Come to the UPEI Self-Care Fair on Wednesday, November 20, from 10:00 am-2:00 pm,  at McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. There will be FREE food, prizes, and a variety of health and wellness booths! Spin the prize wheel for a chance to win. 

We will accept non-perishable food donations in support of the UPEI Campus Food Bank. The fair is brought to you by the UPEI Healthy Campus Committee.

On Wednesday, November 20, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

UPEI has a Working Alone Procedure to protect the health and safety of all UPEI employees and students who work alone including after-hours and when working off-site. It is the responsibility of the supervisor to ensure that their staff and students are safe when working alone. 

• Working alone means an employee/student working at a workplace is the only employee/student at that workplace in circumstances where assistance is not readily available to the employee/student in the event of injury, ill health, or emergency.
• There are two categories of working alone plans: 
  1. areas with low risk where a UPEI Standard Working Alone Plan is used; 
  2. areas with risk where a Site-specific Working Alone Plan is required.
• The UPEI Safe App is an excellent tool to use when working alone. When the app is activated, Security Services monitors and responds if necessary.
• Please visit the HSE SharePoint site for more information on the Working Alone Procedure.

As always, feel free to contact Health, Safety, and Environment at hse@upei.ca with any questions or concerns. 

UPEI Experiential Education has a variety of programming planned to support your career development needs. Visit https://www.upei.ca/exed/students/career-month for details about information tables, career-related events, drop-in services, and more, and follow us at https://www.instagram.com/exedupei for fun career content through November and beyond!

The 2024 Global Village celebration will take place in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, on November 30 at 3:30 pm. Global Village is a celebration of the multiculturalism and diversity that exists on campus, so students from all over the world showcase their culture and traditions, as well as help encourage cultural sensitivity and a global perspective. Global Village is held annually to showcase all the different cultures represented at UPEI both within and outside Canada. This is a student-led event that features cultural exhibitions, processions, and performances.

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last FIVE draws, the total pot has grown to more than $19,600, with half going to the winner of the draw.

Gold Rush is a virtual fundraising initiative that raises funds for UPEI’s athletic and recreation programs. You can now select a specific team, club, or program to direct your proceeds from each of your tickets. 

Play today and every week for a chance to win! Download the UPEI Panther Recreation app from the App Store or on Google Play, or play from your computer. The weekly draw is held at 8:00 pm every Saturday.

Come to the UPEI Self-Care Fair on Wednesday, November 20, from 10:00 am-2:00 pm,  at McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. There will be FREE food, prizes, and a variety of health and wellness booths! Spin the prize wheel for a chance to win. 

We will accept non-perishable food donations in support of the UPEI Campus Food Bank. The fair is brought to you by the UPEI Healthy Campus Committee.

The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre is pleased to share our 2024 fall newsletter with you! 

Like us on our Facebook page.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2024-25 Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar series on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.

Dr. Andrew Tasker, AVC Biomedical Sciences, will present "Domoic Acid: From obscurity to global human and wildlife health concern...and it started in PEI!"

Academics Without Borders has an exciting volunteer opportunity for facilitators for its online teaching in higher education program, in partnership with Aga Khan University. Online education has been an area of intense interest and development over the past two decades, but the global COVID-19 pandemic created an additional impetus for organizations to adopt online teaching and learning in an accelerated fashion. Please see the extended description of the program and details about the application process at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywrN4QNsOHwdpYz-tEaZY2d6oIaAEblE/view

The deadline is November 25, 2024. For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Board of Directors member and UPEI rep, at abraithwaite@upei.ca or Corrie Young of AWB, at cyoung@awb-usf.org.

On November 29 at 2:00 pm, the campus community is invited to MacLauchlan Arena (Rink A) at the Bell Aliant Centre to watch the UPEI Women's Hockey team take on a team of UPEI faculty and staff. Come cheer on your fellow student-athletes and/or colleagues in what is sure to be an entertaining game. Admission is free. However, "admission by donation" is encouraged to support the Panther Women's Hockey program. Last year's game was a nail-biter, with the staff clinching the win in overtime. Both teams are excited for another thrilling matchup this year. We look forward to seeing you there!  

“Mapping Historical Hong Kong: Digitally Preserving a City’s Heritage”: What new directions do spatial digital tools offer for researching a city’s history and preserving its heritage? How might these tools be used to streamline access to the historical record at a moment when Hong Kong’s colonial past is being suppressed? And how, critically, can this research engage historians and the public alike? These questions were at the root of the Mapping Historical Hong Kong (MHHK) project launched in January 2023 in collaboration with the University of Bristol’s Hong Kong History Centre. Still in its development stages, MHHK uses digital mapping to integrate historical data, visual materials, archival records, and collaborative research initiatives into an intuitive open-access mapping platform that depicts Hong Kong’s growth between 1841 and 1997. For this ConneXions series presentation, Dr. Tom Larkin will explain the ideas behind this project, introduce the demonstrator platform, and share the future for MHHK in collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the University of Prince Edward Island.

The presentation will take place on November 15, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 320.

On Wednesday, November 20, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email using https://outlook.office.com.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

UPEI graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are encouraged to register for the FREE virtual 2024 Canadian Career Symposium for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, presented by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (GPDN). REGISTRATION IS OPEN: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1028291406277

The career symposium, spanning Tuesday, November 19 to Thursday, November 21, is three half-days of virtual career content (workshops and panels) specifically for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars studying in Canada. The content is applicable to both research-focused and course-based scholars, with topics including the role of values in career decision-making, applying your research skills to career planning, networking strategies for graduate students, and more! View the full Career Symposium Agenda here.

The career symposium will feature PEI-based speakers:

• Sasha Nandlal, UPEI PhD Ed candidate, a panelist on: "What I Learned from Serving on a Faculty Search Committee"
• Monic Vokey, Recruitment Consultant, PEI Public Service Commission, a panelist on: "Exploring Careers in the Public Sector"

Registration gives access to attend the live-streamed virtual sessions from 2:00 to 5:00 pm each day and to access the recordings* for up to one year after the symposium. Attendees are welcome to attend all sessions, or join just those of special interest. (*Panels will be available only as live-streams.)

Registration is free for UPEI graduate students and post-doctoral scholars due to sponsorship and coordination support of the symposium by the UPEI Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The third meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, November 22, 2024, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). To view the 2024-2025 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here.

All meetings are open to members of the University community, although certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees) may require the Senate to go into a closed session. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair. 

For logistical purposes, members of the UPEI community who wish to attend the open session of a UPEI Senate meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person. 

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2024-25 Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar series on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.

Dr. Andrew Tasker, AVC Biomedical Sciences, will present "Domoic Acid: From obscurity to global human and wildlife health concern...and it started in PEI!"

Academics Without Borders has an exciting volunteer opportunity for facilitators for its online teaching in higher education program, in partnership with Aga Khan University. Online education has been an area of intense interest and development over the past two decades, but the global COVID-19 pandemic created an additional impetus for organizations to adopt online teaching and learning in an accelerated fashion. Please see the extended description of the program and details about the application process at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywrN4QNsOHwdpYz-tEaZY2d6oIaAEblE/view

The deadline is November 25, 2024. For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Board of Directors member and UPEI rep, at abraithwaite@upei.ca or Corrie Young of AWB, at cyoung@awb-usf.org.

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship is pleased to present the inaugural round of Pitch Battles! Eleven teams made up of UPEI and Holland College Students from 14 different programs will pitch food-sector-related business ideas they developed over eight days to a panel of judges for a chance at winning the $1,000 top prize!

Come watch Pitch Battles on Thursday, November 14, from 4:30-7:00 pm at the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, 201 Robertson Library. The audience has a voice too: you can weigh in and vote for which team you think should receive the $250 audience choice award!

The UPEI Philosophy Reading Group will meet on Thursday, November 14, from 7:00-8:00 pm in the Lady Slipper Room at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre, 97 Queen Street, Charlottetown. All are welcome.

During this gathering, we will discuss Todd May's introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The following is a brief overview of the book:

"This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze’s philosophy: how might one live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have dreamed of. Through this approach, the full range of Deleuze’s philosophy is covered. Offering a lucid account of a highly technical philosophy, Todd May’s introduction will be widely read among those in philosophy, political science, cultural studies, and French studies."

If you would like to attend, please reach out to Dr. Max Schaefer at mschaefer@upei.ca for more information.

“Mapping Historical Hong Kong: Digitally Preserving a City’s Heritage”: What new directions do spatial digital tools offer for researching a city’s history and preserving its heritage? How might these tools be used to streamline access to the historical record at a moment when Hong Kong’s colonial past is being suppressed? And how, critically, can this research engage historians and the public alike? These questions were at the root of the Mapping Historical Hong Kong (MHHK) project launched in January 2023 in collaboration with the University of Bristol’s Hong Kong History Centre. Still in its development stages, MHHK uses digital mapping to integrate historical data, visual materials, archival records, and collaborative research initiatives into an intuitive open-access mapping platform that depicts Hong Kong’s growth between 1841 and 1997. For this ConneXions series presentation, Dr. Tom Larkin will explain the ideas behind this project, introduce the demonstrator platform, and share the future for MHHK in collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the University of Prince Edward Island.

The presentation will take place on November 15, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 320.