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Media Releases

| Research

Twenty-five participants in UPEI’s 2025 Student Program for Research Engagement and Excellence (SPREE) will present their research posters on Wednesday, August 27, at 1:00 pm, in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

| Events

The UPEI Foods and Nutrition program will host an Open House on Tuesday, September 9, from 4:30–5:30 pm in the third-floor dining room of the Health Sciences Building, UPEI. All UPEI students are welcome and encouraged to attend!

| Community

During UPEI Welcome Week from September 1–5, 2025, students will take part in a collaborative initiative titled “Becoming Sustainable Panthers.” 

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Dr. Katie Koralesky, nominated by UPEI for a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, has been awarded one of the 2024–2025 fellowships, valued at $140,000 over two years.

| People

Read about UPEI's new recognition program, "Recognizing Remarkable Colleagues." Let’s celebrate the big and small wins that make our campus shine! 

| Athletics

UPEI’s Department of Athletics and Recreation raised over $19,000 on Friday, August 15, at the second annual “Women Leaders of Today Supporting Women Leaders of Tomorrow” Nine-Hole Golf Social at Fox Meadow Golf Course in Stratford. The funds raised will directly benefit UPEI’s eight female varsity teams.

| People

Inge Dorsey, recently retired coordinator of both the Bachelor of Integrated Studies and the University 100 programs, received a University Award for Exemplary Service at UPEI's annual Celebration of Colleagues on May 29, 2025.

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Climate-smart technology and policy are the main themes of Climate Forum 2025, hosted by UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation from August 18 to 20. 

| Research

Dr. Désirée Seib, assistant professor in the UPEI biology department, has been awarded the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Research Chair in Human Health at the University, effective April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2028.

| University

President Wendy Rodgers will resume her town hall series for members of the UPEI campus community with an August Check-In and Update on Wednesday, August 20, 2025.