Please join us for a talk with Dr.Terry Whitebeach, Australian author and UPEI's Writer-in-Residence to learn about colonialism and the Stolen Generation in Australia.

Effective October 6, 2019, employees who enter a timesheet through Campus Login (Aestiva) will now enter hours through the new "Employee Time Entry" system, which will be accessible through myUPEI.  The "Employee Time Entry" link is posted in the "Employee Toolbox" under the "Time and Leave Information" section as well as the "Student Toolbox".

We ask that all staff and student employees who submit hours, and supervisors responsible for approving hours, make every effort to attend a training session as we will be demonstrating how to submit hours and approve hours. For those employees and supervisors who have not yet attended a training session, there is still training sessions scheduled and available for you to attend.  Please click on the link to sign up for a training session:

SIGN UP FOR TRAINING

Please note the following time-entry requirements for the following payroll periods:

1. November 1, 2019 pay — hours worked from October 6 to October 19 will be entered in the new "Employee Time Entry" system that will be accessible through myUPEI. Deadline for hours/approval is October 21, 2019.
2. Effective October 7, 2019 — Employees, who previously submitted overtime hours through a timesheet accessible through Campus Login (Aestiva), will now submit these hours through the "Employee Time Entry (Exceptions)" form located on the "Employee Toolbox" of myUPEI.

Speaker: Kathleen Parrish, Pathology and Microbiology

Title: Preliminary Results Indicate Co-Infection and Order of Infection of Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Moritella viscosa Affect Disease Progression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Everyone welcome!

The monthly UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held Friday October 11, 2019 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" conference room of the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre (NRC).  All faculty, staff and students with an interest in neuroscience research are very welcome.  For a copy of the paper to be discussed, please contact Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

Title: What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for salmon and the ocean?
Speaker: Dr. Beibei Jia
Abstract: The ocean provides an irreplaceable environment and critical resources to sustain our life on Earth. We have considerable knowledge of its ecosystem through research and practice across many disciplines. However, the vital interaction of the many components remains largely a mystery that could be addressed with an interdisciplinary approach and framework. Because of its cross-discipline nature, AI could become a platform and pathway to assist in the ecological, sociocultural, and economic assessment of the ocean ecosystem to our enormous benefit.

With the case studies of Canada’s conservation policies of wild salmon, we elaborate on the opportunities and challenges when artificial intelligence is integrated with veterinary medicine and a variety of ocean sciences. We propose to develop an AI application to provide better digitization and prediction analytics for the assessment of Canadian wild salmon conservation policies for integration into veterinary medicine and ocean sciences. Our ambition is to build out our initial success in this area to expand the application of AI for the benefit of numerous other areas in ocean science.

All are welcome to attend! 

Your feedback is important to help the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre identify priorities and define its new three-year strategic plan. The centre values quality and excellence, confidentiality, shared responsibility, and safe and ethical care. We want to make sure that we are carrying out these values and that we deliver quality service to students, staff, faculty and families.

We invite you to join our facilitator, Wendy Drake (MRSB) to share feedback about the Centre during a focus group to be held from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm on Thursday, October 17, 2019. During the focus group, participants will be asked to identify what is working well and should continue, areas for improvement, and opportunities for the future. If you are able to attend, please confirm your attendance at mbarrett@upei.ca by October 15, 2019. 

Lunch will be provided.

We hope you are able to join us! 

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday October 25, 2019. These applications will be reviewed at the November 2019 meeting.

Please ensure that you use the new electronic forms available at http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. 

Submit the following:

• one hard copy of the application form with signatures and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Academic and Research, 200 Kelley Memorial Building and
• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

Please note that applications received after this deadline will be reviewed at the December 2019 meeting. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

Walk With a Doc is a free event, open to anyone who would like to come for a self-paced walk with local doctors and other healthcare professionals. No registration required. All ages and abilities are welcome.

Each walk begins with a 5 minute talk on a health-related topic, followed by an hour of walking and conversation.

To participate, meet us at the UPEI outdoor track at 9 am on October 12 (if raining, we will be on the UPEI indoor track). For information and updates, visit www.facebook.com/wwadpei.

Thanks to Kinesiology PEI, UPEI Athletics and Recreation, and the College of Family Physicians of PEI for supporting this event.

Please join us for a talk with Dr.Terry Whitebeach, Australian author and UPEI's Writer-in-Residence to learn about colonialism and the Stolen Generation in Australia.

Effective October 6, 2019, employees who enter a timesheet through Campus Login (Aestiva) will now enter hours through the new "Employee Time Entry" system, which will be accessible through myUPEI.  The "Employee Time Entry" link is posted in the "Employee Toolbox" under the "Time and Leave Information" section as well as the "Student Toolbox".

We ask that all staff and student employees who submit hours, and supervisors responsible for approving hours, make every effort to attend a training session as we will be demonstrating how to submit hours and approve hours. For those employees and supervisors who have not yet attended a training session, there is still training sessions scheduled and available for you to attend.  Please click on the link to sign up for a training session:

SIGN UP FOR TRAINING

Please note the following time-entry requirements for the following payroll periods:

1. November 1, 2019 pay — hours worked from October 6 to October 19 will be entered in the new "Employee Time Entry" system that will be accessible through myUPEI. Deadline for hours/approval is October 21, 2019.
2. Effective October 7, 2019 — Employees, who previously submitted overtime hours through a timesheet accessible through Campus Login (Aestiva), will now submit these hours through the "Employee Time Entry (Exceptions)" form located on the "Employee Toolbox" of myUPEI.

Speaker: Kathleen Parrish, Pathology and Microbiology

Title: Preliminary Results Indicate Co-Infection and Order of Infection of Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Moritella viscosa Affect Disease Progression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Everyone welcome!

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, ITSS will be performing maintenance on our campus DNS (domain name system) servers between 8 pm and 11:59 pm. Devices on campus that are connected to wireless or wired networks may experience intermittent delays when communicating with websites or services during this time.Off-campus access to UPEI websites and services will be unaffected.

If you receive an error message and are unable to access a service during this window, please wait at least five minutes and try again until you are successful.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

A branching scenario is online interactive learning content. It focuses on decision making, a skill that everyone of us has to do well in a variety of ways on a daily basis. A branching scenario begins with some sort of context-specific story with a problem to solve. The learner is given choices and is asked to make one. Each choice has a consequence which is the feedback that helps the learner to understand the value of the decision made. Each consequence produces new challenges and more choices. The result is that learners can practice making decisions and develop skills in a low-stakes environment. Branching scenarios are good lead-ups to clinics or simulations that prepare learners for real-world experiences they will have to face. This workshop will be offered on two separate dates. Once on Thursday, October 24, and again on Wednesday, November 20, in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

The Animal Welfare Journal Club will meet to discuss:  Lynn WS, Santiago-Avila F, Lindenmayer J, Hadidian J, Wallach A, King B. 2019. A moral panic over cats. Conservation Biology 33(4):769-776, available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13346 (Note: This is a rebuttal essay; the original opinion piece is included.) 

Tuesday, October 29, 12:30-1:15 pm, AVC 278N

The Animal Welfare Journal Club meets approximately once a month to discuss scientific articles related to animal welfare. Everyone is welcome to attend and to propose articles for future discussion. Contact animalwelfare@upei.ca for more information. The club is co-hosted by AVC’s Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre and Animal Welfare Club.

The monthly UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held Friday October 11, 2019 from 3-4 pm in the "fishbowl" conference room of the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre (NRC).  All faculty, staff and students with an interest in neuroscience research are very welcome.  For a copy of the paper to be discussed, please contact Andy Tasker (tasker@upei.ca)

Title: What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for salmon and the ocean?
Speaker: Dr. Beibei Jia
Abstract: The ocean provides an irreplaceable environment and critical resources to sustain our life on Earth. We have considerable knowledge of its ecosystem through research and practice across many disciplines. However, the vital interaction of the many components remains largely a mystery that could be addressed with an interdisciplinary approach and framework. Because of its cross-discipline nature, AI could become a platform and pathway to assist in the ecological, sociocultural, and economic assessment of the ocean ecosystem to our enormous benefit.

With the case studies of Canada’s conservation policies of wild salmon, we elaborate on the opportunities and challenges when artificial intelligence is integrated with veterinary medicine and a variety of ocean sciences. We propose to develop an AI application to provide better digitization and prediction analytics for the assessment of Canadian wild salmon conservation policies for integration into veterinary medicine and ocean sciences. Our ambition is to build out our initial success in this area to expand the application of AI for the benefit of numerous other areas in ocean science.

All are welcome to attend! 

Your feedback is important to help the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre identify priorities and define its new three-year strategic plan. The centre values quality and excellence, confidentiality, shared responsibility, and safe and ethical care. We want to make sure that we are carrying out these values and that we deliver quality service to students, staff, faculty and families.

We invite you to join our facilitator, Wendy Drake (MRSB) to share feedback about the Centre during a focus group to be held from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm on Thursday, October 17, 2019. During the focus group, participants will be asked to identify what is working well and should continue, areas for improvement, and opportunities for the future. If you are able to attend, please confirm your attendance at mbarrett@upei.ca by October 15, 2019. 

Lunch will be provided.

We hope you are able to join us! 

The Centre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research (CVER) invites the campus community to a research seminar by Drs. Ian Dohoo & Javier Sanchez entitled: "Mediation Analysis - Dealing with Intervening Variables"

This seminar is on Thursday October 10 at 3:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B, followed by CVER Coffee Social in AVC 343N.

In celebration of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the University is hosting a series of inspiring talks by alumni from all eight faculties. Speakers will tell their stories of success and how UPEI changed their lives. On Thursday, October 10, at 12:00 pm in Health Sciences Building 105, the Faculty of Nursing welcomes Dr. Christine Cassidy, BScN ‘13, back to campus. Dr. Cassidy is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Dalhousie University. All are welcome, a light lunch will be provided.

Learning is an action that only the student can own and control. As an instructor, what can be done to help support the development of a student's core skills? In this workshop, instructors will learn about three key skills that contribute to more efficient and effective learning. Those skills are how to take quality notes, how to read for learning, and how to study effectively. You can attend this workshop on one of two separate dates: Thursday, October 17th or Wednesday, November 13th. Time is 10:30 to 11:30 am and the location is Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER