The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for Convocation scholarships and awards! The application deadline for the following awards is Friday, April 1, 2022.

Click the links provided to access the application and/or recommendation forms for more information. Please submit your application(s) and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca or in person to the Scholarships and Awards Office at 202 Dalton Hall.

    Arlie Parks Scholarship - In Memory of Dr. Kenneth MacIntyre (Science)

    Marylou Hughes Scholarship (Science)

    Gerald M. Gerry Birt Memorial Award (Science/Nursing/Arts)

    David Austin O'Malley-Keyes Memorial Award (Arts/Music)

    Frank J. Costello Scholarship (Arts/Education)

    Hon. Justice Mark R. MacGuigan Memorial Scholarship (Arts/Law)

    Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Scholarship (Law)

    PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award (Arts/Campus Community)

    Dr. Graeme and Alberta Bryant Boswall Award (Campus Community)

    Dr. Regis Duffy Academic Achievement Award (Campus Community)

    UPEI Class of 1989 Award (Campus Community)

The Robertson Library’s OER Development Program 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 has been extended to Friday, April 29, 2022, with work expected to begin during the spring or summer. More information is available at https://library.upei.ca/OERProgram/grants.

Questions about your grant idea? Contact Kim Mears.

The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community – students, faculty and staff – to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Rick Adams, candidate for a three-year term as an assistant professor or lecturer of accounting position. 

Candidate Bio:

Rick attended UPEI, and holds a Master’s in Business Administration (health care administration and organization development) from Northcentral University, Arizona. He is a certified professional accountant. Having practiced as a chartered accountant for several years, Rick began teaching as a sessional lecturer at UPEI, and eventually left public accounting to begin his career within the PEI health system.

During a very successful health care career, Rick served as chief executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown for almost six years, and was instrumental in leading major hospital expansions including Ambulatory Care, the Emergency Department, and the Cancer Treatment Centre. Other executive positions held within the health system include executive director of PEI Hospitals and Mental Health Services for Queens and Kings County, executive director of Corporate Services for Health PEI, and executive director of Quality and Risk Management for Health PEI.

Currently serving in a nine-month term position within the Faculty of Business, UPEI, Rick has served in a similar capacity as assistant professor of accounting from August through May each year, from 2019 through 2022. Rick’s passion for teaching is very evident in that during his entire health care career, he served as a sessional lecturer at UPEI for almost 30 years.

Rick enjoys working and serving as treasurer for a local hockey association of more than 600 members. Other interests include fishing, cycling, guitar, and piano. He resides in Cornwall, PEI, with his wife Trenna, and Maggie, their new puppy.

The lecture will take place on Friday, April 1, from 9--9:45 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/63480703421?pwd=Y1Y3WWx2UGhVdEpFcFkrU0p3WGExZz09

Meeting ID: 634 8070 3421
Passcode: 788992

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.

The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for the UPEI Student Adversity Awards. Eligible students are encouraged to review the award criteria online and submit an application through the Scholarships and Award Application portal, which can also be found listed in the UPEI Forms section on MyUPEI. The application deadline is Thursday, March 31, 2022.

If you have questions about the application process or award criteria, please contact scholarships@upei.ca or visit us in Dalton Hall, Room 202.

The UPEI E-Learning Office and the Teaching and Learning Centre are hosting UPEI's fifth Teaching Community Conference online on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. This year's theme is "Moving Forward."

The call for proposals on presentations about your teaching or how you support teaching at UPEI is now open with a deadline of Thursday, April 14. Please review our submission form for more information. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-introduction-to-natural-language-processing-tickets-264349194557

Join ACENET for a brief introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP).

About this event

How do computers understand language? It seems impossible that zeroes and ones could ever add up to words that humans can understand, but machine language has come a long way in the past few years. Let us take you behind the code to explain how machines simulate language comprehension, and why it’s a far more complicated problem than “bonjour = hello”. This talk is aimed at an audience that is not necessarily familiar with computers or language comprehension but would like a primer to the field and what it can realistically do. We will explain natural language processing from the perspective of machines that cannot understand words but capture semantic meaning by processing data.

This session will take place on Thursday, April 6, 12:00 pm--3:00 pm (Atlantic time)

You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. 

Participants must register using their institutional/organizational email address (not a personal email, i.e., gmail)

Instructions about how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.

The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty and staff--to attend a virtual research presentation by Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM). 

Candidate's Bio:

Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in organizational behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.

Presentation Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Professional Gig Workers: Identifying Challenges and Psychosocial Resources for Resilience

Abstract:

Scholarship on stress and resilience at work has repeatedly overlooked professional gig workers despite the rapid growth of this independent workforce. Studying such workers, especially under conditions of global disruption, offers an opportunity to expand theory on the role of personal resources in promoting resilience and well-being in the absence of contextual resources traditionally offered by organizations. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) and using unique qualitative and quantitative data gathered prior to and during the COVID-19 global pandemic, we investigate the pandemic’s impact on an international sample of professional gig workers and test the relationship between psychosocial resources and workers’ resilience. Results suggest that workers experienced the pandemic as an environmental jolt (Meyer, 1982), which affected their working lives through shrinking gig work availability, and greater challenges with fluctuating emotions, organizing day-to-day work, and maintaining relationships. Further, we examined the role that pre-pandemic levels of two theoretically informed personal resources—work meaningfulness and the emotional carrying capacity of these workers’ networks—and find that work meaningfulness is associated with cognitive and affective well-being, and emotional carrying capacity is associated with social and affective well-being, as well as psychological resilience. Taken together, this research provides novel insights into professional gig workers’ resilience and well-being during the pandemic and contributes to our understanding of gig workers’ experiences of environmental jolts.

The presentation will take place on April 1, 2:00--3:00 pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68210211032?pwd=ZjIwelE4UE04dmlZck81WWJ4TXY0UT09

Meeting ID: 682 1021 1032

Passcode: 070531

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 Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM). 

Candidate's Bio:

Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in Organizational Behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.

Lecture Title: The Next Best Safety Dollar: Using Evidence to Decide How to Invest in Workplace Safety

The lecture will take place on April 1, 10-10:45 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68600200264?pwd=L2FSZ2l0anJmdzh1MFJzUzBvSks3Zz09

Meeting ID: 686 0020 0264

Passcode: 570029

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.

On Wednesday, March 30, between 10 pm and midnight, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca. During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable. RX Works will be unavailable between 11 pm and midnight only. If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

This week's Tea(ching) Break is a webpage from Brock University's Centre for Pedagogical Innovation on the Role of Reflection. If you are asking your students to reflect on their learning, you may find a framework or prompt among the various reflection resources on this page to support them.  

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 12:30 pm.

Jenna Cahill, MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences, will present "Assessing the impacts of off-bottom oyster aquaculture on coastal birds" and Junshi Dong, MSc candidate in Environmental Sciences, will present "Reconstructing the spatial dispersal and the cross-species transmission of bat coronavirus." The meeting will be held via Google Meet: meet.google.com/svu-ouxd-fmx. All are welcome.

Dr. Amy Taylor, candidate for the tenure track position with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, will give two public presentations.

The first, entitled "Successful Identity Transition After a Developmental Crisis: Lessons from a Case Study of a Man with Physiological Impotence," will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 1:00 pm via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/62529761076?pwd=NlhFT2ZjbUNiYWIwb3dUSnFOQ3JTUT09.

The second, a teaching demonstration entitled "Therapist as assessment instrument: A phenomenological and psychodynamic approach to formulation," will be held on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:15 am via ZOOM at https://upei.zoom.us/j/68129422646?pwd=eVNkaHA3S093K01oZU5KdmJUTVk2QT09

All are welcome to attend.

The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for Convocation scholarships and awards! The application deadline for the following awards is Friday, April 1, 2022.

Click the links provided to access the application and/or recommendation forms for more information. Please submit your application(s) and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca or in person to the Scholarships and Awards Office at 202 Dalton Hall.

    Arlie Parks Scholarship - In Memory of Dr. Kenneth MacIntyre (Science)

    Marylou Hughes Scholarship (Science)

    Gerald M. Gerry Birt Memorial Award (Science/Nursing/Arts)

    David Austin O'Malley-Keyes Memorial Award (Arts/Music)

    Frank J. Costello Scholarship (Arts/Education)

    Hon. Justice Mark R. MacGuigan Memorial Scholarship (Arts/Law)

    Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Scholarship (Law)

    PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award (Arts/Campus Community)

    Dr. Graeme and Alberta Bryant Boswall Award (Campus Community)

    Dr. Regis Duffy Academic Achievement Award (Campus Community)

    UPEI Class of 1989 Award (Campus Community)

The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty and staff--to attend a virtual research presentation by Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM). 

Candidate's Bio:

Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in organizational behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.

Presentation Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Professional Gig Workers: Identifying Challenges and Psychosocial Resources for Resilience

Abstract:

Scholarship on stress and resilience at work has repeatedly overlooked professional gig workers despite the rapid growth of this independent workforce. Studying such workers, especially under conditions of global disruption, offers an opportunity to expand theory on the role of personal resources in promoting resilience and well-being in the absence of contextual resources traditionally offered by organizations. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) and using unique qualitative and quantitative data gathered prior to and during the COVID-19 global pandemic, we investigate the pandemic’s impact on an international sample of professional gig workers and test the relationship between psychosocial resources and workers’ resilience. Results suggest that workers experienced the pandemic as an environmental jolt (Meyer, 1982), which affected their working lives through shrinking gig work availability, and greater challenges with fluctuating emotions, organizing day-to-day work, and maintaining relationships. Further, we examined the role that pre-pandemic levels of two theoretically informed personal resources—work meaningfulness and the emotional carrying capacity of these workers’ networks—and find that work meaningfulness is associated with cognitive and affective well-being, and emotional carrying capacity is associated with social and affective well-being, as well as psychological resilience. Taken together, this research provides novel insights into professional gig workers’ resilience and well-being during the pandemic and contributes to our understanding of gig workers’ experiences of environmental jolts.

The presentation will take place on April 1, 2:00--3:00 pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68210211032?pwd=ZjIwelE4UE04dmlZck81WWJ4TXY0UT09

Meeting ID: 682 1021 1032

Passcode: 070531

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 Steve Granger for a tenure-track assistant professor of management position with a focus on human resource management (HRM). 

Candidate's Bio:

Steve Granger is a PhD candidate in organizational behaviour and human resources at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He conducts research from a psychological perspective in the core areas of occupational health, gig work, and individual differences. His work has been published in various outlets, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Safety Research, and Organizational Dynamics. He has also taught multiple courses in Organizational Behaviour and serves as an editorial board member for Human Relations.

Lecture Title: The Next Best Safety Dollar: Using Evidence to Decide How to Invest in Workplace Safety

The lecture will take place on April 1, 10-10:45 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68600200264?pwd=L2FSZ2l0anJmdzh1MFJzUzBvSks3Zz09

Meeting ID: 686 0020 0264

Passcode: 570029

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.

UPEI fiscal year ends on April 30, 2022.

Purchasing cut-off: April 14, 2022

The last day to create a requisition/purchase order for 2021-22 will be on Thursday, April 14, 2022, at noon with guaranteed delivery date on or before April 30, 2022.

Requisitions/purchase orders created after April 19, 2022, must have a requisition date changed to May 1, 2022, and the good and services must be delivered on or after May 1, 2022.

Receiving goods/services cut-off: April 30, 2022

Goods and services must be received on campus by Friday, April 30, 2022. Only the goods that have been physically received or completed services should be accepted at this time. This will ensure that these goods and services are paid in the 2021-22 fiscal year. Any items received in myUPEI after April 30, 2022, will be considered new fiscal year goods and services and will then be deducted from your new fiscal year budget (2022-23).

All departments are required to look at their outstanding purchase order list to see if there are any purchase orders that need to be cancelled. This functionality can be accessed through the myUPEI Self-Service Menu under "Financial Information" and the “Receive Goods and Services” selection.

If the items have been back ordered for some time, you will need to check with the supplier to see if they are still on their records as back ordered. If they are not back-ordered, then please email procurement@upei.ca to cancel your purchase order.

If you are in receipt of vendor invoices, forward these to invoices@upei.ca ASAP. Please contact apadmin@upei.ca with questions or concerns regarding billing and invoicing.

Need assistance? 

Please take a look at the “Financial Tools Reference Guide” under the "Self-Service Help" tab on myUPEI. 

The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community – students, faculty and staff – to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Aniket Naik, candidate for a three-year term as an assistant professor or lecturer in accounting position. 

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from 9:00-9:45 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/66423682968?pwd=YUJxTnNQQjJ4MlNGOVQ3OFIwK0VUQT09

Meeting ID: 664 2368 2968
Passcode: 503267

We all know that social media can be anything but social at times. DYKT Twitter's mute button allows you to keep following an account but hides its tweets and retweets from your timeline? It's an easy way to hide a person or organization without unfollowing them and causing offense. They'll never know they've been muted. Click on the settings menu on the right of their profile and then select mute. 

Welcome to Spring!

If you need some support getting started on a final assignment, or perhaps another pair of eyes to identify revision needs, our tutors are available.  Check out our schedule, offering both in-person and online appointments at https://upei.mywconline.com/.

Reminder:  The Writing Centre will NOT offer appointments during exams. Our final day is Friday, April 8.

Also, the posting is now available for tutoring positions beginning in September 2022.  If you know someone who you believe would be a terrific writing tutor, encourage that person to apply. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 4. The posting is available at Employment Opportunities at UPEI under Student Positions: https://www.upei.ca/hr/employment-opportunities.

The Scholarships and Awards Office is accepting applications for the UPEI Student Adversity Awards. Eligible students are encouraged to review the award criteria online and submit an application through the Scholarships and Award Application portal, which can also be found listed in the UPEI Forms section on MyUPEI. The application deadline is Thursday, March 31, 2022.

If you have questions about the application process or award criteria, please contact scholarships@upei.ca or visit us in Dalton Hall, Room 202.