Jay Ingram, host of Discovery Channel Canada’s popular show Daily Planet, will speak about climate change to students at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, October 16, and Friday, October 17. Ingram will give a presentation called “Cool Ideas for Global Warming” to the students taking the university’s new Global Issues course during his visit. Dr Tim Goddard, UPEI Dean of...

Distinguished Australian poet and poetry publisher Tim Thorne is the 2008 UPEI Writer-in-Residence from Tasmania this month. His visit is part of the annual exchange of writers-in-residence between Tasmania and Prince Edward Island. His residency is co-hosted by the UPEI Dean of Arts, Department of English and Institute of Island Studies, and the P.E.I. Writers' Guild. Throne will hold...

The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is adding to its celebrated pool of research talent with the awarding of two new Canada Research Chairs (CRC) and the renewal of an existing CRC appointment. Dr. Kate Tilleczek comes from Laurentian University to UPEI as CRC in Youth Cultures and Transitions. Dr. Crawford Revie, from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, joins UPEI as CRC in Epi...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at the University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to announce the hiring of five new staff members. Monica MacDonald holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from York University. Before beginning her doctorate, she spent 10 years in Ottawa working at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Library and Archives Canada and the CBC. Most recently, she was a...

The University of Prince Edward Island has been awarded a Sustainability Innovator Award from the U.S.-based Sustainable Endowments Institute for its advancement of sustainability initiatives. UPEI won the award for its work to create an academic environmental studies program and to implement “greening the campus” initiatives across all sectors of the university. It was only the second...

The public is invited to a special tour of the Experimental Farm on Friday, October 3, starting at historic Ravenwood on Mount Edward Road at 9:30 a.m.  The Experimental Farm was established on the edge of Charlottetown in 1909. The land was previously a private estate with owners who included a P.E.I. politician, and a potter. Renowned Charlottetown historian Catherine Hennessey will begin the...

The tension and issues in seeking a balance between heritage and development is the subject of a public forum being organized by the Institute of Island Studies on the UPEI Campus on Thursday, October 2. The public forum will be held in Lecture Theatre 242, in the recently completed Don and Marion McDougall Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. Attendance is free. Titled “Sharing the Land,” the event...

The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) and the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America (The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program) will introduce the university’s inaugural Fulbright Chair during a public panel in the Don and Marion McDougall Hall on Tuesday, September 30, from 3 to 6 p.m. Starting in April 2009, Dr. Steven Casper, director of the...

The UPEI Alumni Association has issued a challenge to its members to raise $500,000 to name the 2009 Canada Games venue now being constructed on the UPEI campus. The association’s board unanimously accepted the challenge to raise the funds at its annual general meeting held today during UPEI’s second annual Homecoming Weekend. “The 2009 Canada Games venue will have a strong presence on campus...

The Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island is hosting the Constance MacFarlane Seaplant Symposium, from September 24 to 27, at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Named in honour of famous Island marine botanist Dr. Constance MacFarlane (1904 to 2000), the symposium will look at Prince Edward Island’s Irish moss industry, report on regional research and consider...