Campus Notices
The Robertson Library is excited to announce it's first cohort of Faculty Textbook Champions during Open Education Week from March 1st - 5th (https://www.openeducationweek.org/)!
As part of the Library's Open Education Resource Development Program, this new initiative highlights 糖心vlog官方入口 educators who selected open textbooks or open educational materials for their course(s) and showcases the efforts of these educators to reduce student costs and provide equitable access to educational materials.
Visit to learn more about each educator's reason for switching to an open educational resource, the impact of selecting an OER on their course, and finally, advice for educators considering selecting and/or developing an open educational resource.
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Learn directly from Bridget King (IBM), Vicki Ng (adidas), Kelly Pereira (RBC), and Elaine Rocha (AIG) as they share how they鈥檝e propelled their careers into positions of leadership. These powerhouse women will share inside tips and advice on how you can #ChooseToChallenge gender norms and support women in their career journeys.
Don鈥檛 miss this intimate conversation hosted by Ten Thousand Coffees, via 糖心vlog官方入口 Connect to celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day 2021.
RSVP to attend -
CPA Atlantic will be hosting a virtual information session- Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm. Please email John Thomas at jthomas@cpaatlantic.ca to RSVP and receive the virtual 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 Professor Emeritus Evaluation Committee will consider all nominees and forward its recommendations to Senate. Senate is the final approval body and will notify nominees of its decision.
Inquiries may be directed to vpar@upei.ca
Dr. Martha Giraldo O鈥橫eara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University, candidate for the tenure track position with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, will make two public presentations.
The first is a simulated class presentation entitled "Cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder" and will take place on Monday, March 8, 2021 at 1:00 pm AST via ZOOM at the following link:
The second is a research talk entitled 鈥淟inking the laboratory and the clinic: a focus on body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive- compulsive disorder.鈥� This presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm AST via ZOOM, and can be accessed here:
All are welcome to attend.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
2:30 pm-4:30 pm AST via Zoom
Ian McIsaac, a candidate in the Master of Arts Island Studies (MAIS) program, will defend his thesis on Thursday, March 4, 2:30鈥�4:30 pm. The thesis is entitled "Islandness: Factors influencing change in the Prince Edward Island Lobster Fishery."
As this thesis defence will be conducted using Zoom video conferencing technology, pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend, please visit to reserve your spot.
For more information, contact Interim MAIS Coordinator Dr. Laurie Brinklow at brinklow@upei.ca.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with some other programming language
A great deal of high-performance computing software is written in C, but few universities offer courses in the language any more. If you have to work with "legacy code" written in C, adding features, porting to a new machine, or patching errors, or if you need to write user-defined functions for engineering packages such as Fluent, then this workshop is for you.
This session will take place on:
Thursday, March 4 - 12 pm - 4 pm (Atlantic time)
You do need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail)
Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-c-as-a-second-language-tickets-135724978063
The Robertson Library is excited to announce it's first cohort of Faculty Textbook Champions during Open Education Week from March 1st - 5th (https://www.openeducationweek.org/)!
As part of the Library's Open Education Resource Development Program, this new initiative highlights 糖心vlog官方入口 educators who selected open textbooks or open educational materials for their course(s) and showcases the efforts of these educators to reduce student costs and provide equitable access to educational materials.
Visit to learn more about each educator's reason for switching to an open educational resource, the impact of selecting an OER on their course, and finally, advice for educators considering selecting and/or developing an open educational resource.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
2:30 pm-4:30 pm AST via Zoom
Ian McIsaac, a candidate in the Master of Arts Island Studies (MAIS) program, will defend his thesis on Thursday, March 4, 2:30鈥�4:30 pm. The thesis is entitled "Islandness: Factors influencing change in the Prince Edward Island Lobster Fishery."
As this thesis defence will be conducted using Zoom video conferencing technology, pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend, please visit to reserve your spot.
For more information, contact Interim MAIS Coordinator Dr. Laurie Brinklow at brinklow@upei.ca.
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Charlottetown, PEI 鈥� A 糖心vlog官方入口 research group is seeking participants for a study to test a new method for assessing head injuries. Participants must be aged 16 to 27 years of age.
