UPEI faculty and students are invited to register for a free online ACENET training session, "ACENET Basics: Introduction to Shell Scripting," on September 22, 2022, from 10 to 11:30 am.

This core session is designed for both new and experienced users. You’ll learn how to use the command line to carry out repetitive tasks, extract information from files quickly, combine commands in powerful ways, and capture a workflow so you can re-use it easily. Save time, reduce errors, and use Linux more effectively. Prerequisite: ACENET Basic Series Introduction to Linux, or previous experience with Linux.  

DETAILS & REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-introduction-to-shell-scripting-tickets-413030755107 

UPEI faculty and students are invited to attend a free online workshop, "ACENET Basics: Introduction to Linux," on September 21, 2022, from 10 to 11:30 am.

This core session is designed to help those with no prior experience working with a terminal interface. Linux is the terminal interface used to enable you to use the ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) HPC clusters from your desktop. It's the tool you need to get your data on the clusters, run your programs, and get your data back. In this session, learn how to get started with Linux, how to create and navigate directories for your data, load files, manage your storage, run programs on the computing clusters, and set file permissions. This workshop is designed for those with no prior experience in working with a terminal interface.  

DETAILS & REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-introduction-to-linux-tickets-413030263637 

Ethics protocols that involve "more than minimal risk" must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday, September 30, 2022, for review at the September meeting.

Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve "more than minimal risk"; renewals; and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the REB review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca.

The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments is Friday, September 30, 2022. These applications will be reviewed at the October 20, 2022, meeting.

All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

Please note that the IBC has instituted a new category of protocol amendment: biosafety permit minor amendment. This event form is included in the Researcher Portal. Minor amendments that are strictly limited to changes in personnel and/or funding can be submitted at any time but require up to a two-week review period. They are normally reviewed by the IBC chair or designate and the BSO or designate. If the amendment is approved, then an approval notification will be sent to the PI. Submissions via this route may be sent for full committee review at the discretion of the IBC chair and the BSO.  

For more information about the IBC review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca

There are a number of home and away events for the UPEI Panthers for the week of September 12–18, 2022.

Applications for UPEI's Co-operative Education Program close on September 21st! Co-op combines classroom studies with practical work experience outside the university environment. Co-op students gain the benefit of applying their classroom learning, obtaining paid work experience, and expanding their professional networks. 

Please remind students to consider applying for Co-op. This is the only time they will be able to apply for the 2022/2023 academic year. The next intake will be in August-September, 2023. 

Students can learn more and apply through UPEI's Experiential Education website. 

Questions? Email co-op@upei.ca or stop by the Career Studio, Dalton Hall room 209

The UPEI Sports Centre/Fitness Centre will be operating on a reduced schedule on Monday, September 19, due to the Day of Mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Hours of operation will be 10 am to 10 pm. Membership fitness classes and intramurals will take place as regularly scheduled.

UPEI Kinesiology students are seeking volunteers to participate in a four-week supervised personal training program in the fall of 2022. No experience necessary. Participants must be 30 to 70 years old, with stable health. The program cost is $30 + HST and includes four in-person sessions in the UPEI Fitness Centre, as well as fitness testing before and after the program. For questions or to register, email trsaunders@upei.ca.

The 42nd annual Terry Fox Run will take place on Sunday, September 18, across Canada. The event will once again be held in person, uniting neighbourhoods and schools as they participate in the 2022 Terry Fox Run. This year’s Charlottetown Terry Fox Run will take place at the University of Prince Edward Island Alumni Canada Games Place track. Reilly Sullivan, a fourth-year biology student and a member of the Panthers women’s basketball team, is organizing this year’s event.

