The public is invited to attend a research symposium about Prince Edward Island and the Chiloe Islands, off the coast of Chile, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at UPEI on Monday, November 30, from 2-4:30 p.m. Entitled 'We are People of the Island,' the symposium is hosted by the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI. The featured speaker is anthropologist Manuel Munoz,...

UPEI recently received an accessibility award from the City of Charlottetown for improvements to the campus that benefit people who have disabilities. Displaying the award are President Wade MacLauchlan; student Paul Cudmore, a member of the university's Access-Ability Committee; and Joanne McCabe, chair of the committee. UPEI is among five organizations that received accessibility...

Three UPEI students are bringing the English language and a taste of Canadian culture to elementary, secondary and language students in Spain and France in 2009-2010. UPEI student Darrah Richardson of Hunter River won a highly sought after lectorship last spring from the Spanish Embassy to work in Andalucía, Spain, as a language and culture assistant. She is teaching English to...

The Tourism Research Centre at UPEI has released its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. The report provides a summary of comments from visitors to P.E.I. The comments were solicited through two open-ended questions. The first asked if the visitor experienced any problems that would impact their decision to return to P.E.I. or to recommend it to...

Well-known scientist and public speaker Dr. Joe Schwarcz, a.k.a 'Dr. Joe,' will give a presentation called Hey! There Are Cockroaches in My Chocolate Ice Cream! at the University of Prince Edward Island on Wednesday, November 18, and again on Thursday, November 19. The presentation on November 18 will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Steel Recital Hall, and the one...

The Tourism Research Centre at UPEI is pleased to announce the release of its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. This report groups visitors based on the activities they participated in while on PEI. 'We have divided our visitors into four groups based on what they did while on PEI,' said Dr. Sean Hennessey, Faculty Director of the...

The Winter's Tales Author Reading Series will feature and celebrate 13 talented Island writers, most of them new voices, several of them familiar to Island audiences, at a public reading on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at UPEI. The writers are currently participating in a creative writing master class offered by the UPEI Department of English...

Members of the public are invited to attend a talk called "Creating City Wolves ... From Dogs" by Canadian author Dorris Heffron on Tuesday, November 3, from 12:30-1:20 p.m., in the AVC Lecture Theatre D at UPEI. Heffron is the author of City Wolves, a novel that imagines the life of Canada's first female veterinarian, the Klondike gold rush, and the evolution of the dogs...

Doug MacGregor, chairman and co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, will give a public talk at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. MacGregor's talk, entitled Canada's Economy and Canadian Banks' Performance through the Financial Crisis and into the Recovery, will take place in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), McDougall Hall. ...

Musicians Lennie Gallant, Richard Wood, Michelle Wright and friends will donate their performances in a concert on November 7 for Light Up Papua New Guinea, a project to honour Captain Nichola Goddard who was killed in 2006 in Afghanistan while serving with the Canadian Forces. Nichola's parents, UPEI's Dean of Education Tim Goddard and Sally Goddard, will attend the event. ...