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.

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UPEI engineering students Syed Imran Ali and Syed Daniyal Ali sitting in a lit building atrium
UPEI engineering students Syed Imran Ali and Syed Daniyal Ali sitting in a lit building atrium
| Students, Success Story
UPEI Engineering students achieve amazing results at national competition

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SDU Main Building
| Students
"My Honours thesis in History was the most important part of my undergrad."

Vera Kirk is a UPEI Class of 2025 graduate (Honours in History) and current Master's degree student at McGill University.

UPEI Master of Arts in Island Studies student Jack Weeks
| Students, Graduate Students
"The MAIS program is steeped in a philosophy that 'to love is to learn'.”

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Jack Weeks is a student in the thesis stream of UPEI's Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) program.

UPEI assistant professor Ashton Dougan
| Faculty
UPEI Faculty Spotlight: Ashton Dougan

Ashton Dougan is an assistant professor in the UPEI Faculty of Nursing and a PhD candidate whose research explores simulation and creative pedagogy in nursing education.

UPEI graduate student Aadesh Nunkoo
| Graduate Students
"Graduate studies at UPEI have given me the confidence to approach my work."

Meet Aadesh Nunkoo, Master of Science in Mathematical and Computational Sciences graduate student and UPEI alumni.

UPEI History student Riley Drake in the History student lounge
| Students
"UPEI offered everything I wanted out of a university program."

Meet Riley Drake, fourth-year History student (Honours).

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