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Media Releases

| Athletics

The UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for November 1 to 7 are Jenna Mae Ellsworth (women’s basketball) and Elijah Miller (men’s basketball).

| Research

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is underway in Glasgow, Scotland.

| Seminar/Conference

Professor Louis Doiron, Director of the Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics programs at UPEI, will give a second virtual presentation about “The Feasibility and Costing of Implementing a Guaranteed Basic Income Program in Canada” on Wednesday, November 10, at 3:00 pm. The seminar is a repeat of one given by Professor Doiron on October 17 with some additional aspects covered. 

| Athletics

This week’s UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for October 25 to 31 are Paige Chisholm (cross country) and Ehab Moustafa (men’s soccer).

| Athletics

This week’s Panthers at Home is all hockey all the time, as both UPEI men’s and women’s hockey teams host games.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), University of Prince Edward Island, officially welcomed a new cohort of students during the AVC-Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) Blue Coat Ceremony and Dinner at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) on Friday, October 29.

| Students

The Associate Vice-President of Students and Registrar issued a message to current and incoming students that UPEI is planning to resume in-person course delivery methods and classes across all faculties, with limited exceptions, for the 2022 Winter Academic Semester.

| Research

The University of Prince Edward Island has named three of faculty members as the recipients of the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Research Professorships in Nutrisciences and Health.

| Music

An upcoming performance of the PEI Symphony Orchestra (PEISO) will feature Dr. Dale Sorensen, principal trombonist for the orchestra and an assistant professor of brass at UPEI.

| Events

Olivia Robinson was born in the Annapolis Valley and moved to PEI with her family.