Here's your chance to prove your spelling prowess. The UPEI Writing Centre is hosting its 2nd Annual Spelling Bee Smackdown on Tuesday, March 6, in the W.A. Murphy Centre's McMillan Hall. If you can spell "tchotchke" in 10 seconds or less, get your team together for some good old fashioned competition. We'd like to bring faculty, staff, and students together for an afternoon...

In a dramatic double-overtime finish, the UPEI men's hockey team beat Acadia 6-5 Monday night in Game 3 of the best of three quarterfinal series to advance to the 2012 Subway Atlantic University Sport men's hockey semifinal playoff. Matt Carter scored the game winner before a capacity crowd at MacLauchlan Arena. The win sends the Panthers to the semifinals for the first time...

The University of Prince Edward Island men's basketball team has secured former Nova Scotia Canada Games and Citadel High point guard Deontay (D.J.) Smith for this coming fall. Smith will reunite with Panthers head coach Tim Kendrick who helped lead the Nova Scotia Canada Games team on a thrilling run to a silver medal at the 2009 Canada Summer Games held in PEI. Smith was a standout when...

Prostate is the most common cancer amongst Canadian men, with one in seven developing the disease in their lifetime. Often undetected until it is too late, prostate cancer is expected to kill more than four-thousand men this year in Canada alone. Every year, motorcycle enthusiasts from across the country join together to raise funds to fight prostate cancer in the TELUS Motorcycle Ride for Dad....

The UPEI Panthers men's basketball team announced today the addition of 6'6' Three Oaks Senior High star, Lucas Coughlin. UPEI Head Coach Tim Kendrick is thrilled to add Coughlin to the roster, 'We are very excited to have Lucas play with the Panthers. We believe that he has tons of potential, and that he will be a very solid player for years to come. He is a fine young man that...

Robyn Christensen, a fourth-year science student at UPEI, went on a trip to Uganda last year that forever changed her. Since that trip, Robyn created and leads UPEI's International Charity Club, a group dedicated to helping the less fortunate in third world countries. This May, the club will embark on a three-week journey to Uganda with the Watoto program, a holistic care initiative that...

UPEI's Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) and the School of Business are teaming up with Timeless Technologies, a local software and web development company, to present to its students 'The Big Pitch'-Venture Capital Funding. CSIT and Business students will work together in teams of four to develop a concept and a business plan for the '...

After recently hearing about the efforts of Volunteer Eco Students Abroad (VESA), two UPEI students, Kirsten Van Der Velden and Kyle Murphy have signed up to volunteer in Fiji in April. The students will board with a Fijian family during their two-week volunteer journey. While in Fiji, they will aid an important sustainable community development project, where they will partake in daily...

Dr. Peter Meincke, former UPEI president from 1978-1985, was recently among the first 60 recipients recognized with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal during the inaugural presentation ceremony on February 6, at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa. Recipients of this prestigious award are said to have made Canada a better place, and have called on others to also act out of goodwill. The...

Dr. Fiona Walton, Professor of Education at UPEI, has been awarded a 2012 3M National Teaching Fellowship. Each year, the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and 3M Canada join together to reward exceptional teaching and learning at Canadian universities. Walton was among the 10 teaching fellows chosen for this year. She is known as a visionary, a determined and courageous...