The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to a presentation by Sarah Hewko (Applied Human Sciences) entitled: "The early retiree divests the workplace: Quantitative analysis of retirement decision-making among health professionals". 

This event is Friday at 12:30 pm in room 204 of the Duffy Science Centre. Everyone is welcome.

Every UPEI Alumni who registers will receive one FREE Island Storm Basketball game ticket for the last home game of the season March 30th - 7pm when the Storm take on the Cape Breton Highlanders! Get spotted in the crowd wearing UPEI gear and you could be rewarded with a fantastic prize!

Register for your FREE ticket by contacting Kathy Weatherbie at krweatherbie@upei.ca or at 902-566-0687 before noon on March 25. 

Enjoy the game!

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by
Brittany Jakubiec titled "Out of the Box: Queerying Identity Development for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Prince Edward Island".

All are welcome to attend Brittany's public presentation, taking place on Tuesday February 26, 2019 from 2:30 - 3:00 pm in the Irving Chemistry Centre room 104.

Please note the Summer Catalogue is now available for viewing on myupei. The Catalogue can also be found here: http://www.upei.ca/discovermore/course-catalogue. Registration for students opens on Tuesday, February 19th.

Next article to be discussed at the Animal Welfare Journal Club is:
Fawcett A, Mullen S, McGreevy P. 2018. Application of Fraser's"Practical" Ethic in Veterinary Practice, and its compatibility with a "One Welfare" framework. Animal 8, 109; available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071015/
All welcome!

All are invited to attend a special Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Graduate Research Seminar, on Friday, February 22, at 12 noon, in SDE 202. Dr. Atul Pathak from Biovectra will be speaking on "An Emerging Paradigm in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry".

The monthly meeting of the UPEI & Friends Neuroscience Journal Club will be held Friday, February 22nd from 3-4 pm in the "Fishbowl" of the Duffy Research Centre (NRC). This will be a "meet and greet" discussion with our special invited speaker, Dr. Jay Penney from MIT, who will present a seminar in AVC Lecture B at 2 pm that day. All faculty, staff and students with an interest in neuroscience research are welcome.

Mental Health Primer for UPEI staff and faculty. Learn some basics around recognizing general mental health issues as well as tools for how to help and respond to someone in need. Please note that this course does not replace the Mental Health First Aid Training currently provided on campus. Les Wagner, Regional Director, Prince County Canadian Mental Health Association, PEI Division will be leading the Mental Health Primer Course. The 2 hour course is being held on Tuesday, February 26 from 9:30 am - 11:30 am and Thursday, February 28 from 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm. 
To register for one of these dates, please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca or 566-0606. Course is free for UPEI Faculty and Staff. Provided by the Healthy Campus Committee as part of the Employee Wellness Strategy.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to Tyler Baker's MSc Thesis Defense entitled "Visual cueing: does it produce an acute improvement in turning in a Parkinsonian sample?". 

This event is Wednesday, February 20 at 10:30 am in Heath Sciences Building room 323.

Everyone is welcome.

Take some time for 'YOU' and drop by the UPEI Health and Wellness Centre between 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Wednesday, February 27. Learn more about your measurements and the healthy rates to strive for. Tests include blood pressure, glucose, COPD test, BMI, hand grip strength, flexibility test, and stress questionnaire. Nutrition information display. Lynne Fraser,UPEI Nurse Practitioner will provide a 15 min. Heart Health presentation noon - 12:15 pm and 12:45 pm - 1:00pm. Light Refreshments provided. No appointment required! 

The Health and Wellness Centre is on the second floor (north) of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the bookstore).

Clinic brought to you by the Healthy Campus Committee, Employee Wellness Strategy

In recognition of the outstanding performance and dedication of our faculty and staff, a number of annual awards have been created to acknowledge their efforts and achievements. 

Up to 10 Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Faculty, Librarians, Clinical Veterinary Professionals and Clinical Nursing Instructors and four categories of Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2019. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 from 10:30am-12:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. 

Susan Connolly, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources & Legal, will lead the process and chair the committee to select award recipients. 

Nominations for both faculty and staff awards close on Friday, March 29, 2019. 

For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please visit: http://www.upei.ca/president/presidential-recognition-awards-merit 

Call for Nominations: The UPEIFA’s Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement Subcommittee is currently calling for nominations for this award for 2018-2019.

The deadline for nominations and all supporting documentation, is Friday, March 22, 2019.

Nominations should be sent ELECTRONICALLY:
Chair, UPEI Faculty Association Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement c/o Faculty Association Office upeifa@upeifa.org

Information about the award can be found on the UPEI Faculty Association website: http://www.upeifa.org

Providing content for your course can be the easy part in the process. Figuring out how to explain to students what impact that content will have on them and for them can be far more challenging. There are numerous ways to describe learning and just as many opinions as to which is best. Are learning targets even necessary? Come and hear what the E-Learning Office has to say about targets for learning. You can attend this workshop on either Monday, February 25th or Tuesday, March 26th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

There will be a workshop for instructors on how to facilitate participation from students in class. The workshop will focus on topics like planning for discussions, developing a questioning strategy, choreographing group dynamics, getting more/less talk from students and dealing with generational differences and with international students. The workshop takes place on Tuesday, March 5th from 10:30 am to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

All fathers and mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers, and anyone who cares for children is invited to a series of Triple P Positive Parenting Seminars. There are three sessions, and the first (rescheduled from February 13th due to weather) is on Wednesday, February 20th at 7:00 in the evening, at the Murphy Community Centre on Richmond Street in Charlottetown. The first week’s topic is “The Power of Positive Parenting”. Dr. Philip Smith, Psychology, is the presenter. Sessions are free, and childcare is available. Visit triplep-parenting.net for more information and to sign up in advance for free childcare during the session. Every dad and mom and other person caring for a child age 2-12 is welcome.

Please note the Summer Catalogue is now available for viewing on myupei. The Catalogue can also be found here: http://www.upei.ca/discovermore/course-catalogue. Registration for students opens on Tuesday, February 19th.

The Search Committee for the University Librarian is pleased to announce the upcoming visit for the final candidate for this position. Each candidate will deliver a Public Presentation on:

Academic libraries have been rapidly changing, and will continue to evolve in the coming years. With this in mind:
a. Speak to a trend in academic libraries that excites you.
b. Speak to a trend in academic libraries that concerns you.

Brad Eden - Wednesday, February 20
11:30 - 12:30 Public Presentation in the Regis & Joan Duffy Research Centre, Room 212 (NRC Building)

All are welcome to attend.

Dr. Jay Penney, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA will present a seminar entitled "Using iPSC-derived microglia to model mutations in the Alzheimer's Disease risk gene TREM2" on Friday, February 22 at 2:00 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B.

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by
Brittany Jakubiec titled "Out of the Box: Queerying Identity Development for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Prince Edward Island".

All are welcome to attend Brittany's public presentation, taking place on Tuesday February 26, 2019 from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm in the Irving Chemistry Centre room 104.