The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) performed its annual examination of Santa’s reindeer and declared all nine of them healthy and ready for the Christmas Eve journey around the world.

“Each year, our team is honoured to be part of this tradition to do a pre-trip veterinary exam,” said Dr. John VanLeeuwen, AVC Interim Dean. “The flight on Christmas Eve is about 67 million kilometres long, so we have to do a thorough examination to ensure the reindeer are fit for such a long and important trek.”

Students taking the Kinesiology 3440-Active Living Practicum course at UPEI are seeking volunteers to participate in personal training sessions. 

The sessions start on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at the UPEI Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre, at either 9:30 or 10:30 am. Participants must be between 30 and 70 years of age. They will meet with their student trainers twice a week for 10 weeks. 

In Atlantic University Sport (AUS) rugby circles, Adrianna Platis’s name has been floating among scouts and coaches for years.

Her talent on the field is undeniable, and the coveted prospect had the potential to become a game-changer for any team lucky enough to secure her commitment.

After careful deliberation, Platis ultimately chose the UPEI Panthers as her next team.

Current and former UPEI athletes are among the finalists in three categories of Sport PEI’s annual awards.

Sport PEI will host its 50th annual awards at the Florence Simmons Performance Hall on December 15, 2023. The evening will showcase the Island’s finest amateur sporting accomplishments this year.

Alysha Corrigan, a former UPEI Women’s Rugby student-athlete who is now with the national women’s rugby program, is one of the finalists for the Stewart McKelvey Senior Male and Female Athletes of the Year. She won this award in 2022.

The following news story was originally released by the Government of Prince Edward Island on December 12, 2023.

Plans for the Cleantech Park in Georgetown, which include the Cleantech Innovation Centre (CIC), were made public today.

CIC will house the Cleantech Academy, a joint initiative between Holland College and UPEI. Students will work collaboratively with local industry to develop cutting-edge environmental solutions that can be brought to market.

Dr. Margie Burns, an assistant professor with the UPEI Faculty of Nursing, is conducting a research project about communication between paramedics and the relatives of critically ill patients when the patient is being transferred off-Island for advanced critical care services.

Her goal is to determine the feasibility of an indirect communication intervention whereby transferring paramedics will provide information to family members at two points during off-Island patient transfers.

Twenty groups of fourth-year UPEI nursing students in the Nursing and Population Health course worked with agencies across PEI this semester to create innovative projects and programs to promote health and wellness.

The students presented their work to their community agency partners and guests at a population health project showcase on December 5, 2023, in McMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

On December 6, the UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) held a candlelight vigil in recognition of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, which was created in response to the murder of 14 women, most of whom were engineering students, at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. The vigil was also an opportunity to remember the 10 women murdered on PEI since 1989 by someone who knew them, and murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada.