Michael Redmond, head coach of the UPEI Women's Soccer team, has been named the AUS Coach of the Year and was awarded the PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada (PEIANC) Outstanding Individual Award for his and his team's work with the community at the organization's annual general meeting. The PEIANC Outstanding Individual Award recognizes an individual in the community who...

A major contribution from the John and Judy Bragg Family Foundation, made in memory of their lifelong friend and respected P.E.I. business leader David W. Rodd, will support human health research facilities at the University of Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Veterinary College. On this floor, researchers work diligently in world-class laboratories to find solutions to human health conditions...

UPEI congratulates Bobby Thomas Cameron, BA'09, on receiving the 2010 Canadian Red Cross Young Humanitarian Award for Prince Edward Island for his dedication to literacy promotion, international development, volunteerism, and advocacy. The award will be presented to the Hampton native on November 3 at the Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian Awards dinner at the Delta Prince Edward hotel, though...

The Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) program at UPEI recently awarded several scholarships at its first annual awards reception. The first McDonald Family MAIS Scholarship was awarded to Colin Allen MacIntyre from Summerside. Colin is studying the environmental history of Prince Edward Island under the academic advisement of Dr. Edward MacDonald. Another award that was...

‘Dad is Sleeping' The UPEI theatre program, in partnership with Tanball Productions, is presenting a one-act play 'Dad is Sleeping' from November 3 to 6 in the Duffy Ampitheatre, nightly at 7:30 pm. Admission is $5. ‘One-Act Play Extravaganza' On November 7, from playwright Stephen Bouey, comes nine one-act plays and three monologues for the stage. The plays, running from...

The second annual fundraising event for 'Light Up Papua New Guinea: The Captain Nichola Goddard Project' takes place Saturday, November 6 at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall on the UPEI campus. The evening gets underway with a reception at 6 pm and dinner at 7 pm and features guest speaker, Valerie Fortney, author of Sunray: The Death and Life of Nichola Goddard as well as...

The Institute of Island Studies (IIS) will be sending two interns, Ivan Skafar and Marianne Rehder, to the small island of Chiloé in southern Chile next week. Although literally on the other end of the earth, Chiloé has a lot in common with PEI. For one, it is in the same time zone and is as far south of the equator as PEI is north. It has about twice the land area, but a similar...

Research on Tap returns Tuesday, November 2 at 7:00 pm in Mavor's Bar at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Dr. Malcolm Murray, professor of Philosophy at UPEI, will lead the discussion, 'Atheism: It's not so bad, really." Murray is the author of The Atheist's Primer, a book that strives to put a bit of civility back into the debate between theists and atheists....

The PEI Food Security Network (with campus members Leo Cheverie and Jennifer Taylor) is hosting a "Kitchen Table Talk" on Tuesday, October 26 beginning at 4 pm in the Dalton Hall Dining Room in association with World Food Day. World Food Day is observed across Canada and is an initiative of the Peoples Food Policy Project. The PEI Food Security...

The University of Prince Edward Island has launched a private company to service and complement technology developed by the Robertson Library. DiscoveryGarden Inc. will provide service for Islandora-open-source software for the long-term management and archiving of digital information. 'Over the past two years the Islandora software has evolved into a leading open-source digital...