Campus Notices
The University of Prince Edward Island is proud to host the Canada Gairdner Wightman Laureate for the 2013 Gairdner Lectures. In the morning of Tuesday, October 15, Dr. James C. Hogg will deliver a lecture to senior high school science students from across the province entitled “Why is breathing important?” That afternoon, he will give a public lecture called “Developing new treatments for chronic lung disease.”
The afternoon lecture is open to the public and is free of charge. The event begins at 2:00 pm in McMillan Hall, W. A. Murphy Student Centre.
Since earning his PhD in experimental medicine from McGill University in 1969, Dr. James C. Hogg has remained focused on the study of obstructive lung disease. He has advanced our understanding of how both healthy and diseased lungs work, including asthma, and the effects of smoking and pollution. He built a world-renowned centre for pulmonary and cardiovascular research at St. Paul’s Hospital in British Columbia, which trains more than 100 professionals every year. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
For more information, visit http://research.upei.ca/events/dr-james-c-hogg-gives-2013-gairdner-lect….
The staff at the Wave are excited about the new menu and hours. Make sure you stop in for lunch or after work. There are several vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options for you to enjoy, plus our regular pub favourites. Kitchen hours are Monday-Friday, 11:00 am—10:00 pm. If you would like to book a event, contact Josh at 566-0366 or thewave@upeisu.ca.
The UPEI Student Union is partnering with Farm Credit Canada's "Drive Away Hunger" to help support local food banks. We are excited about this partnership as any food or monetary donation collected will go to support the UPEI Food Bank. All donations can be dropped off at the UPEI Student Union office by October 15, 2013. For more information, contact Melissa at 566-0430.
A number of our indoor intramural programs are starting this weekend at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre: Co-ed Volleyball-Sundays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Men's Basketball-Mondays, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Ladies/Men's Squash-Mondays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Badminton (co-ed)-Wednesdays 7:00 pm-9:00 pm; and Women's Basketball-Thursdays 4:00 pm-6:00 pm.
Fee for program: full time UPEI students and Sports Centre members have FREE access. Non-members fee is $20 per person per sport (September/October-end of November) or non-members can pay a drop-in fee of $5.
Table Tennis meeting: Table Tennis meeting will be held on October 10 at 6:00 pm, 2nd floor lobby, Sports Centre. We wish to meet with those interested to receive feedback in the creation of a Table Tennis League.
The University of Prince Edward Island is proud to host the Canada Gairdner Wightman Laureate for the 2013 Gairdner Lectures. In the morning of Tuesday, October 15, Dr. James C. Hogg will deliver a lecture to senior high school science students from across the province entitled “Why is breathing important?” That afternoon, he will give a public lecture called “Developing new treatments for chronic lung disease.”
The afternoon lecture is open to the public and is free of charge. The event begins at 2:00 pm in McMillan Hall, W. A. Murphy Student Centre.
Since earning his PhD in experimental medicine from McGill University in 1969, Dr. James C. Hogg has remained focused on the study of obstructive lung disease. He has advanced our understanding of how both healthy and diseased lungs work, including asthma, and the effects of smoking and pollution. He built a world-renowned centre for pulmonary and cardiovascular research at St. Paul’s Hospital in British Columbia, which trains more than 100 professionals every year. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
For more information, visit http://research.upei.ca/events/dr-james-c-hogg-gives-2013-gairdner-lect….
The staff at the Wave are excited about the new menu and hours. Make sure you stop in for lunch or after work. There are several vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options for you to enjoy, plus our regular pub favourites. Kitchen hours are Monday-Friday, 11:00 am—10:00 pm. If you would like to book a event, contact Josh at 566-0366 or thewave@upeisu.ca.
The UPEI Student Union is partnering with Farm Credit Canada's "Drive Away Hunger" to help support local food banks. We are excited about this partnership as any food or monetary donation collected will go to support the UPEI Food Bank. All donations can be dropped off at the UPEI Student Union office by October 15, 2013. For more information, contact Melissa at 566-0430.
A number of our indoor intramural programs are starting this weekend at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre: Co-ed Volleyball-Sundays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Men's Basketball-Mondays, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Ladies/Men's Squash-Mondays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm; Badminton (co-ed)-Wednesdays 7:00 pm-9:00 pm; and Women's Basketball-Thursdays 4:00 pm-6:00 pm.
Fee for program: full time UPEI students and Sports Centre members have FREE access. Non-members fee is $20 per person per sport (September/October-end of November) or non-members can pay a drop-in fee of $5.
Table Tennis meeting: Table Tennis meeting will be held on October 10 at 6:00 pm, 2nd floor lobby, Sports Centre. We wish to meet with those interested to receive feedback in the creation of a Table Tennis League.
We are very happy to announce that after receiving approximately 30 suggestions, the name of the Peer Recognition Program has been selected! Our program will be called SOAR (for "Shout Out" Award Recipient). Thank you to Nicole Higginbotham for this successful suggestion--she will receive an Ipod Nano for her submission, congratulations Nicole! Thank you to the many others who also took the time to submit names for the program.
We also appreciate receiving a wide range of SOAR nominations from across campus for the month of September. We picked one randomly from these nominations and are pleased to announce that the first recipient of the SOAR award is Bruce Ferguson. Bruce's nominator noted that he stepped into a project already in progress and "... made sure he was there for the vendor folks as well as the UPEI team. He stayed late, helped us all out, offered suggestions, explained things for us and was instrumental in getting things in place quickly while maintaining a sense of humour and positive perspective." Congratulations, Bruce on "soaring above!" He will receive an item from the UPEI bookstore while the person who nominated Bruce will be entered into the year-end nominators draw.
To see a summary of the September nominations, please visit the UPEI HR website at the following link:
http://hr.upei.ca/notice/2013/10/peer-recognition-award-name-and-septem…
When you want to "shout out" your appreciation to a co-worker you feel soared above and beyond, go to the HR website and complete the Peer Recognition Nomination Form. October nominations now being accepted!
Department of Human Resources
The Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training are conducting a survey of young adults who have made their transition from secondary school to their next step (whether it be post-secondary, work, or other endeavours).
Eligibility criteria: current student, has tried post-secondary but did not continue, or decided to work after secondary school.
The survey, which is part of a larger project to research the strengths and gaps in the school-based delivery of career development services and best practices for strengthening career education, takes approximately 15–25
minutes to complete and is available in English and French.
Participation is voluntary and all responses are anonymous and confidential.Those who complete the survey will be eligible to win an iPad! Please pass along to friends and family who may be eligible! The deadline to complete the
survey has been extended to Friday, October 11.
ENGLISH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-from-school/
FRENCH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-de-lecole/
Basketball action:
The women's basketball team will head to Queen's University for the Tindall Invitational Tournament, October 4–6. Their first game will take place on Friday, October 4 against Queen's at 7:00 PM AST. Their second game of the tournament is against Concordia on Saturday, October 5 at 3:00 pm AST. The women's team will take on Lethbridge in their final game of the tournament on Sunday, October 6 at 11:00 am AST.
The men's basketball team will compete against Lee Academy in exhibition play on Saturday, October 5 at 9:00 am at Holland College in Charlottetown.
Hockey action:
The men's hockey team will compete against Lakehead University in Ontario for exhibition games on Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm AST.
The women's hockey team takes on StFX in exhibition play on Saturday at 4:00 pm in Nova Scotia. The team will compete against them again on Sunday at 12:00 pm.
Field Hockey action:
The UPEI field hockey team is taking part in the second tournament of the season hosted by UNB. On Saturday, the girls will battle host UNB at 12:00 pm and take on Acadia at 5:00 pm. Sunday's action will see the Panthers up against Dal at 9:00 am, SMU at 11:00 am, and STFX at 2:00 pm.
Soccer action:
Both teams host Memorial University on Saturday, October 5. Women's game at 3:00 pm, men's game following at 5:15 pm. The teams will battle it out again on Sunday, with the women's match at 11:00 am and the men's competition at 1:15 pm.
Rugby action:
The rugby team takes on Acadia at 3:00 pm on Saturday, October 5 in Nova Scotia. Fans can watch from home live on austv.ca.
GOPANTHERSGO!
