"I grew up here, and always knew I'd end up at UPEI."

What brought you to UPEI? Which program(s) did you take?

I was born in Cairo, Egypt and I moved to PEI when I was nine—so that’s my birthplace, and I would call it my home too—but so is Charlottetown! I grew up here, and always knew I'd end up at UPEI. More so probably when my mom started her Masters at the Atlantic Veterinary College in 2014 and went on to do her PhD at the AVC.

Atlantic Veterinary College Blue Coat Ceremony

The Atlantic Veterinary College's Blue Coat Ceremony is a special event to officially welcome our incoming class to AVC and celebrate the beginning of their veterinary education. The ceremony includes speeches and the presentation of blue coats to our incoming students by the people they have selected for this special tradition.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact avcspecialevents@upei.ca.

English Corner

Are you a student at UPEI who speaks English as an Additional Language (EAL) with questions about…

  • pronunciation?
  • spelling/grammar?
  • vocabulary?
  • reading comprehension?

We have great news. The English Corner is for you! We provide language support and practice for any EAL student at UPEI. We’re at the Robertson Library, Room 213, from 9 am to 12 pm on Thursdays. Please sign up for a 25-minute appointment by filling out the sheet on the door.

International Global Village

The International Student Office is hosting UPEI's annual Global Village in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre! Global Village is a celebration of the multiculturalism and diversity that exists on campus, so students from all over the world showcase their culture and traditions, as well as help encourage cultural sensitivity and a global perspective.

Celebrate International Women’s Day at UPEI with music!

The UPEI Department of Music will celebrate Canadian women composers at a faculty recital on International Women’s Day—March 8—at 7:30 pm on the SDU Stage, Dr. Steel Recital Hall. 

The recital, titled Trombone, She Wrote: Music by Canadian Women Composers, will feature Dale Sorensen, trombone and euphonium, with Magdalena von Eccher, piano, performing music by Jocelyn Morlock, F. Jane Naylor, Hope Salmonson, and Barbara York. It will also include the premiere of a work for trombone and loop station by Monica Pearce. 

Island Lecture Series | The Biogeography of North Atlantic Islands, with David Cairns

Presented by the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI, the Island Lecture Series will island-hop across the northern North Atlantic to see who lives there and how they got there. Biogeography is the three-way crossroads of history, biology, and geography. For most of these islands; the Shetlands, the Faeroes, Iceland, and many others; this history started when bare land emerged from under melting ice about 10,000 years ago, with creatures soon arriving by wing or wind. Humans came too, some by primitive boats that we know almost nothing about.

UPEI is committed to help PEI train doctors

UPEI has a unique opportunity and duty as the provincial university to be part of the long-term solution to improve the current health-care system. Twenty undergraduate medical learners will begin their studies at UPEI in August 2025 as part of a regional campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Faculty of Medicine. The timeline for this initiative mirrors that of other regional campuses being developed across the country.

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