The inaugural Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy will take place at the UPEI Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 5, at 4:00 pm.

With a fresh start and outlook, the UPEI Panthers are looking ahead to bigger and better things in 2023.

New Student Orientation (NSO) takes place at the University of Prince Edward Island from September 1– 9, 2023, at various campus locations. 

Students participating in the 2023 UPEI Student Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) presented their posters on August 23 in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Building.

The UPEI Women’s Soccer Panthers have secured a commitment from Campbell River, British Columbia native Hannah Loeb for the 2023–24 season.

UPEI is developing a UPEI Action Plan Advisory Group in response to the Rubin Thomlinson report. Read about the public “Call for Expressions of Interest," which has been issued to community members who would like to participate in and contribute to the Action Plan process.

For the first time, Prince Edward Island, or Epekwitk, has its own regional Elder to represent the province within the Assembly of First Nations. Elder Judy Clark, UPEI Elder in Residence, Mi'kmaq woman from Epekwitk, and a member of Abegweit Mi'kmaw Nation, was named “Knowledge Keeper” and a member of the Assembly of First Nations' (AFN) Council of Elders for the province during the AFN’s 44th annual General Assembly held from July 11 to 13, 2023, in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, in Mi’kma’ki.

The following media release was issued by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada following an announcement by the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, at UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter’s Bay, PEI, on August 24, 2023.

The following message was distributed to students and faculty and staff on August 23, 2023, by UPEI Communications on behalf of Shannon MacDonald, Chair of the UPEI Board of Governors and Chair of the Presidential Search Committee. 

Dr. Sarah (nee Proud) Wheeler, graduated from Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) in 2001, and now her daughter is walking in her footsteps.