News

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Media Releases

| Events

Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), will present the 2022 Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Thursday, November 17, at 12 noon, at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel in Charlottetown.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island is recruiting horses for a new study that will investigate equine metabolic syndrome (EMS).  

| Speakers

The Institute of Island Studies at UPEI will host a public lecture titled “Enshrined: Island Tourism and the Confederation Story” on November 15 at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.

| Athletics

Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes two student-athletes for their achievements and contributions to their respective sports. The UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for November 1–6 are Orianna MacNeil (women’s hockey) and Elijah Miller (men’s basketball).

| Special Event

The UPEI Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research, and Applied Studies (IKERAS), the Faculty of Arts, and the English department, in collaboration with the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre, are sponsoring an evening of Indigenous poets from Epekwitk (PEI) reading selections from their poetry and conversing about their work as Indigenous writers. The event will take place at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre on Queen Street at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 22.

| Special Event

A presentation to the 2022–23 recipients of the Straight Arrow Truth and Reconciliation Awards took place in the Mawi’omi Indigenous Student Centre at Dalton Hall, UPEI, on Tuesday, November 1. This year’s recipients are Nicole Lodge and Will Abbott.

| Athletics

The UPEI Women’s Rugby Panthers will play the Ottawa Gee-Gees in a quarter-final game at the U SPORTS Women's Rugby Championship at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, on Wednesday, November 2. The game will be live streamed on CBC Gem

| Events

Canadian author, journalist, and historian Gwynne Dyer will give a public lecture titled “Planetary Maintenance Engineers: A Last-Ditch Climate Rescue Strategy,” on November 3 at 7 pm in the Duffy Science Centre Amphitheatre (Room 135) at UPEI.

| Athletics

Here is a look at the UPEI Panthers schedule for the week of October 31–November 6.

| Athletics

Every week, UPEI Athletics and Recreation recognizes two student-athletes for their achievements and contributions to their respective sports. The UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for October 24–30 are Katie Richard (women’s cross country) and Kamari Scott (men’s basketball).