Giving Tuesday is a global giving movement to join communities together to share commitments, rally for favourite causes and think about others. For the 2018 Giving Tuesday campaign, UPEI has chosen to highlight the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Wildlife Clinical Care Fund, PEI’s only wildlife rehab centre.

The AVC Wildlife Service is a non-revenue-generating program supported by the College through time and expertise provided by clinicians, students, and staff. Being able to offer humane care for wildlife is a duty and a privilege for staff and students at the AVC. From urban foxes to bald eagles and everything in between, the AVC Wildlife Service provides volunteer support to rehabilitate sick and injured wild animals. Donations to the AVC Wildlife Clinical Care Fund are gratefully accepted.
http://www.upei.ca/friends/giving-tuesday
http://www.upei.ca/avc/give

The UPEI Laboratory Safety Manual Committee would like to inform all UPEI stakeholders that the 2018-19 Edition of the UPEI Laboratory Safety Manual is now available electronically on the UPEI website at: https://files.upei.ca/healthandsafety/upei_laboratory_safety_manual.pdf

Please take the time to review applicable sections of this manual that will provide valuable information to protect your health and safety while working in the following areas:  research laboratory, teaching laboratory, clinic, field site (on or off Island), and/or animal holding facilities.

Thank-you,

UPEI Laboratory Safety Manual Committee Members

Do you have library fines? Would you like to help a fellow student or family on campus?

Bring non-perishable food or grocery items (e.g. canned goods, pasta, light bulbs, toilet paper, etc.- please no damaged, expired, or opened goods) for the UPEI Food Bank to the Service Desk at the Library from Saturday, November 24 to Saturday, December 15, 2018 and we’ll deduct $2.00 per item from your library fines.

And, if you don't have any Library fines??? We will gladly accept your items (as mentioned above) to support the UPEI Food Bank.

If you have any questions, please contact the Service Desk, 902-566-0583.

Panther Fitness has just announced the January Fitness Class and Small Group Training schedules.

We also have a limited number of $75 fitness training subsidies for UPEI staff and faculty (current employees) and current full-time UPEI students. Applications are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Only a limited number of subsidies, so apply quickly. The subsidies can be applied towards specialty fitness classes and/or cycle classes or small group training. Subsidy credits will be used towards the total cost of program.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you had received a subsidy in the Fall of 2018, you can apply again.

For more information please contact Angela Marchbank, Coordinator Fitness and Wellness at amarchbank@upei.ca

Our UPEI Student Food Bank is donation-driven and is open during the academic year. Several groups and individuals have been very generous over the last 3 months. Unfortunately, today, the cupboard is bare. Spaghetti, sauce, tuna, rice, noodles, peanut butter, jam, healthy soup, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap. All is welcome!

The Office of the President cordially invites you to attend the MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing Celebration. Please join members of the MacLauchlan family, guest speaker Dr. Laurie Brinklow, and the UPEI community on Friday, November 30, 2018 at 1:30 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall to celebrate the writing achievements of UPEI students and faculty and staff.

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defence by Olive Bryanton. Olive will be defending her dissertation titled "Pioneers in Aging: Voices of women 85 years and older aging in place in rural communities." All are welcome to attend Olive's public presentation, taking place on Friday, November 23, 2018 from 2:30 to 3:00 pm in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre (NRC building #28), room 212.

The Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology and Microbiology present Dr. K. Bedard, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University as part of its seminar series on November 27 at 3:30 pm in AVC 205N - Lecture Theatre B. Dr. Bedard will discuss "Identifying causal genetic variants in dominant disorders." All are welcome.

Are you confused how to get quickly to the full text of scholarly articles, on campus or off campus? This half-hour session will take you through the tricks and tools to get to a full text article.

Tuesday, November 27, 3-3:30 pm in the LINC Classroom in Robertson Library

Please RSVP to Melissa Belvadi mbelvadi@upei.ca. Also feel free to share this with your students. If you want to attend but can't make this time, contact Melissa to arrange another time.

The Charlottetown Christmas Parade parade will take place on Saturday, November 24, 2018, beginning on University Avenue at 5:00 pm in front of the University of Prince Edward Island. As a result, there will be traffic restrictions along the UPEI Perimeter Road as the staging of the parade floats will take place on campus. Floats will begin to arrive at 11:00 am and should be fully departed by 6:00 pm. The float line-up begins at the UPEI Turf Field and extend back towards Belvedere Avenue.

To ensure the safety of Parade participants and members of the campus community, only one-way travel will be permitted between the hours of 11:00 am and 4:00 pm on the UPEI Perimeter Road. 

At 4:00 pm, the UPEI Perimeter Road will close to all traffic until floats have fully exited onto University Avenue (this coincides with the closure of University Avenue at Enman Crescent). Vehicles that are parked in the MacLauchlan Arena lot, and Parking Lots C, RC, DR, B, and VTH will be allowed to exit along the UPEI Perimeter Road in a one-way southward direction towards the Belvedere Avenue entrance, until the Parade line-up begins to move towards University Avenue at 4:30 pm, at which time parking lot traffic will not be permitted to exit until Parade floats have completely departed the campus. Vehicles parked in the Aquatics Facility parking lot, as well as those in Visitor Metred Parking lots in front of YSC, HSB, MSC, and MCDH will not be permitted to exit from 4:00 pm until the Parade floats have completely departed the campus.

The public is invited to the Harry Baglole Memorial Public Symposium in Island Studies, “Measuring Quality of Life on Prince Edward Island,” on Thursday, November 22, 7-9 p.m., at UPEI’s MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242, McDougall Hall. This event is sponsored by UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies, in conjunction with UPEI Research Services. 

