President Wade MacLauchlan was named a Member of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, on Canada Day, July 1. "It's an extra special way to celebrate Canada Day, and an honour that I consider to be shared with everyone at UPEI," says President MacLauchlan. President MacLauchlan is recognized for 'his...

The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Ryerson University and Seno Medical Instruments of Texas have teamed up to form an exciting research partnership that has great potential to benefit human and animal health. Through this collaboration, UPEI and Ryerson University will develop new biomedical applications for Seno Medical’s technology called opto-acoustic imaging, with applications...

Sarah MacAulay, of the UPEI women's field hockey and hockey teams, has been named to the senior women's national field hockey team. MacAulay has been awarded a development card and will report for team training on July 3 with the rest of the national squad in British Columbia, the home base for the national team. The players will train until September 5, with a two-week break at the end of July...

The Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island officially opened its state-of-the-art $20 million Research Complex on Friday, June 20. Within the 57,000 square foot (5,300 square meters) research facility, researchers from the Atlantic Veterinary College will further health and wellness research related to both animals and humans. "This Government knows...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at UPEI's School of Business today announced the release of a report on differences between visitors to PEI based on their entry and exit points - the Confederation Bridge, Wood Islands Ferry or a combination of the two. "The results of this report were quite surprising," says Dr. Sean Hennessey, Faculty Director of the TRC. "We expected...

The University of Prince Edward Island will hold a memorial celebration to honour the late Dr. C.W.J. Eliot, President Emeritus, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Sunday, June 22, at 2 p.m. Dr. Eliot served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island from 1985 to 1995, and was named President Emeritus in 1996. He was the third person to serve as president since UPEI...

Dr. Ian Holloway, Q.C., Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario, will be the guest lecturer at the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Thursday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the University of Prince Edward Island. The event, which is open to the public, will take place in the new School of Business lecture theatre 242. Holloway’s presentation is entitled “The Canadian...

Sarah Haberl, a Grade 11 student at Montague Regional High School, is the winner of the 2008 Pearson College Scholarship for Prince Edward Island. This prestigious award covers full tuition and residence for two years of study at the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in British Columbia. The selection committee for the P.E.I. scholarship was comprised of UPEI's Tamara Leary, acting...

That iconic red-head, Anne of Green Gables, turns 100 this year, and scholars and fans from around the world will gather in Charlottetown from June 25 to 29 to celebrate her--and her creator--during the L.M. Montgomery Institute's eighth biennial international conference. Island author L.M. Montgomery's first and most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908 by the...

To UPEI chemistry professor Russell Kerr, the earth’s oceans have enormous potential to provide raw materials for drugs and pharmaceuticals beneficial to human health. Marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish and worms that have no backbones, are a proven source of new chemicals that often show intriguing and useful biological activities, he says. Scientists have described more than 200,...