Campus Notices
There will be a 69传媒biosafety refresher training session on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 1:30 pm 鈥� 3:30 pm in Kelley Memorial Buiding, Room 210.
This session is required for those who attended the Basic Biosafety course in 2013 or earlier. It is not a substitute for Basic Biosafety. Topics to be covered include a review of basic biosafety principles, a practical approach to spill cleanup, and an update on what鈥檚 new at 69传媒in the field of biosafety.
To attend the Biosafety Refresher course, you must pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan, Research Services and Graduate Studies, before February 12, 2016 by email () or by phone (902-628-4308). Please include your name, department, email address and phone number in your email or voice message.
If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Angela or Dr. Rhoda Speare ( or phone x5071).
There will be a 69传媒basic biosafety training session on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 9:00 am -12:00 noon, in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 210.
Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the 69传媒, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to graduate students. Please note: those who have not attended a training session since 2013 are currently due for the Biosafety Refresher Course.
To attend the Basic Biosafety course, you must pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan, Research Services and Graduate Studies, before February 12, 2016 by email (adeighan@upei.ca) or by phone (902-628-4308). Please include your name, department, email address and phone number in your email or voice message. If you are a graduate student, please indicate this and include your supervisor鈥檚 name.
If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Angela or Dr. Rhoda Speare (or phone, x5071)
We invite all students, staff and faculty to complete our survey for your chance to win one of three $50.00 Bookstore gift cards. Submission deadline is Friday, February 5th. We appreciate your feedback!
Kevin Rogers
69传媒Bookstore Manager
902-566-0380
kerogers@upei.ca
Effective Monday, February 1, 2016, the front counter in the Registrar's Office will have new hours of operation. From September to April, the office will be open for counter service from 9 am-4:30 pm. From May to August, the office will be open for counter service from 9 am-4:00 pm.
Staff will be available by phone and email from 8:30 am onwards.
The best university alumni hockey group in Canada will be holding its Panther Hockey Alumni Night on Saturday, February 6. It actually starts in the afternoon with a mini-tournament comprised of four teams of alumni players using both ice surfaces at MacLauchlan Arena. Leading up to UPEI-SMU game that night is the walk-on introduction of all former players followed up by a reception in the south end of the arena where the full-length windows provide an ideal viewpoint for the UPEI-SMU game. (Game time is 7:00 pm.)
For more information, contact Panther Hockey Alumni Night Committee Organizer and former Panther captain Ron Carragher at racarragher@gov.pe.ca
Karem Simon in Collaboration with Atlantic String Machine
69传媒Clarinet Professor Karem J Simon will partner with the Atlantic String Machine in Strings Attached II, an intimate evening of chamber music, on Saturday, January 30th at 7:30 PM at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. Works by Johannes Brahms and Carl Maria von Weber will be performed. Tickets -- $15 Adults, $10 Students 鈥� may be acquired at the music department office or at the admission鈥檚 desk prior to performance.
The "Ask UPEI" button (usually found in the bottom-right corner of all UPEI.ca web pages) has temporarily been removed as our third-party service provider troubleshoots an ongoing issue with the service. Until a solution is implemented, please forward all UPEI.ca page edits to Marketing and Communications' web team via email, at web@upei.ca. Please also include the URL of the page requiring an edit in your message.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused during Thursday's service outage.
69传媒Marketing and Communications
The tobacco use survey has been extended until Friday, Feb 5th. After logging into your @upei account using the Shibboleth single sign-in service, you can access the survey at . It is also accessible from the Healthy Campus committee and Student Union homepages.
"Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. The Healthy Campus committee appreciates your input."
As part of its winter 2016 series of events, the Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching is organizing a blog鈥攚ith short articles about academic freedom as it relates to pedagogy and curriculum, and some short responses from committee members to get some conversation going! We invite everyone on the campus community to read and comment鈥攐n the original article or on other people鈥檚 contributions. Let鈥檚 get a conversation going about what this issue means and some of its implications for teaching and learning at UPEI.
