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Media Releases

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Alysha Corrigan and Brett Strba, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the week for October 8–15!

 
| Special Event

Professor Anne Warner La Forest, of the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Law, will present the 2017 Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Friday, October 20, at 1:30 p.m., at The Guild, 111 Queen St., Charlottetown. Her presentation is entitled “Canada and International Human Rights Law at 150: A Journey in Three Parts.”

 
| University

The Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) released today its 2017–18 preliminary survey of enrolments for universities in the Atlantic region. 

 
| Speakers

In his talk, “Irish and Scottish Gaelic in the US, Canada, Scotland, and Ireland in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries,” Dr. Sherling will discuss a new project that Peter Ludlow, a historian in Nova Scotia, and he are working on.

 
| Research

After a successful start in September, Research on Tap returns October 19 at 6:30 pm at The Wave, the UPEI campus pub in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Dr. Janet Bryanton, professor in the Faculty of Nursing at UPEI, will lead a discussion about women who seek planned caesareans due to fear of childbirth.

 
| University

The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is the latest university to join SHAD, an award-winning national enrichment program which brings top high school students to 16 university campuses across the country every July.

 
| Athletics

The Panther home-schedule is full this weekend, with the home-opener for UPEI Women’s Hockey, the Mickey Place Memorial Basketball Tournament, and games for men’s hockey and both soccer teams. 

 
| Athletics

The Mickey Place Memorial Basketball Tournament, presented by Rodd Hotels & Resorts, begins on Friday, October 13.

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Jenna Mae Ellsworth (women’s basketball) and Kameron Kielly (men’s hockey), the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the week for October 2-8!

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

Eminent animal welfare scientist Professor David Mellor, University of Massey, New Zealand, will give a public lecture at the Atlantic Veterinary College on Tuesday, October 17, at 7 p.m.