Campus Notices
Tickets for this recital may be acquired at the Music Department Office during regular hours.
The UPEI campus food bank has lots of fun things planned for the month of November. We will be having a different donation theme every week! We have “Fruits and Veggies”, “Donations by the Day”, “Soup for the Soul”, and “Study Snacks”! We are so excited to put this fun little twist on our donation drives and hope to increase student awareness of the food bank. Of course, don’t feel pressured to follow these themes as any donations are always welcomed and appreciated! Tune in to the UPEI Campus Food Bank Facebook page for more details about these themes and donation ideas. Thank you to all!
November 4th – November 8th: Fruits and Veggies
November 11th – November 15th: Donations by the Day
November 18th – November 22nd: Soup for the Soul
November 25th – November 29th: Study Snacks
And if you would like us to come to your department or to your desk for pick up, don't hesitate to ask! Email us at foodbank@upei.ca
The E-Learning Office has opened a time-based grant application for tenured and tenure-track faculty, sessional instructors, librarians, lab instructors, teaching assistants, student service professionals, and any others involved in teaching at UPEI who are interested in refreshing or revamping their course.
The grant provides you with dedicated time (40 hours) with the E-Learning instructional design team to accomplish your vision for your course. The purpose of this grant is to provide instructors with pedagogical and technological support from the E-Learning Office to develop the course experience that the faculty member envisions for their students.
Applicants can create proposals for two streams - an experiential learning stream and/or an integration of instructional technology stream.
Find out more about the grant and download the application form. If you have questions, please contact elearning@upei.ca.
Closing date for applications is November 29, 2019 and completed application forms can be sent to dmoses@upei.ca with the subject line E-Learning Course Renewal Grant Application.
The Island Lecture Series November lecture will be held Tuesday, November 19, at 7 pm in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge and features Charlottetown visual artist Brenda Whiteway talking about her most recent undertaking, the White Sands PEI Shoreline Project. Her presentation melds images and words to create “Shifting sands: Capturing climactic and cultural change through art.” For her, this current work is a metaphoric petri dish through which cultural and climactic shifts may be viewed on an intimate scale and expressed creatively. Through it she explores the passage of time—particularly as it relates to rural life, past and present—and the effects of urbanization and technology on traditional ways of life. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Upcoming Career Month Events
Staff, Faculty and Students are encouraged to attend these upcoming Career Month events on campus:
Impress Your Boss with Excel Workshop
- Want to learn more about Microsoft Excel? Take advantage of this helpful workshop!
- Tuesday, Nov. 19th
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- AVC room 218S (Computer Lab)
News You Can Use in Your Career Planning
- Learn about your industry and jobs in your field with the latest labour market information
- Wednesday, Nov. 20th
- 1:30 - 2:30 pm
-Robertson Library 265 (LINC)
Depending upon the work requirements of University departments, the holiday schedule will be in effect from noon on December 24, 2019 through January 1, 2020, inclusive. Office and regular business hours will resume on January 2, 2020. Please note the pay date deadlines below. Additional information regarding the Christmas Holiday Schedule can be found at:
December Pay Dates - Deadline Changes
All pay changes, PTF’S, overtime submissions, paper timesheets, etc., must be received by Human Resources by noon:
November 22, 2019 for the December 13, 2019 payroll
November 28, 2019 for the December 27, 2019 payroll
December 12, 2019 for the January 10, 2020 payroll
Electronic timesheet deadline – December 16, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. for the December 27, 2019 payroll
On Wednesday Nov 20, 2019, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the MyUPEI portal from 8 pm to 12 midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using MyUPEI.
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.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Walk With a Doc will be hosting a free walk this Saturday at 9 am at the indoor track in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. These walks take place every Saturday at 9 am, and are open to everyone - all ages and abilities are welcome. To participate, just bring a pair of indoor shoes to the UPEI indoor track at 9am Saturday morning. Thanks to UPEI Athletics and Recreation for their support of this event.
Speaker: Jonathon Perreira, Pathology and Microbiology
Title: Impact of Climate Change on Bacterial Kidney Disease in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
Everyone Welcome
Our annual UPEI Global Village Multicultural Festival takes place on Friday, November 15 at 6:00 pm in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The UPEI Global Village Organizing Committee is excited to invite the public to celebrate with us during our free multicultural event. It is an opportunity to celebrate campus diversity, community building, and friendships while learning about other cultures, enjoying performances, and dancing.
The festival brings together various ethnocultural groups and community organizations in an effort to build a stronger and supportive community. The Global Village is an exciting opportunity to bring domestic and international students and community members together to collaborate, promote, explore and learn about each other’s cultural backgrounds in an interactive and engaging way. “Not everyone has the opportunity to go out and see the world, so it’s nice to be able to bring a little bit of the world here for everyone to enjoy,” said Russell Kleinveldt, one of the members of the Global Village Organizing Committee and an international student from South Africa in the Master of Education program.
This September, the number of international students enrolled at UPEI is the highest in its history, amounting to over 28 percent of the student population. There are more than 93 countries represented in the international student body at the university. For more information on the UPEI Global Village, please contact Nouhad Mourad at the International Student Office at nmourad@upei.ca or (902) 566-6092.
UPEI's Executive MBA program offers a high-quality learning experience for working business professionals. The program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work in, a management or leadership position. Classes are offered bi-weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the option to complete the program in 20 months.
Central to the program design is an evidence-based management approach which helps students develop the skills and knowledge to make better-informed and well-supported decisions both in the program and in applied situations in their workplaces.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity, UPEI's Faculty of Business invites you to attend the following information session. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff, faculty and students.
We encourage you to call 902-894-2866 or email mba@upei.ca to reserve a seat. For more information about UPEI's Executive MBA program, please visit www.upei.ca/emba or email mba@upei.ca
Robertson Library, WUSC UPEI , and the Rotaract Club of UPEI invite you to attend a screening of the documentary The Staging Post.
The film follows Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar, Khadim and Tahira. Stranded in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they build a community and start a school which inspires a refugee education revolution. (Kanopy, 2017)
The Staging Post was produced and directed by Australian documentary filmmaker Jolyon Hoff.
The purpose of the film will be to raise money for the Shine A Light Program, an initiative that provides women and girls within refugee camps the opportunity to better their education prospects.
Admission is free, but there will be donations accepted at the door. Any amount can make a difference in someone's life.
Doors open at 5:30 pm, show starts at 6:00 pm
Neal Jamieson, Reactive Health, will discuss Foot Care and how it can affect us if we have poor foot health. He’ll highlight some common foot health issues and treatments, review foot anatomy, discuss proper footwear and discuss foot reflexology. Session is free and no need to pre-register. Will be held at Health Science Building room #106 on Friday, November 22 from 12:10 pm - 12:50 pm. Session is part of Health and Fitness Week, supported by Healthy Campus Committee.
ITSS will be performing maintenance on the UPEI data centre network beginning at 10 pm, November 17, 2019. During this time, an outage of several services is expected to occur, including:
- Active Directory Login
- File Storage Services (G: H: P: drives)
- Moodle Login
- Shibboleth Logins
- myUPEI
- Colleague
Maintenance is expected to last 15 minutes but a larger maintenance window of an hour has been selected in case of issues or a delay in the start time.
If you receive an error message while logging in to a service, please wait at least 10 minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 566-0465.
Sleep is critical to ensure maximum productivity. It increases your ability to concentrate and focus, allows you to approach challenges with a more positive attitude, and can have positive effects on your memory and health. Participants will learn about circadian rhythms and the impact that disrupting these key biological processes can have on their day-to-day activities and work. This seminar will also describe sleep’s vital role in maintaining health along with valuable and practical tips and strategies that participants can apply to get quality, restful sleep and stay alert.
Monday, November 18, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Andrew Hall room #142. To register, email Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca Light refreshments provided
The decolonizing reading group is meeting again on Monday, November 18, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, in Memorial 308. Come join your colleagues in a discussion about knowledge and research and some important questions that a concentration on decolonizing raises around these central focuses of our profession. We'll be discussing the Introduction and Chapter One of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012). It's available as an ebook on the Robertson Library website: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/upei/detail.action?docID=1426837. Co-organized by the Faculty Development Office and the Indigenous Education Advisory Circle faculty development group. For more information, contact Gerald Wandio, fdo@upei.ca or Ann Braithwaite, abraithwaite@upei.ca.
The Island Lecture Series November lecture will be held Tuesday, November 19, at 7 pm in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge and features Charlottetown visual artist Brenda Whiteway talking about her most recent undertaking, the White Sands PEI Shoreline Project. Her presentation melds images and words to create “Shifting sands: Capturing climactic and cultural change through art.” For her, this current work is a metaphoric petri dish through which cultural and climactic shifts may be viewed on an intimate scale and expressed creatively. Through it she explores the passage of time—particularly as it relates to rural life, past and present—and the effects of urbanization and technology on traditional ways of life. Admission is free and all are welcome.
On Wednesday Nov 20, 2019, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the MyUPEI portal from 8 pm to 12 midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using MyUPEI.
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.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Title: Field imaging and deep learning for plant phenotyping
Speaker: Mark Eramian (University of Saskatchewan)
Plant breeders want to create crop varieties with physical traits, also known as phenotypes, that increase crop yield so we can feed more people. Image-based plant phenotyping potentially offers more objective observations, higher throughput, and denser sampling compared with manual plant phenotyping by humans in the field allowing breeders to make better selections. This talk will present highlights of research into field imaging and breeding plot phenotyping being conducted by the Deep Learning for Plant Phenomics team, part of the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Center at the University of Saskatchewan.
All are welcomed to attend!
Speaker: Jonathon Perreira, Pathology and Microbiology
Title: Impact of Climate Change on Bacterial Kidney Disease in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
Everyone Welcome