Two categories of runs to be offered: a “Kid’s Run,” which will include both a 400m and a 1km run, and a “Big Run” for adults, consisting of a 5km and 10km route. The event will kick off at 8 am with registration for the Kid’s Run followed by the run at 8:30 am. Registration for the Big Run will begin at 9 am with the run at 10 am. Registration and the start and finish lines will be at the UPEI track. Participants are encouraged to register online and fundraise using the Terry Fox Foundation’s website: https://run.terryfox.ca/3457.

The George Coles Bursary for the 2022-23 academic year will be awarded to eligible students in the 2023 Winter term. Information about this bursary and a list of the eligibility criteria can be found here.

An initial list of potential student recipients will be sent to PEI Student Financial services in early November for review of eligibility. To be included in this initial review, eligible students must ensure that

• their Social Insurance Number is on file at UPEI;
• they are registered in full-time studies in both the 2022 Fall and 2023 Winter terms (unless they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year);
• if they are graduating in the 2022-23 academic year, they have applied to graduate prior to the generation of this list in early November.

Any questions relating to this message or the George Coles Bursary can be directed to scholarships@upei.ca.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the first presentation of the 2022-23 Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series on Friday, September 16, 2022, at 12:30 p.m. in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.

 Dr. Matthew Leyenaar, Director, Emergency Health Services, PEI Department of Health & Wellness will present “Health Services & Policy Research: A Case Study In Modernization Of Paramedic Services.” 

All are welcome.

The UPEI Writing Centre appointment schedule is available at https://upei.mywconline.com/

If you or anyone you know might benefit from a friendly, capable second set of eyes to review an assignment, or perhaps need help getting started, researching, organizing, revising, or proofreading, encourage them to make an appointment.  

If you're an instructor who would like to arrange a short class visit from Writing Centre staff to explain the service, email Jarmo at jjpuiras@upei.ca. Be assured that we don't edit anyone's work. We will, however, identify areas needing improvement and work with our clients to make those improvements.

Both online and in-person appointments are available. Drop-ins are also welcome at our location in Robertson Library 274 when tutors are not already with a client.

One of the responsibilities of patients (See Patient Rights and Responsibilities:https://www.upei.ca/health-centre/rights-responsibilities) who visit the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre is to attend appointments and be on time. Sometimes life happens, and you need to re-schedule an appointment. Please do so by emailing the health centre at healthcentre@upei.ca or telephoning 902-566-0616, and we can re-schedule you to another time.  

When you do not attend a booked appointment and do not attempt to re-schedule, we miss the opportunity to give that appointment to someone on the waiting list. 

If you need to re-schedule your appointment no problem. Just contact us, and we can find something that works for you as well as provide the available appointment to someone who is waiting. 

For more information about the UPEI Health and Wellness No Show Protocol, check out this link: https://files.upei.ca/healthcentre/upei_health_and_wellness_no-show_protocol.pdf.

Mentoring programs help faculty members meet their full potential and can be a rewarding experience for both mentors and mentees.  

Are you a 

• pre-tenure faculty member interested in mentorship from a colleague outside your faculty/department who has recently navigated the tenure process?
• tenured faculty member willing to share your early-career experiences navigating major milestones such as obtaining your first grant, achieving tenure, planning a sabbatical, etc.?

Come to the Teaching and Learning Centre, Robertson Library Annex, Room 230, for one of our Q & A sessions to learn what is involved and how the mentoring program might work for you.

Dates:

• Thursday, September 15, from 12:00--1:00 pm
• Friday, September 16, from 2:30--3:30 pm

The UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre is setting up a series of Teaching Squares for the Fall 2022 semester. Teaching squares are interdisciplinary groups of instructors from a range of career stages and appointments. Participants visit the classes of their teaching square colleagues to observe and reflect on their own teaching. Participation involves three class visits to colleagues' classes, welcoming these same colleagues to your own classes, and two meetings at the beginning and end to discuss goals and share reflections. In addition to helpful insights from taking time to reflect on teaching practices, this is a terrific way to demonstrate your efforts to continue to grow as an instructor for tenure and promotion purposes. Each teaching square is limited to four colleagues. Please email TLC@upei.ca to indicate your interest. 

Registration is limited.  

Are you looking for an opportunity to learn more about teaching and learning practices? Are you looking to explore what inclusive teaching practices and structures look like in university learning environments? If so, consider joining 11 other colleagues as a participant in our Fall Reading Group. Colleagues from across campus will be exploring the book, Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (2022). The Fall Reading Group is open to all faculty (sessionals too), librarians, instructional staff, post-docs, and PhD students at UPEI.

By signing up for the Fall Reading Group, you commit to attending the four scheduled meetings across the Fall 2022 semester. Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis.

Things you need to know:

• Registration is limited to 12 participants.
• An e-book copy of Inclusive Teaching is available through the Robertson Library.
• You will read, explore, and collaboratively discuss the book, Inclusive Teaching, by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy.
• The reading group will meet in-person for up to 90 minutes, four times this semester.
• All sessions will be on Thursdays, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm, on the following dates:
•       October 6 – Preface, Chapters 1 & 2 (61 pages)
•       October 27 – Chapters 3 & 4 (56 pages)
•       November 17 – Chapters 5 & 6 (90 pages)
•       December 8 – Chapter 7 and reading group wrap-up (27 pages).

About the book:

Recently reviewed in Science, Inclusive Teaching is praised for “…translating the sometimes-dense literature of education research into clear, accessible, and actionable steps for instructors” by “…[weaving] firsthand accounts into the narrative, describing the continual improvements they have made in their teaching over their respective careers.”  

The book review continues, stating: “The book addresses several underexplored, but critical, areas where instructors can play vital roles in promoting inclusion outside the classroom. A whole chapter, for instance, focuses on modeling inclusivity with students, including suggestions for proactively emailing struggling students; promoting transparency and sharing norms about office hours; reducing bias in grading; and providing structured feedback to encourage students. Similarly, another chapter is devoted to institutional change, discussing how instructors can reflect and document their inclusive teaching practices and use their efforts to advocate for change” (Hsu, 2022).

Registration for Fall 2022 Reading Group is until September 16, or until all spaces have been reserved. Email TLC@upei.ca to register.

UPEI faculty and students are invited to attend a free online workshop, "ACENET Basics: Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) with ACENET," on September 20, 2022, from 10:00 to 11:30 am.

This core session is designed to help new researchers get up and running. Researchers across many disciplines use HPC to tackle analyses that would be either inefficient or impossible on a desktop. This session offers a basic description of the infrastructure and support accessible, with entry-level advice about how to begin; an overview of the software packages available for applications, data analysis, and software development, and how to request specific software relevant to your work; and insight into the potential of parallel computing to accelerate your analysis.  

For details and to register, go to  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-introduction-to-hpc-tickets-413029391027

UPEI faculty and students are invited to register for a free ACENET training session, "Basics of Computers," which will be held online on September 16 from 11 am to 1 pm.

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but will give you insight to how media, programs and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We will provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the trade-offs to consider when buying a computer. We will provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few "pro tips" on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you! 

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-basics-of-computers-tickets-413034486267 
 

Ethics protocols that involve "more than minimal risk" must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday, September 30, 2022, for review at the September meeting.

Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve "more than minimal risk"; renewals; and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the REB review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca.

The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments is Friday, September 30, 2022. These applications will be reviewed at the October 20, 2022, meeting.

All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

Please note that the IBC has instituted a new category of protocol amendment: biosafety permit minor amendment. This event form is included in the Researcher Portal. Minor amendments that are strictly limited to changes in personnel and/or funding can be submitted at any time but require up to a two-week review period. They are normally reviewed by the IBC chair or designate and the BSO or designate. If the amendment is approved, then an approval notification will be sent to the PI. Submissions via this route may be sent for full committee review at the discretion of the IBC chair and the BSO.  

For more information about the IBC review and approval process, please contact the Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca