Accessibility Services would like to communicate the following to students who receive exam accommodations: 

With final exams approaching, registration can begin on Access Deck under the "Final Exams" section. Please be sure to input your exam requests in the final exams section and not the midterm/test section. All final exam requests MUST be submitted by Wednesday, November 28th to secure accommodations. Requests that come in after this date may not receive accommodation.

As always, exam requests will be verified 3-4 days before the exam to provide time for professors to submit exams to Student Affairs. Please check your Access Deck Login page for information regarding exam start time, exam location, and proctor. You must have a piece of photo ID with you for each of your final exams.

For questions regarding exam requests or accommodations, please contact Amanda Squires, our Accessibility Support Facilitator at amangallant@upei.ca or 902-566-0668. Thank you!

Black Friday is a few days away so 'tis the season to be cautious. Please be mindful when shopping online, remember when a deal seems too good to be true it usually is. Before making any purchases this week ITSS wants you to check out this quick guide. Happy (and safe) shopping.

Third event in our fourth year - Roasted Rep Pepper and Potato Soup plus Chicken Noodle Soup. Of course, rolls (with butter!) and rumours are in the wind of a tasty dessert treat or two! 
This event is co-hosted by three groups - UPEI Women in Business, Engineers Without Borders, and UPEI Retirees Association. 
Warm soup makes a cold day so much better!

This event is Wednesday, November 21 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in the Chaplaincy Centre. 

Anne Minors is a musically trained architect and theatre consultant. After designing hospitals in the UK and civil engineering projects in Hong Kong, she then specialized in designing and delivering buildings for the performing arts. As Head of Design at Theatre Projects between 1984 and 1995, she consulted to the architectural practices of Moshe Safdie, Barton Myers, Charles Moore, Bing Thom, Michael Hopkins, Frank O Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Michael Wilford and Zaha Hadid on projects in North America and the Far East.

Anne founded Anne Minors Performance Consultants in 1996, a multidisciplinary practice of designers, stage engineers and lighting and sound designers, and in 20 years completed 30 arts buildings in 7 continents, working with  architectural firms Dixon Jones, Foster and Partners,Tabanlioglu, Emre Arolat Architects, David Chipperfield, Herzog and de Meuron, KPMG, ERA and Diamond Schmidt.

Anne Minors will deliver two presentations at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Both will take place in Room 104, Memorial Hall. The first presentation is at 4:30- 5:30 pm, Tuesday, November 20 and is entitled “A Musical Tapestry- Gathering forms for Sound 1989-2019”. It will focus on international design projects for performance spaces. The second is at 3:30-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 21 and is entitled “Audience eye-movements in viewing images of concert halls - with and without music - a behavioral study”.

Presentations are under the auspices of UPEI's Department of Psychology, in conjunction with courses on music cognition and the psychology of human learning and memory. For more information, contact Annabel Cohen at acohen@upei.ca or 902-628-4325.

The Island Lecture Series November lecture is Tuesday, November 20, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Dr. Joseph Glass speaking about “The Life and Times of Dr. Leo Frank: A Jewish Fox Rancher.”

Hidden away in Stratford, a small municipal park is named in memory of a former resident, Dr. Leo Frank, a unique individual in the Jewish and general history of PEI. In 1915 he established the Rosebank Fur Farms: a profitable business and showcase for black silver fox ranching as featured in many postcards, stereoscope cards, articles in North America newspapers, and a motion picture. A mysterious character, he made quite an impression on Islanders and his economic, social, and cultural activities were often discussed in the local press. However, he did not draw attention to his Jewishness until after his marriage in 1935. Although the ranch ceased operations in 1944, he and his wife Ruchamah lived at Rosebank until 1958. The lecture highlights the

Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. 

For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

Support local dairy and the Dairy Farmers of Canada by purchasing any local dairy product at the AVC Cafe or Samuel's Cafe. Every local dairy product you purchase such as ADL Milk, our 550 Pizza, and our Daily Mac and Cheese and Grilled Cheese lunch specials (November only), you receive $0.10 off a special meal at the end of the month in Support of the Dairy Farmers of Canada! Menus are available online at dineoncampus.ca/upei or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @chartwellsupei

For more information, please contact Via Reyes at via.reyes@compass-canada.com.

Drop in Art - bring your own supplies and take some time to create!
No prior experience necessary

This is an open event, bring your own art supplies and take a few minutes for yourself!

You do not need to be creative to participate, just have an interest in expressing yourself! 

Bring your ideas and suggestions for future Art for the Soul meetings! 

Open to Staff, Students, and Faculty. This event is Wednesday, November 28 at 3:30 pm in the Chaplaincy Centre.

The last mass flu clinic will be held at the UPEI Health & Wellness Centre (2nd floor Murphy Bldg, above the bookstore) on December 4th from 12:00 - 5:00 pm. Public Health Nurses will be on hand to provide the flu shot free of charge. All staff, faculty, students and families welcome. We will have the spray for children!!

UPEI’s Executive MBA program offers a high-quality learning experience for working business professionals. The program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Classes are offered bi-weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the option to complete the program in 20 months. 

Central to the program design is an evidence-based management approach which helps students develop the skills and knowledge to make better-informed and well-supported decisions both in the program and in applied situations in their workplaces. 

To learn more about this exciting opportunity in business graduate studies, UPEI’s School of Business invites you to attend the following information session. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff from the Faculty of Business.

Tuesday, November 20
The Gallery, The Guild
Charlottetown
5:00 pm 

We encourage you to call (902) 566-6474 or email: mba@upei.ca to reserve a seat. For more information about UPEI’s Executive MBA program, please visit: upei.ca/mba or contact the Graduate Studies Coordinator at (902)566-6474.

The Department of Psychology welcomes faculty, students, and the campus community to join us at our next Fiona Papps Colloquium Series on Thursday, November 22nd at 3:00pm where Dr. Stephen Butler will present " Capitalism in the "hot seat": Challenges and opportunities for young people”. The presentation will take place in KMB237 with a reception to follow in the faculty lounge. 
Suggested reading: Butler, Stephen (2018). The Impact of Advanced Capitalism on Well-being: An evidence-informed model. Human Arenas, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-018-0034-6

One of Moodle’s great recent features is access to the open-source content collaboration framework called H5P. H5P allows a user to create vivid online learning experiences that may help enhance learner engagement and interest within the online learning environment. Previous H5P workshops offered by the E-Learning Office have looked at interactive video and drag and drop interactions. In this new workshop we will introduce and show you how to create a few more popular H5P interaction types that feature the use of images. The workshop takes place November 26th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER

Transgender Day of Remembrance was created in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman and activist, to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts. What began as a web-based initiative has now grown into an international event observed annually on November 20. International Transgender Day of Remembrance commemorates the trans, two-spirit and non-binary people who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. Because of the way we collect statistics and record crimes, Canada has no real information about the rates of violence faced by trans Canadians. But we do know trans and non-binary people – particularly trans women of colour – are at a higher risk for experiencing violence and/or being killed because of who they are. It is important to remember those who have lost their lives and raise awareness, compassion, and empowerment for the trans community. 

This year, the Honourable Robert Mitchell, Minister of Health and Wellness, will read a statement in, and a Trans flag will be flown at, the PEI Legislature to recognize Transgender Day of Remembrance. UPEI will also fly the Trans flag on November 20. 

The Faculty of Education formally announces the upcoming PhD defense by Olive Bryanton. 

Olive will be defending her dissertation titled "Pioneers in Aging: Voices of women 85 years and older aging in place in rural communities". 

All are welcome to attend Olive's public presentation, taking place on Friday November 23, 2018 from 2:30 to 3:00 pm in Duffy Research Centre room 212 building #28- the building beside AVC building (not the Duffy Science Centre).

For the second time, the pinnacle of motorsport, the Sustainable Alternative Novel Design Intramural (SANDI) Race of First Year, will be held at the Mount Academy on Monday, November 19 at 12:30 p.m. (weather permitting). This year's contest includes a speed race, slalom, and Concours competition. 
Come join us and cheer for your favorite team! We are counting on your support!

Panther fans are invited to drop off non-perishable food items to the UPEI Sports Centre or at both Men's/Women's Basketball Home doubleheaders this weekend versus Saint Mary's. Game times are Friday/Saturday 6:00/8:00 pm.  All contributions are appreciated!

The annual UPEI Global Village Multicultural Festival takes place on Saturday, November 17 at 6:00 pm in McMillan Hall of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre at UPEI. The Global Village Organizing Committee is excited to invite to the community to celebrate the diversity and friendship of our beautiful island by attending this free event.

The festival brings together various ethno-cultural groups and community organizations in an effort to build a more comprehensive working model of the area’s cultural mosaic. To celebrate this rich heritage, UPEI students host an annual multicultural festival to gather cultural representation from the university and PEI. The Global Village is an exciting opportunity to bring domestic and international students and community members together to collaborate, promote, explore and learn about each other’s cultural background in an interactive and engaging way.

For more information on the UPEI Global Village, please contact Nouhad Mourad at the International Student Office at nmourad@upei.ca or (902) 566-6092.

The elevator in Steel Building will be out of service until late the week of November 19th.  This closure is due to a hardware issue in the control board. The elevator contractor is working on procuring the necessary parts to complete the repair.  We will provide an update on timelines as soon as possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca or 902-566-6034.

The Island Lecture Series November lecture is Tuesday, November 20, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, and will feature Dr. Joseph Glass speaking about “The Life and Times of Dr. Leo Frank: A Jewish Fox Rancher.”

Hidden away in Stratford, a small municipal park is named in memory of a former resident, Dr. Leo Frank, a unique individual in the Jewish and general history of PEI. In 1915 he established the Rosebank Fur Farms: a profitable business and showcase for black silver fox ranching as featured in many postcards, stereoscope cards, articles in North America newspapers, and a motion picture. A mysterious character, he made quite an impression on Islanders and his economic, social, and cultural activities were often discussed in the local press. However, he did not draw attention to his Jewishness until after his marriage in 1935. Although the ranch ceased operations in 1944, he and his wife Ruchamah lived at Rosebank until 1958. The lecture highlights the story of the man memorialized in this green space in Stratford.

Admission to the lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.