The UPEI Events Calendar is the perfect place to promote your student, staff, faculty, or campus-related event on the upei.ca website!

Anyone with a upei.ca email address can log into the website and create an event to help spread the word to the UPEI campus community. Your event will appear in the complete list of UPEI events and on the UPEI homepage as the actual date of your event approaches.

Visit the Submit a Campus Notice or UPEI Calendar Event page to add events that are UPEI "owned" or hosted, or is affiliated with UPEI.

Questions? Contact communications@upei.ca.

Overview: This course will give employees and managers a better sense of how to fully support LGBTQ+ members within the workplace. From discussions around inclusive concepts, terminology, and vocabulary to how to create a fully positive space within the workplace, this course will teach behaviours that can help bring diversity and inclusion into the modern workplace. Diversity and inclusion are essential for building a modern, high-performing workplace!​

Designed for: Anybody--from employees to executives, to managers and entrepreneurs

Type of Delivery: In-person

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

Facilitators: Tracy Stretch

For more information, go to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/course/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace 

• Are you a current UPEI graduate student?
• Do you work with biohazardous material as part of your research?
• Do you want to contribute to the research community and biosafety at UPEI?
• Would you like to gain valuable experience (looks great on a CV!) and be the student voice on a committee composed of UPEI Faculty and staff?

The UPEI Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) is seeking a volunteer graduate student member to join the IBC for a two-year term! The IBC meets monthly to review biosafety permit applications and discuss other issues related to biosafety on campus.

For more information about this exciting opportunity or to express your interest, please contact Stephanie Palmer, Research Compliance Coordinator, at scpalmer@upei.ca by Friday, November 18.

Please pass on this information to anyone who might be interested!

The Campus Peer Support Program is a pilot project funded by Health Canada and jointly managed by the UPEI Department of Student Affairs and the Canadian Mental Health Association - PEI Branch. Based on the principle that the individual with lived experience in substance use and mental health issues can be trained to leverage their experience to help others, the program aims to develop a curriculum, provide training, and offer services to students on campus. If you are a student, or know students who might be interested, you can learn more about peer support from our webpage: https://www.upei.ca/student-affairs/campus-peer-support-program. Those interested in working for the program are encouraged to apply by November 8 via the UPEI HR portal: https://www.upei.ca/hr/competition/req69. Contact James Reddin (jareddin@upei.ca) or Connor Murphy (conmurphy@upei.ca) with any inquiries.

The CPA Atlantic School of Business, in partnership with the Experiential Education Department, will be hosting an in-person information session for all students interested in becoming chartered professional accountants.

Event date: Thursday, November 3
Time: 10:30--11:30 am (ADT)
Location: Main Building, Room 310

All students interested in becoming an accountant are encouraged to attend this session. 

Students can learn more and register on Eventbrite. Any questions, please email experientialed@upei.ca.

Mentor applications for the Study & Stay PEI program are now open! If you are passionate about sharing your knowledge, skills, and experience with international students in Prince Edward Island, this volunteer opportunity is for you! Please sign up at https://studypei.ca/.

As a mentor, you will

• meet with your assigned student at least four times between January and June 2023;
• share your knowledge, skills, advice, and connections;
• work one-on-one with your mentee to support their professional learning goals;
• give your mentee feedback on areas of strength and improvement;
• be open and responsive to questions related to working in the province;
• be available to support your student in their professional journey.

Meetings will typically last an hour and can be conducted in person (following the public health guidelines), online, or by phone.

If you enjoy spending time with international students while helping them better understand PEI's workplace culture, we invite you to apply to become a mentor today! Please contact us at studyandstaypei@upei.ca if you have any questions. Thank you!

A memorial service in honour of F. Alan Reesor, faculty member in the UPEI Department of Music from 1970–1997, will be held at St. Peter's Cathedral on Rochford Street in Charlottetown, on Sunday, November 13, 2022, at 2:30 pm. Alan forged an international reputation as an organist, choral director, and musicologist and was awarded the title of professor emeritus at UPEI in 1998. A variety of Alan’s friends, colleagues, and former students will gather to perform and pay tribute to his remarkable legacy of music and the far-reaching impact he had on the lives of so many people. Those unable to attend in person may watch the event through live-streaming at
https://www.youtube.com/cha.../UCDFzXrCQaxe7cj-XFaYSPIQ/live

Ashton Dougan, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the Health Science Building, Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

Ellen Taylor-Walsh, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 3:00 pm in the Health Science Building, Room 104. 

All are welcome to attend.

Katelyn Smallwood-MacDonald, candidate for a term-appointment faculty position with the Faculty of Nursing, will give a teaching presentation, Teaching and Scholarship in the Faculty of Nursing, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 10:00 am in the Health Science Building, Room 105. 

All are welcome to attend.

Overview: The Adult Learner - Course Design and Facilitation Certificate offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of adult learning for individuals who want to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to design and deliver effective and engaging adult training programs. Participants will develop new insights and techniques that will strengthen their training content and approach, learn about designing curriculum to match diverse learning styles (including in-person and online facilitation), organize engaging experiential activities that ensure the achievement of learning objectives, and deliver peer-reviewed interactive training content and facilitation sessions.

Designed for: People who are interested in becoming or improving as facilitators, trainers, consultants, subject matter experts, adult educators, human resource personnel, contract workers, tutors, or similar positions

Type of Delivery: In-person

Duration: Six modules for a total of 48 hours; four modules last one day (six hours each), and two modules last two days (twelve hours each)

Facilitator: Laura Johnson

For more information, check out https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/certificate-in-design-and-facilitation. 

Overview: The Certificate in Customer and Client Service is designed to give the knowledge, skills, and tools for individuals to improve customer and client service within their organization. Not only are the benefits of improved customer and client service positive feelings and loyalty, but it also improves the workplace morale, which in turn leads to better production and results.

At the end of this certificate, participants will be able to elevate customer and client service both internally and externally within their organization, turn customer and client service failures into learning opportunities—which will lead to positives—and create a culture that will make great customer and client service consistent and a priority among all members of an organization.

Designed for: All people involved with customer and client service, both in a retail and a multi-level organizational sense.  Especially relevant for all executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who deal with other people within their workplace.

Type of Delivery: In-person.

Duration: One day (six hours)

Facilitator: Tracy Stretch

For more information and to register, go to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/customer-and-client-service.  

NOTE: an earlier version of this notice listed the price as $99. The actual cost is $499. Sorry for any confusion. 

UPEI Athletics and Recreation has a new recreation portal that is used for all fitness, intramural, panther academy, and staff/faculty wellness programming.  

To gain access, log into recreation.upei.ca, and click on "Sign In" in the upper right-hand corner. Ensure that you click on the green button that states UPEI LOGIN --- use your UPEI username/email and password to gain access. Do NOT sign in on the community button, and do NOT reset the password. Use the same email/username and password that you use to log into myupei.ca.

Once you are on the site, please take some time to click and review it. For UPEI staff/faculty, click on the Wellness (UPEI Faculty/Staff) icon to view and/or register for any wellness programs. UPEI staff/faculty also have discounts on specialty fitness classes, small group training, and virtual fitness programming.   

UPEI students have access to intramural programs. Only full-time UPEI students have access to intramurals. The site includes the team they are on, game stats, and game schedules with dates, times, and locations.

Those who have purchased Sports Centre memberships and wish to attend a membership fitness class must log in and sign up for a class on a specific date and time.  As well, if they can't make the class, they have to cancel it.  Instructions are found in the class description. 

Take some time as well to view your profile. Click on your name and then your profile. This profile will give you access to program registrations, program attendance, memberships (start and end dates), etc.   

NOTE:  All UPEI staff and faculty have a "default membership." This is not a membership with any membership benefits. Instead, it is a membership that will give you access to discounts on programming and allow you to register for UPEI staff/faculty wellness programs.

This is a hands-on introductory workshop focused on fostering best practices for data organization in spreadsheets. Participants will learn how to organize their data to prioritize clarity, reproducibility, and interoperability, such that they can seamlessly load their data later into an analysis program. The spreadsheet programs covered will be Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. The examples explored will be from the field of Social Sciences, but the principles are relevant for any discipline that collects data in spreadsheets. No previous experience with spreadsheets or programming is required.

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-hss-working-with-data-series-introduction-to-spreadsheets-tickets-427314207297

Machine learning (ML) algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. In this hands-on workshop, you will use MATLAB to apply ML techniques to Signal data. Topics include fundamentals of ML (supervised learning, feature extraction, and hyperparameter tuning); building and evaluating ML models for classification and regression of signals; automatic hyperparameter tuning and feature selection to optimize model performance; and, deploying ML models.

For details and registration, go to https://mathworksmeeting.webex.com/mathworksmeeting/j.php?RGID=rc1cb9cfab0ff2cf1cff1ff5b5a33e32e 

Vagabond Productions is holding auditions for Twelfth Night on November 3, 4, and 5 in the Steel Recital Hall from 7 to 9 pm on each date. 

Everyone is welcome.

An initial list of potential 2022-23 George Coles Bursary recipients will be sent to PEI Student Financial Services for review on Thursday, November 10, 2022. To be included in this initial review, eligible students must ensure that

• their Social Insurance Number is on file at UPEI;
• they are registered in full-time studies in both the 2022 Fall and 2023 Winter terms, as of November 10th, 2022 (unless they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year). Please note that only registered courses count toward student load. Waitlisted courses do not count; 
• if they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year, they have applied to graduate prior to November 10, 2022.

Approved recipients will have funding applied to their student account in the 2023 Winter term. Any questions relating to this message or the George Coles Bursary can be directed to scholarships@upei.ca.

Need more storage on your android phone? 

Some phone models allow you to increase storage with a microSD card. Not only does this let you store more media and apps on your phone, but it also offers a way to transfer large amounts of file data between your phone and other devices. Another advantage is that you can plug some Android phones into an external USB storage drive and browse its files. If your phone has a USB-C port, you can simply plug in a USB flash memory drive with a Type-C connection.

The UPEI Department of Music will present a faculty recital, "Autumn Colours," featuring string players Jeffrey Bazett-Jones (viola), Sean Kemp (violin), and Natalie Williams Calhoun (cello); Magdalena von Eccher (piano); and Karem Simon (clarinet) presenting music by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Brahms. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for students and may be purchased at the admissions desk.

PhD Thesis Presentation and Examination, Environmental Sciences

Kimberly Wishart Chu Foon

Friday November 4, 2022, at 1:00 pm in AVC 286N

Title:  Networks, Governance, and Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract:

Effective conservation approaches are essential for the future sustainability of island natural resources. This study was conducted on Trinidad and Tobago to examine organizational networks and their effectiveness in addressing conservation. A mixed methods approach was used to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Broadly, the organizational networks are poorly connected, and there is limited cross collaboration between organizations working in different ecosystems. When comparing three local protected areas, the partially co-managed protected area had better-connected networks, more positive views about conservation goal achievement and network performance and evidence of ecological outcomes as a direct result of this co-management approach. All networks faced several challenges including conflict issues, lack of state cooperation, and lack of time. Overall, this research has expanded our understanding of conservation networks in an island context. It provided useful data that can be utilized by both conservation practitioners and policymakers locally to improve conservation.