The University of Prince Edward Island has announced Chris Huggan as its new Director of Athletics and Recreation after a community-based search process. Huggan will direct the Department of Athletics and Recreation, which includes nine varsity teams, numerous club teams, and intramural and fitness programming, along with the management of state-of-the-art facilities such as UPEI Alumni Canada...

The UPEI Panther Athletes of the Week for the week of October 13-19 are Katherine Koughan, Field Hockey; and Jared Murphy, Men's Soccer. UPEI Athletics and Recreation showcases these talented athletes in order to recognize their hard work and dedication to their respective sports. UPEI Athletes of the Week are also nominated to Atlantic University Sport and Canadian Interuniversity...

Ivan Coyote, award-winning author of eight collections of short stories, one novel, three CDs, and four short films will be on campus on Thursday, October 23 at 6:00 pm to present a public lecture. Coyote, also a renowned columnist and sought-after performer will provide a free public talk, Q&A session, and book signing, in UPEI's K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, room 104. Coyote's...

On Sunday, October 26 at 2:30 pm, the UPEI Music Department will play host to a 'triple header' at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. The 'Piano Collective,' a group of four pianists playing eight-hand music on two pianos will make their debut in a performance featuring beloved music of J.S. Bach, Mozart, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, and Bizet. The occasion also marks a...

Heather Taves returns home to PEI and to the UPEI Music Department on Friday, October 24 at 7:30 pm where she will present her solo piano recital, 'Come From Away.' Drawing on the stories her parents, and stories her aunts and uncles told about their lives, Taves' recital at UPEI will trace the history of her family as refugees from Russia in the 1920s to 1968, when her family...

The first case competition of the semester took place at Mount Saint Vincent University as the Nova Scotia institution hosted the 44th annual Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) Conference, September 26-28. UPEI's dynamic duo of Cody Dawson and Alex Khan took home third place in the ASB Case Competition. The conference, one of Canada's longest running academic business...

UPEI's seventh annual Connecting Aboriginal Cultures Festival will take place Monday, October 20-24, in support of Mi'kmaq History Month. The week's activities will celebrate the Aboriginal and Mi'kmaq culture through singing, traditional drumming and dancing, and learning. The UPEI Mawi'omi Centre and community Aboriginal Elders will raise the Mi'kmaq...

The UPEI Panther Male Athlete of the Week for the week of October 6-12 is Mavric Parks, Men's Hockey. UPEI women's varsity teams did not compete in weekend games. UPEI Athletics and Recreation showcases these talented athletes in order to recognize their hard work and dedication to their respective sports. UPEI Athletes of the Week are also nominated to Atlantic University Sport...

The Mickey Place Memorial Basketball Tournament presented by Rodd Hotels & Resorts begins on Friday, October 17 with eight basketball teams from across Canada competing in the annual three-day event. The UPEI Men's Basketball team will tip off against Saint Mary's University, Holland College, and Crandall University, while the UPEI Women's Basketball team will take on the...

Over 115 Prince Edward Island women served as nurses in the First World War. They were full-blooded, complex women living in a tumultuous time in our history, doing their duty on distant battlefields. Their courage, and the courage of all Canadian nurses, is saluted in a powerful new book about wartime nursing called Those Splendid Girls, published by Island Studies Press at UPEI. Author and...