Campus Notices
Respiratory Protection Information Session will be offered by SEM Partnerships on Monday, December 14th from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Location: TBA
This session will provide information regarding the care, selection, and use of respirators. Whether you currently have a respirator, or if you think you may need one for certain work tasks, then you should attend this session. Those who need to be trained, must be retrained every second year as a refresher. This session is also an important educational opportunity for those who supervise work, involving individuals who may need respiratory protection. There is no cost to attend this training as it is covered by the Health and Safety budget.
Respiratory Fit Testing Sessions – December 17 & 18, 2015
Respiratory Fit Testing for N95 Respirators will be offered Thursday, December 17, 2015. Location: TBA
Respiratory Fit Testing for ½ & full face Air Purifying Respirators (with cartridges) will be offered Friday, December 18, 2015. Location: TBA
Respiratory Fit Testing is required annually for anyone who uses a respirator in order to ensure a proper fit. Please book a 30-minute time slot through Angela Deighan in Research Services. Individuals must take their respirator or purchase one for the fit testing. As per the CSA Standard, faces must be clean shaven in order to have a respiratory fit test. Note that fit testing and respiratory supplies are departmental costs.
To register for the training session and/or a fit testing time slot, please contact Angela Deighan by email at adeighan@upei.ca or by phone(902) 628-4308.
To view the Respiratory Protection Program, please click on the first link on this webpage to see Section 4.9 in the UPEI Laboratory Safety Manual : http://www.upei.ca/hr/
* Prior to using a respirator, individuals are required to complete a UPEI Respirator User Screening Form and send it to Angela Deighan in Research Services. This form is located at the above link under "Appendices" (App.T, p.113-115).
Friday, December 4, 2015
Regis & Joan Duffy Research Centre
NRC Lecture Theatre
University of Prince Edward Island
The concert, under the direction of Sung-Ha Shin Bouey, will feature the UPEI Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performing selections from Handel's Messiah and Fantasy on Christmas Carols by Vaughan Williams.
The Ragazze Provincial Girls Vocal Ensemble and Ragazzi Juniors Children's Choir will also take part in the concertalong with special guests The Atlantic String Machine.
Admission is $10.00 Adults & Seniors/$5.00 students and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/
The use of sound feedback to assist in learning and correcting motor skills has some innate advantages. For example, sound leaves a person's eyes free for important tasks like avoiding obstacles, and ample psychological evidence shows a connection between the synthesis and perception of motion and sound. When motion is periodic, as it is with most forms of human locomotion, the sound feedback should also be periodic, i.e., rhythmic and synchronized to a person's motion. In this talk I will discuss and present computer vision and signal processing techniques for tracking people's movements. I will show how to track the underlying rhythm of a movement using input from cameras and/or wearable sensors. These tracking techniques will exploit the periodic nature of the person's movement to create a tracking signal that is also periodic. I will demonstrate how to use this periodic signal to create and control sound feedback that is synchronized with the movements of the person. This process is called Rhythmic Sonification.
Can you believe it is already December? The end of the semester means it's our favourite time of the year... chili at the Chaplaincy Centre is fast approaching!
The big event will happen this year on December 9th and 10th. If you are interested in volunteering to help serve chili to our students as they get ready for their exams, please sign up by clicking the link below. This is always so much fun. Please consider signing up! (And spread the word to your colleagues by forwarding the link!)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Prince Edward Island, and Dr. Greg Keefe, Dean, Atlantic Veterinary College, cordially invite the University community to attend a celebration in recognition of recent international achievements in epidemiology at AVC.
At the celebration, there will be a special announcement regarding the UPEI Centre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research at AVC.
Wednesday, December 9, 3 p.m.
The McCain Foundation Learning Commons, Atlantic Veterinary College
All are welcome
Do you have library fines? Would you like to help a fellow student or family on campus? Bring non-perishable food or grocery items for the Campus Food Bank to the Circulation Desk at the Library from
Wednesday, December 9 to Saturday, December 19 and we’ll deduct $2.00 per item from your library fines.
