A new Cycle and Core fitness class will be offered from March 8 - 22 from 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm. Three classes will be with fitness instructor Bernadette Currie. Fee: $25.50 plus HST for Sports Centre members, $30 plus HST for non-members. Registration deadline:  March 4. Please visit Panther Central at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre to register - payment required to complete registration.
 

The UPEI Mental Health Week organizers invite staff and faculty to participate in our wrap-up session, "Let's Listen" on Friday, March 11 at 3:00 pm. Five to six students, staff, and faculty will share their personal journey and/or supportive experiences with mental health in a friendly, safe, and informal environment. We've already had a few students step up to participate, and we are now looking for a few staff and faculty to do so as well. If you would like to share your story, relating it to our theme "Relationships Matter", we would love to hear from you. Please send a short paragraph of what you would like to speak about to Anne Bartlett, ambartlett@upei.ca, by 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 25. Please help us eliminate the stigma around mental health while promoting a healthy and supportive UPEI community.

Are you looking to order a grad ring? There will be a representative from Nortons Jewellers at the UPEI Bookstore on Tuesday, February 23 and Wednesday, February 24 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm with samples of all graduation rings.

PhD Student Ebtehal El-Ghezlani will present a seminar on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 12:30 pm in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212. The presentation is entitled "Neutral and Cationic Cyclopentadienyl Iron-Based Chromene Complexes Tuning the Properties".  All are welcome!

PEI Energy Systems needs to replace the domestic hot water exchanger for the original portion of the Atlantic Veterinary College. This will require a shutdown of domestic hot water for the original portino of the AVC facility for approximately 2 hours. They will be doing this work on Monday, February 29, 2016 beginning at 12:00pm.

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.

Blog post #3 is up and ready for your reading and commentary! You can find it on the Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching website at projects.upei.ca/scent. This week's article is entitled "Academic Freedom is for Students Too"--as part of our ongoing theme that explores the relationships between academic freedom, pedagogy, and curriculum.

For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, Chair of SCENT, abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Faculty Development Office, fdo@upei.ca.

English students are invited to come to help choosing courses and to talk about careers, international study, honours, scholarships, academic supports, and societies. Free book table and free pizza!

March 4, 2:30-4:00 pm in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge (Main 204).

For more information, email Dr. Shannon Murray at smurray@upei.ca.

Due to the expiration of the current contract, the opportunity to provide food services on campus was advertised to the public. There were two responses received as a result of the Request for Proposals; one from Chartwells and a second from Aramark. The Campus-Wide Food Services Evaluation Committee invites faculty, staff, and students to attend the following presentations by the two bidders:

Aramark
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
9:00 - 10:15 am
Main Building Room 117

Chartwells*
Friday, February 26, 2016
9:00 - 10:15 am
Don and Marion McDougall Hall Room 329

*This date has been added as Chartwells' original presentation time was scheduled during Reading Week.

A joint information session on the Spending Authority Policy and Contract Process will be held on Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 10:00 am at AVC Lecture Theatre B.

Matt Adams, Accounting Manager, will review the new Spending Authority Policy and answer questions about procedural guidelines.
 

Online tax slips are now available, through Campus LogIn, to current and former employees who elected to receive their T4 electronically prior to Tuesday, February 16, 2016. 

Employees who did not provide consent will have their 2015 T4s mailed to them within the next week. The “Electronic T4 Consent” option is now standard via Campus LogIn and we strongly encourage everyone to sign-up now for future years. 

For employees who file their taxes electronically, printing the slip is optional. You will be able to read the values for each of the tax slip boxes online as you are completing your income tax return. You will always have access to slips under Campus LogIn should you need them now or in the future. 

We will also be mailing T4As for 2015 within the next week.

Also, please note that Payroll will not be processing requests for duplicate copies until March 1/16. 

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 566-0464 for assistance. 

A first of its kind ‘foodie’ event is taking place in Charlottetown. UPEI's Dr. Bill Whelan and wife Michelle Cottreau are hosting a roving feast with a twist. Under the guidance of Chef Andrew Nicholson, culinary students have been given the challenge to create unique and tasty dishes from a list of cancer fighting foods such as cabbage, chocolate and onions. Guests will dine on their choice of any or all of the 18 small plates prepared by the culinary students all while mingling with UPEI students and faculty who will explain the science behind the cancer fighting foods. The evening will also include a silent auction and green tea tasting.

What inspired this innovative event? The desire of Canadian Cancer Society Dream Team member and UPEI cancer researcher, Dr. Whelan, to see fewer people diagnosed with cancer. Today, 2 in 5 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer and of those, 1 in 4 will die from it. Thanks to research, the number of people surviving a cancer diagnosis has improved from 26% in 1940 to 63% today, yet cancer is now the leading cause of premature death in PEI, taking more Islanders each year than heart disease, stroke and diabetes combined.

Tickets for the event are $75 per guest. Charitable donation receipts of $30 ticket will be issued. These proceeds will go to the fight against cancer through the work of the PEI Division of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Culinary Institute of Canada
4 Sydney St, Charlottetown, PE
February 19 (storm date February 20)
6:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 6:30, food service begins at 6:45)

For tickets, visit www.cancer.ca/pei or call 902-566-4007.

The Mawi'omi Centre is hosting a Reunion and Alumni Social on Monday, February 22 from 4 - 6 pm in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 210.  Featuring guest speaker, Julie Bull, the first coordinator of Mawi'omi, the event will be "drop-in style" with light refreshments. Guests are also welcome to participate in the CBU webinar titled "Learning from Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki".

The campus community is invited to participate in a workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), hosted by the Department of Student Affairs and delivered by Megan MacKenzie, Frédéric Fovet, and Cathy Rose. Universal Design for Learning is a framework to optimize teaching and learning by considering the “why”, “what”, and “how” of learning. As our Accessibility services are nearing capacity and an increasing number of students are using these services, the UDL framework can be used in higher education to address the very pressing need of delivering sustainable, inclusive instruction.

In this workshop, we will explore the UDL framework, discuss how faculty and staff can use UDL to better meet the learning needs of their students, and share some real, simple examples of how UDL principles can be implemented.

The workshop will happen on Thursday, March 3 from 1-3pm in the Main Faculty Lounge. Refreshments will be served.

If you are interested in attending please sign up: https://docs.google.com/a/upei.ca/forms/d/13otZNT93WcbMSrpXEXmJT1CNPp9rDi88-VcUTLSNQi0/edit?usp=drive_web

UPEI is in the process of transitioning Corporate Credit Cards to Scotiabank, and some cardholders have already received their new Scotiabank cards.

To assist in this process, there will be a second training session hosted by Matt Adams on Feb 24 at 10:00am in Don and Marion McDougall Hall (Room 329) to demonstrate how to view and reconcile transactions using Scotiabank's CentreSuite program, and provide some additional information.  Please feel free to attend as a cardholder or have a designate attend who is responsible for monthly reconciliation activities.

If you would like to receive training and are unable to attend the session, training can be provided on an individual basis. 

If you have any questions, please contact Matt Adams in the Accounting Office at 566-0470 or at mradams@upei.ca.

Please note the Wave is closed this week for Reading Week.