The campus community is invited to join Mr. Chris Halyk, President, Janssen Inc.; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor; Dr. Kathy Gottschall-Pass, Interim Vice-President Academic and Research; and Dr. William Montelpare, Professor and Margaret and Wallace McCain Chair in Human Development and Health, as they announce the Janssen - Prince Edward Island Health Innovation Partnership on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 1:00 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. This collaboration will focus on Real World Evidence projects that involve data access/generation aimed at understanding and improving the PEI health system and patient outcomes. All are welcome.

The Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 schedule is now available in the myUPEI Course Catalogue http://www.upei.ca/discovermore/course-catalogue. Incoming First Year students are now able to register for classes. 

Registration dates for all other students are as follows:
Fourth Year, Graduate Students, BEd students: May 16th, 2019
Third Year: May 21st, 2019
Second Year: May 24th, 2019
All other Students: May 27th, 2019

Any questions regarding registration may be directed to registrar@upei.ca.

We've all deleted something accidentally, panic and frustration sets in immediately. Worry not, in many cases the file can be retrieved from the recycle bin:

1. Look in the trash bin (just double click and drag it back).

2. Recover using file history. If you have turned on File History Backup. If you're running Windows* 10, select the Start button, select Settings > Update & security > Backup > Add a drive and choose an external drive or network location for your backups.
To Restore; type restore files in the search box on the taskbar and select Restore your files with File History.
Look for the file you need, then use the arrows to see all its versions.
When you find the version you want, select Restore to save it somewhere safe.

If you have questions about backing up your work or recovering data from your computer please call the help desk. We're here to help Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. 902 566 0465

The Healthy Campus Committee is please to announce a new 4 week class for UPEI employees, free of charge. Dates: Thursdays, 12:10 pm - 12:50 pm from June 13 - July 4. Yoga Instructor Ouma Cuniah will lead the class. Please email Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca if you'd like to be added to the participant list. Note: 30 applicants max. 

Class description: Using a combination of yoga techniques, this 45 minute class is designed to calm down the nervous system while, at the same time, focusing on the muscles to find balance and strength.

The class will include breathing exercises, a selection of yoga poses destined to calm the mind, stretch and strengthen the body and will end with a short meditation during savasana.

The University of Prince Edward Island competes every year for millions of dollars in research funding from various granting agencies. 

The research activities at UPEI require the service and support of university infrastructure. Canada’s tri-council of federal granting agencies, consisting of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), have recognized the importance of this infrastructure and the potential financial burden it represents to universities. In response, the tri-council has created the Research Support Fund.

The Research Support Fund has been instrumental in advancing strategic research initiatives at UPEI. Although the allocation only partially covers the cost of maintaining and growing the research enterprise, UPEI develops annual performance objectives, indicators, and target outcomes. 

For highlights of some of the benefits, see UPEI's Research Support Fund page.

The Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 schedule is now available in the myUPEI Course Catalogue http://www.upei.ca/discovermore/course-catalogue. Incoming First Year students are now able to register for classes. 

Registration dates for all other students are as follows:
Fourth Year, Graduate Students, BEd students: May 16th, 2019
Third Year: May 21st, 2019
Second Year: May 24th, 2019
All other Students: May 27th, 2019

Any questions regarding registration may be directed to registrar@upei.ca.

Please submit requests for updates for student computer labs for the fall semester by June 1st. In order to accommodate changes to software installed on computers in the student computer labs and/or classrooms, we must receive requests including any installation media (CD’s, DVD’s, etc.) and any related licensing information such as serial numbers before this date.
We have further information on the announcement section of our website.
Email requests to smahar@upei.ca

In a flipped classroom learners engage with lectures or other materials outside of class to prepare for an active learning experience in the classroom. Flipping some classes can add some variety and a change of pace and create more interest for both the learners and the instructor. This workshop will introduce you to flipped instruction tools and techniques that can aid in creating a more active and engaging learning environment. Take this workshop on one of two dates: Thursday, May 30th or Wednesday, June 26th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER
 

UPEI Panther Soccer is hosting its annual Alumni and Friends Breakfast Saturday, June 1 at 10:00 am in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

All are invited to meet current student athletes and alumni and to hear about the 2019–2020 season. Tickets are $10. For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Koren at kglenn@upei.ca.

Go Panthers Go!

To ensure that the most accurate and up to date information is submitted for online tuition waivers, Human Resources will be adhering to the following submission timeline for online Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition Waiver forms:

Fall semester – no earlier than August 1st
Winter semester – no earlier than December 1st
Summer semester – no earlier than April 1st

For any Forms submitted prior to these dates, the Staff/Faculty member will be notified and requested to resubmit their form following the above noted submission timeline. 

The Department of Companion Animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, will be interviewing candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Anesthesia. Each candidate has been asked to present two (2) thirty-minute seminars; one that should be geared towards 3rd year DVM students and one a presentation of their research interests.

Our third candidate will be on-campus Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

May 21st & 22nd, 2019
Dr. Patrick Burns received his BVSc from the University of Queensland (1992) and in 2005 he completed a residency in Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Burns is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (2006). Dr. Burns is currently Head of Equine Anesthesia, and Project Manager at Langford Veterinary Services at the University of Bristol.

SEMINAR Tuesday May 21st, 2019 @ 12:30pm in Lecture Theatre 'B' 
Peri-operative Pain Management in Large Animal Species
"Opportunities and Collaborations in Research - My Research Story"

Any interested faculty/staff are invited to attend. A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of application are available by contacting Sonia Stewart-O'Neill (sostewart@upei.ca) in the Department of Companion Animals.

Human Resources has developed a new online Tuition Waiver fillable form. The form, for both the Employee and Spouse/Dependent waivers, can be found on the main page of MyUPEI under UPEI Forms and on the Human Resources portal under Professional Development. Please submit all Summer 2019 semester Tuition Waivers via the online form as soon as possible.

If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.

As an instructor, you’ve set up a syllabus that clearly explains your expectations for where students will end up. Then you set them on the journey to that destination. However, some will get off track along the way. The information you provide, how you provide it and when you provide it will be key to getting them back on the right path or in keeping them on the right path. In this workshop instructors will learn strategies for the use of feedback and rubrics that they can use to accompany student assessments. This workshop takes place on Wednesday, June 5th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is delighted to announce the Call for Applications for the third offering of ProGRES at UPEI this summer.

ProGRES (Promoting Girls in Research in Engineering and Sustainability) is a summer research opportunity at the FSDE at UPEI for high school girls going into grades 11 and 12. The selected students will work on their own independent research projects with a woman faculty researcher, graduate student, or undergraduate student, who will be the ProGRES student’s direct mentor. Throughout the five-week period, the selected ProGRES students will also have other unique opportunities to learn what Engineering is, and what engineers do, on a daily basis.

For more information, and to apply online, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/s82vSLSdXmgdfgcz6
(Deadline is May 31)

This year the Rotaract Club of UPEI will be working with Easter Seals PEI. Every year Easter Seals hosts an annual auction, to raise money to help Islanders living with disabilities. Rotaract will be collecting any new items or gift certificates persons might want to donate until May 22nd.

Anyone interested can drop off their donation on Dalton Hall 4th Floor at the International and Recruitment Office.

UPDATED - Registration for this FREE workshop is now open to all UPEI:
- Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
- Graduate student staff/graduate student Chairs
- Senior-level undergraduates
- Co-op students
- Staff at Career Services centre at UPEI

This workshop, co-hosted by Synapse, UPEI's technology transfer and commercialization office (www.synapsepei.com) and Mitacs, a national,not-for-profit organization that has designed and delivered research and training programs in Canada for 20 years. (www.mitacs.ca). A minimum registration of 12 participants is required in order for the workshop to go ahead, so early registration is encouraged.

Time Management – Tuesday, June 4, 2019,
9:00am-5:00pm (Registration starts at 8:30am)
Where: Rooms 286 B & C, Atlantic Veterinary College (UPEI)

This energetic, intensive one-day course will sharpen your professional time
management skills and optimize your working week. Building on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) best practices, methodologies, and productivity tactics, the course provides tools and techniques that can be applied to a partner industry project or employment-based role. Whether you’re handling dynamic timelines alone or within a team, you’ll be able to reach your project targets with the knowledge gained in this course.

Learning Outcomes
You will learn to:
- Optimize your professional days and weeks
- Effectively define targets and goals so that they are clear and sustainable
- Accurately estimate activity duration
- Improve focus and better manage interruptions
- Reduce corrective communication
- Better defend project schedules without sacrificing relationship quotient
- Improve and leverage personal energy for sustainable follow-through on activities

To learn more about this course, please visit:
https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/training/workshops/time-management

To register for a workshop, learners will need to:
1. Create an account or sign in to EDGE at this
link:https://edge-reg.mitacs.ca
After signing in, click on ‘Catalog’ tab on your dashboard
2. You can then search and register for the course you are interested in (eg:
Time Management) by clicking the ‘Enroll’ tab
3. You then need to choose available sessions at a location (eg: Prince Edward Island).

Questions? please feel free to reach out to training@mitacs.ca

The Faculty Development Office and Indigenous Education Advisory Circle's faculty development committee are not letting summer stop us! Join us for another in our ongoing series of discussions about indigenizing and decolonizing the university. On Wednesday, May 22, 12:00-1:00pm, in HSB 104, we'll discuss Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz's article "Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization:navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy":

https://www.ualberta.ca/-/media/3CB5BB4AAA7F4A6F92DFCF0B9E273837 

Read the article, bring a colleague, and join us in continuing the conversation!