The flags at the plaza in front of Kelley Memorial Building and at UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place will be lowered to half-mast on Saturday, November 11 on the occasion of Remembrance Day.  Lest we forget.

UPEI Health and Fitness Week 2017 has many exciting yoga classes available to students, staff and faculty throughout the week:

• Karma Yoga
• Fusion Yoga with Kelly Hughes
• GLOWGA: Glow-In-The-Dark Yoga
• Laughter Yoga
• Yoga 101 Clinic

Advance sign-up required. Click here for the full schedule of events and for more information!

The Robertson Library is offering a presentation, with hands-on tutorial time, on Tuesday November 7 at 3:00 pm and again on Friday November 10 at 11:00 am in the LINC classroom (Rm 265) in the Library. Faculty, staff, and students that use Google Scholar, this is a chance to learn some useful time-saving tips!

If you are unable to make this time but would like to learn these tips, please contact Melissa Belvadi, mbelvadi@upei.ca to arrange another time.

The Robertson Library is offering an intro 30-minute presentation with further hands-on time on the RefWorks citation management system on Tuesday, November 7 at 2:00 pm and repeating on Friday, November 10 at noon in the LINC classroom in the Robertson Library.

This will be useful for students and faculty, whether you used the old RefWorks or are learning RefWorks for the first time. If you bring your laptop, we can help you set up the Word or Google Docs plugin following the main presentation. If you are unable to make these times but would like to learn about RefWorks, please contact Melissa Belvadi, mbelvadi@upei.ca.

Faculty are encouraged to share this announcement with their classes!

POWER SHUTDOWN

There will be a power shutdown for Memorial Hall on Friday, November 10, 2017 beginning at 8:30 pm. This power shutdown will also cause an interruption of power for approximately ½ hour at the beginning of the work and again when the work is completed for the Robertson Library, K. C. Irving Building, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Duffy Science Centre, Cass Building, Chaplaincy Centre, Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, Andrew Hall, Bernardine Hall and Blanchard Hall.

This shutdown is necessary to replace the main electrical panel in Memorial Hall, the work is expected to take approximately 10 hours to complete. Emergency power will not be affected.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca, or 902-566-6034.

PEI's Disability Support Program is making changes with the goal of creating a program that is more inclusive of all islanders. They are looking for feedback from Islanders with disabilities and their families, service providers who support people with disabilities, and employers. If this is you, please take the time to complete the survey found here.

The survey should only take 5 minutes to complete and is open until November 10 at 4:00 pm.

There will be a total water shutdown of the domestic hot and cold water in Memorial Hall and the Chaplaincy Centre on Monday, November 13, 2017, beginning at 7:30 am. This shutdown is necessary as part of the Memorial Hall Level 1 renovations. The work is expected to take approximately four hours to complete.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

If you have questions or concerns please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.

UPEI Athletics and Recreation invites all UPEI faculty and staff to the Panther Basketball Home Openers on Friday, November 10 for free! The UPEI Women's Basketball team tips off at 6 pm while the UPEI Men's Basketball team plays at 8 pm, both against the UNB Varsity Reds. Please present your Campus Card (employee ID card) for free admission.

While at the games, pick up your Panther Package for the 2017–18 AUS season. UPEI staff and faculty can purchase the Panther Package for just $20—a savings of $55 dollars from the regular price! The Panther Package gives access to all Men's/Women's Soccer, Women's Rugby, Women's Hockey, and Men's/Women's Basketball.

Go Panthers Go!

With more than 10% of students at UPEI registering with Accessibility Services, as well as UPEI's duty to accommodate these students, Accessibility Services is inviting you to participate in a session on creating academic accommodations or thinking about how to redesign course materials to remove accessibility barriers. This session will also include the use of design personas to think about how students may experience your course.

This event will take place in the Faculty Lounge (Rm 201) of SDU Main Building on November 15, 2017 at 12:00 pm. For more information, contact Gerald Wandio at fdo@upei.ca or 902-620-5217. A previous version of this notice listed an incorrect start time, please note that this event is scheduled for 12:00 noon.

UPEI Athletics and Recreation invites all UPEI faculty and staff to the Panther Basketball Home Openers on Friday, November 10 for free! The UPEI Women's Basketball team tips off at 6 pm while the UPEI Men's Basketball team plays at 8 pm, both against the UNB Varsity Reds. Please present your Campus Card (employee ID card) for free admission.

While at the games, pick up your Panther Package for the 2017–18 AUS season. UPEI staff and faculty can purchase the Panther Package for just $20—a savings of $55 dollars from the regular price! The Panther Package gives access to all Men's/Women's Soccer, Women's Rugby, Women's Hockey, and Men's/Women's Basketball.

Go Panthers Go!

The Kinesiology Program welcomes the UPEI community to tour the new Kinesiology Teaching Lab. Equipment demos and light refreshments will be provided. Door prizes include t-shirts and a personalized fitness assessment/program!

