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Media Releases

| Events

UPEI Human Resources welcomed 25 Grade 9 students from schools across the province for Take Our Kids to Work Day on November 5, 2025.

| Athletics

The UPEI Panther Source for Sports Athletes of the Week for November 3–9 are Grace Richard (women’s cross country) and Luc Doucette (men’s cross country).

| Athletics

The UPEI Panthers are looking forward to a week of competition at home and on the road. 
 

| People

Thank you to everyone who took the time to share your stories and celebrate your colleagues. It is inspiring to see our community come together to shine a spotlight on the people who go above and beyond every day. 

| Events

Award-winning botanist, naturalist, and author Kate MacQuarrie will give a talk titled “The Wild Side of PEI” on November 18, 2025, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building, UPEI.

| Athletics

The Panthers earned their first-ever national medal with a 2-0 victory over the Dalhousie University Tigers to capture bronze at the 2025 Field Hockey Canada U SPORTS National Invitational Championship, hosted by UPEI from October 30 to November 2.

| People

Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President, Academic and Research, announced that Dr. Svetlana Kochkina has been appointed as the University Librarian, for a five-year term, effective March 1, 2026.  

| University

In this message from the Board of Governors chair Shannon MacDonald and President Wendy Rodgers, thank all those who contributed to the development of Making our world a better place: UPEI Strategic Plan (2025–2030).

| Research

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. 

| Athletics

The UPEI Panther Source for Sports Athletes of the Week for October 27–November 2 are Kayla Batchilder (women’s field hockey) and Jakob Robillard (men’s hockey).