The University of Prince Edward Island applauds the Government of Prince Edward Island’s vision and support for post-secondary education, says UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz.

Prince Edward Island’s Minister of Finance, the Honourable Heath MacDonald, tabled the provincial operating budget for the 2018–19 fiscal year this morning in the Legislative Assembly.

The National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) recently announced the recipients of its latest round of Discovery Grants and Discovery Accelerator Supplements. 

Five students from UPEI’s Faculty of Science presented at the recent Science Atlantic Aquaculture & Fisheries and Biology Conference in St. John’s, NL.

The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships (QES) program recently announced the successful recipients of its phase-three funding.

The AVC Wildlife Service and the AVC Student Wildlife Club are celebrating National Wildlife Week with a public lecture at the Atlantic Veterinary College, Lecture Theatre A, on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, at 7 p.m. 

The UPEI Wind Symphony will perform its final recital of the academic year on Saturday, March 24, at 7:30 pm at Park Royal United Church in Charlottetown. This has been a particularly busy and musically rewarding year for the Wind Symphony with highly successful performances throughout the fall and winter.

The University of Prince Edward Island reminds students and members of the UPEI community to be wary of calls or emails from persons demanding money and claiming to be representatives of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) or Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).

Bruce Donaldson, coach of UPEI Women’s Hockey, is pleased to announce Delaney Boehm of East St. Paul, Manitoba has committed to the Panthers for 2018.

A paper co-authored by UPEI’s Dr. Robert Gilmour will be featured in the March 19 issue of the journal Nature. 

A pair of researchers at UPEI’s School of Sustainable Design Engineering have been awarded funding from Mitacs to develop a detailed technical framework for PEI’s electrical system to increase renewable energy integration and decrease our reliance on fossil fuels.