars continue on Friday, October 24 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, room 204, when graduate students Hailey Lambe and Luke MacDougall will present the following talks: Hailey Lambe, MSc (ESC) – supervised by Marina Silva-Opps, "Where Does the Fox Stay? Den Site Selection and Movement Patterns of Charlottetown’s Red Foxes" and Luke MacDougal, MSc (HUB) – supervised by Robert Hurta, "Magnolol inhibits protein expression levels of cellular adhesion molecules in DU145 human prostate cancer cells." All are welcome to attend!
Saturday, October 25, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Haviland Club, 2 Haviland Street, Charlottetown. No admission charge.
DOCTalks is a new approach to knowledge mobilization that began at St. Thomas University four years ago. It spread to UNB and Memorial University and is now being adopted by university researchers across Canada. DOCTalks creates partnerships between researchers and professional filmmakers to produce documentaries that bring the research to the wider world in a compelling and accessible way.
This in itself is not a particularly new idea. Documentary filmmakers and academics have collaborated since the early days of motion pictures. What is new about DOCTalks is its innovative approach to financing. DOCTalks allows researchers to dramatically increase the money they can use for knowledge mobilization by tapping into the funding sources available to documentary filmmakers in Canada such as the Canada Media Fund.
If you are interested in learning how you can take advantage of this approach for your research projects, you are strongly encouraged to attend the DOCTalks Panel happening this Saturday as part of the annual Island Media Arts Festival.
The panel includes Lloyd Salomone from DOCTalks at St. Thomas University, Dr. Fiona Walton from the UPEI Faculty of Education who has used documentaries very successfully in her work, and Mark Sandiford, a local Gemini-award winning documentary filmmaker.
UPEI Wellness Activities:
1. Managing Stress presentations and activities: Based on feedback from campus employees, Bethany Marchbank, fourth-year nursing student will be providing seminars, a relaxation room, and a walking activity for UPEI employees. All seminars will be held in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre boardroom from 12:00-12:30 pm. On October 27, "Balance Your Life" session; on November 3, "Handling Stress" session; and on November 12, "Healthy Eating and Physical Activity to Reduce Stress" session.
The relaxation room (12:00-2:00 pm) will be housed in the Chaplaincy Centre's main room. It is a quiet place to relax during your work day. Yoga mats and soothing music provided. Please pre-register by contacting Bethany at bmarchbank@upei.ca. Dates available: October 28, November 4, November 7, and November 14.
Walk the Stress Away - Come walk with us on the Sports Centre indoor track from 12:30-1:00 pm on November 12, 14, 17, 18, and 20. Blood pressure taken and information about blood pressure maintenance will be provided.
2. Halloween Decorating and Costume Contest - Register your office area in our UPEI Halloween Office Decorating and Costume Contest on October 31. We'll be judging offices from 12:00-1:00 pm on this date. Prizes will be given out for best office and group costumes. Contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca to schedule a visit from the judges.
3. Glucose, Cholesterol, and Blood Pressure Clinic on Wednesday, November 5, 8:30 am-1:00 pm. Learn about the risks associated with increased glucose/cholesterol levels and get your levels tested FREE of charge. Clinic is for UPEI students and employees. Brought to you by the UPEI Healthy Campus Committee. To book your ten-minute appointment, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca
The main entrance on the east side of Kelley Memorial Building will be closed from Monday, October 27 to Friday, October 31. Access during this time will be through the accessible entrance on the east side, or the north entrance. This closure is necessary to do repairs to the soffit. Arsenault Bros Construction will be completing the work.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, if you have any questions or concerns please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 6034.
On October 29, 5:45-6:30 pm, in Memorial Hall, room 215, Liz Shropshire with Shropshire Music Foundation presents "Singing with war-affected children: Transforming lives in Kosovo, Uganda, and Northern Ireland" sponsored by UPEI AIRS will take place. Liz Shropshire is the founder of the Shropshire Music Foundation, which has provided instruments and music classes to more than 15,000 war-impacted children in conflict zones including Uganda, Northern Ireland, and Kosovo. After receiving her BMus. from Brigham Young University in Composition and Theory and an advanced graduate degree from the University of Southern California in Composition for the Music Industry, and working in music education and composition for decades, Liz dropped everything to move to a refugee camp in Kosovo where she developed innovative programs using music to redress war trauma in children. Utilizing classes taught by trained teen volunteers, the Shropshire Music Foundation continues to expand and is presently developing new programs for refugee camps around the world.
For more information, please contact Ross Dwyer at rdwyer@upei.ca or (902) 566-6023.
Veterinarians Without Borders' Student Internships: The experiences of two veterinary students in Kenya and Uganda during the summer of 2014, and how you can get involved!
Join us on Friday, October 24 in Lecture C of AVC at 12:30 pm.
Join the UPEI Panthers and the Charlottetown Islanders as they host Hockey Day in Prince Edward Island on Saturday, October 25 at the Eastlink Centre. The UPEI Panthers will take on the StFX X-Men at 3:00 pm, and the Charlottetown Islanders will take on the Quebec Remparts at 7:30 pm. UPEI faculty, staff, and students can purchase a special combo ticket for $10 to enjoy both action-packed games. Live music, free food, face painting, a beer garden, 50/50 tickets, happy hour prices, bouncy castle, and more will be available! To purchase tickets, book them at the Eastlink Centre Box Office (M-F 11:00 am-5:00 pm and on game day 12:00 pm-game time), or by calling (902) 629-6625. For more information, contact Ron Annear at (902) 566-0991 or annear@upei.ca