News

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Media Releases

 
| Alumni

Calling all UPEI, SDU, and PWC alumni! Join your classmates and come home to PEI for Reunion Weekend 2016 on the beautiful and vibrant UPEI campus, August 4-6.

 
| Athletics

University of Prince Edward Island Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tim Kendrick is pleased to announce that Nathan Anderson from Nassau, Bahamas, has committed to the Panthers for the upcoming 2016-17 season. The 6 foot, 6 ½ inch, 215-pound forward is a graduate of C.C. Sweeting High School.

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

Alison Reindel, a fourth-year student at UPEI’s Atlantic Veterinary College, has been selected to present a research poster at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) annual conference in Denver, Colorado, on November 2, 2016. 

 
| Students

Students at the new School of Sustainable Design Engineering recently competed in an international, intercollegiate racing competition held in Rochester, New York. 

 
| Athletics

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is proud to introduce the Panther Academy After-School Program, coming this fall in the Chi-Wan Young Sport Centre.

 
| Research

Dr. Robert Gilmour, Vice-President Academic and Research at the University of Prince Edward Island, today announced a new UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability

 
| Research

Singing impacts lives in positive ways from birth until senior years. It also impacts communities. A workshop entitled “Singing, Song, and Community” will take place Friday, July 22, from 1 pm—4:15 pm in UPEI’s SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge.

 
| Alumni

Relive “the good old days” at the Barn Reunion, August 6, from 9 pm—12:30 am at UPEI’s W. A. Murphy Student Centre. 

 
| Seminar/Conference

Two prominent Canadian aboriginal women will be the keynote and plenary speakers of the second annual UPEI Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference (UMGRC) held from August 11-13 at UPEI.

 
| People

Two distinguished members of the UPEI community were among the recipients of The Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers, awarded yesterday by David Johnson, Governor General of Canada.