Congratulations to Jolena Gillard and Simon Hofley, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for October 15–21.

Before an audience of over 100 people, two juvenile eagles stretched their wings and flew off into the sky at the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project on Saturday, October 13, in Orwell, P.E.I. Prior to the release of the eagles, Mi’kmaq Elder Junior Peter-Paul led a smudging and drumming ceremony. 

UPEI’s School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences sent a team of 29 students and six faculty members to the 2018 Conference for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. 

The next concert in the UPEI Department of Music Recital Series will feature mezzo soprano Julie Nesrallah, accompanied by Robert Kortgaard on piano. 

Dr. David Mowat will present a public lecture at UPEI in advance of his keynote presentation at the 2018 PEI Health Promotion Conference. 

The UPEI Board of Governors approved several major policies at its October 4, 2018 meeting.

The next writer in the Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series is a bright new star in Canada’s literary sky.

Congratulations to Danielle Younker and Jack MacAulay, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for October 8–14.

The University of Prince Edward Island congratulates Chief Brian Francis of Rocky Point, PEI, on being appointed to the Senate of Canada. He is filling a PEI seat that has been vacant since the Honourable Libbe Hubley retired from the Senate in September 2017 and will be sworn in on Tuesday, October 16 in Ottawa.

U SPORTS, the national governing body of university sports in Canada, gives special recognition to student-athletes across the country with an academic standing of 80 per cent or better.