The blog is on the new SCENT website, at projects.upei.ca/scent 鈥� it鈥檚 on the homepage there. But feel free to peruse the rest of (still under construction) website too, where you鈥檒l find more information about SCENT and the FDO.
For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, chair of SCENT, at abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, at fdo@upei.ca.
The presentation of a learning/career e-portfolio is a requirement for each student in the Bachelor of Education program at UPEI.
We would like to invite the campus community to attend one or more sessions during which a small group of pre-service teachers will each present his/her e-portfolio to demonstrate individual growth in becoming a professional educator through the various aspects of the B Ed program.
Each pre-service teacher will present for approximately 15 minutes after which the audience will be invited to discuss or ask questions.
Please see below for scheduled times and locations.
English B ED program:
Feb 3rd 5:00-7:00 Memorial Hall 301 (ELC)
Feb 4th 5:45-7:45 AVC 286A N or AVC 286B N (2 groups)
Feb 5th 4:00-6:00 Memorial Hall or 308 Memorial Hall 215 (2 groups)
Feb 8th 4:00-6:00 Main 113 or Main 116 or ELC (3 groups)
Feb 9th 4:00-6:00 AVC 287N or AVC 286A N (2 groups)
Feb 10th 4:00-6:00 Main 116
French B Ed program:
Feb 4th 5:45-7:45 Kelley 211
Feb 10th 5:45-7:45 Kelley 210
We hope to see many of you in attendance.
For further information, contact Carolyn Francis at crfrancis@upei.ca or Jill Ross at jbross@upei.ca or by telephone at 620-5155.
Have an opinion about tobacco use on campus? The Healthy Campus Committee wants to know!
The tobacco use survey is NOW OPEN. You can access t after logging into your @upei account through the Shibboleth single-in service. The survey is also accessible from the Healthy Campus committee and Student Union homepages.
Thanks for participating and encouraging others to do the same. All participants are eligible for entry into a draw for one of two gift cards to the bookstore.
With 4 Atlantic University Sport men鈥檚 hockey games taking place in three provinces on Bell Let鈥檚 Talk Day, January 27, fans around the conference are invited to come out and show their support. At UPEI, the Men's Hockey Panthers will host the Universit茅 de Moncton Aigles Bleus at 7 pm at MacLauchlan Arena.
The first few hundred fans to arrive at the CARI Complex will receive a Bell Let鈥檚 Talk toque and thunder sticks. Stations will be set up at each venue where fans can participate by creating personalized speech bubbles, taking photos to share on social media and signing banners to show their support. Subway gift cards will be given out as prizes throughout the game.
Student and staff volunteers from 69传媒Student Affairs, Residence Services, and Athletics and Recreation along with Bell Aliant representatives will be out in force, supporting the effort to help end the stigma around mental illness. Please come out and support your Panthers and #BellLetsTalk!
To read more about Bell Aliant's partnership with AUS, link to the .
The 69传媒Multicultural Choir meets on Wednesdays in the lower level of the Robertson library at 4:30 - 5:30.
This is a non-audition choir open to all members of 69传媒- students, staff, and faculty.
The group is now in its 5th year and sings songs of the various cultures and languages represented on the 69传媒campus, as an initiative of the AIRS Research project.
All are welcome.
The Human Biology and Environmental Sciences seminar series continues on Friday, January 29, 2016 when Dr. Travis Saunders from Applied Human Sciences at 69传媒will present:
鈥淚s Sitting Killing You?鈥�
Date: January 29
Time: 12:30 pm
Duffy Science 204
All are welcome
The PEI History of Medicine Society is pleased to host a talk by Dr. Susan Brown (History) on "Retiring from the Stage: Old Age and Disability among 18th Century Theatrical Performers" at 7:00, Wednesday, February 10, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge-- Main 204. All are welcome: coffee, tea, and snacks provided. For More information, contact Shannon Murray (smurray@upei.ca).
All are welcome!
Payroll SIN Reminder to International Employees
Payroll would like to remind all international employees to please provide updates/changes to temporary Social Insurance Numbers to the Payroll/Human Resources department for T4 purposes.
Updates/changes should be made in person at the Human Resources department.
