Campus Notices
Join in the celebration as the campus community marks the official opening of the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering on Thursday, August 4 at 2 pm. Tours of the facility will take place following the ceremony. All are welcome. Please view the upei.ca calendar listing for more details.
All staff, faculty, alumni, and friends of UPEI are invited to attend the 4th annual mixer on August 5th at 3 pm in the new School of Sustainable Design Engineering. This year will feature some of UPEI/PWC/SDU's favourite professors, including Ab Ferris, Lowell Sweet, Rosemary Herbert, Fr. Bolger, Ron Collins, Harry Love, and Fr. Charlie.
The UPEI Athletics Department is excited to announce the return of the Panther Package season ticket option. The Package is excellent value for all UPEI staff and faculty members. Every season ticket purchased will also support your favorite varsity team.
With a purchase of a Panther Package, it grants our athletes to; compete, prepare and contend with the best teams in the AUS/CIS.
For more information regarding the packages, check out our new website - www.gopanthersgo.ca
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram -- @UpeiPanthers to stay up to date with Panther Athletics throughout the season. #GoPanthersGo
Tuition Waiver forms for the Fall 2016 semester must be submitted to Human Resources by no later than August 15, 2016. When completing the form, please include all of the required information (Course name, time, start and end date, cost and the number of semester hours) to avoid any delays in processing the waiver. Please submit original forms directly to Human Resources (lower level Kelley building, room #143).
If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.
To support Project Beacon and to extend our capability to provision end users, ITSS is migrating from Novell Directory Services (NDS) to Microsoft Active Directory Services (AD). In order to do this, ITSS will need to visit your location and update software and configurations on your computer. We will need you to be available at this time to enter passwords to complete this process. We are estimating this process will take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete on each computer.
If you have not meet with a staff member from ITSS to do the changeover, please email Adam Arsenault at ajarsenault@upei.ca to set up an appointment. Thank you.
Dr. Mark Braceland, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada, will present a special seminar, “Non-Destructive Biomarkers of Pathological Damage in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L.,” on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Room 286B, The McCain Foundation Learning Commons, AVC. Everyone is welcome.
Special seminar by Dr. K. H. Chu
“The Decapod Tree of Life: Stories from Nuclear Protein-Coding Genes”
Friday, August 5, 2016, 10:30 am
DRC 212 (NRC Building)
“The tremendous morphological diversity of decapod crustaceans is fascinating, but it is also a major hurdle for phylogenetic reconstruction due to challenges in acquiring and coding for sufficient homologous characters. The use of DNA markers has become integral in helping to resolve the question. Over the past decade, our group has developed several new nuclear gene markers for decapod phylogenetics and achieved good resolutions in gene tree topologies. In this seminar I will present a molecular phylogeny of Decapoda based on sequences from two mitochondrial rRNA and five nuclear protein-coding genes, using more than 500 species from >150 families, representing over 80% of the 190 decapod families. Monophyly of the Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata, and all pleocyemate infraorders is confirmed, with the surprise that Procarididea is nested within Caridea. Relationships within Caridea, Anomura and Brachyura will also be discussed. We believe we will soon attain a comprehensive decapod tree of life.”
Prof. K. H. Chu received his bachelor degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976 and completed his PhD study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography in 1984. He is a professor at the School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and was the founding the Director of the school. He is also an outstanding fellow of the Faculty of Science, and associate head of the New Asia College of the University. Prof. Chu has diverse interests in marine science and published over 180 papers. His primary research focus is molecular systematics and ecology of crustaceans, covering phylogenetics and population genetics, biodiversity conservation, and marine phylogeography of the Indo-West Pacific.
Everyone Welcome!
The testing for Main Building and the Tunnel System have been changed due to the holiday in New Brunswick on Monday, August 1st, see updated dates below.
