Campus Notices
The 糖心vlog官方入口 Health & Wellness Centre will be conducting Hand Hygiene audits on March 22-25th. Visitors to the health centre will be asked to complete a brief survey on handwashing/sanitizing by our staff. Proper hand hygiene alone can reduce healthcare-associated infections by 50%.
In our mission to provide high quality, safe care, the health centre is working on quality improvements, one of them being to ensure we are performing good hand hygiene.
Help us to find out how we are doing by completing a survey if you visit us between March 22-25th.
Thank you!!
Join the Chaplaincy Centre Team for Good Friday Liturgy, on Friday, April 2nd at 3:00 pm.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions we can welcome 34 people. Please sign up in advance . Plan to arrive early to avoid crowding as we check your name off the list.
The Tenant Support Centre, a project of Community Legal Information funded by the provincial government of PEI, is offering an online information workshop for students renting residential properties on PEI in collaboration with 糖心vlog官方入口's International Office and 糖心vlog官方入口 Housing Services. The workshop will cover your rights and responsibilities as a tenant as well as your landlord鈥檚 rights and responsibilities.
Students will also hear from Nouhad Mourad from the 糖心vlog官方入口 International Student Office, 糖心vlog官方入口's Off-Campus Housing Coordinator Chelsea Almeida, Laura O'Laney with Residence Life, and Homestay Coordinator Tyson Nicholson.
Learn your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and ask your questions in a supportive and informal environment.
Click here to join the Webinar on Tuesday, March 23rd at 2pm:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83182938407?pwd=cm82TzFyMCthNHZ6ZWdlUW56Z05tQT09
The workshop will cover:
鈥� The Rental of Residential Property Act
鈥� Rental agreements
鈥� Before you rent: tips for inspections
鈥� Security deposits
鈥� Rules about personal information and privacy
鈥� Eviction notices and the terms that must be met by tenant and landlord
鈥� The rent control system on PEI
鈥� Health and safety
鈥� Organizations you may need to contact for different purposes
鈥� Where to get necessary forms and access resources
鈥� Residential rentals and Covid-19
鈥� Tenant Support Centre frequently asked questions
The Department of Health Management is interviewing 3 candidates for the tenure track faculty position in Large Animal Internal Medicine. As part of the interview process, each candidate has been asked to present two brief seminars. One suitable for DVM students and the other presentation of their research interests.
Dr. Stacy Tinkler is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Large Animal Internal Medicine service at Purdue University. Since graduation from the University of Minnesota in 2005, she has worked in large animal internal medicine and equine ambulatory practice, and completed a Master鈥檚 degree in Public Health in 2014. She has also been involved in working equid volunteer veterinary projects since she was a vet student and has a passion for international veterinary medicine. She has been participating in various 鈥渆quitarian鈥� projects in Central and South America for the past 17 years and worked as a relief vet at the American Fondouk, a working equid hospital, in Fez, Morocco. Dr. Tinkler has a particular interest in supporting sustainable veterinary program development for working equids and their care-givers in the developing world along with managing complicated medicine cases in the clinic at Purdue 鈥� a dual life to be sure! When she is not working, she loves to be outside, to travel and loves how animals and their care unite and bond people from all over the globe.
Common Neonatal Conditions in Foals: Failure of Transfer of Passive Immunity (FTPI) and Neonatal Isoerythrolysis (NI)
Owner Reported Rabies Vaccination and Serologic Response in Working Equids in the Peruvian Andes
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 @ 2:30 pm
A copy of the candidates CV and letter of application is available by contacting Tracy O'Flaherty (toflaherty@upei.ca)
Below is the zoom link for you to attend the virtual seminar. This is part of the interview process for the tenure track faculty position in Large Animal Internal Medicine in the Department of Health Management.
Tracy O'Flaherty is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SEMINAR - Large Animal Internal Medicine
Time: Mar 23, 2021 02:30 PM Atlantic Time (Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 673 3026 2680
Passcode: 906886
The deadline for the Florence Simmons Global Experience Scholarship is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.
Traditionally granted to students enrolled in a bachelor or graduate degree program at 糖心vlog官方入口 who will study abroad as part of their 糖心vlog官方入口 education, applicants who demonstrate that they have assisted with the COVID-19 response instead of study abroad as part of their 糖心vlog官方入口 education will be considered.
The application form can be found here:
Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
The deadline for the James "Jim" E. L. Pratt Memorial Scholarship is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.
