Campus Notices
The search committee for the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, announces upcoming public presentations by each of the finalist candidates. Since the search process began last summer, the committee has undertaken a comprehensive search and selected the following finalists for a series of stakeholder meetings on campus. Presentations are scheduled on the following dates/times.
Dr. Preston Smith, Dean, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
- Public Presentation: Friday, May 12, 2023, 1:30 to 2:30 pm, KC Irving Building, Room 104
Dr. Kent Stobart, Professor, Department of Paediatrics, and Vice-Dean, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
- Public Presentation: Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 1:30 to 2:30 pm, KC Irving Building, Room 104
All are welcome to attend. For any who are unable to attend, the presentation will be recorded and available afterward for viewing from a secure site. Paper copies of each candidate's CV will be available for viewing in the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research. Following each presentation, you are invited to provide feedback on the candidate’s suitability for the role to vpar@upei.ca.
A new children's chapter book will be launched on Sunday, May 21, at 2 pm, at Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent St., Charlottetown.
Adventures of an Island cat named Brupp is a one-volume edition that includes all of the previously published novels about Prince Edward Island's most famous cat as well as a never-before-published story, Brupp and the Milk River Orphans.
The BOOKMARK will host the launch of Adventures of an Island Cat Named BRUPP.
For more information, contact: BOOKMARK at 902-566-4888 or charlottetown@bookmarkreads.ca, or Deirdre Kessler at kessler@upei.ca
From June 15 to 16, Memorial University will host the 2023 CBIE Atlantic Regional Meeting. This event will focus on the future of international education through a series of breakout sessions, roundtables, and networking activities.
The CBIE Atlantic Regional Meeting is an annual meeting of international education practitioners and is an opportunity to share knowledge, share resources, and keep abreast of immigration and other changes in the sector. This event also serves as an annual networking event for those involved in international education in Atlantic Canada and is a precursor to the national conference each November.
Why Attend This Event?
- Network with international education professionals.
- Hear from thought-leaders on important IE topics.
- Participate in Q&A with sector stakeholders from Canada and the world.
Who Will Be There?
- International education practitioners and leaders from K-12 schools, colleges, institutes, and universities.
- Corporate partners and association colleagues.
- Federal and provincial government officials.
- Register online at https://cbie.ca/upcoming-events/regional-meetings/atlantic-regional-meeting/
The UPEI Department of Facilities Management was recently notified of a security Incident with SchoolDude. As part of Brightly Software's efforts to remedy this, they have reset the passwords for all users. This is why there has been difficulty logging in to SchoolDude.
To use the SchoolDude application again, you will need to reset your password. Please visit login.schooldude.com and click on the link "Forgot Login Name or Password?" to send a password reset link to your UPEI email account.
If you have any questions or require assistance with work orders, please reach out to Maggie at Facilities Management at 902-566-0312.
ITSS would like to take this opportunity to remind you not to use the same passwords for different accounts. If you feel you used your SchoolDude password elsewhere, we advise you to change that password as well. Please reach out to the Service Desk for assistance: 902-566-0465 or helpdesk@upei.ca. https://go.upei.ca/PasswordReset/strong_password.html
The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee has an employee focus on mental health and wellness initiatives on campus. We are looking for energetic and engaged faculty and staff representatives to assist with planning, promoting, and delivering activities and programs, and communicating information to faculty and staff within the group they represent. Meetings take place three to four times per year along with an annual planning session.
If you are interested and/or have questions about this fun and important committee, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca by Thursday, May 25. Let's keep our teams healthy and engaged!
The search committee for the Dean of Education has arranged the video presentations for candidates Dr. Miles Turnbull and Dr. Douglas Gosse.
Dr. Turnbull’s presentation can be viewed at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKjZpil4mX-iwF0Zv1JXXWM6U0s2WnqF/view?usp=sharing
Dr. Gosse’s presentation can be viewed at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qiYs5txsq2yhHwUPQEGrACBicbTajH-y/view?usp=sharing
The committee welcomes your feedback on the candidates. Please send feedback by email to vpar@upei.ca by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Thank you for your valued input into this search process.
All feedback remains confidential.
"Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours," co-edited by Dr. Libby Osgood, CND, assistant professor in the UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, and Dr. Kathleen Deignan, CND, Iona College, New York, will be launched on Wednesday, May 17, at 7:00 pm at the Charlottetown Library Rotary Room.
The book is an edited volume of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s most inspirational work set by the editors in the format of liturgical hours. Osgood and Deignan, both sisters in the Congregation of Notre Dame, turned Teilhard de Chardin’s over 6,000 pages of writings into eight evolutive days of prayers for dawn, day, dusk, and dark.
Born in Sarcenat, France, in 1881, Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest and an accomplished paleoanthropologist who researched human beginnings and wrote imaginative, mystical writings on the evolutionary nature of the world and the cosmos. His writings were rejected by ecclesiastical authorities and the Jesuit leadership who placed him under interdiction and refused to allow him to publish his writings or to teach in France. Despite the interdiction, he continued to write. He bequeathed his writing to his secretary, Jeanne Mortier, who ensured that they were published after his death in New York City in 1955.
The launch will be a celebration of Teilhard’s life and work, and Osgood will read from the book during the launch. The book is available at the Bookmark in Charlottetown.
The Writing Centre will be open during the first summer session for both in-person and online appointments from May 15 to June 15. We'll have a reduced schedule but will add availability through the term.
To see our schedule, receive updates, and make an appointment, go to https://upei.mywconline.com/
Congratulations to all graduates and thank you to our Writing Centre clients for sharing your academic journey with us!
As part of the UPEI Hearing Conservation Program, audiometric testing will take place on June 9 and 16, 2023 in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 313. These tests take approximately ten minutes to complete.
It is important, especially in high-volume workplaces, to have your hearing tested annually. All are welcome to attend.
Please pre-register for audiometric testing by contacting Jacky Buell at HSE@upei.ca or 902-566-0901 by June 1, 2023.
Rescheduled from April 12!
Date: May 23, 2023
Time:10am
Location: Bill and Denise Andrew Hall (AH), Room 142
WCB will combine these two presentations:
Workplace Safety for Supervisors
Supervisors play a critical role in ensuring health and safety in the workplace. Because they direct the work of others, supervisors are well-positioned to impact safety culture at work. This session will introduce participants to the concept of due diligence and inform them of the legal responsibilities supervisors have for worker safety.
Young Worker Safety: Changing the Culture
Participants will learn what is now known about the significant influence supervisors can have on young worker safety, and how employers and supervisors might capitalize on this. Participants will hear what young PEI workers say about their hesitation to raise their workplace safety concerns, and what they can do to encourage young workers to speak up.
This session is for anyone on campus in a supervisory role. To register, please contact Jacky Buell at hse@upei.ca or (902) 566-0901 by May 16, 2023.
A new children's chapter book will be launched on Sunday, May 21, at 2 pm, at Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent St., Charlottetown.
Adventures of an Island cat named Brupp is a one-volume edition that includes all of the previously published novels about Prince Edward Island's most famous cat as well as a never-before-published story, Brupp and the Milk River Orphans.
The BOOKMARK will host the launch of Adventures of an Island Cat Named BRUPP.
For more information, contact: BOOKMARK at 902-566-4888 or charlottetown@bookmarkreads.ca, or Deirdre Kessler at kessler@upei.ca
Join the Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation (OCII) for a Research Networking Day focused on building industry and UPEI partnerships in Biotech, Manufacturing, and Clean Tech.
This exciting event will feature short presentations from companies, UPEI faculty, and funding agencies, along with networking sessions.
- For industry: Come learn about the expertise at UPEI and connect with professors with relevant research programs.
- For UPEI faculty: Come learn about the research aims of local industry and connect with companies with shared interests.
Hear about the partnered government funding opportunities available from NRC, Mitacs, and NSERC for facilitating your research collaborations.
Speak with UPEI business development officers at OCII to understand how we can best support your academic-industry partnerships.
Please follow OCII on LinkedIn or Twitter to stay up-to-date with this event and upcoming research opportunities!
24 May, 1300-1430hrs Atlantic / 1330-1500hrs NL
Engineers and scientists use MATLAB to organize, clean, and analyze complex data sets from diverse fields such as climatology, predictive maintenance, medical research, and finance. In this session, we discuss how MATLAB can help analyze and visualize data effectively. Topics include: datatypes and preprocessing capabilities designed for engineering and scientific data; Interactive and customizable 2D and 3D data visualizations; apps and live editor tasks that help with interactive data cleaning, preparation, and code generation; tips and tricks to accelerate code performance; and sharable reports automatically generated from your analysis.
DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/weblink/register/rc1960a3bba6e06b7a84c4b2f58b24077
16 May-13 June, Tuesdays, 930-1130 and 1300-1500 hrs Atlantic / 1000-1200 and 1330-1530 NL
This course will educate participants in common tools and techniques used in high-performance computing and scientific computation. Over 5 weeks with 20 hours of teaching time, we will cover general parallel computing, Dask, OpenMP programming, GPU accelerator programming, and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming. Each session will include lectures and learning exercises. These will be oriented to those learners seeking a more advanced experience. There will be online office hours each week so participants can ask questions about the course content and exercises. Participants must have familiarity with the Unix command line, at the level expected after completion of the ACENET Basics Series, along with some programming experience.
DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-parallel-computing-school-2023-tickets-607639204217
16 May, 1300-1500hrs Atlantic / 1330-1530hrs NL
Through live demonstrations and examples, you will learn how MATLAB can be used to visualize and analyze data, perform numerical computations, and develop algorithms. Topics include: accessing data from many sources (files, other software, hardware, etc.); using interactive tools for iterative exploration, design, and problem-solving; automating and capturing your work in easy-to-write scripts and programs; and sharing your results with others by automatically creating reports.
DETAILS & REGISTER:
https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/weblink/register/r2994fa43badbeffd5b4a8cfea0b7930b
In order to accommodate UPEI computer classroom and lab software adds, drops, or modifications for the 2023 fall semester, we have set a firm deadline of JUNE 01, 2023.
It is critical that you email requests to smahar@upei.ca by the date above indicating the following:
- New software requirements (licensed or freeware) providing the software name and vendor
- Version upgrades to existing software (Are multiple versions required? If yes, provide specifics.)
- Software that can be decommissioned.
More information is available here
The search committee for the Dean of Education has arranged the video presentations for candidates Dr. Miles Turnbull and Dr. Douglas Gosse.
Dr. Turnbull’s presentation can be viewed at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKjZpil4mX-iwF0Zv1JXXWM6U0s2WnqF/view?usp=sharing
Dr. Gosse’s presentation can be viewed at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qiYs5txsq2yhHwUPQEGrACBicbTajH-y/view?usp=sharing
The committee welcomes your feedback on the candidates. Please send feedback by email to vpar@upei.ca by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Thank you for your valued input into this search process.
All feedback remains confidential.
"Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours," co-edited by Dr. Libby Osgood, CND, assistant professor in the UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, and Dr. Kathleen Deignan, CND, Iona College, New York, will be launched on Wednesday, May 17, at 7:00 pm at the Charlottetown Library Rotary Room.
The book is an edited volume of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s most inspirational work set by the editors in the format of liturgical hours. Osgood and Deignan, both sisters in the Congregation of Notre Dame, turned Teilhard de Chardin’s over 6,000 pages of writings into eight evolutive days of prayers for dawn, day, dusk, and dark.
Born in Sarcenat, France, in 1881, Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest and an accomplished paleoanthropologist who researched human beginnings and wrote imaginative, mystical writings on the evolutionary nature of the world and the cosmos. His writings were rejected by ecclesiastical authorities and the Jesuit leadership who placed him under interdiction and refused to allow him to publish his writings or to teach in France. Despite the interdiction, he continued to write. He bequeathed his writing to his secretary, Jeanne Mortier, who ensured that they were published after his death in New York City in 1955.
The launch will be a celebration of Teilhard’s life and work, and Osgood will read from the book during the launch. The book is available at the Bookmark in Charlottetown.
The Writing Centre will be open during the first summer session for both in-person and online appointments from May 15 to June 15. We'll have a reduced schedule but will add availability through the term.
To see our schedule, receive updates, and make an appointment, go to https://upei.mywconline.com/
Congratulations to all graduates and thank you to our Writing Centre clients for sharing your academic journey with us!
Thesis title: "Human First: Exploring the Lived Experience of Self-management of Islander living with Chronic Respiratory Disease"
Abstract: Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, this study explored the lived experience of self-management for five individuals with chronic respiratory disease in PEI. Through interviews and photographs, they described their lived journey in learning to live well with a chronic illness, including the process of grief, adapting to a shrinking life-world, and navigating their new sense of personhood, relationships, space, and time. This study furthers our understanding of what it means to be human with a chronic illness and furthers the calls for reflection on how to integrate person-centered care in all facets of chronic disease management.
Everyone is welcome.
