Sheep-for-Wheat Productions is staging Eugene Ionesco's absurdist one-act play, The Lesson, at The Guild on April 2, 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m. The actors are Chris Doiron, Meaghan Blanchard, and Kelsey Moore. Stage direction is by Rob Reddin; stage management is by Ashley Clark; and the music is by Keith Baglole. Co-producers Fraser McCallum and Chera-Lee Hickox round out the company. Everyone...

The UPEI Co-operative Education Student of the Year Awards for 2008 were awarded to three students on Wednesday, March 25, at a special event held in Don and McDougall Hall. The guest speaker of the event was Dave Perry, Director of Radiology Information Systems Research and Development, for Carestream Health Group in Summerside. His presentation focused on the importance of having...

UPEI women's basketball coach Dave MacNeill has retired from coaching at the university level. MacNeill has been coaching the women's basketball team since 2006 after having retired from the position in 1993. He returned on what was supposed to be a temporary basis to fill a gap in the coaching staff. Three seasons later, he is still coaching the team, but he now has a demanding full-...

Colonel Jamie Cade, former Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province, will give a public talk about the challenges facing Canadian Forces and NATO in Afghanistan at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, April 2, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge. Cade was Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces throughout Kandahar Province from May...

For the first time, the University of Prince Edward Island will send two teams to this year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport/Canadian Curling Association Curling Championship in Montreal from March 25 to 29. The mens's team includes three members of this year's Canadian Junior championship and World Junior silver medallist rink. The women's team, skipped by Sarah Clow, curls...

A multi-faceted research project based at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has been awarded $2.5 million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to create significant new knowledge about a basic human activity that crosses and connects generations, cultures and disciplines. Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) is headed by UPEI...

P.E.I. poet David Hickey, whose collection In the Lights of a Midnight Plow was a finalist for the Lampert Award for best first Canadian poetry book, will read from his work on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The reading is co-sponsored by the UPEI English Department and Art Gallery, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Hickey, now a Ph.D....

Dr. James Taylor, of the University of Waterloo, will give a public seminar called What is dark matter? And why should we care? in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104, at UPEI on Friday, March 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include dark matter, cosmological structure...

Imagine spending four weeks this summer in Cairo, Egypt. Imagine visiting the Pyramids, riding a camel, and exploring some of the world's most renowned sites, while earning credits towards your degree. Misr International University (MIU) in Cairo is offering a number of $5,000 scholarships to UPEI students for its Middle East Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program consisting of a...

The UPEI Aboriginal Student Association, in partnership with the Native Council of PEI, will hold an event called Cultural Connections: Building Our Future Through Education on Friday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the W. A Murphy Student Centre on campus. During the event, members of the local First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities will share their cultures through dancing,...