Nova Scotian writer Leo McKay Jr., who reads at UPEI on February 25, was teaching English with his wife Kathy in Japan, when he woke up one morning to the word “Stellarton,” his home town, on the radio. The Westray Mining Disaster had just occurred. That event, fictionalized as the Eastyard disaster at Albion Mines, along with McKay’s lineage as the descendent of miners and his childhood in...

The UPEI Men's basketball team this past weekend wore red shoelaces in memory of the members of the Bathurst High School boys' basketball team, who died in a tragic accident earlier this year. Members from both the men's and women's UPEI basketball teams went through the stands and collected over $525 for two scholarships set up to honor the memory of the seven boys and teacher Elizabeth Lord...

Graham Watts, owner of a company called Nature Trails and a full time business student at UPEI, has been named the 2008 Prince Edward Island Student Entrepreneur Champion by the national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE). Since 1999 Watts has owned and operated Nature Trails, a company that manufactures walking sticks, twig pencils, bird houses, bat boxes, and...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at the School of Business of the University of PEI and the Tourism Advisory Council (TAC) today announced the release of a report profiling the tourism market for “Anne” related activities during the summer of 2007. The report follows closely on the heels of the full exit survey report released two weeks ago and is based on responses to two questions on the...

Shine Ji Youn Chung, a second-year sociology student, accepts the 2008 UPEI International Student Award from Dr. Vianne Timmons, Vice-president of Academic Development , while Dr. Graham Pike, Dean of Education and Chair of the International Development Week Committee, looks on. Shine received the award at a lunch held on February 8 to conclude UPEI's seventh annual International...

In response to the recent UPEI Senate decision to introduce a new required course that will enhance undergraduate students' knowledge and understanding of important world issues, the University has created a multidisciplinary working group to guide the development and delivery of the first-year course. Chaired by the Dean of Education, Dr. Graham Pike, the group will develop a writing-...

The University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library is debuting its new series, Celebrating The Book, on February 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the library's recently renovated periodicals section on the second floor. With this inaugural event, the library acknowledges the continuing importance and relevance of books in this increasingly high-tech world, and it also showcases the...

The UPEI Department of Psychology and the Psychological Association of Prince Edward Island will mark February as Psychology Month with a series of lectures, starting on Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day, Thursday, February 14, Dr. Stacey MacKinnon will give a presentation called “Finding and Keeping Love in the New Millennium” in Lecture Theatre A of the Atlantic Veterinary College at 7 p...

Award-winning playwright Don Hannah will give a public reading at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, February 15, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge, University of Prince Edward Island. Born in Shediac, N.B., Hannah is also a prolific director and novelist. The East Coast has long been a focus in his work. His first plays, The Wedding Script (winner of the Chalmers Award), Rubber Dolly and In the Lobster...

Climate and environmental change, and biomedical physics will be the hot topics at the 2008 Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference (AUPAC), which will be held at the University of Prince Edward Island from February 8 to 10.AUPAC is an annual conference that showcases the research activities of undergraduate physics and astronomy students across the region. “AUPAC really gives...