David Chilton, best-selling author of "The Wealthy Barber" and "The Wealthy Barber Returns" and Dragon on CBC's Dragons' Den is coming to Charlottetown on October 28. Chilton will headline Enactus (Entrepreneurial Action Us) UPEI's event on entrepreneurship and innovation which will be held at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on Monday, October 28 at 7:00 pm.
Chilton's 75-minute keynote address will provide attendees with valuable information on his experiences as well as advice on entrepreneurship and financial planning. 500 free copies of 'The Wealthy Barber Returns' books will also be distributed to lucky attendees. The UPEI student-led event will kick off with a 'PEI Small Business Panel Discussion' featuring four local entrepreneurs—Jeff Squires of PEI Brewing Company and Cavendish Beach Music Festival; Gillian McCrae of GetGifted; Joelle MacPhee of Ooka Island; and Matthew Jelley of Maritime Fun Group.
Tickets are now available at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Box Office and online at confederationcentre.com. General admission is $48, while student admission is $33. Prices are subject to sales tax and a capital improvement theatre fee of $2.00. University and college students require Student ID cards to obtain the reduced student rate.
Enactus UPEI is an affiliate organization of Enactus Canada (http://www.enactus.ca/), a social entrepreneurship non-profit organization that implements social entrepreneurial volunteer projects that have a goal of making communities better places socially, economically, and environmentally.
For more information, contact Connor MacPhee at (902) 940-3383 or enactusupei@gmail.com.
The campus community is invited to attend the 2013 Trudeau Lecture entitled: "Picking Up The Pieces: Seeking Out The Roots Of Violence Against Indigenous Women" on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium,
Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
In the first Trudeau Lecture to come to the University of Prince Edward Island, beloved Métis author and playwright Maria Campbell, 2012 Trudeau Fellow, talks about the connection between her volunteering, her academic
career, and her work in literature, theatre, and video to end violence against women. Growing up in a Road Allowance Métis community in northern Saskatchewan, Dr. Campbell witnessed the power that women in her community exercised, as well as the violence they experienced. A lifelong student of Indigenous oral history, she will speak to what she has learned of traditional ways that fostered respect and authority for Aboriginal women, and about how colonization disrupted those ways and introduced gendered violence.
Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Ms. Lesli Bisgould, BA, LLP will present her lecture—"Power and Irony: Why Animals Have No Legal Rights in Canada—Yet" as this year's Thane Campbell Lectureship in Law on Friday, October 4 at 1:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242) in Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
Ms. Bisgould has been practicing law since 1992, focusing on animal law and animal rights. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of law where she teaches a course on animals and the law. She is the author of Animals and the Law (2011), a Canadian law textbook published by Irwin Law.
This free lecture is sponsored by UPEI and the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island. All are welcome to attend!
For more information, contact 566-0307
The Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training are conducting a survey of young adults who have made their transition from secondary school to their next step (whether it be post-secondary, work, or other endeavours).
Eligibility criteria: current student, has tried post-secondary but did not continue, or decided to work after secondary school.
The survey, which is part of a larger project to research the strengths and gaps in the school-based delivery of career development services and best practices for strengthening career education, takes approximately 15–25
minutes to complete and is available in English and French.
Participation is voluntary and all responses are anonymous and confidential.Those who complete the survey will be eligible to win an iPad! Please pass along to friends and family who may be eligible! The deadline to complete the
survey has been extended to Friday, October 11.
ENGLISH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-from-school/
FRENCH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-de-lecole/
Basketball action:
The women's basketball team will head to Queen's University for the Tindall Invitational Tournament, October 4–6. Their first game will take place on Friday, October 4 against Queen's at 7:00 PM AST. Their second game of the tournament is against Concordia on Saturday, October 5 at 3:00 pm AST. The women's team will take on Lethbridge in their final game of the tournament on Sunday, October 6 at 11:00 am AST.
The men's basketball team will compete against Lee Academy in exhibition play on Saturday, October 5 at 9:00 am at Holland College in Charlottetown.
Hockey action:
The men's hockey team will compete against Lakehead University in Ontario for exhibition games on Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm AST.
The women's hockey team takes on StFX in exhibition play on Saturday at 4:00 pm in Nova Scotia. The team will compete against them again on Sunday at 12:00 pm.
Field Hockey action:
The UPEI field hockey team is taking part in the second tournament of the season hosted by UNB. On Saturday, the girls will battle host UNB at 12:00 pm and take on Acadia at 5:00 pm. Sunday's action will see the Panthers up against Dal at 9:00 am, SMU at 11:00 am, and STFX at 2:00 pm.
Soccer action:
Both teams host Memorial University on Saturday, October 5. Women's game at 3:00 pm, men's game following at 5:15 pm. The teams will battle it out again on Sunday, with the women's match at 11:00 am and the men's competition at 1:15 pm.
Rugby action:
The rugby team takes on Acadia at 3:00 pm on Saturday, October 5 in Nova Scotia. Fans can watch from home live on austv.ca.
GOPANTHERSGO!
David Chilton, best-selling author of "The Wealthy Barber" and "The Wealthy Barber Returns" and Dragon on CBC's Dragons' Den is coming to Charlottetown on October 28. Chilton will headline Enactus (Entrepreneurial Action Us) UPEI's event on entrepreneurship and innovation which will be held at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on Monday, October 28 at 7:00 pm.
Chilton's 75-minute keynote address will provide attendees with valuable information on his experiences as well as advice on entrepreneurship and financial planning. 500 free copies of 'The Wealthy Barber Returns' books will also be distributed to lucky attendees. The UPEI student-led event will kick off with a 'PEI Small Business Panel Discussion' featuring four local entrepreneurs—Jeff Squires of PEI Brewing Company and Cavendish Beach Music Festival; Gillian McCrae of GetGifted; Joelle MacPhee of Ooka Island; and Matthew Jelley of Maritime Fun Group.
Tickets are now available at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Box Office and online at confederationcentre.com. General admission is $48, while student admission is $33. Prices are subject to sales tax and a capital improvement theatre fee of $2.00. University and college students require Student ID cards to obtain the reduced student rate.
Enactus UPEI is an affiliate organization of Enactus Canada (http://www.enactus.ca/), a social entrepreneurship non-profit organization that implements social entrepreneurial volunteer projects that have a goal of making communities better places socially, economically, and environmentally.
For more information, contact Connor MacPhee at (902) 940-3383 or enactusupei@gmail.com.
The campus community is invited to attend the 2013 Trudeau Lecture entitled: "Picking Up The Pieces: Seeking Out The Roots Of Violence Against Indigenous Women" on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium,
Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
In the first Trudeau Lecture to come to the University of Prince Edward Island, beloved Métis author and playwright Maria Campbell, 2012 Trudeau Fellow, talks about the connection between her volunteering, her academic
career, and her work in literature, theatre, and video to end violence against women. Growing up in a Road Allowance Métis community in northern Saskatchewan, Dr. Campbell witnessed the power that women in her community exercised, as well as the violence they experienced. A lifelong student of Indigenous oral history, she will speak to what she has learned of traditional ways that fostered respect and authority for Aboriginal women, and about how colonization disrupted those ways and introduced gendered violence.
Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Ms. Lesli Bisgould, BA, LLP will present her lecture—"Power and Irony: Why Animals Have No Legal Rights in Canada—Yet" as this year's Thane Campbell Lectureship in Law on Friday, October 4 at 1:30 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242) in Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
Ms. Bisgould has been practicing law since 1992, focusing on animal law and animal rights. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of law where she teaches a course on animals and the law. She is the author of Animals and the Law (2011), a Canadian law textbook published by Irwin Law.
This free lecture is sponsored by UPEI and the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island. All are welcome to attend!
For more information, contact 566-0307
The Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training are conducting a survey of young adults who have made their transition from secondary school to their next step (whether it be post-secondary, work, or other endeavours).
Eligibility criteria: current student, has tried post-secondary but did not continue, or decided to work after secondary school.
The survey, which is part of a larger project to research the strengths and gaps in the school-based delivery of career development services and best practices for strengthening career education, takes approximately 15–25
minutes to complete and is available in English and French.
Participation is voluntary and all responses are anonymous and confidential.Those who complete the survey will be eligible to win an iPad! Please pass along to friends and family who may be eligible! The deadline to complete the
survey has been extended to Friday, October 11.
ENGLISH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-from-school/
FRENCH SURVEY: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/transition-de-lecole/