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Media Releases

| Events

Award-winning poet, nature and environmental author, conservation activist, and the 2023 UPEI writer-in-residence Harry Thurston will read from his new poetry collection, Ultramarine, on Wednesday, September 27, at 7:30 pm at the Gallery Coffee Shop and Bistro, 82 Great George Street, Charlottetown. This free event is sponsored by the UPEI Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts and The Bookmark.        

| Atlantic Veterinary College

Dr. Megan Jones, of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), couldn’t believe she had a great white shark on her post-mortem table.

| Athletics

As they enter the 2023 season, the UPEI Women’s Soccer Panthers are optimistic that this year their playoff hopes and dreams will become reality.

| Athletics

The UPEI Panthers women’s and men’s soccer teams are looking forward to its first homestand of the season this weekend at the UPEI Artificial Turf Field.

| Special Event

The inaugural Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy will take place at the UPEI Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 5, at 4:00 pm.

| Athletics

With a fresh start and outlook, the UPEI Panthers are looking ahead to bigger and better things in 2023.

| Students

New Student Orientation (NSO) takes place at the University of Prince Edward Island from September 1– 9, 2023, at various campus locations. 

| Research

Students participating in the 2023 UPEI Student Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) presented their posters on August 23 in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Building.

| Athletics

The UPEI Women’s Soccer Panthers have secured a commitment from Campbell River, British Columbia native Hannah Loeb for the 2023–24 season.

| University

UPEI is developing a UPEI Action Plan Advisory Group in response to the Rubin Thomlinson report. Read about the public “Call for Expressions of Interest," which has been issued to community members who would like to participate in and contribute to the Action Plan process.