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| Athletics

The UPEI Men's Hockey Panthers are teaming up once again with the Charlottetown Islanders this season for the second annual Hockey Day on PEI, Saturday, January 9. The goal of the day is to raise money for minor hockey teams across the Island.

Everyone is invited to cheer on the Panthers at the Eastlink Centre as the UPEI Men's Hockey team hosts the Dalhousie Tigers at 7:00 pm.

 
| Community

The University of Prince Edward Island continued its tradition of hosting the community to a New Year's Day Levee at Don and Marion McDougall Hall.

 

 
 
| Research

As Canada made plans in the early 1960s to build The Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, it sought the input of one of the world’s foremost thinkers in the area of architectural acoustics to help design the main performance stage. 

 
| Music

The UPEI Department of Music Recital Series is thrilled to present soprano Tracy Cantin on Friday, January 8 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

 
| Students

UPEI student-athletes have set a university record, not on the field or the court, but in the classroom. For the third year in a row, the number of UPEI Panthers who have achieved Academic All Canadian status has increased to 81.

 
| Athletics

University of Prince Edward Island Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tim Kendrick is pleased to announce the Panthers have added an early Christmas present in the form of 6'8”, 240-pound Bluefield High School graduate Jon Hovingh.

 
 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

For the past ten years, teams of veterinarians and veterinary students from the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at UPEI have been heading north to give free veterinary care to animals in remote communities in Canada's North through the Chinook Project.

 
| University

Dear members of the University community:

With the first semester already behind us and winter on our doorstep, we can now reflect on the past year and prepare to usher in 2016.

 
| Community

The University of Prince Edward Island invites the nomination of candidates for honorary degrees to be conferred at Convocation in May 2016. The deadline for nominations is January 4, 2016.

 
| Athletics

University of Prince Edward Island Women’s Hockey Coach Bruce Donaldson is pleased to announce that Antigonish, Nova Scotia native Breah MacEachern has committed to the Panthers for 2016–17.

MacEachern is attending the Ontario Hockey Academy (OHA) in Cornwall, Ontario and plays defence for the U20 Gold Team.