The UPEI Basketball and Hockey Panthers are looking forward to a week of competition at home and away. 

Special Olympics Prince Edward Island has chosen the UPEI Faculty of Nursing to receive a 2024 Golisano Health Leadership Award in recognition of the faculty’s ongoing collaboration and contributions to the Healthy Communities initiative on PEI. Dr. Patrice Drake, acting dean, along with several faculty members, accepted the award at a celebration on November 7 at the Florence Simmonds Performance Hall at Holland College’s Charlottetown Campus.

The Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island is thrilled to announce that Katherine MacEachern, Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT), has been named the 2024 Prince Edward Island RVT of the Year by the Eastern Veterinary Technician Association.

Three recent UPEI graduates who studied French with the Department of Modern Languages are spending the 2024–2025 school year in France under the “assistants de langues vivantes étrangères” (ALVE) program. Katelyn Burgoyne, Erin Piltzmaker, and Shayla Girouard are teaching English to French students in high and elementary schools.

The UPEI Panthers are looking forward to a week of competition at home and away. 

The 2024 U SPORTS Women’s Rugby Championship, hosted by UPEI Athletics and Recreation from October 30 to November 3, was an exceptional national tournament experience and a huge success.

Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes student-athletes for their achievements and contributions to their respective sports. The UPEI Panther Athletes of the Week for October 28 to November 3, 2024, are Lauren Rainford (women’s basketball) and Sam Chisholm (men’s basketball).

The UPEI Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation (OCII) held a successful research networking day on Thursday, October 17, in the Performing Arts Centre and Residence.

On Sunday, October 27, UPEI residence students took part in a door-to-door food drive, Trick or Eat®, in support of the UPEI food bank. Led by Residence Life Advisor (RLA) Shelby Dyment, the UPEI residence team organized the event and collected non-perishable food items along a collection route in Charlottetown. The event, which is part of a national initiative, was deemed a success by everyone involved.

Members of the public are invited to attend the 2024 Harry Baglole Memorial Public Symposium in Island Studies, titled “Homelessness and Food Insecurity on Canada’s Food Island,” on November 7, 2024, at 6:00 pm, in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, at UPEI.