The next deadline for submitting Biosafety Protocols including new applications, renewals and/or amendments, is Friday September 26. These protocols will be reviewed at the October meeting. Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete the forms. Submit one hard copy of the original protocol with signatures, and associated documents to 200 Kelley Memorial Building and send one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca Please note that protocols received after this deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104.

As part of our ongoing tree pruning, maintenance and inspection program, we have detected Dutch Elm disease in three Elm trees on campus. One of the Elm trees is located near Steel Building and the others are along Elm Allee. Unfortunately, these trees have to be removed and properly disposed of immediately to help avoid the spread of this disease to other Elm trees. There are also a few trees around Bill and Denise Andrew Hall and Blanchard Hall that are either dead or dangerous that have to be removed. This removal is scheduled to take place on Saturday, and Sunday, September 13 and 14. Each tree removed will be replaced with two new trees in either the existing locations or at new locations on campus. While the contractors have been instructed that the work be executed with the least possible interference or disturbance to the campus community, a certain amount of disruption is inevitable. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at 6034 or jmacphail@upei.ca.

CLIVE, the coastal erosion visualization tool created by UPEI’s Climate Research Lab and the Spatial Interface Lab at Simon Fraser University, has reached the FINALS in MIT’s Climate CoLab Communicating Coastal Risk and Resilience contest. Now it needs your votes to help it win the Popular Choice award. register to vote at the contest website. Nearly 600 projects were submitted to MIT’s Climate CoLab for this year’s competition. CLIVE made it through several rounds of competition and broke through to the finals against two other projects. It’s eligible for the Popular Choice, as determined by online voting, and for the Judges Choice Award, based on the project’s merits as determined by a panel of judges. Voting is currently open and runs until September 30. Log on and vote to support this great co-initiative with SFU and UPEI! Cast your vote here: http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300801/planI…

As part of our ongoing tree pruning, maintenance and inspection program, we have detected Dutch Elm disease in three Elm trees on campus. One of the Elm trees is located near Steel Building and the others are along Elm Allee. Unfortunately, these trees have to be removed and properly disposed of immediately to help avoid the spread of this disease to other Elm trees. There are also a few trees around Bill and Denise Andrew Hall and Blanchard Hall that are either dead or dangerous that have to be removed. This removal is scheduled to take place on Saturday, and Sunday, September 13 and 14. Each tree removed will be replaced with two new trees in either the existing locations or at new locations on campus. While the contractors have been instructed that the work be executed with the least possible interference or disturbance to the campus community, a certain amount of disruption is inevitable. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at 6034 or jmacphail@upei.ca.

CLIVE, the coastal erosion visualization tool created by UPEI’s Climate Research Lab and the Spatial Interface Lab at Simon Fraser University, has reached the FINALS in MIT’s Climate CoLab Communicating Coastal Risk and Resilience contest. Now it needs your votes to help it win the Popular Choice award. register to vote at the contest website. Nearly 600 projects were submitted to MIT’s Climate CoLab for this year’s competition. CLIVE made it through several rounds of competition and broke through to the finals against two other projects. It’s eligible for the Popular Choice, as determined by online voting, and for the Judges Choice Award, based on the project’s merits as determined by a panel of judges. Voting is currently open and runs until September 30. Log on and vote to support this great co-initiative with SFU and UPEI! Cast your vote here: http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300801/planI…

Dr. Doug Sobey, a research associate in Island Studies, and formerly at the University of Ulster, will give an illustrated public talk on the results of a study carried out by himself and William Glen (formerly of the Forestry Division), into the forest descriptions found on manuscript maps housed in the PEI Public Archives dating from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dr. Sobey will discuss what the descriptions on the maps reveal about the Island's forest-types before their destruction by clearance and fire. His research has been carried out with the support of both Island Studies and the Forests, Fish and Wildlife Division of the PEI Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and the lecture will include the launch of a recently published research report on the subject. The presentation begins at 7:30 pm on September 11 in the Wanda Wyatt Lecture Theatre, KCI 104. This event is sponsored by Island Studies. For information, contact Andrea Bird at abird@upei.ca

Speed training and TRX - 6 weeks: This program involves interval training and a speed portion around the track. You will increase your fitness, burn fat, and improve your tone. Dates: September 16 - October 21. Tuesdays Group - 6:30-7:15 am. Cardio & Cycle - 6 weeks: Get ready to ride steadily and consistently with heavy resistance. Strength rides increase muscular and cardiovascular strength enabling you to be a powerful climber. The class will also challenge your aerobic base through interval sprints and maximum speed. Dates: September 17 - October 22. Wednesdays Group - 5:00- 5:45 pm. Advanced Group Cycling - 6 weeks: What better way to build strength than to climb? Get ready to ride steadily and consistently with heavy resistance. Strength rides increase muscular and cardiovascular strength enabling you to be a powerful climber. The class will also challenge your aerobic base through interval sprints and maximum speed. Dates: September 18 - October 23. Thursdays Group - 6:30-7:15 am. Registration for Specialty Fitness Programs is required. Please register by contacting Panther Central at 566-0368 or drop by the Sports Centre. Space is limited. Fee: Members $51 + hst/program. Non-members $60 + hst/program. Fitness Instructor - Tracey Gairns-Brioux.

The UPEI Department of Music is pleased to begin its 2014-15 Concert Series at Steel Recital Hall on Friday, September 12 at 7:30 pm with David Braid and the Maritime Brass Quintet performing Braid’s works for jazz piano and brass quintet and Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue.” Throughout this season, the Music Department will be celebrating its students, alumni, and PEI musicians returning home, by featuring them in fifteen of the seventeen concerts presented in the series. This first concert includes UPEI alumni Eric Mathis and Bob Nicholson as part of the brass quintet. Tickets are $15/$10 for students and seniors, and are available at the door or in advance by calling 566-0507 or by email at music@upei.ca.

A research project at UPEI is looking for volunteers who enjoy gardening, cooking, and working with children. Dr. Lyndsay Moffatt, assistant professor of education at UPEI, is looking for 23 elders (50+), and 23 young adults (16-30) or adults (30-50) who are willing and able to meet approximately once a month during the school year to plant seeds, make food, sing, talk, and tell stories with Kindergarten students. Dr. Moffatt is studying how this kind of intergenerational project can support the kindergarten language and literacy curricula. To participate in “Start With A Seedling,” volunteers will need an up-to-date police record check. This police record check is free if you present a letter from Dr. Moffatt that outlines the study. Interested? Contact Dr. Moffatt at lemoffatt@upei.ca or (902) 620-5177. “Start With A Seedling” is supported by a Joint Education Research Grant (JERG) from the Prince Edward Island English Language School Board, UPEI’s Faculty of Education, and the PEI Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, as well as a Charlottetown Micro-grant.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions-- new, renewal, or amendment-- is Friday, October 3 for the October meeting. Ensure you always… · Download the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/research-services/research-certifications/a… · Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms and only current forms will be accepted. Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date. · Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302 · Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Admin. Assistant @ 566-0973

The School of Business and the International Relations Office will co-host a student 'household item giveaway' event on Friday, September 19 in McDougall Hall, Room 245. If you have extra gently used furniture, dishes, bedding and linens, small appliances, cookware, or other useful items, please consider donating them for the event. Items will be given away to new students to help them set up a household, with priority to new international students living off campus. Please drop off any donations in McDougall Hall before 2:30 pm on Sept. 19. If you require help to move them, volunteers will be on hand from 12 noon on. For further information, contact Debbie Graham at dgraham@upei.ca or (902) 566-0564

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, September 15 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, September 15 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

The UPEI Department of Music is pleased to begin its 2014-15 Concert Series at Steel Recital Hall on Friday, September 12 at 7:30 pm with David Braid and the Maritime Brass Quintet performing Braid’s works for jazz piano and brass quintet and Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue.” Throughout this season, the Music Department will be celebrating its students, alumni, and PEI musicians returning home, by featuring them in fifteen of the seventeen concerts presented in the series. This first concert includes UPEI alumni Eric Mathis and Bob Nicholson as part of the brass quintet. Tickets are $15/$10 for students and seniors, and are available at the door or in advance by calling 566-0507 or by email at music@upei.ca.

A research project at UPEI is looking for volunteers who enjoy gardening, cooking, and working with children. Dr. Lyndsay Moffatt, assistant professor of education at UPEI, is looking for 23 elders (50+), and 23 young adults (16-30) or adults (30-50) who are willing and able to meet approximately once a month during the school year to plant seeds, make food, sing, talk, and tell stories with Kindergarten students. Dr. Moffatt is studying how this kind of intergenerational project can support the kindergarten language and literacy curricula. To participate in “Start With A Seedling,” volunteers will need an up-to-date police record check. This police record check is free if you present a letter from Dr. Moffatt that outlines the study. Interested? Contact Dr. Moffatt at lemoffatt@upei.ca or (902) 620-5177. “Start With A Seedling” is supported by a Joint Education Research Grant (JERG) from the Prince Edward Island English Language School Board, UPEI’s Faculty of Education, and the PEI Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, as well as a Charlottetown Micro-grant.

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions-- new, renewal, or amendment-- is Friday, October 3 for the October meeting. Ensure you always… · Download the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/research-services/research-certifications/a… · Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms and only current forms will be accepted. Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date. · Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302 · Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Admin. Assistant @ 566-0973

The School of Business and the International Relations Office will co-host a student 'household item giveaway' event on Friday, September 19 in McDougall Hall, Room 245. If you have extra gently used furniture, dishes, bedding and linens, small appliances, cookware, or other useful items, please consider donating them for the event. Items will be given away to new students to help them set up a household, with priority to new international students living off campus. Please drop off any donations in McDougall Hall before 2:30 pm on Sept. 19. If you require help to move them, volunteers will be on hand from 12 noon on. For further information, contact Debbie Graham at dgraham@upei.ca or (902) 566-0564

Dr. Doug Sobey, a research associate in Island Studies, and formerly at the University of Ulster, will give an illustrated public talk on the results of a study carried out by himself and William Glen (formerly of the Forestry Division), into the forest descriptions found on manuscript maps housed in the PEI Public Archives dating from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dr. Sobey will discuss what the descriptions on the maps reveal about the Island's forest-types before their destruction by clearance and fire. His research has been carried out with the support of both Island Studies and the Forests, Fish and Wildlife Division of the PEI Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and the lecture will include the launch of a recently published research report on the subject. The presentation begins at 7:30 pm on September 11 in the Wanda Wyatt Lecture Theatre, KCI 104. This event is sponsored by Island Studies. For information, contact Andrea Bird at abird@upei.ca

Speed training and TRX - 6 weeks: This program involves interval training and a speed portion around the track. You will increase your fitness, burn fat, and improve your tone. Dates: September 16 - October 21. Tuesdays Group - 6:30-7:15 am. Cardio & Cycle - 6 weeks: Get ready to ride steadily and consistently with heavy resistance. Strength rides increase muscular and cardiovascular strength enabling you to be a powerful climber. The class will also challenge your aerobic base through interval sprints and maximum speed. Dates: September 17 - October 22. Wednesdays Group - 5:00- 5:45 pm. Advanced Group Cycling - 6 weeks: What better way to build strength than to climb? Get ready to ride steadily and consistently with heavy resistance. Strength rides increase muscular and cardiovascular strength enabling you to be a powerful climber. The class will also challenge your aerobic base through interval sprints and maximum speed. Dates: September 18 - October 23. Thursdays Group - 6:30-7:15 am. Registration for Specialty Fitness Programs is required. Please register by contacting Panther Central at 566-0368 or drop by the Sports Centre. Space is limited. Fee: Members $51 + hst/program. Non-members $60 + hst/program. Fitness Instructor - Tracey Gairns-Brioux.

The 15th annual Recognition of Founders Ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 25 in the Quadrangle outside of SDU Main Building at 2:00 pm. A reception will take place immediately following the ceremony in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall (also ceremony's rain location). Please RSVP to Rebecca Gass at rjgass@upei.ca or 566-0949.