Students on the Faculty of Arts Dean's List will be receiving their certificates and Award Winners and Donors will be recognized. This event is tonight at 7:00 pm in Schurman Market Square of UPEI's Don and Marion McDougall Hall. 

November 14th is World Diabetes Day. Take the CANRISK TOOL to determine your risk factors for development of diabetes: http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/en/canrisk. If you believe you could be at risk for diabetes come to the UPEI Health & Wellness Centre (2nd floor Murphy Building North) to have a blood glucose test on November 14th. This is a quick, easy test that could provide you with valuable information regarding your health and risk.

This week is Atlantic Canada Career Week on campus! 
Staff and Faculty, please share with students:

UPEI Career Services is offering a week full of career development events for students including panel discussions, workshops, "Resumania!" and much more! See the full list of events here.

As part of Atlantic Canada Career Week, three Government of Canada department reps will be on campus to share information with students about employment opportunities:

Location: E-Hub, Dalton Hall 209

FORD/ACOA: Tuesday, November 6, 11:00-1:00
Department of Veterans Affairs: Wednesday, November 7, 11:00-2:00
Canada Revenue Agency: Friday, November 9, 11:00-1:00

See the full list of Career Week events here.

Robertson Library, WUSC, and the Rotaract Club of UPEI will be presenting the award-winning film What Tomorrow Brings on Thursday, November 15th at 6 pm in Room 312, Robertson Library. 

Directed by Beth Murphy, the documentary showcases the challenges of young Afghan girls in a village recently freed from Taliban control.

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.

All are welcome to attend! Doors open at 5:30 pm.

The Faculty of Arts and Department of Psychology Fiona Papps Colloquium Series jointly welcome faculty, students, and the campus community to join us November 23rd at 3:00 pm for a presentation by Dr. Stephen Butler entitled "Capitalism in the "hot seat": Challenges and opportunities for young people”. The presentation will take place in Main 432 with a reception to follow in the faculty lounge. 

Suggested reading: Butler, Stephen (2018). The Impact of Advanced Capitalism on Well-being: An evidence-informed model. Human Arenas, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-018-0034-6

This is a reminder that the UPEI Biosafety Policy requires that all Principal Investigators confirm the security and complete inventory of all biohazardous materials being used or stored, due in November of each year. This is accomplished by updating your entries, then confirming this action, as follows:

1. Access your inventory at http://biosafety.vre3.upei.ca/ 

2. Ensure your inventory is up to date, and then confirm this by following the steps as listed below.

3. Select User Menu (Top right of screen) then My account from the left side of the drop down screen.

4. Click Edit (just below the user name)

5. Click on Information, on the top right section of the screen.

6. Scroll down this page. Below the box with the phone number, you will notice a box next to I accept. If you have not already done so, please read this section and, if you agree, please check this box.

7. To report your inventory is up to date, please enter the date that you confirm this in the 2018 box. 

8. Hit Save! Task completed.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you are not yet a user of this site, but store or use biohazardous materials, please contact me to arrange access. 

If you have any questions, please contact Rhoda Speare, UPEI Biosafety Officer, at 902-620-5071 or rspeare@upei.ca. 

Games are compelling for young and old alike. Adding game elements to your course is one way of enhancing your students' engagement. In this workshop you will learn about basic game elements and how they can be used both in online and face-to-face teaching environments. Be sure to bring a set of headphones or earbuds with you. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this workshop will take place on November 19th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the UPEI community to the next two seminars of the Environmental Sciences/Human Biology Series: 

Carissa Grove (MSc-ESC Candidate) will present "Atlantic salmon intercourse and its implications for conservation and management on PEI". 

Followed by Kyle Knysh (PhD-ESC Candidate) who will present "Exploiting aquatic animal behaviors to quantify ecological populations and assemblages."

This event is today at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre room 204.

Everyone is welcome

Students on the Faculty of Arts Dean's List will be receiving their certificates and Award Winners and Donors will be recognized.

This event is Monday, November 5 at 7:00 pm in Schurman Market Square of UPEI's Don and Marion McDougall Hall. 

Privacy breaches on campus should always be internally reported. However, on November 1, 2018 the law will change to create new legal requirements which affect parts of UPEI. In certain circumstances, UPEI will be required by law to report privacy breaches to Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada and directly notify the people impacted by the breach.

The change was made to PIPEDA (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act).  While these rules do not apply to the core functions of UPEI, it does apply where UPEI collects, uses, or discloses personal information in the course of true commercial activities.

To ensure compliance with our legal obligations, and to manage the situation properly, a privacy breach should be reported immediately to the Vice-President Administration and Finance, Jackie Podger. Failure to comply with the new rules could be an offence under the regulations, with a possible fine of up to $100,000.

Employees should also be aware that while this change only applies to commercial activities, UPEI is subject to a number of privacy obligations, and employees should seek guidance in any privacy breach.

If you have questions about these changes please contact the Chief Access to Information and Privacy Officer Patti Wheatley at pjwheatley@upei.ca or (902)894-2840.

The Department of Psychology welcomes faculty, students, and the campus community to join us at our next Fiona Papps Colloquium Series on Friday, Nov. 16 at 1:30 pm where Dr. Scott Lee will present "Fetishism According to Lacan: Origins and Perversion in Jeanne by Marie-Hélène Lafon”. The presentation will take place in Main 213. Please note this event was previously planned for Nov. 2. 

Robertson Library and the International Student Office (ISO) invite you to join us for a presentation by celebrated speaker Dr. Tim Goddard in honour of International Education Week 2018, November 12th-16th.

Dr. Goddard's talk is entitled Of Golden Eggs and Other Fables: Internationalization in a Time of Globalization.

The event will be held at 12:30 pm in the LINC, Room 265, in Robertson Libary.

Everyone is welcome!

November 5-9 is Atlantic Canada Career Week on campus! 
Staff and Faculty, please share with students:
UPEI Career Services is offering a week full of career development events for students, including panel discussions, workshops, "Resumania!" and much more! See the full list of events here .

Depending upon the work requirements of University departments, the holiday schedule will be in effect from noon on December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019, inclusive. Office and regular business hours will resume on January 2, 2019. Please note the pay date deadlines below. Additional information regarding the Christmas Holiday Schedule can be found here. 

December Pay Dates - Deadline Changes
All pay changes, PTF’S, overtime submissions, paper timesheets, etc., must be received by Human Resources by noon:

November 28, 2018 for the December 14, 2018 payroll
December 5, 2018 for the December 28, 2018 payroll
December 19, 2018 for the January 11, 2019 payroll
Electronic timesheet deadline – December 17, 2018 at 10:00 am for the December 28, 2018 payroll

In an ongoing effort to provide our staff and faculty with value-added opportunities, we are pleased to offer preferred group rates and employee discount options. 

To review the discounts available to you, please visit the Employee Discount Program listing on the myUPEI Human Resources intranet site under “Other Resources”.  

UPEI's Mawi'omi Student Centre once again will host their annual Mawi'omi on campus on Friday, November 2, in McMillan Hall at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The gathering features a Grand Entry at 10:00 am, followed by drumming, dancing, and cultural presentations, until 2 pm. All are welcome!

The University of Prince Edward Island expresses its condolences to the entire Jewish community on the senseless act of hate and violence that took place at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday. UPEI wishes to inform the campus that PEI's Jewish Community is holding a Candlelight Vigil in memory of the 11 victims of the shooting rampage and in support of those wounded. The Vigil will take place Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3 pm in front of Founders Hall, at the corner Water Street and Prince Street in downtown Charlottetown. All are invited and encouraged to attend in solidarity as a way to show their support.