The team is looking for participants in the following categories:
1. Healthy people (non-concussed, no known chronic diseases)
2. People who have had a concussion within the last 36 hours
3. People who have had concussion symptoms for longer than three months but less than six months
4. People who have had a bone fracture within the last 36 hours
5. Boxers active in competition
Please contact 902-620-5215 or concussion@upei.ca if you are interested in participating in the study.
Did you know Windows allows you travel back in time? If you ever find yourself looking for something you were working on 'the day before yesterday' press the Windows Key+Tab and you can open a timeline of your activities in Windows. Easy.
On March 4, 2021, the sign-in page for my糖心vlog官方入口 will look slightly different as ITSS will be applying a security improvement to the my糖心vlog官方入口 portal.
This will mean beginning March 4, and on a go-forward basis, you will need to login to my糖心vlog官方入口 using your full 糖心vlog官方入口 email address. Then click 鈥淣ext鈥� before you can enter your password. Examples of what the new login will look like can be seen section of our website.
As always, if you have any questions or issues after the change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) or call 902 566 0465.
I am back with my hat in my hand (when it is not a toque on my head). Food costs and student traffic at the campus food bank have increased to numbers comparable to last spring and summer. I continue to be grateful for the generosity of the 糖心vlog官方入口 campus community for volunteering time as well as donations of food and funding.
If you are able to volunteer to cover a shift or two, please sign up here .
We are also grateful for your financial support upei.ca/donate.
And as always, rice, pasta, frozen and canned vegetables, and gift cards can be donated.
Thank you!
Sister Sue
Thursday, March 4, 2021
2:30 pm-4:30 pm AST via Zoom
Ian McIsaac, a candidate in the Master of Arts Island Studies (MAIS) program, will defend his thesis on Thursday, March 4, 2:30鈥�4:30 pm. The thesis is entitled "Islandness: Factors influencing change in the Prince Edward Island Lobster Fishery."
As this thesis defence will be conducted using Zoom video conferencing technology, pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend, please visit to reserve your spot.
For more information, contact Interim MAIS Coordinator Dr. Laurie Brinklow at brinklow@upei.ca.
In this one-day course, theory is introduced in short bursts and participants spend the majority of time practicing their presentation skills while receiving onsite feedback. The focus on extensive practice and feedback is what makes the program meaningful, and is what makes learning stick.
KEY TOPIC AREAS:
Presentation Structure - Managing Fear - Engaging Your Audience - Presentation Logistics
To register for an 鈥渋n-person鈥� course:
- Created an account or sign in to EDGE by clicking
- After signing in, click on 鈥楥atalog鈥� tab on your dashboard
- You can then search and register for the course you are interested in by clicking the 鈥楨nroll鈥� tab
- You then need to choose available sessions at a location you prefer to finalise your registration
The Professor Emeritus Evaluation Committee will consider all nominees and forward its recommendations to Senate. Senate is the final approval body and will notify nominees of its decision.
Inquiries may be directed to vpar@upei.ca
Join and in our Introductory Python for Ecologists workshop series. Over three weeks, we will explore data analysis and visualization with Python, based on the Data Carpentry Lessons. Each week will build off the last 鈥� if you miss a week, check out the previous link to follow along!
No previous coding experience necessary.
We will start with basic Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. Then, we鈥檒l teach you how to import CSV files using the Pandas package to manipulate and summarize data frames, and cover a brief introduction to plotting. The last lesson demonstrates how to work with databases directly from Python.
Be sure to come prepared and have the appropriate software and data files downloaded. You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. Instructions are available at this link: .
This workshop will take place on:
Tuesday, March 2nd, 1-4 pm (Atlantic)
Tuesday, March 9th, 1-4 pm
Tuesday, March 16th, 1-4 pm
Detailed Information coming soon.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).
See: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-and-ocean-tracking-network-introductory-python-for-ecologists-tickets-136019801889 for registration information
On March 4, 2021, the sign-in page for my糖心vlog官方入口 will look slightly different as ITSS will be applying a security improvement to the my糖心vlog官方入口 portal.
This will mean beginning March 4, and on a go-forward basis, you will need to login to my糖心vlog官方入口 using your full 糖心vlog官方入口 email address. Then click 鈥淣ext鈥� before you can enter your password. Examples of what the new login will look like can be seen section of our website.
As always, if you have any questions or issues after the change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) or call 902 566 0465.
