UPEI's Relay for Life will take place October 26 at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre giving students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to celebrate life, and remember those who have won or lost their battles with cancer. The first campus Relay for Life took place in October 2008. More than 20 student teams will take part in the 12-hour, overnight event from 6 pm until 6 am, Saturday,...

UPEI's Dr. Benet Davetian, associate professor in sociology, was the invited speaker on October 15 at the University of Maryland's President's Symposium. Davetian spoke on the benefits of civility instruction and practice in the legal, medical, and social work professions. Davetian held two cups of water during his presentation; one represented a cup half-empty, and the other,...

The UPEI Wind Symphony will collaborate with the Montague Senior High School Concert Band in a recital on Thursday, October 25 at 7:30 pm at Montague High School. The Wind Symphony will perform an eclectic set of pieces designed to engage the audience and showcase the unique sounds of the wind band. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch's 'Festive Overture' will open their...

In the winter of 2010, a subcommittee-UPEI campus food strategy committee-was struck to develop a healthy campus food strategy. So far, we have been consulting with staff, faculty, and students and surveying other campuses across the country for best practices. We plan to provide recommendations to the healthy campus committee as to how we can work together to...

The Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) released its 2012-2013 preliminary survey of enrolments for its 16 member universities-including the University of Prince Edward Island-last week. UPEI's overall enrolment numbers show a slight decrease by 0.9%, due to a decline in part-time student registrations, but show increases of 1.1% in full-time, 15.1% in full-time...

UPEI soccer teams will take on the Acadia Axemen on Friday, October 19 with the women's kickoff at 4:00 pm, followed by the men's game at 6:15 pm. The teams will then compete in their last home games on Saturday, October 20 against the Cape Breton Capers at 2:00 pm and 4:15 pm, with a special ceremony to recognize graduating players in between games. Alyson Seviour, Kayla Balderston,...

The following was distributed by Timeless Technologies: A team of UPEI students and Timeless Technologies announced the launch of an exciting new smartphone application this week aimed at solving the problem of managing a wallet full of loyalty cards. Quipin is a mobile loyalty app that instantly offers customers a new way to store their loyalty cards, collect points at participating businesses...

New agreement would also see UPEI and SI co-host international symposia on climate change, biodiversity, and islands The University of Prince Edward Island signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI), a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The MOU will see the two groups work together on publications; organize seminars,...

UPEI students enrolled in Nursing 213-Nursing of Young Families visited Westwood Primary School in Cornwall today to put on a special teddy bear clinic for kindergarten classes. Each child brought in a teddy bear or doll to be examined by the student nurses, while the kindergarten student acted in the role of the parent in order to observe an encounter with a health-care professional...

The UPEI Panthers will face-off against StFX in this year's home opener on Friday, October 19 at 7:00 pm at MacLauchlan Arena. UPEI's women's hockey team claimed their first-ever AUS banner last season, having upset StFX, the top-ranked AUS team and fourth-ranked CIS team, 2-1 in the semi-final, advancing the Panthers to the finals where they defeated Mount Allison. Prior...