The UPEI Sports Hall of Fame committee has announced that it will induct men's basketball standout Curtis Robinson on Thursday, October 13, 2011 during the UPEI Sport Legacy Dinner. Curtis Robinson was a five-year member (1991-1996) with the UPEI men's basketball team. A team leader who captured not only UPEI awards but AUAA and CIAU awards throughout his Panther career, he was named...

The UPEI men's hockey team will take on StFX at the Cavendish Farms Wellness Centre in exhibition play, Saturday, October 8, at 3:00 pm. The pre-season game represents one of the few times the Panthers have played a home game off-campus and the first time playing in the new Montague facility. Proceeds from the game will support the Montague Volunteer Fire Brigade (MVFB)'s multiyear...

ProfitLearn PEI, in association with the RCMP, is hosting a forum called 'Fraud Prevention: Tips, Trends & Tactics' on Thursday, October 6 from 8:30 am-12:30 pm at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Small businesses and not-for profit groups are encouraged to attend this half-day session that will assist owner-managers to minimize the risk of becoming victims of internal crime, and...

The City of Charlottetown and the PEI Writers' Guild are pleased to offer the Pen & Inkling festival to celebrate the literary arts on Prince Edward Island and throughout Canada. Two of the festival's guests are made possible through partnerships with UPEI. Co-presented by UPEI's English Department, Wayne Johnston will read at the Confederation Centre on Tuesday, September...

One way that the University of Prince Edward Island honours its rich heritage and traditions is acknowledging people who have contributed to it in an exceptional way, naming them ‘founders.' Recognizing founders is an opportunity to welcome members of the UPEI community to campus and at the same time honour those who have made contributions over the years. The 2011 founders are Mr....

‘Celebrate' was the theme all across the University of Prince Edward Island campus this weekend with a myriad of varsity games, open houses and community-partnered events, and certainly was the prevailing feeling at the installation of Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz where he became UPEI's sixth president and vice-chancellor. Open to the public, the installation ceremony took place...

Newfoundland author Wayne Johnston, one of Canada's most popular, critically heralded, and internationally successful novelists, will open the 2011 Pen and Inkling Literary Festival in Charlottetown with a public reading at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Tuesday, September 27, at 7:30 pm. Admission is free. A reception and book signing will follow. Johnston will read from his new...

Global Issues 151 and the Faculty of Education are sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Lloyd Axworthy called "Libya and the Principle of R2P." The former Canadian politician, prominent statesman, Order of Canada recipient, and international leader in the fight against the use of landmines is currently president at the University of Winnipeg. He is in Charlottetown to attend the...

The partners of BDO Canada LLP (BDO), the fifth largest single national accounting and advisory partnership in the country, recently announced a $56,000 contribution towards an annual accounting scholarship at the University of Prince Edward Island. BDO in Canada's national office, along with local PEI partners, Glen Murray, Wayne Beaton, Jennifer Dunn, and Patrick Trainor in Charlottetown...

UPEI President Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, VP Academic Jim Randall, several deans, faculty and staff, and donors and sponsors joined 300 students at the New Student Orientation (NSO) final banquet, September 8, at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, to celebrate what was, according to NSO student coordinator Anastasia Smallwood, 'the most spirited NSO week ever at UPEI.' After a number of speeches...