Campus Notices
The OER Development Program is once again offering grants ($2000--$6000) for the development of Open Educational Resources.These grants support the creation of a new open textbook, the adaptation of an existing open textbook (new edition or combining chapters from several open textbooks), or the creation of lab manuals, guide books, test banks, slide decks, etc. Past project examples include
- by William J. Montelpare, Emily Read, Teri McComber, Alyson Mahar, and Krista Ritchie
- by Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, Gayla Cameron, and Emma Christensen
The application and more details are available at . The application deadline is Friday, March 25, 2022.
Do you have questions about your project and whether it qualifies as an OER? Attend a Zoom information session to chat with Kim Mears about your project:
- Monday, March 7, 2022, 9:00--9:30 am
- Thursday, March 10, 2022, 4:00--4:30 pm
- Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00 noon--12:30 pm
- Friday, March 18, 2022 3:00--3:30 pm
- Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 10:00--10:30 am
All meetings will use the same Zoom Meeting link:
Meeting ID: 696 4437 9544, Passcode: 185297
As Russian troops advance and Ukraine fights off attacks, the world watches the war unfolding in Eastern Europe. On Monday, March 7, at 3:00 pm (AT), political scientist and strategic analyst Gustavo Calvo, UDELAR University of Uruguay, will examine the latest developments with the talk, "Beyond the Dnieper River: the Boundaries of Empires." As well, Dr. Yuliya Rashcupkina, 69传媒Department of Political Science, will give a talk titled "Russia's war in Ukraine: the roots of the conflict and implications for the future of collective security."
The Master in Global Affairs program invites the community to join the MGA faculty, students, and directors in the conversation via Zoom: .
Please email Dr. Doreley Coll if you have questions.
The Robertson Library鈥檚 is accepting grant applications for the creation or adaptation of open educational resources (OERs). The grant types include:
- Open Textbook Grant: up to $6000
- the development of a new open textbook on a topic that is currently not covered by an existing open textbook;
- Open Textbook Adaptation Grant: up to $4,000
- the adaptation of one or more open textbooks to create a new version or edition of an open textbook (i.e. a Canadian edition of an existing open textbook);
- Supplementary Resources Grant: up to $2,000
- the creation of ancillary materials for existing open textbooks, including, but not limited to test banks, slide decks, or interactive media, etc.
Applications that support first year courses will be given priority as they reach the most amount of students, but all applications will be reviewed and considered. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 25, 2022, with work expected to begin during Spring or Summer. More information is available at .
Questions about your grant idea? Contact Kim Mears at kmears@upei.ca. Questions about OERs? Read more at .
Please join us for the second webinar in the "Resistance, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq'ik to the Mayan Nation" series, presented by Dra. Vera Tiesler. The webinar is titled "What we know about the first nations of Mesoamerica by studying their human remains"/"Lo que sabemos de los pueblos originarios de Mesoam茅rica a trav茅s del estudio de sus restos humanos".
The physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mesoamerica has been revealing deep and interesting data that allow us to delve into the ancestral past. This webinar will bring us closer to much new knowledge obtained through bone analysis of men and women who lived in pre-Columbian cultures. // La antropolog铆a f矛sica de los pueblos originarios de Mesoam茅rica ha ido revelando profundos e interesantes datos que nos permiten adentrarnos en el pasado ancestral. Esta conferencia nos acercar谩 a muchos nuevos conocimientos obtenidos a traves del an谩lisis oseo, de hombres y mujeres que vivieron en las culturas precolombinas.
Please register for the webinar at
The "Resistance, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq'ik to the Mayan Nation" webinar series is coordinated by Dr. John Doran, 69传媒, and Dr. V铆ctor Hugo Medina Suarez, Universidad Autonoma de Yucat谩n.
Additional webinars coming up in the series include:
- April 8, 2022, at 2 pm AST: 鈥淚ntercultural Education of the Mexican State: An autopsy鈥�/鈥淓ducaci贸n Intercultural del Estado Mexicano: una autopsia鈥� - Dr. Juan Carlos Mijangos (UADY)
- May 13, 2022, at 2 pm AST: "Mayan feminism in the literary works of Ana Patricia Mart铆nez Huchim"/鈥淓l feminismo maya en las obras literarias de Ana Patricia Mart铆nez Huchim鈥� - Dra. Cristina Leirana (UADY)
- June 10, 2022, at 2 pm AST: 鈥淭he Mayan language in history: from instrument of colonization to means of modernization鈥� 鈥淟a lengua maya en la historia: de instrumento de colonizaci贸n a medio de modernizaci贸n鈥� - Dr. Lorgio Cob谩 Noh (UADY)
We would like to thank our sponsors, The Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) and the 69传媒Faculty of Education, for their help in making this event possible.
The 2022 Winter Exam Schedule has been posted. You can find the schedule posted in your Toolbox on My69传媒as well as on your course schedule.
Best of luck with your exams!
-Office of the Registrar
Washing your hands properly is one of the most important things you can do to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses. Good hand hygiene will reduce the risk of things like flu, COVID-19, food poisoning, and healthcare-associated infections being passed from person to person.
The 69传媒Health and Wellness Centre is conducting hand hygiene audits on March 8, 9, and 10. We are asking any patients who visit us on these days to provide us direct observational feedback on our hand hygiene. This helps us to identify gaps or moments where we may not be doing as well as we should so that we can make improvements.
If you have feedback on our hand hygiene or anything else at the 69传媒Health and Wellness Centre, please do not hesitate to contact us at healthcentre@upei.ca or visit our website: /health-centre, and click on "We'd love to hear from you" in the right-hand menu or complete a compliments/complaints card located in the waiting room.
Liturgy of the Word and Communion will take place each Monday and Thursday at 12:05 pm in the 69传媒Chaplaincy Centre. Sister Sue will lead prayers and reflection.
Today (March 4) is the last day to register for Bridge to PEI Conference on March 5!
More than 170 international students have already registered to attend the virtual Bridge to PEI Conference on Saturday, March 5, from 11 am to 4 pm (AST). If you鈥檙e a current international student from the 69传媒, Holland College, or Coll猫ge de l'脦le and strive to create your future in the province, don鈥檛 miss this great opportunity to learn more! Register today to reserve your spot: .
Presentations will be given by the Immigrant & Refugee Services Association PEI, a Holland College Employment and Career Advisor, PEI Community Navigators, Office of Immigration PEI, and more!
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Study & Stay PEI Program team members at studyandstaypei@upei.ca!
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar on Friday, March 4, 2022, at 12:30 pm.
Choyce Chappell (MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences) will present "Design of a Mobile App for Natural Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery on Prince Edward Island," and Shahreen Rahman (MSc candidate in Human Biology) will present "Investigating the function of Schwann cells in impaired diabetic wound healing."
The meeting will be held via Google Meet:
All are welcome.
The annual 69传媒Career Fair is just around the corner! This year's fair will be held virtually in March as a series of lunchtime events with live employer presentations and Q&A sessions. It will feature employers from various industries that are hiring students for full-time, part-time, or seasonal positions. There will also be information sheets on each employer, and a YouTube playlist of pre-recorded videos.
The first live events will be held on March 8 and 9 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Students can learn more on the Fair website, and pre-register for the live events.
Hosted by the 69传媒Experiential Education department and 69传媒Career Services.
The OER Development Program is once again offering grants ($2000--$6000) for the development of Open Educational Resources.These grants support the creation of a new open textbook, the adaptation of an existing open textbook (new edition or combining chapters from several open textbooks), or the creation of lab manuals, guide books, test banks, slide decks, etc. Past project examples include
- by William J. Montelpare, Emily Read, Teri McComber, Alyson Mahar, and Krista Ritchie
- by Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, Gayla Cameron, and Emma Christensen
The application and more details are available at . The application deadline is Friday, March 25, 2022.
Do you have questions about your project and whether it qualifies as an OER? Attend a Zoom information session to chat with Kim Mears about your project:
- Monday, March 7, 2022, 9:00--9:30 am
- Thursday, March 10, 2022, 4:00--4:30 pm
- Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00 noon--12:30 pm
- Friday, March 18, 2022 3:00--3:30 pm
- Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 10:00--10:30 am
All meetings will use the same Zoom Meeting link:
Meeting ID: 696 4437 9544, Passcode: 185297
As Russian troops advance and Ukraine fights off attacks, the world watches the war unfolding in Eastern Europe. On Monday, March 7, at 3:00 pm (AT), political scientist and strategic analyst Gustavo Calvo, UDELAR University of Uruguay, will examine the latest developments with the talk, "Beyond the Dnieper River: the Boundaries of Empires." As well, Dr. Yuliya Rashcupkina, 69传媒Department of Political Science, will give a talk titled "Russia's war in Ukraine: the roots of the conflict and implications for the future of collective security."
The Master in Global Affairs program invites the community to join the MGA faculty, students, and directors in the conversation via Zoom: .
Please email Dr. Doreley Coll if you have questions.
The E-Learning Multimedia Development Grant is being offered for the fourth time as an opportunity for faculty and staff members to create a multimedia course resource with the help of the E-Learning Instructional Multimedia Specialist. Find out more about the grant . The closing date for applications is March 11, 2022.
If you have questions related to your multimedia project ideas, please contact Kristy McKinney at kmckinney@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty and staff--to attend a virtual research presentation by Kanwal Bokari for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Candidate Bio:
Kanwal Bokhari is a doctoral candidate in the business administration program at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. She studies how entrepreneurs acquire resources from early-stage investors, such as business angels and venture capitalists, who rely upon signals (i.e., readily available crude pieces of information) to make investment decisions. Deploying the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) method, she explores questions to illuminate the complexity of the resource acquisition process and challenges entrepreneurs and investors face amidst entrepreneurial uncertainty and information asymmetry.
She also teaches courses in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the Haskayne School of Business and serves as the academic lead for the Financial Feminism Investing Lab, an investment education program with a gender-informed lens. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, she worked in investment banking, private equity, and non-profit management.
