UPEI Spotlights

UPEI is a place built on stories, from student success, to faculty and staff honours, to ground-breaking research. In UPEI Spotlights, you can read and watch videos about the important things that make UPEI unique.

Featured Story

Dr. Max Schaefer outside the Charlottetown Library
Dr. Max Schaefer outside the Charlottetown Library
| Faculty, Profile
"UPEI has the potential to grow still more, and to help students do the same."

Our Stories

a UPEI student in a green UPEISU hoodie standing in an office
| UPEI Viewbook 2025
"I've met so many people that made adjusting to life in a new country easy."

Meet Rayyan, UPEI actuarial science student and UPEI Student Union executive.

a UPEI student in the sustainable design engineering building
| UPEI Viewbook 2025
"The quality and transferability of this program is integral for a more sustainable future."

Meet Berry, UPEI Sustainable Design Engineering student and 3M National Student Fellow.

UPEI DVM student in the AVC
| UPEI Viewbook 2025
"I am in awe of our class—everyone wants their peers to succeed."

Meet Ella, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) student.

a UPEI business student in McDougall Hall
| UPEI Viewbook 2025
"I have experienced an incredible network of support that goes beyond the ordinary."

Meet Amy, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Global Leadership student.

close-up of Arduino circuitry
| Students
"It's a unique project, and I got to work on it with a really talented team."

Sustainable Design Engineering students Ben Keizer, Tung Nguyen, SoumyaDeep Chowdhury, and Luke McCarvill and their TrashTech project centres around developing a reduction-focused domestic waste management product. It aims to conduct waste classification using machine vision, weight sensing, and meaningful data communication to users through a web application, much like Fitbit’s functionality and related smartphone application.

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