Four student teams from the McDougall Faculty of Business presented options and strategies for transportation and parking improvements on campus to UPEI’s Facilities Management and Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee, and representatives from the City of Charlottetown and the provincial government recently at Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI.

Over the coming weeks, UPEI Communications will include profiles of the winners of the recent University Awards of Excellence in editions of the Campus Connector. Featured this week is Tammy Ryan, Service Worker with Facilities Management, who is the recipient of the University Ambassador Award.

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) is ready to welcome aspiring veterinarians from across the country, and around the world, for the 2025 Dr. Tim Ogilvie AVC Vet Camp beginning July 7.

Read the summary of key points from the UPEI Budget Information Session that was hosted by President Wendy Rodgers and Vice-President Administration and Finance Tim Walker on June 25, 2025.

Drs. Catherine Ryan, Tracy Doucette, and Yasemin Salgirli Demirbas, UPEI Department of Psychology, participated in a newly published international study about left-side sleeping in cats as a survival strategy.

A new book by Don Jardine, a sessional instructor with the UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation, will be launched on Thursday, June 26, at 7 pm, on the second floor of the Confederation Court Mall, 134 Kent Street, Charlottetown.

The UPEI Faculty of Education is hosting approximately 70 teachers and staff from Sherwood Elementary School from June 9–27. The opportunity for this unique collaboration came about because the teachers and staff from Sherwood Elementary needed a welcoming space to work as they transition into a newly built school. 

Dr. Jean Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, has been renewed as the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability at the University of Prince Edward Island until December 2028.

The UPEI Chaplaincy Centre, with the help of UPEI Experiential Education, recently recruited a volunteer coordinator and a team of student volunteers to take care of “Saint Dunstan’s Gardens” through the summer months and into early fall. Thanks to the efforts of these volunteers and others, the gardens have now been renewed and planted with a variety of vegetables.

From May 22 to 24, 2025, UPEI proudly hosted ChemCon 2025, an annual conference held in conjunction with Science Atlantic for undergraduate and graduate chemistry students in Atlantic Canada.