Traditionally granted to a full time undergraduate student enrolled in a bachelor degree program in the Faculty of Science at 糖心vlog官方入口 who will study abroad as part of their 糖心vlog官方入口 education, applicants who demonstrate that they have assisted with the COVID-19 response instead of study abroad as part of their 糖心vlog官方入口 education will be considered.
The application form can be found here:
Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
The deadline for the Diamond Awards is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.
Awards are available to full time students in good academic standing in the following areas:
- Sustainability Leadership
- Health & Wellness Leadership
- Educational Leadership
- Campus Spirit
Applicants will also be assessed on the following criteria:
- Originality: Is the student demonstrating a unique initiative, or are they doing something that has been commonly done by others in the past?
- Legacy: How long will the student鈥檚 efforts impact the campus and/or the off-campus community? Will the impact be felt for a day or will others be benefiting from the student鈥檚 efforts years in the future?
- Reach: How many people did the student鈥檚 efforts impact? Did they have an impact on the lives of few, or did they impact the lives of many?
- Leadership: Was the student the individual responsible for establishing an impactful initiative, or was their support passive in nature?
The application form can be found here:
Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
The deadline for the Roderick Stirling MacDonald Scholarships is being extended until Friday, March 19, 2021.
Scholarships are available to Graduate and Undergraduate students based on the following criteria:
- Students must be registered in full time studies at 糖心vlog官方入口;
- Must have maintained an academic record of 85% or greater in every course in their previous year of study (or equivalent, for pass/fail coursework); and,
- Must demonstrate an interest in developing skills that 鈥渨ill enhance our local and global communities鈥�, whether academic or professional skills, to align with the original intent of the scholarship program
The application form can be found here:
Please submit your application and any supporting documents electronically to scholarships@upei.ca.
Are you thinking about an Honours degree in Psychology?
Do you know what an Honours degree is?
Do you have questions about an Honours degree requirement for graduate school?
Are you wondering how to get into the Psychology Honours Programme at 糖心vlog官方入口?
Psychology Honours Programme Coordinator, Dr. Scott Greer will be hosting an information session for students interested in learning more about the Honours Programme in Psychology at 糖心vlog官方入口.
The session will be held on Friday, March 19 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (AST) via Zoom at the following link:
The 糖心vlog官方入口 Health & Wellness Centre will be conducting Hand Hygiene audits on March 22-25th. Visitors to the health centre will be asked to complete a brief survey on handwashing/sanitizing by our staff. Proper hand hygiene alone can reduce healthcare-associated infections by 50%.
In our mission to provide high quality, safe care, the health centre is working on quality improvements, one of them being to ensure we are performing good hand hygiene.
Help us to find out how we are doing by completing a survey if you visit us between March 22-25th.
Thank you!!
The Tenant Support Centre, a project of Community Legal Information funded by the provincial government of PEI, is offering an online information workshop for students renting residential properties on PEI in collaboration with 糖心vlog官方入口's International Office and 糖心vlog官方入口 Housing Services. The workshop will cover your rights and responsibilities as a tenant as well as your landlord鈥檚 rights and responsibilities.
Students will also hear from Nouhad Mourad from the 糖心vlog官方入口 International Student Office, 糖心vlog官方入口's Off-Campus Housing Coordinator Chelsea Almeida, Laura O'Laney with Residence Life, and Homestay Coordinator Tyson Nicholson.
Learn your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and ask your questions in a supportive and informal environment.
Click here to join the Webinar on Tuesday, March 23rd at 2pm:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83182938407?pwd=cm82TzFyMCthNHZ6ZWdlUW56Z05tQT09
The workshop will cover:
鈥� The Rental of Residential Property Act
鈥� Rental agreements
鈥� Before you rent: tips for inspections
鈥� Security deposits
鈥� Rules about personal information and privacy
鈥� Eviction notices and the terms that must be met by tenant and landlord
鈥� The rent control system on PEI
鈥� Health and safety
鈥� Organizations you may need to contact for different purposes
鈥� Where to get necessary forms and access resources
鈥� Residential rentals and Covid-19
鈥� Tenant Support Centre frequently asked questions
Dr. Hayden Kee will be giving the second talk in our Philosophy Speaker Series this Friday, March 19, 3:30 to 4:30 pm, on the timely topic of: "We all have plague": The ethical and existential insights overlooked in the covid-era discussions of Camus' The Plague.
The talk will be on zoom at: https://upei.zoom.us/j/62247599015?pwd=RDBmS2VKWUlzRHdtbTZlazFUc2JOdz09
Everyone is invited! We hope to see you there.
For an abstract of the presentation, see the calendar listing for this event.
