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| Music
As part of the UPEI Music Department Recital Series, cellist Julia MacLaine returns home to PEI to present 'Fairy Tales and Fantasy,' on Sunday, January 11 at 2:30 pm in UPEI's Dr. Steel Recital Hall. MacLaine will be accompanied by pianist Jean Desmarais in a program of music that is fanciful, mystical, at times, dreamy and very colourful. The recital will include three pieces...
 
| News
The organizing committee of the Salon du livre de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard (Prince Edward Island Book Expo) announced today that its second edition will be held here at UPEI, June 3-7, 2015. The Salon du livre de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard gives the Acadian, Francophone, and Francophile population the opportunity to access a wide variety of French language...
 
| News
In 2010, Newfoundland-raised fiction writer Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey through the Northwest Passage from Greenland to Nunavut, including parts of the doomed Franklin Expedition's route. Boundless, the chronicle of her journey, blends travelogue and memoir, history, and nature writing. Winter will read from Boundless and from her new fiction on Monday, January 12, at 7:30 pm in...
 
| News
Once again this year, UPEI hosted another successful New Year's Day Levee as UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-Al-Aziz greeted approximately 350-400 levee-goers. Faculty, staff, and students were on hand to join President Abd-El-Aziz in wishing warm greetings for the New Year. A group of international students in particular provided a helpful hand as they welcomed attendees and helped...
 
| Athletics

The University of Prince Edward Island congratulates its student-athletes who have earned Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Academic All-Canadian status for the 2013-14 season. UPEI received 75 awards, which represents 44 per cent of UPEI's total student-athlete population of 172 athletes; this percentage is amongst the top in the nation! Student-athletes who have an academic...

 
| Athletics
The University of Prince Edward Island announced it will host the first annual 'UPEI Panther ‘Ho Ho Give and Go' High School Basketball Showcase' this Friday, December 19, at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre, game time 5:30 pm. The Panthers are teaming up with the PEISAA to showcase a matchup of two of the top teams in the men's high school basketball league this year...
 
| Athletics
The University of Prince Edward Island Men's Hockey Panthers are adding size and talent to its lineup for the second half of the season, with the addition of centre-man Mitchell Theoret. Theoret played the first half of the season in the German Professional League with the EHC Bayreuth, scoring five goals and nine points in 12 games. Last year, Theoret had 17 goals and 51 points with the...
 
| Alumni
Mr. Henry Tam, proud UPEI alumnus (BBA '73), scholarship donor, and chair of UPEI's Alumni and Friends Toronto Chapter, will be on campus next week to deliver a presentation about his life altering experience as a student at UPEI. In 1969, Mr. Tam travelled from Hong Kong to study at St. Dunstan's University and UPEI. While here, Mr. Tam adjusted to a new culture and language,...
 
| Research
A research team at the University of Prince Edward Island is looking for Islanders to participate in an online health survey. The team is looking for men and women aged 40-65. The survey is confidential and takes approximately half an hour to complete. The research team is measuring the relationship between self-reported concussion injuries and current states of general health, physical activity...
 
| People
The call for nominations for appointment to the rank of Professor Emeritus is now open. Please note that only UPEI faculty are permitted to nominate faculty to professor emeritus. The deadline to submit nominations is Monday, February 2, 2015. Nominations should be forwarded to Dr. Bill Whelan, Chair of the Professor Emeritus Evaluation Committee, Department of Physics, UPEI,...