The AVC Café serves lunch specials Monday through Friday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. View this week's menu online by clicking here, and follow us @ChartwellsUPEI on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for daily updates and ongoing promotions.

Essentials of Conflict Resolution

This experiential core course examines principles, concepts and techniques of the interest-based approach to conflict resolution, and their applications to the stages of mediation, negotiation and facilitation.

What you will learn:

• Five styles of conflict handling and their uses
• Conflict self-awareness
• Conflict analysis
• Communication for improving relationships
• Interest-based approach to conflict resolution
• Applications in mediation, negotiation and facilitation

To register: http://www.upei.ca/professionaldevelopment/course-registration-form

The foodbank was closed for the summer due to our renovation, but is now open and getting busy! Please remember it is donation-driven by our UPEI community. Popular items include cooking oil, vegetables, peanut butter and jam, as well as treats, such as granola bars, pudding, and fruit cups. Be creative! $10 gift cards are also appreciated. 
PEI's Unitarian Fellowship was very generous in June and Connection Point Church has also donated this month.

I am grateful!

Sister Sue

Colleagues, students, friends, and family will gather to remember Rocky who passed away this summer. The memorial service will be Wednesday, September 13 at 3:00 pm in the Chaplaincy Centre. 

Athletics and Recreation is offering a special promotion for the 2017-18 AUS season. UPEI staff and faculty can purchase the Panther Package for just $20—a savings of $55 dollars from the regular price.

The Panther Package gives you admission to every home game for UPEI Women’s and Men’s Soccer, UPEI Women’s and Men’s Rugby, UPEI Men’s and Women’s Basketball, and UPEI Women’s Hockey.

You have three ways to buy the Panther Package:

• Drop by Panther Central in the Chi-Wan Young Sport Centre
• Buy it when you attend one of our weekend home games
• Athletics and Recreation will arrange a time to visit departments across campus early next week

Not sure yet if you want to commit? All three home games this weekend are free with your staff or faculty card. UPEI Women’s Soccer plays St. FX Saturday at 3:00 pm; UPEI Men’s Soccer takes on St. FX at 5:15 pm Saturday; UPEI Men’s Rugby plays St. Thomas University Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Let’s fill the stands and make 2017-18 the best season ever for the Panthers!

If you are planning to have the students in one of your courses or program complete UPEI’s online WHMIS training, please contact Kathryn Harrison, kharrison@upei.ca or 902-566-0901.

Athletics and Recreation is offering a special promotion for the 2017-18 AUS season. UPEI staff and faculty can purchase the Panther Package for just $20—a savings of $55 dollars from the regular price.

The Panther Package gives you admission to every home game for UPEI Women’s and Men’s Soccer, UPEI Women’s and Men’s Rugby, UPEI Men’s and Women’s Basketball, and UPEI Women’s Basketball.

You have three ways to buy the Panther Package:

• Drop by Panther Central in the Chi-Wan Young Sport Centre
• Buy it when you attend one of our weekend home games
• Athletics and Recreation will arrange a time to visit departments across campus early next week

Not sure yet if you want to commit? All three home games this weekend are free with your staff or faculty card. UPEI Women’s Soccer plays St. FX Saturday at 3:00 pm; UPEI Men’s Soccer takes on St. FX at 5:15 pm Saturday; UPEI Men’s Rugby plays St. Thomas University Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Let’s fill the stands and make 2017-18 the best season ever for the Panthers! 

The School of Sustainable Design Engineering will host an introductory session on motion capture and analysis in the Centre for Robotics and Industrial Automation. The goal is to raise awareness of new equipment in the Centre (OptiTrack Prime 41 motion capture cameras with Motive optical motion capture software), explain the process for requesting access, highlight related expertise and some potential applications, and demonstrate the equipment capabilities.

All UPEI faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend the event on Wednesday, September 13 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Rm 127 at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering.

Would you like to create a more interactive PowerPoint lecture for your students? Something your students could view outside of class so that your in class time could be spent promoting deeper exploration of content? The E-Learning Office is here to help. Give us your standard PowerPoint lectures and we can turn them into interactive learning pieces that will make reviewing them outside of class time an engaging experience for your students.