The principal speaker will be Gwen Colman, who, in 1997, along with her husband Ron, founded Genuine Progress Index (GPI) Atlantic, a pioneering research organization in creating new measures of wellbeing and progress. Gwen will be speaking about GPI’s work in collaborative development of wellbeing measures with communities in Bhutan, New Zealand, Thailand, and Nova Scotia. Recently, GPI has worked with a network of universities and NGOs in Southeast Asia, developing a methodology for collaborative development of wellbeing measures at the community level. She will speak about recent work in two communities in Thailand, and about previous work with the creation of Community GPIs in two communities in Nova Scotia. Gwen will identify the elements for creating successful community partnerships to measure wellbeing and their resultant impact. 

Joining Gwen Colman are panelists Dr. Jim Randall and Wendy MacDonald, who will address the relevance of GPIs to the health and prosperity of this island.

The Symposium series is being newly renamed after Harry Baglole, the Institute of Island Studies' first Director, who passed away in May. Harry was the architect of many Public Symposia over the years, born out of his passionate vision for strong, Prince Edward Island-made, public policy frameworks.

For more details, go to www.islandstudies.com, e-mail iis@upei.ca, or call 902-894-2881. 

Please join Dr. Janet Bryanton, MN Graduate Studies Coordinator, and current Master of Nursing students for an Open House-Information Session on Thursday, November 29, from 6:00-8:00 pm in Room 106 HSB. 

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by Olive Bryanton. 

Olive will be defending her dissertation titled "Pioneers in Aging: Voices of women 85 years and older aging in place in rural communities". 

All are welcome to attend Olive's public presentation, taking place on Friday November 23, 2018 from 2:30 to 3:00 pm in Duffy Research Centre room 212 building #28- the building beside AVC building (not the Duffy Science Centre).

Accessibility Services would like to communicate the following to students who receive exam accommodations: 

With final exams approaching, registration can begin on Access Deck under the "Final Exams" section. Please be sure to input your exam requests in the final exams section and not the midterm/test section. All final exam requests MUST be submitted by Wednesday, November 28th to secure accommodations. Requests that come in after this date may not receive accommodation.

As always, exam requests will be verified 3-4 days before the exam to provide time for professors to submit exams to Student Affairs. Please check your Access Deck Login page for information regarding exam start time, exam location, and proctor. You must have a piece of photo ID with you for each of your final exams.

For questions regarding exam requests or accommodations, please contact Amanda Squires, our Accessibility Support Facilitator at amangallant@upei.ca or 902-566-0668. Thank you!

Our UPEI Student Food Bank is donation driven and is open during the academic year. Several groups and individuals have been very generous over the last 3 months. Unfortunately, today - the cupboard is bare. Spaghetti, sauce, tuna, rice, noodles, peanut butter, jam, healthy soup, toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap. All is welcome!

Please join students in HIST1160 this lunch time as they display the research posters they have developed on aspects of the history of the devil. This event is today from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in the corridor of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. 

The UPEI Music Department Recital Series is pleased to present the UPEI Christmas Choral Concert under the direction of Professor Sung Ha Shin-Bouey. The concert features UPEI Choral Groups, voice majors, and guests on Saturday, December 1 at 7:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall of UPEI’s Steel Building.

Come listen to Bach’s beautiful Magnificat and other Christmas favourites! Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students, and are available online at upeichoir1.bpt.me, or by contacting music@upei.ca or (902)566-0507.

The UPEI Music Department Recital Series is pleased to present the UPEI Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Professor Dave Shephard. The ensemble will be performing works such as Time after Time, Minnie the Moocher, I was a Fool, Sway, Blue Bossa and others. The program features UPEI vocal majors as well as a newly formed UPEI Jazz Combo.

The concert is Tuesday, November 27 at 7:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall of UPEI’s Steel Building. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students, and are available for sale online at upeijazzensemble.bpt.me, or by contacting music@upei.ca or 902-566-0507.

As of December 1, 2018 all employers in Canada must be compliant with the New WHMIS 2015 regulations. Here at UPEI this means that:
- All hazardous products have to be classified to comply with WHMIS 2015 regulations.
- All hazardous products must be labeled according to WHMIS 2015.
- All hazardous products require new Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to comply with WHMIS 2015.
- All UPEI staff, faculty, graduate students, and student employees are required to complete WHMIS 2015 training.
- An inventory of all biological, chemical or physical agents used, produced, or otherwise present at UPEI that may be hazardous to workers must be created and maintained. 

More details, including examples, templates and instructions can be found on the UPEI Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Department’s website under the heading “WHMIS 2015 Transition”. HSE staff are also available to assist you with any questions you may have around WHMIS 2015 and this transition.

Over the summer months UPEI was fortunate enough, with support from the Canada Summer Jobs Program, to hire two full-time students to assist us with labelling and inventorying hazardous products on campus. Unfortunately, they were not able to assist everyone on campus with labeling and inventory and we do not have additional support to provide in completing these tasks. 

If the space you are responsible for has not been inventoried and still needs to have hazardous product labels updated to WHMIS 2015 please review the information at: http://www.upei.ca/vpaf/health-and-safety/whmis-2015 and use the inventory template found here: http://www.upei.ca/vpaf/health-and-safety/whmis-2015/hazardous-products… as the December 1, 2018 deadline is fast approaching. HSE has obtained a limited supply of peel-and-stick tick-mark labels for workplace labeling of hazardous materials to assist in the labelling process and get you started. If you are interested in using these labels both Central Services at AVC and and the HSE office in KMB have a supply. 

We appreciate your assistance in making this transition to WHMIS 2015 and bringing your space into compliance with the new WHMIS 2015 regulations. Together we are making UPEI a healthy and safe place to work, study and visit. 

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Kevin Robinson at kjrobinson@upei.ca or 902-566-0516.