Dr. Mike van den Heuvel, Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute and a professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, has been awarded an Engage Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to study the health of the Barbara Weit estuary in New Annan. 

Enooyaq Sudlovenick, a graduate student at AVC, has won a $15,000 W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research (Master’s level) from the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. 

The University of Prince Edward Island and the UPEI Alumni Association invite you to ring in the New Year at the UPEI New Year's Levee on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building. The Levee will mark the official start to UPEI's 50th Anniversary!

On November 21, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz and Island Studies professor and UNESCO Chair Jim Randall welcomed a delegation from the University of the Ryukyus, an island university based in Okinawa, Japan. The purpose was to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two universities, to formalize the current relationship that exists and to facilitate future academic exchange of students and faculty.

Researchers from UPEI’s Active Living Lab are seeking people with breast cancer, or who have previously had breast cancer, to participate in a twelve-week exercise-training program. 

The Atlantic Veterinary College’s Diagnostic Services unit has been awarded $1.5 million in partnership with the Canadian Pork Council for a project that will improve detection of enteric diseases in swine. 

A team from UPEI’s Faculty of Business recently took second place at the Alberta International Business Competition, hosted by the University of Alberta in Jasper. 

The University of Prince Edward Island, along with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization), present “Science as a Right”, a panel discussion in recognition of the United Nations Human Rights Day. 

Today, December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, which marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, because they were women: Geneviève Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte.

Congratulations to Rachel Colle and Filip Rydstrom, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for November 26 to December 2.