For more information, contact Katie Beck at kbeck@upei.ca.

UPEI’s Faculty of Business will host an information session for those interested in its Executive MBA program. The event will be Wednesday, November 22 at 5:00 pm in the Gallery of The Guild in Charlottetown.

UPEI’s EMBA program offers a high-quality learning experience for working business professionals. The program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Classes are offered bi-weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the option to complete the program in 20 months.

Contact the program coordinator to reserve a seat to learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff from the Faculty of Business.

For more information about UPEI’s Executive MBA program, click here  or contact the EMBA Program Coordinator at mba@upei.ca or 902-566-6474.

Learning is an action that only the student can own and control. As an instructor, what can be done to help a student maximize his/her learning capabilities? In this workshop, instructors will learn about three key skills that contribute to more efficient and effective learning. Those skills are how to take notes, how to read for learning, and how to study effectively.

Offered by the E-Learning Office, this workshop is available on two separate dates. Wednesday, November 22 or Tuesday, November 28 from 1:00-2:00 pm in Rm 265, Robertson Library. Register!

A big "Thank-you!" to the group that gathered a few weeks back to ponder options for the popular exam chili lunches. Thanks to them, the Chaplaincy Centre Exam Chili tradition will be back for its twentieth year with a few new twists!

The menu will be internationalized, nutrition will be increased, and garbage decreased. This year the UPEI Student Union has stepped up as chefs from The Wave will take on the coordination of an event that fed more than 700 students during the last examination period.

Members of the University community who are looking to part with bowls and soup size spoons, please feel free to bring them to the Chaplaincy Centre!

Each semester 30-35 staff and faculty members volunteer to set up, serve and clean up - stay tuned for ways to get involved!

Please note that the UPEI Faculty Association Office has moved to a new location. You can now find the FAO in the Duffy Science Centre, Room 415. Office phone number remains the same 902-566-0438.

Feel free to drop by and say, "Hello"!

Due to popular demand, we are offering another Kickboxing class session. Jason Saggo will be leading a new kickboxing program at the Sports Centre which will be a high-energy, focused, martial arts based workout. Build stamina, improve coordination and flexibility and burn calories as you build lean muscle with this fun and challenging workout.

The program will run November 17, and December 1, 8 and 15 (4 classes) on Fridays from 12:10 pm - 12:55 pm in Fitness Studio 1, at the Chi Wan Young Sports Centre. The Fee for full-time UPEI students and sports centre members is $24 + hst; the fee for non-members is $30 + hst. Please pre-regiser before start date of program at Panther Central Desk, in the sports centre.

For more information, please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness and Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca.

Make sure you’re registered for this exciting event, taking place during Midnight Madness!:

Yoga and Sound: Elements 

Friday, November 24th
10:15pm-12:15am, Fitness Studio #1, Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre
A unique experience with yoga, music, and storytelling. Samantha Sambrooke will lead you on a yoga journey through the elements of water, earth, air, fire and ether to the sounds of crystal singing bowls, drums and flutes played by Trevor Grant of Soundescapes. This is suitable for ALL LEVELS. Cost is $10 per person. No refunds. Pre-registration is required. Please visit the Panther Central desk with payment to register. Yoga mats provided.

Click here for the full schedule of events and for more information!

With more than 10% of students at UPEI registering with Accessibility Services, as well as UPEI's duty to accommodate these students, Accessibility Services is inviting you to participate in a session on creating academic accommodations or thinking about how to redesign course materials to remove accessibility barriers. This session will also include the use of design personas to think about how students may experience your course.

This event will take place in the Faculty Lounge (Rm 201) of SDU Main Building on November 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm. For more information, contact Gerald Wandio at fdo@upei.ca or 902-620-5217.

Do you have a yellow, orange, or green emergency vest in your office? The UPEI Emergency Management Team is performing an audit of where emergency vests are located on campus.

If you have an emergency vest in your office or area please email Kathryn Harrison at kharrison@upei.ca with the following information:

• What colour is the vest (send a picture if possible)
• Where it/you are located
• Who is currently the building warden or guardian?

If you do not need the vest (you are not serving as a warden or guardian for evacuation purposes) skip the email and send the vest directly to Kathryn Harrison in Kelley Memorial Building room 309 for redistribution.

Thank you for your assistance!

The UPEI Biology Department is pleased to welcome back alumna Dr. Lisa Purcell, Senior Scientist at Regeneron, USA. Lisa graduated from UPEI with a BSc, Honours Biology, in 2001. She will present the next seminar in the ESC-HUB seminar series.

Dr. Purcell’s talk is entitled “Stopping the leak: Targeting the host to treat cerebral malaria” and will be presented on Friday, November 10, 2017 at 12:30 pm in room 204 Duffy Science Centre.

Contact Sharon Martin for more information at samartin@upei.ca or 902-566-0301. 

All are welcome!