Presentation Title: 鈥�Guided by the Constellations: A Configurational Approach to Evaluating New Ventures"
Abstract:
How do early-stage investors, such as business angels and venture capitalists, select unproven new ventures? Whereas existing studies can explain the role of isolated factors, such as a venture's potential or entrepreneur's coachability or third-party endorsements, researchers have not yet fully elaborated on how early-stage investors capture and reconcile multiple factors to arrive at their decisions. Therefore, to illuminate the complexity of decision-making, she employs a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine a dataset of 50 high-tech startups. Early-stage investors evaluated these startups in 2019鈥�2020 as a part of a North American startup mentorship program. She examines how early-stage investors focused on four factors to select startups: (a) the strength of the value proposition, (b) the scalability potential of the venture, (c) an entrepreneur's perceived coachability or capacity to take feedback, and (d) third-party endorsements and referrals. Preliminary analysis reveals that no factor alone is a necessity for winning over early-stage investors; rather, the findings support and highlight that there are multiple paths to success. Early-stage investors combine value proposition and coachability with third-party endorsements to evaluate unproven new ventures. By examining how decision-makers combine various factors, the proposed study is likely to produce novel insights for entrepreneurs who seek capital from early-stage investors who strive to make effective decisions in an uncertain context.
The presentation will take place on March 4 from 1:00鈥�2:00pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 642 5952 7041
Passcode: 809684
For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty and staff--to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Kanwal Bokhari for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Candidate Bio:
Kanwal Bokhari is a doctoral candidate in the business administration program at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. She studies how entrepreneurs acquire resources from early-stage investors, such as business angels and venture capitalists, who rely upon signals (i.e., readily available crude pieces of information) to make investment decisions. Deploying the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) method, she explores questions to illuminate the complexity of the resource acquisition process and challenges entrepreneurs and investors face amidst entrepreneurial uncertainty and information asymmetry.
She also teaches courses in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the Haskayne School of Business and serves as the academic lead for the Financial Feminism Investing Lab, an investment education program with a gender-informed lens. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, she worked in investment banking, private equity, and non-profit management.
The lecture will take place on Friday, March 4, from 11 am-12 pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 618 0849 0854
Passcode: 379537
For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.
AVC currently has a male beagle named Tony available for adoption. He is five years old, neutered, and vaccinated; a dental cleaning will be included with his adoption. He is incredibly affectionate with humans and will make a great companion. We truly believe that he will blossom in the right home.
Tony has a history of being reactive to other animals, and he may or may not learn to move past this in the future. He has never bitten any other animals but does sometimes react aggressively towards certain other beagles. Currently, he is on medication to help with his anxiety. This may or may not need to be continued long-term or potentially life-long. He has had absolutely no issues with people. A once-monthly behavioural consultation will be included for a six-month term following adoption as well a three-month supply of medication.
Tony would thrive in a house with a family that is able to work through some behaviour modification (as outlined by our behaviourist). It is preferable that he is not placed in a home that has other pets or a family with which other pets are around often.
If you are interested in learning more about Tony, please contact Melissa Hamel at mhamel@upei.ca or 902-566-0938.
69传媒will host a virtual Relay for Life event on Sunday, March 20, from 7:00--9:00 pm. Relay for Life is a fundraising event for the Canadian Cancer Society. It includes opening and closing ceremonies, a luminary ceremony in which we honour loved ones affected by cancer, guest speakers, and games. This year, our fundraising goal is $10,000, and we have already raised over $3,000.
The cost to participate in the event is $20 and includes a t-shirt and luminary. If you are interested in signing up or making a donation, you can do so at the following link:
If you have any questions about the event, you can email Sarah Doak at sjdoak@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar on Friday, March 4, 2022, at 12:30 pm.
Choyce Chappell (MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences) will present "Design of a Mobile App for Natural Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery on Prince Edward Island," and Shahreen Rahman (MSc candidate in Human Biology) will present "Investigating the function of Schwann cells in impaired diabetic wound healing."
The meeting will be held via Google Meet:
All are welcome.
Registration closes soon for Bridge to PEI Conference on March 5.
The Bridge to PEI Conference is only two days away! More than 150 international students have already registered to attend the conference on Saturday, March 5, from 11 am to 4 pm (AST). If you鈥檙e an international student from the 69传媒, Holland College, or Coll猫ge de l'脦le and strive to create your future in the province, don鈥檛 miss this great opportunity to learn more! Register today to reserve your spot: .
Presentations will be given by the Immigrant & Refugee Services Association PEI, a Holland College Employment and Career Advisor, PEI Community Navigators, Office of Immigration PEI, and more!
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Study & Stay PEI Program team members at studyandstaypei@upei.ca!
The annual 69传媒Career Fair is just around the corner! This year's fair will be held virtually in March as a series of lunchtime events with live employer presentations and Q&A sessions. It will feature employers from various industries that are hiring students for full-time, part-time, or seasonal positions. There will also be information sheets on each employer, and a YouTube playlist of pre-recorded videos.
The first live events will be held on March 8 and 9 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Students can learn more on the Fair website, and pre-register for the live events.
Hosted by the 69传媒Experiential Education department and 69传媒Career Services.
