Online tax slips are now available, through Campus LogIn, to current and former employees who elected to receive their T4 electronically prior to Tuesday, February 16, 2016. 

Employees who did not provide consent will have their 2015 T4s mailed to them within the next week. The “Electronic T4 Consent” option is now standard via Campus LogIn and we strongly encourage everyone to sign-up now for future years. 

For employees who file their taxes electronically, printing the slip is optional. You will be able to read the values for each of the tax slip boxes online as you are completing your income tax return. You will always have access to slips under Campus LogIn should you need them now or in the future. 

We will also be mailing T4As for 2015 within the next week.

Also, please note that Payroll will not be processing requests for duplicate copies until March 1/16. 

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 566-0464 for assistance. 

A first of its kind ‘foodie’ event is taking place in Charlottetown. UPEI's Dr. Bill Whelan and wife Michelle Cottreau are hosting a roving feast with a twist. Under the guidance of Chef Andrew Nicholson, culinary students have been given the challenge to create unique and tasty dishes from a list of cancer fighting foods such as cabbage, chocolate and onions. Guests will dine on their choice of any or all of the 18 small plates prepared by the culinary students all while mingling with UPEI students and faculty who will explain the science behind the cancer fighting foods. The evening will also include a silent auction and green tea tasting.

What inspired this innovative event? The desire of Canadian Cancer Society Dream Team member and UPEI cancer researcher, Dr. Whelan, to see fewer people diagnosed with cancer. Today, 2 in 5 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer and of those, 1 in 4 will die from it. Thanks to research, the number of people surviving a cancer diagnosis has improved from 26% in 1940 to 63% today, yet cancer is now the leading cause of premature death in PEI, taking more Islanders each year than heart disease, stroke and diabetes combined.

Tickets for the event are $75 per guest. Charitable donation receipts of $30 ticket will be issued. These proceeds will go to the fight against cancer through the work of the PEI Division of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Culinary Institute of Canada
4 Sydney St, Charlottetown, PE
February 19 (storm date February 20)
6:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 6:30, food service begins at 6:45)

For tickets, visit www.cancer.ca/pei or call 902-566-4007.

The Mawi'omi Centre is hosting a Reunion and Alumni Social on Monday, February 22 from 4 - 6 pm in Kelley Memorial Building, Room 210.  Featuring guest speaker, Julie Bull, the first coordinator of Mawi'omi, the event will be "drop-in style" with light refreshments. Guests are also welcome to participate in the CBU webinar titled "Learning from Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki".

The campus community is invited to participate in a workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), hosted by the Department of Student Affairs and delivered by Megan MacKenzie, Frédéric Fovet, and Cathy Rose. Universal Design for Learning is a framework to optimize teaching and learning by considering the “why”, “what”, and “how” of learning. As our Accessibility services are nearing capacity and an increasing number of students are using these services, the UDL framework can be used in higher education to address the very pressing need of delivering sustainable, inclusive instruction.

In this workshop, we will explore the UDL framework, discuss how faculty and staff can use UDL to better meet the learning needs of their students, and share some real, simple examples of how UDL principles can be implemented.

The workshop will happen on Thursday, March 3 from 1-3pm in the Main Faculty Lounge. Refreshments will be served.

If you are interested in attending please sign up: https://docs.google.com/a/upei.ca/forms/d/13otZNT93WcbMSrpXEXmJT1CNPp9rDi88-VcUTLSNQi0/edit?usp=drive_web

UPEI is in the process of transitioning Corporate Credit Cards to Scotiabank, and some cardholders have already received their new Scotiabank cards.

To assist in this process, there will be a second training session hosted by Matt Adams on Feb 24 at 10:00am in Don and Marion McDougall Hall (Room 329) to demonstrate how to view and reconcile transactions using Scotiabank's CentreSuite program, and provide some additional information.  Please feel free to attend as a cardholder or have a designate attend who is responsible for monthly reconciliation activities.

