Research News and Events
Read about upcoming and past UPEI Research events and news!
Big ideas took centre stage at UPEI on March 20 as graduate students transformed complex research into compelling three-minute stories at the 2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition.
The UPEI Office of Research Partnership and Innovation, formerly the UPEI Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation, will host a Research Breakfast on Thursday, January 29, from 7:30 to 9:00 am in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, on campus.
The UPEI Department of Religious Studies’ Theology on Tap series returns on January 28 with a talk titled “More than Optimistic: Hope and Teilhard de Chardin” by Dr. Libby Osgood, CND.
Dr. Jeff Collins, assistant professor of political science at UPEI, will give a talk titled “Power Plays: Newfoundland’s Fight Over Churchill Falls” on January 20, 2026, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building.
Students at Westisle Composite High School have donated $1,300 to UPEI for research into MSX (Multinucleate sphere unknown), a disease in oysters caused by a parasite called Haplosporidium nelsoni.
Twenty-one UPEI researchers have been named to the 2025 Elsevier/Stanford Top 2% of Scientists List. Elsevier, in collaboration with Stanford University, unveiled the list of the world’s most influential and top-cited scientists and engineers earlier this year.
Dr. Malcom Murray, professor of philosophy, will be the guest speaker at UPEI's Research on Tap event on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 6 pm, at the Salvador Dali Café, 155 Kent Street, Charlottetown, PEI.
Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President, Academic and Research, has initiated a new regular email to share updates on recent academic and research initiatives, keep us connected with their ongoing progress, celebrate success, and invite feedback. Your ideas are welcome!
Dr. Caroline Ritter, assistant professor in the UPEI Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, has been renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) for five years ending June 30, 2030.
Two researchers from UPEI are working with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Neurodyn Life Sciences Inc. to develop a novel therapy to slow, or potentially functionally stabilize, the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
