The UPEI School of Business and Holland College are collaborating on a joint Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) degree program beginning in September of 2009. Students who have completed a two-year Accounting Technology, Business Management or Retail Management diploma program at Holland College will be eligible to complete the degree with only an additional two years of study at UPEI. The BBS...

The University of Prince Edward Island has signed agreements for programs of academic linkage and cooperation with Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and Fernando Pessoa University in Porto, Portugal. The agreements will facilitate academic cooperation between UPEI and the two institutions through joint research, and faculty and student exchanges at the graduate and undergraduate levels...

The University of Prince Edward Island's Department of History will host the 18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference (ACSC) from Thursday, April 30, to Sunday, May 3, in McDougall Hall. Held every two years since the 1970s, the ACSC has gained a prominent place within Canada's scholarly landscape. Although physically grounded in the region, the ACSC pursues universal themes and spans...

With interest in water problems increasing across Prince Edward Island over the past few years, there is still much to learn about protecting and enhancing this important natural resource. As an aid to this learning process, award-winning author Marq de Villiers will give a talk about water issues in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), McDougall Hall at UPEI on Friday, April 24, at...

Mothers who are in Canada's prison system are usually separated from their children, but the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saint John New Brunswick has a program that keeps the connection between mothers and children alive through reading. For the past nine years, the society, which is dedicated to supporting women who are in prison or at risk, has operated a program called Mother/Child Read...

Dr. Randolph Seidler, Head of Corporate Department, Research and Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc., will give a public presentation at the University of Prince Edward Island on Tuesday, April 14. Seidler's presentation, entitled 'Research and Development at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health-Innovation as a key driver for success,' will take place from 10 to...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at UPEI's School of Business has released two reports based on the 2007-2008 Visitor Exit Survey. The first looks at summer visitors (July and August 2007) and the other examines fall visitors (September and October 2007). Visitor origin shifts slightly in the fall. Of total travel parties, the percentage visiting from Quebec and Ontario decreases...

For the second year in a row, a group of fourth-year marketing students at UPEI's School of Business have been learning first-hand the business of bioscience, and as a result have earned recognition for their efforts from the Island's bioscience industry. Working with three local bioscience companies, eleven teams of business students have been designing marketing strategies for the...

More than 300 young scientists will come together at the provincial science fair Thursday, April 2nd to showcase their science abilities and connect with other young scientists from across the province. Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Gerard Greenan encouraged the public to attend the fair. 'Participating in the school science fair is an excellent opportunity for Island...

The Chair of UPEI's English Department, Dr. Brent MacLaine, is on the shortlist of poets whose books have been nominated for the prestigious Atlantic Poetry Prize, to be given out at a gala awards presentation on May 8, during the ATLANTIC INK Writers' Festival. MacLaine's Shades of Green, published by Charlottetown's Acorn Press, is his third collection of poetry. Whether...