News

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Media Releases

| Speakers

The University of Prince Edward Island will host Dr. Francisco Dallmeier, director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation and Sustainability, when he visits Prince Edward Island next week to give a talk on Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity.  

| Athletics

Congratulations to Tatiana Kelly and Dan Maguire, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for October 21 to 27.

| University

As part of UPEI’s commitment to crisis preparedness and response, the University has launched a new, free safety app called UPEI SAFE.

| Upcoming Events

The UPEI 50th Anniversary Alumni Speakers Series and the UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering are pleased to present a presentation by Jim Carter (Dip. Eng ’71, LLD ’08), retired CEO of Syncrude Canada Ltd.

| University

Every spring, the University of Prince Edward Island holds Convocation ceremonies to celebrate and award degrees and diplomas to its graduating students. UPEI strives to make Convocation a special time for graduates as well as their families and friends.

| Upcoming Events

The UPEI 50th Anniversary Alumni Speakers Series and the UPEI Faculty of Arts are pleased to present an evening with the Honourable Percy Downe (BA, ’77), the first graduate of the University of Prince Edward Island to serve in the Senate of Canada.

| Events

Join us for a workshop on “Talking to the Media” with Bruce Rainnie, president and CEO of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in Halifax and former host of CBC PEI’s supper-hour news program, Compass.

| Students

Recent UPEI grad Timara Uhlig won Best Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation in the Physical, Theoretical, and Computational Chemistry Division of the 2019 Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, held this summer in Quebec City.

| Events

The Engineers Without Borders UPEI chapter is hosting a Sustainable Future Conference on October 26.

| University

The UPEI community is saddened by the death of retired professor of physics Earl LePage Wonnacott who passed away on Friday, October 18, 2019.