糖心vlog官方入口鈥檚 4th annual Teaching Community Conference will take place on May 4th, 2021, hosted by the E-Learning Office and the Experiential Education Office. The conference will be hosted online through the website: 糖心vlog官方入口.ca/teachingcommunityconference
The keynote presentation for this year鈥檚 conference is on the theme of a Pedagogy of Care, a care-oriented approach to the design and philosophical set up of the course, occurring within the context of the learning experience and in relationships formed through teaching and learning.
The Teaching Community Conference is calling for proposals regarding your approach to a pedagogy of care, innovative designs or approaches to teaching, experiential teaching, or communities of practice.
The Teaching Community Conference is accepting proposals in the form of synchronous webinar sessions, asynchronous recorded video presentations, or written presentations (e.g. a conference blog post).
To submit your proposal please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHZLrnW5e_RSL0Zq0h3Gh_ASlOPPVnL9Tghz_QajNQ-ZRzXA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Atlantic Canada Study and Stay 鈥� Prince Edward Island is hosting the 鈥淏ridge to PEI鈥� Conference on Saturday, March 20th, from 9:00 am 鈥� 1:30 pm (AST) via Zoom. Register here:
The event is offered free of charge to all Post-Secondary International Students on Prince Edward Island.
This conference will feature workshops on:
-Immigration Pathways to Prince Edward Island
-Prince Edward Island Labour Laws
-Presentation from the PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada
-PEI Study and Stay鈩� Alumni Panel
Anyone with any questions about the event can reach out to Kady McDonnell at studyandstaypei@upei.ca.
Please help us share this event with your network. Thank you.
The presentation discusses how to maintain a physically healthy lifestyle while working from home explaining what a sedentary lifestyle is, its consequences, and demo's some easy exercises in the video for people to try at home. Presented by Third Year Nursing Students.
Date and Time: Youtube video. Watch before 10:00 am, Friday, March 19, 2021. Please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator amarchbank@upei.ca for the link to presentation.
Draw prize: 糖心vlog官方入口 Bookstore $50 gift certificate. Only 糖心vlog官方入口 staff and faculty eligible for draw.
The 糖心vlog官方入口 Health & Wellness is conducting its annual Patient Satisfaction Survey. For the first time, the survey is digital and the link will be mailed to all patients who visit the clinic between March 8-19, 2021. If you are not visiting during this time, but have feedback, please go to www.upei.ca/health-centre and click on the link: "We'd love to hear from you" to submit your feedback.
The 糖心vlog官方入口 School of Climate Change and Adaptation is excited to launch the 糖心vlog官方入口 Climate Webinar Series, which will feature a number of climate research topics presented by 糖心vlog官方入口 researchers. The series will run on several Fridays at 3 pm (AT) between March 12鈥揗ay 28, 2021.
Join Dr. Xander Wang, 糖心vlog官方入口 School of Climate Change and Adaptation for the 2nd webinar of the series on Friday, March 19 at 3 pm when he will speak about Mapping the Spatial Patterns of Precipitation in Prince Edward Island
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Atlantic Canada Study and Stay 鈥� Prince Edward Island is hosting the 鈥淏ridge to PEI鈥� Conference on Saturday, March 20th, from 9:00 am 鈥� 1:30 pm (AST) via Zoom. Register here:
The event is offered free of charge to all Post-Secondary International Students on Prince Edward Island.
This conference will feature workshops on:
-Immigration Pathways to Prince Edward Island
-Prince Edward Island Labour Laws
-Presentation from the PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada
-PEI Study and Stay鈩� Alumni Panel
Anyone with any questions about the event can reach out to Kady McDonnell at studyandstaypei@upei.ca.
Please help us share this event with your network. Thank you.
The presentation discusses how to maintain a physically healthy lifestyle while working from home explaining what a sedentary lifestyle is, its consequences, and demo's some easy exercises in the video for people to try at home. Presented by Third Year Nursing Students.
Date and Time: Youtube video. Watch before 10:00 am, Friday, March 19, 2021. Please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator amarchbank@upei.ca for the link to presentation.
Draw prize: 糖心vlog官方入口 Bookstore $50 gift certificate. Only 糖心vlog官方入口 staff and faculty eligible for draw.
Ethics protocols that involve 鈥榤ore than minimal risk鈥� must be reviewed by the full 糖心vlog官方入口 Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday March 26, 2021.
Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve 鈥榤ore than minimal risk鈥�, renewals, and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.
All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.
Earlier versions of the application forms will not be accepted.
Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at /research-services/forms. Contact researcherportal@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.
For more information about the REB review and approval process please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at mknight@upei.ca
