Dr. Nancy Edwards, Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), will give a public presentation on funding initiatives and opportunities available for PEI researchers through the IPPH on Wednesday, September 17, at the University of Prince Edward Island. Edwards will speak during a luncheon at the AVC Faculty Lounge, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Her lecture will be...

The School of Business and the Centre for Life-Long Learning at the University of Prince Edward Island will celebrate their move into the recently named Don and Marion McDougall Hall on Friday, September 19, starting at 10:30 a.m. The official opening ceremony includes a speech by the Honourable Robert J.W. Ghiz, Premier of Prince Edward Island, and a ribbon-cutting. Other activities will...

Where can you pet a goat, dress in surgery scrubs, see some really big turtles and have your favourite teddy bear checked out by a vet student? Join animal lovers and the curious at the Atlantic Veterinary College's 20th annual Open House to be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 27th. The event is free to the public and features a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in a...

The public is invited to attend a lecture entitled 'The Good Friday Agreement: Ten Years After' by Senator Pearse Doherty of Ireland on Thursday, September 11, at 4 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at the University of Prince Edward Island. Senator Doherty is visiting Prince Edward Island from September 11-12. Doherty is a prominent member of Sinn Féin and one of its...

As part of its ongoing work to increase public awareness of international development issues such as gender equality, poverty and child mortality, the University of Prince Edward Island has organized an international women’s speaker series and a related photography exhibition, Resilience and Dreams: Women as Global Citizens, to be launched on September 15 at 3 p.m. Social documentary...

A photography book created by University of Prince Edward Island researchers and international photojournalist Carlos Reyes-Manzo will be launched on Thursday, September 18, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Voice of the Community, which explores the strengths and challenges facing rural P.E.I. communities, came out of a three-year UPEI research project led by Dr....

Throughout August, the Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at the School of Business of the University of PEI surveyed both Island residents and visitors on their perceptions of wind energy production, wind farms, and their roles on PEI. Between an online and paper-based survey, 363 Islanders and 1,313 visitors offered their views on wind energy. “The inspiration for this research came forth after...

Dr. Bobby V. Khan, of the Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, Georgia, will give a public seminar called Tackling a Growing Problem: New Insights in the Cardiometabolic Syndrome on Thursday, September 11, at 2 p.m. in the Atlantic Veterinary College Lecture Theatre A. Khan will give the seminar as part of a three-day visit to the University of Prince Edward Island from September 10...

The University of Prince Edward Island has recognized the leadership support of two distinguished alumni by naming its newest academic building in their honour. In acknowledgment of Donald and Marion McDougall's commitment to higher education, the University has named the building that houses the Centre for Life-long Learning, School of Business, and Co-op Education and Entrepreneurship programs...

The University of Prince Edward Island celebrated today the accomplishments of 26 undergraduate students who were recognized this year with scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Dr. Donna Giberson, NSERC scholarship liaison officer for UPEI, reported that this is the highest number of these awards the university has ever received from the council, which...