Research News and Events
Read about upcoming and past UPEI Research events and news!
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Researchers at UPEI have been awarded over $1.5 million in federal funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
UPEI awarded internal research grants, SSHRC Explore research grants, and Lévesque human health internal research grants totalling $102,702 to 15 faculty members in 2026.
Adults on Prince Edward Island who are living with Type 2 diabetes and do not currently have a primary care provider are invited to participate in a research study evaluating a new approach to delivering diabetes care.
A new book titled Romantic Suburbs: Imagining Home in Greater London, by Dr. Kate Scarth, chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies and associate professor of Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture at UPEI, will be launched on Friday, June 26, 2026.
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Atlantic bat team is asking the public to report sightings of bats by calling the Atlantic Bat Hotline at 1-833-434-BATS (2287).
The L.M. Montgomery Institute has published a new online publication titled “A Celebration of Montgomery’s Legacy: Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies Mental Health Collection Revisited” to coincide with Canadian Mental Health Week, which takes place from May 4–10, 2026.
Dr. Callum Beck, a sessional instructor in religious and university studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, has been awarded a $7,000 SSHRC Exchange Publication Award for his book, The Bridging of the Protestant–Catholic Divide on Prince Edward Island.
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.
