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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four engineering students and their fourth-year project
four engineering students and their fourth-year project
| Students
"It's a unique project, and I got to work on it with a really talented team."

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UPEI business student Ehimen in Don and Marion McDougall Hall
| UPEI Viewbook 2024
"Consider co-operative education at UPEI. It's the best decision I ever made!"

Meet Ehimen, Bachelor of Business Administration program graduate (Class of 2023). He's focused on a career in the music industry as a rapper and producer. 

Tanner speaking with another student in a UPEI student lounge
| UPEI Viewbook 2024
"The Diversity and Social Justice Studies program at UPEI is one-of-a-kind!"

Meet Tanner, DSJS and Philosophy student at UPEI. Tanner is from Goose River, PEI, and hopes to work in human rights, child advocacy, or law in the future.

upei nursing graduate Henrietta
| UPEI Viewbook 2024
"The friendliness of Islanders and the sense of community made me feel at home."

Meet Henrietta, Bachelor of Science in Nursing program graduate (Class of 2023). Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Henrietta graduated in May 2023 and served as her class valedictorian at UPEI Convocation.

Ethan Taweel outside the PEI Government Offices
| Students, Alumni
Meet Ethan Taweel, UPEI Bachelor of Environmental Studies graduate (Class of 2021)

Ethan Taweel, a UPEI Bachelor of Environmental Studies graduate (Class of 2021), works as a Senior Environmental Technician and Project Coordinator with the PEI Department of Environment.

a group of faculty members in session at the UPEI Faculty Development Summer Institute
| Faculty, Campus Spotlight
Faculty Development Summer Institute returns after five-year hiatus

UPEI’s Teaching and Learning Centre hosted the 33rd Faculty Development Summer Institute (FDSI) from June 6–9, 2023, signalling the return of the successful academic conference after a five-year break.

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