Troy Life & Fire Safety will be performing fire alarm
Duffy Science Centre – June 28
Steel Building – July 4 - 5
Robertson Library – July 6-7
Cass Building - July 7
Alumni Canada Games Place – July 8
Memorial Hall – July 11
Regis & Joan Duffy Research Centre – July 12
Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre – July 13
W.A. Murphy Student Centre – July 15
Health Sciences Building – July 25
K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre – July 26
Central Utility Building – July 27-28
Main Building – August 2
Tunnel System – August 3
AVC – August 8 – 12
Bernardine, Blanchard, Andrew & Dining Hall - August 22-26
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 6034.
Many of us who have worked within teams have experienced the impact that conflict can have on the workplace. Left unchecked, it can create a very unpleasant working environment which can have negative effects on production and quality of work. In the worst cases, it can result in malicious office gossip, increased sick leave or members permanently leaving the team.
Conflict and problem solving skills are seen increasingly as desired attributes of a well-rounded team member. Being aware of your contribution to conflict, good and bad, is an essential step towards developing truly useful skills in group problem solving.
During this 3-day course, participants will use both Alow@ and Ahigh@*elements of an outdoor 25 acre, wheelchair accessible ROPES Course, developed by The Adventure Group and nestled in a forest minutes from UPEI, to explore the role they each play in problem solving and group conflict.
Date: September 12-14, 2016
For more information about this course please contact Jennifer Hogan, Business Development and Education Program Manager at 902-620-5216.
For over two hundred years, Prince Edward Island has been home to a strong fiddling tradition: a blend of Scottish, Irish and Acadian influences. Nearly every "district" had its stock of fiddlers who played their lively, highly expressive music year round at house dances, weddings, "frolics" (work parties), church picnics, community socials, and schoolhouse dances.
This traditional PEI fiddling style has not previously been well represented on either commercial or field recordings, but you can learn more about it in this two day course, taught by Ken Perlman, curator of the Bowing Down Home website and author of Couldn't Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler: The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island.
Dates: August 17-18. 2016
Cost: $100
To register please visit http://www.upei.ca/
A workshop for faculty interested in creating video. Lead by Kristy McKinney, the E-Learning Instructional Multimedia Specialist, on August 9th 2pm-4pm. We will be covering basics on equipment, software, uploading and sharing video. This is the first time we are offering this workshop and spaces will be limited. Feel free to bring your own video device or equipment if available. Please fill out this form to register https://goo.gl/1dlgcK
If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.
A one year Sports Centre membership for a UPEI employee is only $5.80 weekly - $300 for the year (+hst). Note this rate is also available to UPEI employee's spouse and UPEI retirees. Monthly payment plan available as well as payroll deduction.
Membership includes access to the fitness centre, squash courts, open gym time and indoor/outdoor track. As well as free access to some fitness classes and discount on Panther Fit Pack and Cycle classes. Sports Centre members also receive Free access to all our recreation programs include - badminton, squash, basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, field hockey, ultimate frisbee and soccer.
UPEI Employees Personal Training Subsidy Program - Current UPEI Faculty and Staff only. We are pleased to offer UPEI employees a discount/training subsidy towards either a Panther Fit Pack or small group training at the UPEI Sports Centre. Complete a program registration form found on here - http://www.upei.ca/ar/wellness
UPEI Athletics and Recreation NEW Fall fitness class schedules announced. Classes will be held in one of our two new Fitness Studio's in October!!! All details can be found on website.
Fitness classes - http://www.upei.ca/ar/fitness-classes
Small Group Training- http://www.upei.ca/ar/small-group-training
UPEI, in partnership with Student Affairs, the Student Diversity Office, and Pride PEI will raise the pride flag on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 2:30 pm at the flag plaza near Kelley Memorial Building to recognize the PEI Pride Festival taking place July 24-30. Pride PEI will be raising flags at other locations across the province throughout the day. All are welcome to attend the UPEI celebration -- reception will follow in the Credit Union Day Lounge at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
Moodle Bootcamp are about 90 minute to 120 minute workshops that will be held in the Robertson Library to help develop faculty who use Moodle, or are interested in using Moodle develop their Moodle skills. Due to room capacity there are limited available spaces. Please fill out this form to register for the workshops http://goo.gl/forms/
