UPEI has secured space at 155 Belvedere Avenue, Suite 202 (the former Island Coastal location) to house the Faculty of Medicine faculty and staff while the new Faculty of Medicine and Interprofessional Health Training Centre building is under construction at the north end of campus.

The inaugural Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy, presented by Dr. Shannon Murray at UPEI on September 5, is airing on CBC Radio’s national program Ideas on Monday, November 13, at 8:00 pm. 

The University of Prince Edward Island is reviving its popular Research on Tap series with a presentation titled “Versatile applications of AI in chemistry and education” on November 16 at 6 pm at The Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre at UPEI.

The University of Prince Edward Island was well-represented at the second international conference on small island states and subnational island jurisdictions, titled “Turning the Tide: Climate Change, Social Change, and Islandness” in Oranjestad, Aruba, from October 23 to 26, 2023.

The UPEI Panthers are looking forward to a week of basketball and hockey at home and on the road.

The University of Prince Edward Island congratulates President Emeritus H. Wade MacLauchlan on being installed as chancellor of the University of New Brunswick.

Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes two student-athletes for their achievements and contributions to their respective sports. The UPEI Panther Athletes of the Week for October 30–November 5 are Aiden Rainford (women’s basketball) and Jace Colley (men’s basketball).

The UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) recently collaborated with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to help grant a wish for an Island child by assembling a wheelchair-accessible swing at his home in O’Leary, PEI.

Dr. Christian Lacroix, professor and chair of the UPEI Department of Biology, took his Plant Community Ecology class to Basin Head on November 4 to study the unique mature grey dune system adjoining the beach.

UPEI is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Founders. Submissions via an online form or email must be received by November 17, 2023, at 12:00 pm AT (noon).