Two of Canada's outstanding poets, John Donlan and Sue Sinclair, will read at the Confederation Centre Library, on Tuesday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m. Donlan was raised in Ontario's Muskoka lakes district. His father worked with teams of horses hauling logs in the bush; neighbours raised skunks, crows, and porcupines as domestic pets (a neighbour's crow, named for his father, stole...

Investment expert Sydney Tremayne will give a free public presentation on Thursday, September 24, at 2 p.m. in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre's McMillan Hall. Tremayne's presentation, made possible in part by the UPEI Student Business Society and the UPEI Alumni Association, is part of the university's third annual Homecoming Weekend, which takes place from September 24...

As the busy academic year gets underway, the University of Prince Edward Island will take time to celebrate its extensive history and look forward to a bright future at its tenth annual Founders' Day ceremony on Friday, September 25, beginning at 2:00 p.m. On Founders' Day, UPEI honours its rich heritage and traditions, acknowledges people who have contributed to it in an...

As part of UPEI's Homecoming Weekend, the UPEI Alumni Association will honour four distinguished alumni at its annual awards luncheon on Thursday, September 24, at noon in the Main Building Faculty Lounge. Receiving awards this year are Dr. Doris M. Anderson (PWC '42), George A. MacDonald (SDU '64 and UPEI '69), Major-General Matthew G. Macdonald (UPEI '...

Inspirational teaching was the topic of a day-long seminar organized recently by the UPEI Faculty Development Office to launch the new academic year. The guest speaker was TA Loeffler, Professor of Outdoor Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She spoke on the topic 'Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Teaching I Learned from Climbing Mountains.' Professor...

Seventeen students from the University of Prince Edward Island and seven from the Memorial University of Newfoundland will spend the fall semester exploring intersections between literature, art and religious thought at MUN's campus in Harlow, England. Entitled Faith, Love and Lore: Literature, Art and Religion in England, this interdisciplinary program is a co-operative effort...

UPEI faculty members Brent MacLaine, Deirdre Kessler and Sean Weibe will join other Island writers this coming weekend, September 18-20, in readings and workshops at the Pen & Inkling Festival, a celebration of the Prince Edward Island Writers' Guild's 20th anniversary. This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a...

The UPEI Student Union Shinerama campaign once again exceeded expectations as students raised approximately $21,550 for Cystic Fibrosis research in a matter of hours last weekend. 'We are extremely proud of the students who chose to participate in this year's campaign,' said UPEISU President Timothy Cullen. 'We had one of the largest groups of students to ever...

A team of researchers from UPEI and the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) have found a potentially deadly strain of fungus for amphibians on Prince Edward Island. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, more commonly known as chytrid fungus, is blamed for the extreme decline or extinction of more than 200 species of frogs and toads around the world. 'We started this summer asking...

The Institute of Island Studies will launch its latest book, A Magnificent Gift Declined: The Dalton Sanatorium of Prince Edward Island, 1913-1923, on September 16th at 7 p.m. at the Emyvale Recreation Centre in Emyvale, P.E.I. Written by educator Leonard Cusack, the book is no ordinary community history. Cusack skillfully portrays provincial and federal political manoeuvring and the social...