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Media Releases

 
| Students

New Student Orientation (NSO) is an annual tradition at UPEI to help incoming students get their bearings at their new school and put them on the path to success.

 
| Students

UPEI students took their island tourism course to its logical, practical end by mingling with tourists from the cruise ship MS Veendam when it docked earlier this month in Charlottetown.

 
| Academics

Holland College, New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) and University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) are pleased to announce a new articulation agreement that allows instructors to further develop their instructional skills by transferring credits from one post-secondary institution to another.

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

After a month in the care of the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Wildlife Service, a juvenile bald eagle was released on August 5, near Bangor, PEI.

 
| University

The University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathy Hambly and James Moran as well as the re-appointments of Scott Harper and Margo Thompson to its UPEI Board of Governors.

 

 
 
| Athletics

Member of Parliament for Charlottetown Sean Casey, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), today joined the Honourable Richard Brown, Minister of Workforce and Advanced Learning, Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of UPEI, and Michael O’Grady, Vice-President, Innovation, Enterprise and Strategic Development at Holland College, to announce support that will enable the University to replace its popular turf field.

 

 
| People

A new textbook offers instructors a new way to approach an introductory course on women’s and gender studies.

 
| Alumni

As part of UPEI’s Reunion Weekend 2016, the University of Prince Edward Island celebrated four of its own with Distinguished and Young Inspiring Alumni awards. 

 
| Upcoming Events

For more than two hundred years, Prince Edward Island has been home to a strong fiddling tradition: a blend of Scottish, Irish, and Acadian influences. 

 
| University

UPEI’s new 76,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art School of Sustainable Design Engineering building officially opened its doors to students, staff, faculty, and the public today.