In the spirit of giving, business students at the University of Prince Edward Island recently donated over 600 non-perishable food items and $150 to the Upper Room Food Bank. In mid-November the UPEI Business Society issued a challenge to the undergraduate students in each year, the Master of Business Administration students and the faculty at the School of Business to a competition...

The Tourism Research Centre at UPEI has released a report that categorizes pleasure visitors based on the primary reasons for their trip to P.E.I. Based on results from the 2007/2008 exit survey, the report profiles visitors by six reasons for travel, including holidays/vacations; short getaways; visiting friends and/or relatives; visiting second home, cottage, condo; attending events,...

The public is invited to attend the launch of a documentary video and the opening of a photography exhibition about UPEI's Master of Education in Leadership in Learning program in Nunavut. The event takes place on Friday, December 4, at 4 p.m., in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium and Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. During a special Convocation in Iqaluit...

The cold wind blows. The long winter night creeps in. What better way to chase away the winter doldrums than an evening of ideas, discussion, and good cheer? When: Tuesday, December 1, 7 p.m. Where: Mavor's, Confederation Centre of the Arts Who: Dr. Joe Velaidum, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Director of the Centre for Christianity in Culture ...

The University of Prince Edward Island, through its community and institutional partnerships across PEI, throughout Atlantic Canada, and around the world, is building a strong foundation for a 21st-century success story. UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan delivered that message during his annual update, on November 26, to the campus community and members of the public. Through an...

The University of Prince Edward Island expanded its expertise in the areas of education and epidemiology with the addition of two Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Dr. Crawford Revie, CRC in Population Health: Epi-informatics, uses tools of informatics - hardware, software, databases, and other methods of storing large and complex sets of data - to help answer questions about how...

The public is invited to attend a research symposium about Prince Edward Island and the Chiloe Islands, off the coast of Chile, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at UPEI on Monday, November 30, from 2-4:30 p.m. Entitled 'We are People of the Island,' the symposium is hosted by the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI. The featured speaker is anthropologist Manuel Munoz,...

UPEI recently received an accessibility award from the City of Charlottetown for improvements to the campus that benefit people who have disabilities. Displaying the award are President Wade MacLauchlan; student Paul Cudmore, a member of the university's Access-Ability Committee; and Joanne McCabe, chair of the committee. UPEI is among five organizations that received accessibility...

Three UPEI students are bringing the English language and a taste of Canadian culture to elementary, secondary and language students in Spain and France in 2009-2010. UPEI student Darrah Richardson of Hunter River won a highly sought after lectorship last spring from the Spanish Embassy to work in Andalucía, Spain, as a language and culture assistant. She is teaching English to...

The Tourism Research Centre at UPEI has released its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. The report provides a summary of comments from visitors to P.E.I. The comments were solicited through two open-ended questions. The first asked if the visitor experienced any problems that would impact their decision to return to P.E.I. or to recommend it to...