Book an appointment to see if this opportunity is right for you: elearning@upei.ca—space is limited so please book early!

If you are planning to have the students in one of your courses or program complete UPEI’s online WHMIS training, please contact Kathryn Harrison at kharrison@upei.ca or 902-566-0901.

Essentials of Conflict Resolution is an experiential core course examining the principles, concepts and techniques of the interest-based approach to conflict resolution, and their applications to the stages of mediation, negotiation and facilitation.

In this course you will explore:

• Five styles of conflict handling and their uses
• Conflict self-awareness
• Conflict analysis
• Communication for improving relationships
• Interest-based approach to conflict resolution
• Applications in mediation, negotiation and facilitation

Click here to register. For more information, contact Jennifer Hogan at jehogan@upei.ca.

Central Printing will be closed Wednesday, Sept. 6 2017. Any questions may be directed to Wendy at 902-566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca.

The AVC Café serves lunch specials Monday through Friday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. View this week's menu online by clicking here, and follow us @ChartwellsUPEI on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for daily updates and ongoing promotions.

Chair yoga is a gentle, unique style of yoga with poses adapted to sitting on a chair or standing using a chair for support. Perfect for those with mobility issues, physical limitations or beginners looking for a low-impact workout. You leave the class feeling stretched and refreshed!

For more information, click here.

"Moving Up to Management": To cultivate the potential of new managers, focus needs to be placed on developing both managerial and leadership skills. Moving from an employee to a manager is not just a promotion; it requires a whole new set of skills, perspectives and accountabilities. This workshop will help participants transition from individual contributor to manager. In this session explore and take away tools and strategies to:

• Establish your presence, build trust and respect
• Create a performance culture
• Appreciate different leadership styles
• Motivate your team
• Effectively coach and supervise employees

Begining September 15, click here to register! For more information, contact Jennifer Hogan at jehogan@upei.ca.

Orange Shirt Day occurs annually at the end of each September, the time of year when Indigenous children were taken away from their homes and put into residential schools. This year on September 29, 2017, the Faculty of Education is encouraging all students, staff, and faculty to wear orange as an annual opportunity to discuss aspects of residential schools, and to continue discussions year-round.

Everyone has the opportunity to order a t-shirt and join this important movement. The cost of each t-shirt is $10.00 and can be ordered in sizes XXS to XXL. If you are interested in ordering a t-shirt, please let us know in order to coordinate your order. The deadline to order is September 6, 2017.

Please email Anja Salijevic at asalijevic@upei.ca to place your order and state the quantity and t-shirt size(s) in your email.

Thank you for your support in bringing awareness to Orange Shirt Day we hope that many of you will participate in wearing orange!

Would you like to create a more interactive PowerPoint lecture for your students? Something your students could view outside of class so that your in class time could be spent promoting deeper exploration of content? The E-Learning Office is here to help. Give us your standard PowerPoint lectures and we can turn them into interactive learning pieces that will make reviewing them outside of class time an engaging experience for your students.

Book an appointment to see if this opportunity is right for you: elearning@upei.ca—space is limited so please book early!

An updated version of the UPEI Tobacco-use policy went into effect on September 1, 2017. This is a reminder that tobacco products are not to be used on University property. For more information regarding campus boundaries or cessation supports and services, please click here.

The Dept. of Biomedical Sciences invites the campus community to attend a research seminar on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:30 am in 286B/C, AVC Learning Commons. The seminar will be given by Dr. Stephen Glasgow and is entitled “Guiding synaptic plasticity: a role for chemotropic guidance cues in memory formation”. Dr. Glasgow will also present lecture on Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 10:30 am in 286B/C, AVC Learning Commons. The lecture will be given by Dr. Stephen Glasgow and is entitled “Cardiac electrophysiology and electrocardiography”.

Dr. Glasgow is a candidate for a faculty position in physiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He received his PhD in Psychology from Concordia University and is currently working as a Research Associate in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. His research interests involve elucidating the mechanisms underlying structural and molecular synaptic plasticity during consolidation of episodic memory and examine how these processes can be perturbed in neurodegenerative disease.