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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| Success Story

First-year students in UPEI's School of Sustainable Design Engineering recently designed and developed gravity-powered cars for a class assignment.

Erica
| Success Story

Erica Buchanan started her postsecondary education at a university with more than 30,000 other students. But after four years of undergraduate training, she wanted something different for her nursing degree, and she found that at UPEI.

Rocky's Chilli
| Scholarships, Campus Spotlight

For 15 years, the man preparing free meals for students during exams was Rocky Paquet.

Alexia Riche
| Students

Second-year student Alexia Riche came to UPEI with a dream of becoming a lawyer. Now, the new Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program is helping her clear a path towards achieving her goal.

Jeremy on the court
| Student

Jeremy Thompson recently combined his passions for sport and computer science, conducting research analyzing athletic movements.