Mental Health First Aid is being offered to UPEI students, staff, and faculty for FREE over the February break week. If you would like to participate, please email us to register. saworkshops@upei.ca.

Jack Frost Winterfest 20% Discount for UPEI Alumni, Faculty and Staff!

The UPEI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION is offering an exclusive 20% DISCOUNT for UPEI ALUMNI, FACULTY and STAFF attending JACK FROST WINTERFEST! 

Help celebrate UPEI’s 50th Anniversary by visiting the UPEI booth in the lobby of the Eastlink Centre on Saturday, February 16 between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. 
Say Hello to Pride the Panther and some of his Jack Frost Character Friends, get some Free Swag, Free Cookies, and Enter to WIN some Awesome Prizes!

From January 2 – February 8th register with the UPEI Alumni office to receive your special promotion code for discount on ticket purchases and be automatically entered for your chance to win up to 4 Jack Frost Weekend Passes. 
The lucky winners will be contacted on February 11. 
Contact Sarah today at shastelow@upei.ca or by calling 902-566-0615.

Once you have your promo code you will be all set to purchase your weekend passes.

The 5th Annual Asian Studies Lunch and Program Info Session
in Celebration of the 2019 Lunar (Chinese-Korean) New Year’s Day

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 12:00–1:30 pm
(storm-day backup: Thur., Jan. 7)
SDU Main Building 201 (Faculty Lounge)

You are invited to this special lunch event. Come and socialize with our Asian Studies students, instructors, staff and supporters. We also offer a brief information session on AST program, new Korean Studies courses, student scholarship and assistantship, workshop, and international opportunity. 

A healthy East Asian lunch is provided. Students who have taken an Asian Studies course last year, are enrolled this year, or will take one this summer or fall are most welcome to attend! 

Happy New Year (again) and best wishes for 2019!

Dr. Edward Chung, Asian Studies and Korean Studies Project Director

Special acknowledgement: This event is supported by an international Seed Program for Korean Studies grant (AKS-2017-INC-2230001) through the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS), the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS).

The UPEI Music Department Recital Series will present “Variations” featuring David Rogosin on piano. The concert is Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 pm in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall of UPEI’s Steel Building.

Pianist David Rogosin has performed across Canada, in the American Midwest, the Caribbean and France. Praised for the brilliance, clarity, and passion of his performances, he is highly regarded as a performer, adjudicator, and clinician. Aside from solo recitals, Rogosin is a frequent collaborator and chamber player with a particular passion for the two-piano repertoire. He has released two solo recordings: Incandescence (2005) and Evocation (2012), the latter nominated for an the Classical Recording of the Year at that year’s ECMAs.

Professor at Mount Allison University since 2001, he was awarded that institution’s Paul Paré Excellence Award in 2013. Rogosin holds a master’s degree from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate in performance from the University of British Columbia. Apart from classical music he enjoys jazz, world music, cooking and woodworking, and holds the rank of shodan in aikido, a martial art that he teaches on the Mount Allison campus since 2015.

Admission is $25 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets are available at the door.

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 

February is Black History Month. During Black History Month, Canadians celebrate and honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present.

In recognition of Black History Month, Robertson Library and the UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO) are presenting I Am Not Your Negro, an Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. This documentary “…explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.”

Wednesday, February 6th
Room 312, Upper Level
Robertson Library
5:00 pm

The topic for this week's Graduate Seminar in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is "Managing Stress in Graduate Studies", given by James Reddin, MEd, CCC, Counsellor, Student Affairs.

While the topic will be focused for FSDE graduate students, all are welcomed to attend. The event is today at noon in room 212 of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering. 

Don't forget that a new article is up on the Arts Equity and Inclusion website! Entitled "If someone wants to be called “they” and not “he” or “she,” why say no?", it addresses issues such as the pronouns do and don't do. Head over to http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion/category/discussions/ and join the discussion! New articles are posted every Monday morning, as is a new "something to ponder" observation. We welcome the entire campus community to be part of the ongoing discussion about equity and inclusion on campus. 

For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, abraithwaite@upei.ca

A new article is on the website at http://projects.upei.ca/arts-equity-and-inclusion/category/discussions/. The Arts Equity and Inclusion group invite the campus community to check out this week's addition to the ongoing discussion series aimed at getting us all to think more deeply about how equity and inclusion can affect our everyday behaviours and practices. This week's resource--“If someone wants to be called 'they' and not 'he' or 'she', why say no?”--addresses the issue of pronouns. Everyone welcome to read and leave a comment!

The Office of Experiential Education is hosting an alternative reading week offering of the Professionalization Badge program from February 19 to 21. This 2.5 day intensive program is a chance for students to complete all of the Professionalization skill-building workshops and register for a 10-hour job shadow experience. Topics covered will include communication skills, such as teamwork and conflict management, and labour market literacies, such as resume writing and interview preparation.

Open to all students, visit our webpage to learn more and sign up: http://www.upei.ca/experientialeducation/ex-ed
Questions? Email us at experientialed@upei.ca

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There will be a UPEI Basic Biosafety training session:
Thursday, February 14th, 2019 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 
AVC, Room 287N

Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone including graduate students.

Please note: those who attended training in 2016 or earlier are currently due for the Biosafety Refresher Course.

To attend the Basic Biosafety course, you must pre-register by contacting Sarah Sudworth, before February 11th, 2019 by email (ssudworth@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901).

Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address, and phone number in your email or voice message. Please indicate if you are a graduate student. 

If you have any questions about this training session, please contact Sarah.

With the increase in quality and quantity of cognitive sciences research over the last few years, what of it can be usefully applied to teaching? This workshop aims to summarize that research on learning and memory and provide instructors with tips for integration into their teaching. Offered by the E-Learning Office, this workshop will be offered on two different dates: February 11th or March 19th from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER