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...

The UPEI Student Union Shinerama campaign once again exceeded expectations as students raised approximately $21,550 for Cystic Fibrosis research in a matter of hours last weekend. 'We are extremely proud of the students who chose to participate in this year's campaign,' said UPEISU President Timothy Cullen. 'We had one of the largest groups of students to ever...

A team of researchers from UPEI and the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) have found a potentially deadly strain of fungus for amphibians on Prince Edward Island. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, more commonly known as chytrid fungus, is blamed for the extreme decline or extinction of more than 200 species of frogs and toads around the world. 'We started this summer asking...

The Institute of Island Studies will launch its latest book, A Magnificent Gift Declined: The Dalton Sanatorium of Prince Edward Island, 1913-1923, on September 16th at 7 p.m. at the Emyvale Recreation Centre in Emyvale, P.E.I. Written by educator Leonard Cusack, the book is no ordinary community history. Cusack skillfully portrays provincial and federal political manoeuvring and the social...

Early enrollment figures at the University of Prince Edward Island are reflecting an upward trend once again this year. Although official registration statistics won't be finalized until early October, UPEI is optimistic that more students than ever will choose to attend the Island's university this fall. Information compiled on September 3 shows that, in...

Interacting with the University of Prince Edward Island just got quicker and easier with the development of UPEI Mobile, a version of the university's website designed for mobile phones. UPEI Mobile was created by the university's web development team as part of the content management system for its website, which is built on the open-source Drupal platform. Drupal.org...

The Association of Atlantic Universities announced their annual regional awards for excellence in teaching and instructional leadership today. Among the three award winners is the Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI's Dr. Etienne Côté. Dr. Côté, who teaches Veterinary Cardiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College, was named a 2009 AAU Distinguished Teaching...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) in the School of Business at UPEI has released a new report profiling visitors to PEI by entry and exit points. This report is based on the results of an exit survey conducted from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008. The report examines the profile of visitors according to how they arrived in and departed PEI. In all, five groups were examined: those who arrived and...

The year was 1969; the place, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; the event, the first Canada Summer Games. The young Canadian runners tore down the track in the 100-metre race, but it was Bill McKinnon, an arts major at the University of Prince Edward Island, who broke the tape to take the gold medal for his home province of P.E.I. Today McKinnon, the only UPEI alumnus to date to have won a...

The second annual International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry will be held in Charlottetown from October 15 to 18. The registration deadline is September 1. The three-day symposium includes academic sessions, presentations, poetry readings, informal discussions and social gatherings. It is open to anyone interested in poetry and poetic inquiry. Regional and international poets and scholars...