If you would like to receive training and are unable to attend the session, training can be provided on an individual basis. 

If you have any questions, please contact Matt Adams in the Accounting Office at 566-0470 or at mradams@upei.ca.

Please note the Wave is closed this week for Reading Week. 

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 Friday March 4 2016. They will be reviewed at the March meeting. Protocols involving ‘more than minimal risk’ that are received after March 4 will be reviewed at the April 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 Research Services, 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

Friday February 26 2016: Next deadline for submission of Biosafety Protocols

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety Protocols including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday February 26 2016. These protocols will be reviewed at the March 2016 meeting. Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete the forms.

Submit the following: 
• one hard copy of the application form with signatures and associated documents to Joy Knight at the Office of Research Services, 200 Kelley Memorial Building and 
• one e-copy of all documents to reb@upei.ca

Please note that protocols received after this deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104 or reb@upei.ca

The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, March 4 for the March meeting. 

Ensure you always…

·        Download the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/research-services/research-certifications/animal-care
·        Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms and 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 Admin. Assistant @ 902-566-0973.

Due to the expiration of the current food services contract, the opportunity to provide campus-wide food services operations on campus was advertised to the public. 

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 and Clinical Veterinary Professionals and four Presidential Awards of Merit for UPEI Staff will be awarded in 2016. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 2:00-4:00 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, April 1, 2016. 

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

The Institute of Island Studies Lecture Series continues Tuesday, February 23, with a talk by Dr. Tiber F.M. Falzett, Research Associate at the Institute of Island Studies. His public lecture, “Mar bhlàth an fheòir” (“like the flowering grass”), focuses on the oral and written interfaces in local Scottish Gaelic song composition on Prince Edward Island.
The lecture takes place in UPEI’s SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge, and gets under way at 7 p.m.

Dr. Falzett investigates a once vibrant, yet fragmentarily documented, tradition of local song composition and performance as expressed throughout the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries among Scottish Gaelic speakers on Prince Edward Island. By engaging both contemporary printed texts as well as sound recordings from fieldwork undertaken among remaining speakers and semi-speakers in the second half of the twentieth century, a multifaceted and dynamic body of tradition is capable of being pieced together. In turn these reassembled fragments of oral tradition can be reinterpreted to reveal a multi-accentual dynamic in what has since become a silenced ethno-linguistic community. Ultimately, it is intended to place these expressive forms of intangible cultural heritage as created and carried down by Gaelic-speaking Islanders in the context of the wider multicultural zone of the Canadian Maritimes to which they once belonged.

Tiber Falzett’s current research explores the documentation and dissemination of archival intangible cultural heritage on Prince Edward Island. His doctoral research explores the relationship between language and music through sensory metaphor as expressed among Scottish Gaelic speakers on Cape Breton Island. A fluent Gaelic speaker as well as a singer and bagpiper, Tiber has presented his research and performed for broadcast media, including the BBC Television and Radio in Scotland and CBC, and is an active public folklorist in Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. He, his partner Giulia, and their dog Sofia live in Summerside.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend.

This is the second in a series of an Island Studies Winter/Spring Lecture Series. Watch for details for another lecture about islands – near and far – March 22!

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

The topic of local governance is the focal point of an upcoming Public Symposium, “The Geography of Governance,” to be sponsored by UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies, in conjunction with UPEI Research Services. The date is Thursday, February 25, at UPEI’s MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242, Don and Marion MacDougall Hall, beginning at 7 p.m. (Storm date is the following evening, Friday, the 26th.)

Principal speaker is Diane Griffin, noted Island environmentalist, Stratford Town Councillor, and Vice President of the Federation of PEI Municipalities. She will be joined by a Panel: Dr. Ryan Gibson from the Geography Department at Saint Mary's University, Dr. Michael van den Heuvel from the UPEI Biology Department and Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute, and Jeanetta Bernard from St. Philippe, PEI. The four will discuss local government reform, and the criteria which might be used to decide new municipal boundaries.

Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend.