The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at UPEI's School of Business has released two reports based on the 2007-2008 Visitor Exit Survey. The first looks at summer visitors (July and August 2007) and the other examines fall visitors (September and October 2007). Visitor origin shifts slightly in the fall. Of total travel parties, the percentage visiting from Quebec and Ontario decreases...

For the second year in a row, a group of fourth-year marketing students at UPEI's School of Business have been learning first-hand the business of bioscience, and as a result have earned recognition for their efforts from the Island's bioscience industry. Working with three local bioscience companies, eleven teams of business students have been designing marketing strategies for the...

More than 300 young scientists will come together at the provincial science fair Thursday, April 2nd to showcase their science abilities and connect with other young scientists from across the province. Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Gerard Greenan encouraged the public to attend the fair. 'Participating in the school science fair is an excellent opportunity for Island...

The Chair of UPEI's English Department, Dr. Brent MacLaine, is on the shortlist of poets whose books have been nominated for the prestigious Atlantic Poetry Prize, to be given out at a gala awards presentation on May 8, during the ATLANTIC INK Writers' Festival. MacLaine's Shades of Green, published by Charlottetown's Acorn Press, is his third collection of poetry. Whether...

Sheep-for-Wheat Productions is staging Eugene Ionesco's absurdist one-act play, The Lesson, at The Guild on April 2, 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m. The actors are Chris Doiron, Meaghan Blanchard, and Kelsey Moore. Stage direction is by Rob Reddin; stage management is by Ashley Clark; and the music is by Keith Baglole. Co-producers Fraser McCallum and Chera-Lee Hickox round out the company. Everyone...

The UPEI Co-operative Education Student of the Year Awards for 2008 were awarded to three students on Wednesday, March 25, at a special event held in Don and McDougall Hall. The guest speaker of the event was Dave Perry, Director of Radiology Information Systems Research and Development, for Carestream Health Group in Summerside. His presentation focused on the importance of having...

UPEI women's basketball coach Dave MacNeill has retired from coaching at the university level. MacNeill has been coaching the women's basketball team since 2006 after having retired from the position in 1993. He returned on what was supposed to be a temporary basis to fill a gap in the coaching staff. Three seasons later, he is still coaching the team, but he now has a demanding full-...

Colonel Jamie Cade, former Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province, will give a public talk about the challenges facing Canadian Forces and NATO in Afghanistan at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, April 2, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge. Cade was Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces throughout Kandahar Province from May...

For the first time, the University of Prince Edward Island will send two teams to this year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport/Canadian Curling Association Curling Championship in Montreal from March 25 to 29. The mens's team includes three members of this year's Canadian Junior championship and World Junior silver medallist rink. The women's team, skipped by Sarah Clow, curls...

A multi-faceted research project based at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has been awarded $2.5 million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to create significant new knowledge about a basic human activity that crosses and connects generations, cultures and disciplines. Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) is headed by UPEI...