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...

Dr. Scott Leatherdale, Research Chair in the Department of Population Studies and Surveillance at Cancer Care Ontario, will give a public lecture about his work with youth and adult populations to help reduce the future cancer burden in Canada on Friday, August 22. The lecture, entitled 'Population-level data collection and knowledge exchange systems for physical activity promotion and...

P.E.I. recording artists Tara MacLean and Catherine MacLellan will give a benefit concert on Wednesday, August 20, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall at UPEI. Called Ricemusic, the concert is to aid refugees from Burma who are facing a food crisis due to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis this past May. The event will also include an exhibition and sale of stunning photographic images--the work...

Investment executive Yousef Hashmi, BA ' 85, and his wife Julie Scales, BA ' 89, have made a $50,000 gift to the University of Prince Edward Island’s School of Business. To recognize their generous donation, one of the break-out rooms in the new School of Business will be named in their honour. “Gifts from alumni are especially meaningful to a university,” says Dean of Business Roberta...