UPEI Spotlights

UPEI is a place built on stories, from student success, to faculty and staff honours, to ground-breaking research. In UPEI Spotlights, you can read and watch videos about the important things that make UPEI unique.

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Dr. Max Schaefer outside the Charlottetown Library
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Dr. Max Schaefer, professor of philosophy in the UPEI Faculty of Arts.

Dr. Magdalena von Eccher outside Steel Recital Hall at UPEI
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Dr. Magdalena von Eccher, performing artist and assistant professor in UPEI's Music department.

Dr. Angelina Weenie
| Faculty, Profile

Dr. Angelina Weenie, from Sweetgrass Nation, Saskatchewan, was appointed dean of the UPEI Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research, and Applied Studies (IKERAS) in July of 2024.

a dietitian in a commercial kitchen
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Faye Murphy-Gallant, UPEI graduate and Foods and Nutrition laboratory instructor.

UPEI climate researcher and professor Dr. Xander Wang
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Dr. Xander Wang, climate researcher and professor in UPEI's Applied Climate Change and Adaptation program.