One of Atlantic Canada's finest poets and creative writing teachers, Brian Bartlett, will read from his new book, The Watchmaker's Table, on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. His reading is co-hosted by the UPEI English Department and the Gallery, with support from the League of Canadian Poets and Canada Council for the Arts. Bartlett was born...

Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, will give a public lecture called 'The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Fight for the Right to Water' on Wednesday, March 4, in the UPEI Duffy Science Centre's amphitheatre (Room 135), from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Barlow is co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the right to water....

Alumni of the University of Prince Edward Island now have a place on campus that bears their name. The impressive outdoor athletics facility constructed for the 2009 Canada Games is now officially called the UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place in honour of the thousands of people who are, or will be, proud graduates of UPEI. The UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place features a 400-metre track with eight...

At a public celebration to mark the accomplishments of the most ambitious private-sector fundraising campaign in the University of Prince Edward Island's history, President Wade MacLauchlan thanked UPEI's supporters for contributing a total of $52,236,859, well above the campaign's $50 million target. "This Campaign has been an exhilarating effort," said...

The wealth of downeast literary talent keeps growing. Two dazzling new fiction writers, Libby Creelman from St. John's and Ian Colford from Halifax, will be featured in the Winter's Tales Authors Series on Thursday, February 5, at 7:30, in Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Their reading is co-sponsored by the Gallery and UPEI Department of English. Creelman's first book,...

The University of Prince Edward Island's eighth annual International Development Week, which will be held from February 2 to 6, will explore the theme of women in development through a variety of speakers and activities. The week begins on Monday, February 2, with a research symposium presented by graduate students in the Masters of Island Studies program, at the Atlantic Veterinary...

Students in the University of Prince Edward Island's executive-style Master of Business Administration program will explore the topic of local food during a public event in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, McDougall Hall, on Saturday, February 7. Starting at 9:30 a.m. a panel of experts will present a local food challenge to the MBA students, who will be asked to come up with a solutions...

Three research projects led by the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island received a significant boost this week during ACOA Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF) announcements. Approximately $6.2 million in AIF funding was committed in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick to three projects that will benefit human and animal health, while strengthening industries in...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) in the School of Business at the University of PEI is pleased to announce the release of a new report profiling members of the Traveller's Voice, an online panel designed to gather research about visitors to PEI. The panel was launched in April 2008 as one of the needs identified in meetings held with tourism industry stakeholders and the TRC in 2006....

Aboriginal students attending the University of Prince Edward Island now have a place on campus they can call their own. Located on the fifth floor of historic Dalton Hall, the Maoi Omi Aboriginal Student Centre will be officially opened on Tuesday, January 20, at 2 pm. The name Maoi Omi, which means gathering place-a place to share and support one another-in the Mi'kmaq language,...