The Department of Pathology and Microbiology invites you to attend seminars by Dr. Ashutosh Verma, Research Scientist, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY on January 26 and January 27, 2015. Dr. Verma is a candidate for a tenure track Clinical Bacteriologist position, Competition #18A14. His teaching seminar will be at 10:30 am on Monday, January 26 in AVC, Lecture Theatre A, and is titled "Lyme disease in Animals." His diagnostic seminar will be at 10:30 am on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 in AVC-C and is titled "Evolution of Clinical Microbiology - Are we there yet?" Everyone is welcome.

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 the next school year. 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 is $10.35 an hour. 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 closing date for applications is January 30, 2015. For additional information please contact Debbie McKie, Human Resources, 566-0515.

UPEI staff and faculty are invited to wear Panther green to work on Friday, January 23 to show support for our UPEI student-athletes competing in home games this weekend. In return, Athletics & Recreation will provide a free ticket good for any game on the weekend, and a chance to win great prizes! Friday, January 23 6:00 pm (W) Basketball vs Saint Mary's Huskies 7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs StFX X-Men 8:00 pm (M) Basketball vs Saint Mary's Huskies Saturday, January 24 6:00 pm (W) Basketball vs UNB 7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Saint Mary's Huskies 8:00 pm (M) Basketball vs UNB To receive your free ticket, you must show a valid UPEI ID and: Wear green on Friday and drop by the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre Front Desk to pick up your ticket; or, drop by the Sports Centre front desk anytime over the weekend and purchase a Panther green T-shirt and receive your ticket. (This week the UPEI Bookstore's flash sale on Friday will be green! Your Panther ticket will be available upon purchase.) Everyone wearing green on Friday and picks up a ticket will have their name entered into a draw for one of three Rodd Resort packages including two-night accommodations with breakfast for two. Lots of excitement and fun, including: *Your ticket will give you access to both Hockey and Basketball. *Pre- and post-game specials at The Wave on Friday and Saturday. The Molson Corral will be open Friday and Saturday in the Sports Centre third Gym. This will be a great location to hang out with friends and go back and forth between Basketball and Hockey. *On Saturday, Eastlink will be broadcasting the Men's Hockey game versus Saint Mary's. *Take part in a social, with refreshments sponsored by the Healthy Campus Committee on Saturday in the Molson Corral at 7:30 pm.

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. 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 less processing time. The consent form can be accessed through Campus Login - https://secure.upei.ca/cls/login.html. For employees who file their taxes electronically, printing the slip is optional. You will be able to read the values for each of the tax slip boxes online as you are completing your income tax return. You will always have access to slips under Campus Login should you need them now or in the future.

UPEI will be celebrating its fourteenth annual International Development Week (IDW), February 2-6, 2015. IDW is a national event held each year to increase awareness of Canada’s role in international development. The events also serve to educate the general public on life in developing countries. The 2015 theme of this year’s week is “We Make a Difference,” and will include events such as: brown bag lunch series, an international coffee house, international trivia and “Desserts and a Difference” featuring a keynote presentation from Dr. Timothy Goddard. For more information, and a full schedule of events, visit upei.ca/idw.

Join graduate students Tessa Roche and Dan Gillespie on Friday, January 23 at 12:30 pm, room 204 in the Duffy Science Centre for the following presentations: “A step towards a more comprehensive return-to-play concussion protocol: Is it in the eye of the beholder,” presented by Tessa Roche, MSc (HUB), supervised by W. Montelpare. “Evaluating the efficacy of blueberries in the fight against fat,” presented by Dan Gillespie, MSc (HUB), supervised by M. Sweeney-Nixon and K. Gottschall-Pass. All are welcome to attend.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology invites you to attend seminars by Dr. Ashutosh Verma, Research Scientist, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY on January 26 and January 27, 2015. Dr. Verma is a candidate for a tenure track Clinical Bacteriologist position, Competition #18A14. His teaching seminar will be at 10:30 am on Monday, January 26 in AVC, Lecture Theatre A, and is titled "Lyme disease in Animals." His diagnostic seminar will be at 10:30 am on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 in AVC-C and is titled "Evolution of Clinical Microbiology - Are we there yet?" Everyone is welcome.

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 the next school year. 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 is $10.35 an hour. 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 closing date for applications is January 30, 2015. For additional information please contact Debbie McKie, Human Resources, 566-0515.

UPEI staff and faculty are invited to wear Panther green to work on Friday, January 23 to show support for our UPEI student-athletes competing in home games this weekend. In return, Athletics & Recreation will provide a free ticket good for any game on the weekend, and a chance to win great prizes! Friday, January 23 6:00 pm (W) Basketball vs Saint Mary's Huskies 7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs StFX X-Men 8:00 pm (M) Basketball vs Saint Mary's Huskies Saturday, January 24 6:00 pm (W) Basketball vs UNB 7:00 pm (M) Hockey vs Saint Mary's Huskies 8:00 pm (M) Basketball vs UNB To receive your free ticket, you must show a valid UPEI ID and: Wear green on Friday and drop by the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre Front Desk to pick up your ticket; or, drop by the Sports Centre front desk anytime over the weekend and purchase a Panther green T-shirt and receive your ticket. (This week the UPEI Bookstore's flash sale on Friday will be green! Your Panther ticket will be available upon purchase.) Everyone wearing green on Friday and picks up a ticket will have their name entered into a draw for one of three Rodd Resort packages including two-night accommodations with breakfast for two. Lots of excitement and fun, including: *Your ticket will give you access to both Hockey and Basketball. *Pre- and post-game specials at The Wave on Friday and Saturday. The Molson Corral will be open Friday and Saturday in the Sports Centre third Gym. This will be a great location to hang out with friends and go back and forth between Basketball and Hockey. *On Saturday, Eastlink will be broadcasting the Men's Hockey game versus Saint Mary's. *Take part in a social, with refreshments sponsored by the Healthy Campus Committee on Saturday in the Molson Corral at 7:30 pm.

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. 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 less processing time. The consent form can be accessed through Campus Login - https://secure.upei.ca/cls/login.html. For employees who file their taxes electronically, printing the slip is optional. You will be able to read the values for each of the tax slip boxes online as you are completing your income tax return. You will always have access to slips under Campus Login should you need them now or in the future.

Central Printing will be operating on the following hours until further notice, beginning on Monday, January 26. Monday-Friday 8:00 am-12:00 noon,only. If you have questions, please contact Wendy at 902-566-0558 or email whenderson@upei.ca

The Dr. Frances Gray Music Performance Competition 2015 Finals concert will be held Thursday, January 22 at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, at 7:30 pm. This annual competition was recently renamed in honour of Dr. Gray’s retirement from the UPEI Music Department. The six students chosen from the preliminary round to perform in the finals are: Rebecca Apps, soprano; Jillian Clow, mezzo soprano; Leah Inman, piano; Lucas MacPhail, alto saxophone; Kailey Norris, clarinet and Hannah Rollwage, mezzo soprano. Judges for the competition are well-known PEI musicians and educators: Reg Ballagh, Peter Bevan Baker, Ken Fornetran, Karen Graves and Anne White. Tickets are $15/$10 for students and seniors and are available at the door, in advance online at www.upeirecitals11.bpt.me, or by calling 902-566-0507 or by email at music@upei.ca.

Join the UPEI Graduate Students' Association for their monthly seminar series titled: "My Journey through Graduate School." This month’s seminar will take place on Tuesday, February 3 from 12:15-1:00 pm in Memorial Hall, room 417 with guest speakers Janet Loebach and Brandi Bell. All are welcome to attend and bring their lunch. For more information, contact Brittany Jakubiec at bjakubiec@upei.ca.

Every month, the UPEI Graduate Students' Association will be publishing a newsletter for your information and enjoyment. The first and second issues can be viewed here: http://www.upei.ca/research/officeofgraduatestudies/graduate-students-a…. Staff and faculty interested in contributing ideas, suggestions and articles can email gsa@upei.ca.

Dr. Melanie Buote, Department of Pathology and Microbiology will present a seminar called "Investigating the pathogenesis of Bitter Crab Disease in Snow Crabs (Chionoecetes opilio)" on Tuesday, January 27 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre C. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Dr. Melanie Buote, Department of Pathology and Microbiology will present a seminar called "Investigating the pathogenesis of Bitter Crab Disease in Snow Crabs (Chionoecetes opilio)" on Tuesday, January 27 at 3:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre C. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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.

Dr. Lesley Zwicker will be interviewing for the open, tenure-track faculty position in radiology & diagnostic imaging in the Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, on Tuesday, January 20 at 12:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre A. Dr. Zwicker graduated from AVC in 2010; completed an internship at WCVM in Saskatoon and is now completing her Masters of Veterinary Science program at AVC. Dr. Zwicker is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology. As part of the interview process, Dr. Zwicker has been asked to present a 50-minute lecture suitable for third year DVM students. 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.

Skills PEI will be on campus on Wednesday, January 21 from 9:00 am-3:00 pm to provide information on their Career Prep and Graduate Mentorship Programs. The Career Prep program is an initiative designed to help students (who are graduating this year or next year) find jobs in their field of study. The Graduate Mentorship Program is an initiative designed to help post-secondary graduates find valuable work experience and mentorship opportunities in their field of study. Staff and faculty are asked to encourage students to visit their booths located in the W.A Murphy Student Centre and the Robertson Library. For more information, please email careerservices@upei.ca.

A meeting of the Local Users Group (LUG) of the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network (ACEnet) will be held on January 29 at 1:00 pm in the Duffy Science Centre, room 202 (the ACEnet videoconferencing room). All are welcome to attend, especially those interested in getting involved in high-performance computing. Our guest will be Michelle Fash, Marketing and Business Development Manager of ACEnet. Any questions or comments can be sent to Jason Pearson, jpearson@upei.ca.