An Emergency First Aid, CPR & AED Training session will be held on Wednesday, December 23rd from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm in the Health Science Building, Room 105. The training is covered by the Health and Safety Budget. Space is limited so please sign up before December 21st.
If you would like to attend the training session, please pre-register by contacting Angela Deighan at adeighan@upei.ca
The Human Biology and Environmental Sciences research seminars will wrap up for the semester on Friday, December 4th at 12:30 in Duffy Science 204.
Ruth Cox, CERC, Health Management, AVC will present the following talk:
“Use of modelling approaches to mitigate disease emergence: case studies in terrestrial and aquatic animals”
All are welcome.
Yoga class will continue to be held Wednesday from 12:10 pm – 12:55 pm at the UPEI Chi-Wan Young Centre instead of the Chaplaincy Centre on December 2, 9 and 16. The program will start up again in January at the Chaplaincy Centre. This class is free for UPEI students and employees and is provided by the Healthy Campus Committee and Athletics & Recreation Department. For more information, please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator at amarchank@upei.ca.
Ryan A. Casey will present his Master of Education Thesis Defense on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 9:00am in Memorial Hall, room 308. Thesis Title: “The Use of Interactive Whiteboards by Prince Edward Island High School Teachers”. All are welcome to attend.
ABSTRACT
This Masters of Education thesis used a questionnaire to examine Prince Edward Island high school teachers’ self-reported practices related to interactive whiteboards in their classrooms and the factors influencing their interactive whiteboard use. Despite research suggesting that interactive whiteboards have the potential to improve student academic achievement, the extent to which this technology can actually achieve these claims was likely to be dependent on many factors. Factors identified in this thesis as hindering teachers’ interactive whiteboard use and by extension, students’ learning was the understanding of what interactivity with an interactive whiteboard is, teachers’ attitudes towards using interactive whiteboards and the theoretical and practical training provided to teachers.
Oyeyemi Oyenike Olajide will present her Master of Education Thesis defense on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 1:45pm in Room HSB 105. Thesis Title: "Perspectives of Mathematics Education in Prince Edward Island”.
ABSTRACT
President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz cordially invites you to attend the 2015 President's Holiday Social on Thursday, December 3 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. Celebrate the season with the UPEI community!
You are encouraged to donate to the UPEI Food Bank during the event (food and cash donations will be accepted). UPEI will match your donations.
Retirement Party for Carol MacDonald, Administrative Assistant for the Dean of Science, will be held on December 8 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm, in Main Faculty Lounge. Cake and light refreshments will be served. ope to see you there to wish Carol the best in her retirement. Thank you.
Ryan A. Casey will present his Master of Education Thesis Defense on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 9:00am in Memorial Hall, room 308. Thesis Title: “The Use of Interactive Whiteboards by Prince Edward Island High School Teachers”. All are welcome to attend.
ABSTRACT
This Masters of Education thesis used a questionnaire to examine Prince Edward Island high school teachers’ self-reported practices related to interactive whiteboards in their classrooms and the factors influencing their interactive whiteboard use. Despite research suggesting that interactive whiteboards have the potential to improve student academic achievement, the extent to which this technology can actually achieve these claims was likely to be dependent on many factors. Factors identified in this thesis as hindering teachers’ interactive whiteboard use and by extension, students’ learning was the understanding of what interactivity with an interactive whiteboard is, teachers’ attitudes towards using interactive whiteboards and the theoretical and practical training provided to teachers.
Krista Gill, PhD student will present a seminar on Wednesday, December 02, 2015 at 12:30 pm. The presentation is entitled "From Academia to Industry: Business Opportunity Plan for Epoch BioDiscovery". The seminar will be held in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre, Lecture Theatre, Room 212.
All are Welcome!
Tuesday, December 1 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm at the CARI Complex rink
