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Media Releases

| Chaplaincy Centre

A series of kind acts has helped resupply the UPEI Food Bank with some much-needed meat.

| Athletics

The UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation has partnered with PEI-based Thinking Big Information Technology Inc. to launch the Gold Rush 50-50 fundraiser on the UPEI Panthers app.

| People

Dr. Laurie Brinklow and Lori Mayne, two faculty members at the University of Prince Edward Island, have been awarded SSHRC Exchange Publication Awards.

| Athletics

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is excited to welcome campers back to campus as Panther Academy re-opens on July 6!

| People

Engineers Canada is celebrating three female engineers at UPEI as part of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED).

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, has been awarded $29,400 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for a project entitled “Youth Engagement in Veterinary Medicine: A Model to Enhance Indigenous Youth Connection to STEM.”

| Community
In a message to the University community, President Abd-El-Aziz reflects on National Indigenous Peoples Day, which takes place on June 21.
| Atlantic Veterinary College

Congratulations to Dr. Frederick Kibenge, chair of the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at AVC, on the publication of his second book, Aquaculture Health Management: Design and Operation Approaches. The book is co-edited by Dr. Mark Powell, CEO of Marineholmen RASLab AS and adjunct professor of fish pathology with the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

Anastasiya Missan, AVC Class of 2022, won first prize in the American Veterinary Medical History Society’s 2020 Fred Smithcors Veterinary History Essay Contest for her essay, “The Un-BEE-lievable History of Beekeeping.”

| Athletics

After an outstanding season leading the UPEI women’s basketball team to an AUS Championship and a U SPORTS bronze medal, Jenna Mae Ellsworth is up for yet another honour.