In this news release, the Atlantic University Sport conference releases its revised regular season schedule for winter 2022, including the schedules for the UPEI Men's Hockey, UPEI Women's Hockey, UPEI Men's Basketball, and UPEI Women's Basketball teams.

Dr. Patrick Murphy, an assistant professor in the UPEI Department of Biology, has received a $300,000 grant through the Canadian Cancer Society’s 2021 Atlantic Cancer Research (ACR) Grants competition for research into breast cancer.

A team led by Dr. William Montelpare, Margaret and Wallace McCain Chair in Human Development and Health at UPEI, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the federal government’s Immunization Partnership Fund (IPF) Program for a project to develop and implement a vaccine support program for Prince Edward Island.

Every year in February, Black History Month is observed in Canada. Read more about the month and how the Robertson Library at UPEI is celebrating Black History Month with a variety of initiatives and activities.

Thanks to a graduate scholarship from the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI), a UPEI graduate student will be pursuing research on breast cancer. Olivier Philips, an MSc student with Dr. Patrick Murphy in UPEI’s Department of Biology, is the first UPEI recipient of a graduate scholarship of $29,750 through BHCRI’s Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP).  
 

Irrigation Management Pro, a company co-owned by Stephanie Arnold, a PhD candidate at UPEI and a researcher with the School of Climate Change and Adaptation, has received a $25,000 grant from Innovation PEI.

UPEI Women's Soccer has recruited midfielder Lydia Hamill, a Searletown, PEI native, to join the Panther family.

The UPEI Healthy Aging Research Committee is conducting a survey titled “The Senior’s Survey,” which is open to any residents of PEI aged 65 and older who are living in the community.

Christine Gordon Manley knew something was seriously wrong with her 2.5-year-old guinea pig Waffles when he wouldn’t eat and appeared ‘flat’ in his cage.

UPEI is participating in the Canadian University Survey Consortium's 2022 Survey of First-Year Students to learn more about students' experiences.