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| Alumni
Dr. Stephen Scherer, Director of The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, will give the 2009 Gairdner Faculty Lecture at UPEI on Thursday, October 1. His talk, entitled 'What you are and who you are in the era of genome projects,' will take place in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre's lecture theatre from 3 to 4...
 
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A group of fourth-year UPEI nursing students who worked in Kenya this summer will hold a fundraising event on Friday, October 2, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre's McMillan Hall on the campus. Rianne Carragher, Marley Bruce, Ashley Caulier and Cheryl Edmunds travelled to Kenya as part of the Canadian International Development Agency's Students for...
 
| Alumni
The Honourable Thomas Cromwell, of the Supreme Court of Canada, will be the guest lecturer at the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law at the University of Prince Edward Island on Monday, October 5. Cromwell will give a lecture entitled 'Atlantic Canada's Contributions to the Supreme Court of Canada' in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), Don and Marion...
 
| Alumni
Two of Canada's outstanding poets, John Donlan and Sue Sinclair, will read at the Confederation Centre Library, on Tuesday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m. Donlan was raised in Ontario's Muskoka lakes district. His father worked with teams of horses hauling logs in the bush; neighbours raised skunks, crows, and porcupines as domestic pets (a neighbour's crow, named for his father, stole...
 
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Investment expert Sydney Tremayne will give a free public presentation on Thursday, September 24, at 2 p.m. in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre's McMillan Hall. Tremayne's presentation, made possible in part by the UPEI Student Business Society and the UPEI Alumni Association, is part of the university's third annual Homecoming Weekend, which takes place from September 24...
 
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As the busy academic year gets underway, the University of Prince Edward Island will take time to celebrate its extensive history and look forward to a bright future at its tenth annual Founders' Day ceremony on Friday, September 25, beginning at 2:00 p.m. On Founders' Day, UPEI honours its rich heritage and traditions, acknowledges people who have contributed to it in an...
 
| Alumni
As part of UPEI's Homecoming Weekend, the UPEI Alumni Association will honour four distinguished alumni at its annual awards luncheon on Thursday, September 24, at noon in the Main Building Faculty Lounge. Receiving awards this year are Dr. Doris M. Anderson (PWC '42), George A. MacDonald (SDU '64 and UPEI '69), Major-General Matthew G. Macdonald (UPEI '...
 
| Alumni
Inspirational teaching was the topic of a day-long seminar organized recently by the UPEI Faculty Development Office to launch the new academic year. The guest speaker was TA Loeffler, Professor of Outdoor Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She spoke on the topic 'Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Teaching I Learned from Climbing Mountains.' Professor...
 
| Alumni
Seventeen students from the University of Prince Edward Island and seven from the Memorial University of Newfoundland will spend the fall semester exploring intersections between literature, art and religious thought at MUN's campus in Harlow, England. Entitled Faith, Love and Lore: Literature, Art and Religion in England, this interdisciplinary program is a co-operative effort...
 
| Alumni
UPEI faculty members Brent MacLaine, Deirdre Kessler and Sean Weibe will join other Island writers this coming weekend, September 18-20, in readings and workshops at the Pen & Inkling Festival, a celebration of the Prince Edward Island Writers' Guild's 20th anniversary. This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a...