The early bird registration deadline for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education annual conference is coming up on May 14! Take advantage of the special early bird pricing AND an additional discount for members of the UPEI community. Email TLC@upei.ca for the discount code before you go to register. Here's the conference registration link 

All faculty and staff are invited to attend the University Awards of Excellence on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Please join us from 1:00–2:30 pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.  

Come to socialize and celebrate the achievements of our friends and co-workers at UPEI. Refreshments will be served! In recognition of the outstanding performance of our faculty and staff and their dedication to students and community, the annual University Awards of Excellence and 25-Year Service Awards will be presented at this event.  

Hope to see you there!

Four poems from Laurie Brinklow’s PEI Book Award-winning poetry, My island’s the house I sleep in at night (Island Studies Press/Walleah Press), have been set to music by one of Tasmania’s best-loved composers, Don Kay. The Atlantic String Machine, with guest soloist Hannah O’Donnell, will perform the song cycle’s world premiere on Saturday, May 13, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Church in Charlottetown as part of the final concert of their 2022-23 season entitled “Coming Together.”

Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite, or at the door.

This week, we welcome our new food service provider, Dana Hospitality, to campus. We want to give you a chance to try their yummy, made-from-scratch, home-cooked food, so lunch all week will be half-price. 

All You Care to Eat Breakfast made to order from 7:30 to 9:30 am for $8.95 + tax  

All You Care to Eat Lunch from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm for $11.95 + tax (discounted to $5.95 + tax) 

Bon Appetit!

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.

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.

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 

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.

The early bird registration deadline for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education annual conference is coming up on May 14! Take advantage of the special early bird pricing AND an additional discount for members of the UPEI community. Email TLC@upei.ca for the discount code before you go to register. Here's the conference registration link 

Overview: Everybody understands the value of data—qualitative and quantitative—for the growth of their organizations. Being able to evaluate that data is key for organizational growth. Measuring valuable data from quantitative sources is mostly straightforward, but how do you accurately derive valuable data from qualitative sources? 

In the Qualitative Data Analysis course, participants will be given strategies to glean important, useful data from qualitative sources. Areas like reflexive thematic analysis, triangulation of codes, coding, and other concepts will be discussed in-depth, so by the end of the course, participants will be able to discern accurate and consistent data from qualitative sources that previously seemed extremely difficult to obtain. 

Designed for: People who are involved in policy analysis and review, and/or are responsible for obtaining data from records, interviews, focus groups, or other forms of qualitative sources of information.  

Type of Delivery: In person. 

Duration: One course for a total of six (6) hours.  

Facilitator: Cheryl Wartman 

More information: Qualitative Data Analysis

Four poems from Laurie Brinklow’s PEI Book Award-winning poetry, My island’s the house I sleep in at night (Island Studies Press/Walleah Press), have been set to music by one of Tasmania’s best-loved composers, Don Kay. The Atlantic String Machine, with guest soloist Hannah O’Donnell, will perform the song cycle’s world premiere on Saturday, May 13, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Church in Charlottetown as part of the final concert of their 2022-23 season entitled “Coming Together.”

Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite, or at the door.

This week, we welcome our new food service provider, Dana Hospitality, to campus. We want to give you a chance to try their yummy, made-from-scratch, home-cooked food, so lunch all week will be half-price. 

All You Care to Eat Breakfast made to order from 7:30 to 9:30 am for $8.95 + tax  

All You Care to Eat Lunch from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm for $11.95 + tax (discounted to $5.95 + tax) 

Bon Appetit!

UPEI Procurement Services is currently taking bids on some used equipment.

Bids are being accepted in the University's e-tendering portal, Bonfire, until May 12, 2023, at 2:00 pm.

This portal requires you to register by creating a username and password as your UPEI credentials are not connected to this system. When registering for the Bonfire portal, please put your name in the Vendor Name and Contact Name fields. You can access the information on this opportunity at https://upei.bonfirehub.ca/projects/66207/details

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, June 2, for the June meeting. 

Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/

For new protocols, select "applications," and for renewal or amendment protocols, select "events."

UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx. 

Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The committee requires at least one month for processing applications.

Note:  All investigators are reminded that any deviations in animal use, including unexpected mortality, must be reported to the ACC and University Veterinarian Jonathan Spears at 902-620-5026.

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.

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.