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Media Releases

| University

UPEI’s actuarial science program has been recognized by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) as being a university offering an actuarial program with advanced curriculum. The program is now designated as a UCAP–Advanced Curriculum program (UCAP-AC).

| University

The UPEI Health, Safety, and Environment department has issued new guidance for mask-wearing in advance of the beginning of the 2020 Fall Academic Semester.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

AVC students Austin Ebbott and Joey Buzzell gained valuable experience caring for a protected species when they helped care for barn swallow chicks at the AVC Wildlife Service last  month. 

| Atlantic Veterinary College

Dr. Sophie Whoriskey, AVC Class of 2013, has been named Hawaiian monk seal conservation veterinarian at Ke Kai Ola, the Marine Mammal Center’s hospital for Hawaiian monk seals in Kona, Hawai’i. 

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre (SJDAWC), Atlantic Veterinary College, will offer its annual three-part webinar series on September 15 and 29, and October 13. Each webinar will be live from 4 to 5 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time.

| News

Organizations from all sectors across Prince Edward Island can apply to host an intern and build climate change expertise in 2021 as part of the ClimateSense Professional Internship Program.

| Students

On Tuesday, August 18, students in UPEI’s MBA in Global Leadership program will make their final capstone presentations examining the impacts of COVID-19 on the PEI tourism industry.

| Research

For the first time ever, L.M. Montgomery’s famed Anne of Green Gables manuscript will be made widely accessible as the central feature of an upcoming online exhibition.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, has received a donation of $10,000 from Nestlé Purina PetCare Canada to support Indigenous students attending the College’s Dr. Tim Ogilvie AVC Vet Camp.

| University

Get a group of Islanders together, and in short order, the conversation turns to the weather. Thanks to Dr. Xander Wang, assistant professor at UPEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation, those conversations can be informed by real-time weather readings and historical climate data collected across PEI.