Campus Notices
Island Studies Press will launch its newest book, Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Nursing Military Heroine, by Katherine Dewar, on Thursday evening, May 24, at 7 p.m. at the Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.
Called to Serve documents the life and times of Prince Edward Island's Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938), daughter of William Henry Pope and Helen DesBrisay Pope. Her journey takes us from Charlottetown, where, inspired by Florence Nightingale, she developed a "burning desire" to become an army nurse; to the Boston States where she trained; to the battlefields of Africa and Europe where she served as a nursing sister and Superintendent of Nurses―and helped establish the nursing corps of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Matron Pope was the first Canadian nurse decorated with a Royal Red Cross, 1st class.
In 2007 Georgina Pope’s bronze bust became one of the 14 heroic figures forming a part of the Valiants’ Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa. She also appears on the Canadian $5 coin.
Georgina Pope will also be honoured at a “Celebration of Service” in the Atrium of the Daniel J. MacDonald Building in Charlottetown on Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m. Local actors will bring her story to life, accompanied by the PEI Regiment Band and the Canada Remembers Chorus. An exhibition entitled “Inspired by Nightingale: Called by God” will also open. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
The book will also be launched in Summerside on Sunday afternoon, June 24, 2 p.m., at Eptek Art & Culture Centre.
Katherine Dewar is the author of the award-winning book, Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War, 1914-1918. Katherine is retired from a career as a nursing instructor at the PEI School of Nursing, and is now committed to researching PEI’s colourful nursing history. Those Splendid Girls was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, won the Publication of Year award from the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and the City of Summerside’s Heritage and Culture department, and Katherine herself is the recipient of the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation Award of Honour for her outstanding contribution to Prince Edward Island Heritage.
Launches are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Laurie at iis@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881. Books will be on sale for $27.95 in bookstores and online through the UPEI Bookstore in mid-May.
The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, June 1st for the June meeting.
Ensure you download the current forms from, use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms (only current forms will be accepted).
Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date.
• Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302
• Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca
Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.
For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Administrative Assistant at 902-566-0973.
On May 16 from 8:00 pm until midnight ITSS will be performing maintenance on UPEI’s Active Directory Services and the myUPEI portal.
During this time, faculty, staff and students will be unable to access the myUPEI portal at my.upei.ca.
Additionally, access to printing and file services will be intermittently distrupted thru the evening and last 5-10 minutes.
If you receive an error message when logging into a service, please wait at least 10 minutes and try again until you are successful.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 566-0465.
UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the new MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to participate in one of two "virtual" information sessions: Thursday, May 17th or Thursday, May 24th from 12:00-12:30. This session will be offered through Blackboard Collaborate. A link to join the session will be provided to all who register.
MBA Coordinator, Grace McCourt, will provide an overview of the program and answer your questions.
Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to register. Be sure to indicate your preferred date.
Lecture Posters for the Annual UPEI Graduate Studies and Research Conference on May 16, 17, and 18 can be viewed here.
All are welcome to attend these lectures!
Central Printing will be closed May 31 - June 8, 2018.
Any questions may be directed to Wendy Henderson at 902-566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI will be holding its 2nd ProGRES Summer Program to promote engineering research interest and involvement among young women in high school. Through the ProGRES Program, high-school students will have the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research projects with world-class researchers in state-of-the-art facilities. The selected students will work directly with a woman faculty researcher and mentor on an independent research project, and they will have opportunities to meet and work with women engineers and women engineering students.
Young women of Prince Edward Island going into grades 11 and 12 are encouraged to apply for the ProGRES Summer Program by completing this application form. Application forms will be reviewed and successful applicants will be selected to participate in engineering research projects at UPEI’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering for a five-week period (July 9 – August 10). Each participant will also be awarded a stipend of $2200. There will be 7-8 participants selected, depending on interest.
Participants will be asked to share their research experiences with the public and their peers in the following school year. The hope is that the shared research experiences will encourage more young women to choose Engineering at UPEI and see how women can thrive and be successful as engineering researchers or professional engineers.
Application deadline is Monday, May 28, 2018, by 5:00 PM.
The regular May 2018 Island Studies Lecture takes place on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus and will feature L.M. Montgomery scholar Dr. Kate Scarth speaking about “Anne of Charlottetown and Summerside: L.M. Montgomery’s Urban PEI.”
Read more on the UPEI Events Calendar.
In consideration of the difficulties that exposure to scented products cause to sensitive individuals UPEI asks for your cooperation in making our campus a scent-free environment. We ask that all faculty, staff, students, and visitors refrain from wearing or using products with strong scents/fragrances while on campus. A few examples of products to refrain from wearing or using are: colognes/perfumes, body sprays, lotions, hair care products, hand/body soaps and lotions, shaving cream, sun screen, laundry soap, fabric softeners, air fresheners, scented candles and Aromatic Oils (used in aromatherapy).
UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative Policy can be viewed here.
If you have any questions about UPEI’s Scent-Free Initiative please contact the Health, Safety and Environment Department at 902-566-0901 (Kathryn Harrison) or 902-566-0516 (Kevin Robinson). To report an exposure to scented products please follow UPEI’s incident reporting process.
