"Italian pig disease a threat to Canadian exports", CBC Technology report
features AVC's Dr. Dan Hurnik,
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/10/pei-italian-pig-disease-exports-584.html?cmp=rss
To allow staff members the opportunity to attend the vendor demos that are
taking place on campus, the following offices will be closing as follows:
Human Resources Department will be closed the following two mornings:
Monday, February 13 from 8:30 am-1:30 pm
Tuesday, February 14 from 8:30 am-1:00 pm
Please use the drop box located beside the Human Resources entrance to drop items off.
Procurement Office will be closed the following morning:
Wednesday, February 15 from 8:30 am-12:45 pm
Registrar's Office will be closed the following times:
Monday, February 13 from 12:15 pm-4:30 pm
Thursday, February 16 from 8:30 am-1:00 pm
Please use the drop box located beside the Registrar's Office to drop items off.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
The latest edition of the UPEI campus directory is now available. To receive a new directory(s) please call 0558 or email your orders with a budget number(s) for billing purposes. Do not submit Internal Requisitions (IR).
Thank you
Brad Scott, Department of Biomedical Sciences will give a seminar entitled "Androgen Receptor α: Understanding the expression and function of a novel androgen receptor in 3-Spined Stickleback" on Thursday, February 16 at 10:30 am in AVC, Lecture Theatre C. Everyone is welcome.
Saturday, February 11
o Day Retreat 11 am-5 pm at the Chaplaincy Centre
Sunday, February 12
o Nun Run 11:00 am– 4:00 pm, St. Martha’s Precious Blood; CNDs
Friday, February 10
M-Hockey host UNB 7 pm - Last home game MacLauchlan Arena
Subway AUS Swimming Championship @ DAL follow the live stat
http://www.swimnovascotia.com/online/index.htm
Saturday, February 11
M-Hockey host STU 2 pm at Eastlink Arena Summerside as part of Scotiabank
Hockey Day in Canada
Click here for all events around Hockey Day in PEI http://hockeyday2012.ca/schedule/
W-Hockey host UdeM 7 pm MacLauchlan Arena
Subway AUS Swimming Championship @ DAL follow the live stats
http://www.swimnovascotia.com/online/index.htm
Panther Basketball @ CBU 6 pm & 8 pm
Sunday, February 12
W-Hockey host DAL in Souris 3 pm at the Eastern Kings Sportsplex
Subway AUS Swimming Championship @ DAL follow the live stats
http://www.swimnovascotia.com/online/index.htm
Panther Basketball @ StFX 2 pm & 4 pm watch live on SSN
http://www.ssncanada.ca/game/3844/
UPEI Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre hosts Jack Frost click here for schedule
http://www.tourismcharlottetown.ca/jackfrost/schedule
Dr. Fiona Walton, Professor of Education at UPEI, has been awarded a 2012 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
UPEI President, Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz expressed the University’s pride in Walton. “On behalf of UPEI and its community, I extend congratulations to Fiona for this great accomplishment. Her passion and caring nature complement her high standards in teaching and learning, and we couldn’t be more proud of her.”
Walton is deeply honoured to represent UPEI as a 2012 3M Teaching Fellow, “Thanks to Shannon Murray and many other colleagues; teaching well is greatly valued at UPEI. I have received encouragement, support, and advice within a culture that helps us all to improve student engagement and learning— something I believe to be very important.”
For more information on the 3M Teaching Fellowship award and on Walton’s nomination: http://www.stlhe.ca/awards/3m-national-teaching-fellowships/
UPEI has three candidates for its new Canada Research Chair in Healthy
Populations and Wellness.
Videos from the two of those candidates are posted at itss.upei.ca/crc.
The third candidate's video will be posted on this page when they are available.
CVs for each candidate are available at the reserve desk, Robertson Library.
Comments on these candidates are welcome, and can be forwarded to ord@upei.ca
Notice to all employees:
It is that time of year again when we are preparing to issue T-4/T-4As. We are required to forward information slips to employees each year by the last day of February following the calendar year to which the information applies.
In an effort to ensure compliancy and consistency, T-4 and T-4 A slips will be delivered by Canada Post to your HOME ADDRESS and will no longer be delivered via Campus mail.
Please confirm that your home address on file is accurate by viewing it under your campus Login. If changes are required to your home address, please contact the Payroll Department by email at jhelps@upei.ca, or jlgauthier@upei.ca or by telephone 566-0464 or 566-0484.
Please note:
Canada Post has recently made changes to some residential addresses; therefore, please ensure that your HOME address is accurate.
T4 and T4A Slips that are returned to us by Canada Post as undeliverable, will be retained on file in Human Resources.
Women of Brukman
Monday, February 13
7 pm
Atlantic Veterinary College Lecture Theatre D
Admission free
Co-hosted by CUPE 1870 and Cinema Politica Charlottetown
During the 2001 economic collapse in Argentina, the seamstresses at
Brukman’s clothing factory took over the operation the owners had
abandoned. They reorganized it on a self-management model, without a doubt
the most inspiring of the many new economic experiments in that country.
The name Brukman’s went from being a symbol of worker exploitation to being
a site of revolutionary labour participation-–all workers, no bosses.
Montreal-based filmmaker Isaac Isitan followed these courageous women over
many years, bearing witness to their struggle to get the operation running
again, their expulsion from the factory, months of battling to get it back,
and tangles with the law. This is the story of a venture that began as a
means of survival and became a genuine school for civics. Besides following
the labour politics, the film also gets close to the women as individuals
finding a way to put dignity into their working lives.
For more information: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/women-bruckman.
Check out Cinema Politica Charlottetown at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cinema-Politica-Charlottetown/181449918563271
Ron MacLean and Don Cherry broadcast the men's hockey Panthers' final season game against the St. Thomas Tommies in Summerside at the Credit Union Place in what will be the "busiest schedule in the history of the 12 year event."
Season ticket holders will be admitted for free, and additional tickets are only $6.58.
Fan buses are leaving from UPEI, but space is limited - contact Carol Heartz at heartz@upei.ca to reserve your seat.
Let's all be a part of this monumental nation-wide event! We hope to see you there! Go Panthers Go!
Read more: http://www.upei.ca/athletics/mens-hockey/notice/2012/upei-hockey-day-in-canada
Just a quick reminder of the UPEI Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software on-site vendor demos next week for Jenzabar Inc.
An open invitation is extended to interested faculty, staff and students but space is limited and time is running out.
Please visit upei.ca/erpcentral – Vendor Demo Information for details and to register; or contact Joan Marks at jmarks@upei.ca or (902) 566-6483
Time to Write 2012, the winter faculty writing retreat put on by Research
Services, has a few spots left. If you'd like four uninterrupted days to
work on the project you've been trying to make time for, Time to Write is
for you.
Visit http://research.upei.ca/timetowrite2012
Time to Write is February 17-21 at the Marshlands Inn in Sackville, NB. Cost
is $200 per participant and includes accommodation, food, and support for
common writing problems.
Time to Write is open to tenured and tenure stream University of Prince
Edward Island faculty in any department/faculty/school.
It’s not every day that you can get excited about forms. Get ready. Today is that day.
The staff of Research Services, formerly ORD (http://research.upei.ca/blogs/2012/02/06/ord-becomes-research-services),
knows about forms. We know about compliance forms. We know about accounting forms. We know about administrative forms. We know about "all" the forms.
There are dozens of forms that can help you meet the many requirements surrounding research. While we couldn’t make the forms go away, we were able to make them easier for you to use. Research Services is proud to launch a revision of our forms. We’ve joined the twenty-first century and turned them all into fillable PDFs.
Read the rest of the story here:
http://research.upei.ca/blogs/2012/02/08/save-tree-use-our-new-fillable-pdf-forms
Or just visit our new forms page: http://research.upei.ca/forms
The CER's 2012 Triple Tuesday Seminar Series proudly presents:
Dr. Audrey Penner: "Why measure adult learning outcomes? You cannot catch
the wind, but you can readjust your sails."
Tuesday, February 14, 2:30-4:00 pm in Main 420.
2012 Triple Tuesday Seminar Series presentations are open to the general public
and campus community.
Centre for Education Research
401 Dalton Hall