The UPEI Student Union offices will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 16, for staff training, and will re-open on Thursday, May 17 at 9:00 am.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
UPEI’s Faculty of Business is launching the new MBA in Global Leadership program this Fall. This 12-month cohort-model program is designed for those who have completed an undergraduate degree and wish to continue into graduate studies. Anyone interested in learning more about this new program is invited to participate in one of two "virtual" information sessions: Thursday, May 17th or Thursday, May 24th from 12:00-12:30. This session will be offered through Blackboard Collaborate. A link to join the session will be provided to all who register.
MBA Coordinator, Grace McCourt, will provide an overview of the program and answer your questions.
Please call (902) 894-2866 or email cprime@upei.ca to register. Be sure to indicate your preferred date.
How is my course going and how am I doing? With the semester near half over, these are great questions to ask your students since there's still time to make minor changes that could have a major impact on overall student learning outcomes. In this workshop you will learn what kinds of questions to ask to help you get the feedback you need from your students.
You will also learn how to create a quick online survey for your questions that will make data collection and analysis easy. Offered by the E-Learning Office this workshop will take place on Monday, May 28th from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Room 265 of the Robertson Library. REGISTER
The University of Prince Edward Island invites applications from emerging leaders for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Adaptation. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
This will be a tenure stream appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, conditional on the successful applicant being approved as a Tier II Canada Research Chair by the CRC Secretariat. Further information about the CRC program and nominee eligibility is available at https://www.chairs.gc.ca.
Salary is commensurate with experience and in accordance with the UPEI Faculty Association Collective Agreement. Full-time faculty members at UPEI receive a comprehensive benefits package.
As of December 1, 2018 all employers in Canada must be compliant with the New WHMIS 2015 Regulations. This update to Canada's WHMIS Regulations ensures alignment with the worldwide hazard communication system known as the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
There has been several changes from the former WHMIS 1988 Regulations. It is strongly recommended that everyone that handles, stores, uses or disposes of hazardous products reviews the attachment.
Each supervisor must review a document and its imbedded links (please contact email kjrobinson@upei.ca for a copy) to determine what action is required to ensure their hazardous products are in compliance with the New Regulations. Please feel free to contact Kevin Robinson (Health, Safety and Environment Manager) for any additional information at kjrobinson@upei.ca or 902-566-0516.
UPEI will be migrating from the Groupwise email system to Microsoft Exchange this spring and summer 2018. The UPEI Microsoft Exchange email system is hosted in Canada and is an enterprise level email system.
At this time, only current faculty and staff who are using Groupwise will be migrated to Exchange Online. A direct communication will be sent out to this group with details on next steps. If you do not receive this communication and are actively using a Groupwise email account, or you are using Gmail and still have archived Groupwise mail that was not migrated, please contact ITSS at emailmigration@upei.ca by June 1, 2018. Failure to contact ITSS via the email address above will result in the loss of archives.
Details of the migration plan, and more information and training regarding the new Microsoft Exchange environment, will be communicated to the campus community over the coming weeks. In the meantime, for more information, please contact us via email at emailmigration@upei.ca.
Dr. Debbie R. De Rantere, a candidate for the two-year term small animal surgery lecturer position in the Department of Companion Animals will be interviewing on Monday, May 14. As part of this interview process, Dr. De Rantere has been asked to provide a seminar to the AVC community.
Her seminar on "Prevention and Management of Surgical Site Infections" will be given on Monday, May 14 at 8:30 am in Lecture Theatre B, AVC.
All are welcome!
The University of Prince Edward Island invites applications from emerging leaders for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Adaptation. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
This will be a tenure stream appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, conditional on the successful applicant being approved as a Tier II Canada Research Chair by the CRC Secretariat. Further information about the CRC program and nominee eligibility is available at https://www.chairs.gc.ca.
Salary is commensurate with experience and in accordance with the UPEI Faculty Association Collective Agreement. Full-time faculty members at UPEI receive a comprehensive benefits package.
The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday May 25 2018. These applications will be reviewed at the June 2018 meeting.
Please ensure that you use the new electronic forms available here.
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 July 2018 meeting. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca.
Do you work with families that are separated due to employment in oil and gas, construction, trucking, health care, or some other type of out-of-province employment? Are you part of a family impacted by this type of employment?
The Families, Mobility, and Work Atlantic Canadian Symposium will examine intersections between diverse families, work situations and employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context. This event will bring together policy and civil society leaders, researchers studying families and mobility, and families directly impacted by work-related mobility to facilitate dialogue and knowledge-sharing with a focus on leading and emerging policy and practices at home, at work and in the community.
This event is in partnership with the Vanier Institute in Ottawa and the On the Move Partnership at Memorial University, it is the first event of its kind in Canada.
Click here to register!
Ethics protocols that involve ‘more than minimal risk’ must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board. The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Monday June 4 2018. They will be reviewed at the June meeting. Protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are received after June 4 will be reviewed at the July 2018 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.
Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete forms.
Submit the following:
- one hard copy of the signed application form 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
For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca
