The UPEI Women’s Basketball team is excited to announce the addition of Darcy Zinck to the roster for next season. Zinck, a 5’9” guard from Halifax, NS, is joining the Panthers after spending two seasons at Lakehead University, where she was named to the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West All-Rookie Team before tearing her ACL in pre-season play this past year.
“UPEI was within my top choices coming out of high school, not only based on its strong academics, but the fact that the team was young and developing,” said Zinck. “I'm excited that the Panthers found a place for me on their team. This season will be my first in a year, and I can’t wait to play with this amazing group, while fulfilling my academic goals.”
According to Head Coach Carly Clarke, Zinck has great experience playing with winning programs....
The University of Prince Edward Island Board of Governors recently accepted the recommendation of the search committee for the Dean of Education and approved the decanal appointment of Dr. Miles Turnbull for a five-year term effective July 1, 2012 until June 30, 2017. Dr. Turnbull has been interim Dean since 2011.
“I am especially pleased to erase the ‘interim’ label from Dr. Turnbull’s title as UPEI’s Dean of Education,” said Vice-President Academic Jim Randall. “Miles has already proven to be a strong leader and I look forward to working with him to further the goals of the faculty and of UPEI.”
Since 2002, Dr. Turnbull has worked in and provided leadership to UPEI’s pre-service and graduate programs....
The UPEI Men's Basketball team is excited to announce that six-foot-four guard Joe Kendrick, will be joining the program in the fall. Kendrick was Rookie of the Year and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) National champion with the Brock Badgers in 2008. This past season, he was named MVP and was an All-Conference selection with the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association (ACAA), while playing with the Crandall University Chargers. Kendrick finished 5th on the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) league scoreboard.
Tim Kendrick, head coach of the UPEI men’s basketball team is no stranger to this new recruit, “We are pleased to have Joe join us. As his father, I’m proud of his accomplishments, and know he will be a great addition to the Panthers,” said Kendrick. “He has won championships at the high school and CIS levels, and...
Over the past four months, UPEI has engaged its campus and community in a consultation exercise to help develop the University’s vision. The exercise, known as the UPEI Reflections and Future Directions initiative, has focused on determining the University’s core strengths and how these can be used to shape the future of UPEI, its people, and communities.
“The level of engagement and consultation within this initiative has been tremendous,” says Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President of UPEI and Chair of the UPEI Reflections and Future Directions Steering Committee. “More than 200 people from our campus and communities have been involved in helping UPEI rediscover its strengths and determine the vision of our university. This is a huge success that we are eager to build upon.”
The result of UPEI’s consultative discussions is the UPEI...
The search committee for the Vice-President Research is pleased to announce that the two candidates for the position will deliver public presentations to campus during the week of May 21. Both presentations will be held in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242, Don and Marion MccDougall Hall.
Dr. Robert F. Gilmour, Jr. will present on Tuesday, May 22, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
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Dr. David C. Malloy will present on Wednesday, May 23, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
The campus community is invited and encouraged to participate; for more information and to view the candidate CVs, please click here.
The end is near. It seems the end is ALWAYS near. And the end is always being brought about by hadron-crazy particle physicists, or predicted by ancient Mayans, or the result of betrayal by our trusted friend, the Sun, erupting in a temper tantrum of a solar superstorm.
Will time itself end later this year? What's science and what's science fiction? And what is, sometimes both at the same time? How do astronomers think the universe might end? The closing chapters in the Big Bang Theory used to be either an infinitely long slide towards absolute zero or a "Big Crunch". Why are some cosmologists now talking about "The Big Rip"?
On Saturday, May 19, Professor Jaymie Matthews, an astrophysicist with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC will answer some of these questions at a free, public lecture presented by the Canada-Wide Science Fair...
UPEI faculty members were honoured at Faculty Recognition Night, May 7, held this year on campus to celebrate and honour faculty achievements. The annual dinner and gala is co-sponsored by the UPEI Faculty Association and the Office of the President.
This event honours the winners of the Hessian Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UPEI Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement. It is also an opportunity to honour the service of retiring academic staff, as well as to recognize those who have served UPEI for 25 years or more.
The Hessian Award is given to a faculty member who has shown outstanding competence in teaching; this year’s recipients include: Inge Dorsey, University 100; Stacey MacKinnon, Psychology; LeeAnn Pack, Companion Animals; and Jason Pearson, Chemistry.
This year, three faculty members were recognized for their outstanding...
The UPEI Men’s Basketball Panthers are excited to announce that six-foot-five Brian Ofori, from Dawson College in Montreal, has committed to attend UPEI in September. Ofori led his team in rebounds and blocked shots, and was among the league leaders in the Quebec CEGEP league.
Tim Kendrick, head coach of the UPEI men’s basketball team was thrilled to learn Ofori would be attending UPEI in the fall. “We are excited to add Ofori to our Panther family. He comes to us with tremendous potential, and I see him as a great fit for our program,” said Kendrick. “He is a very physical athlete with a solid work ethic and attitude. Most importantly, like all of our players, he is a fine young man.”
Ofori is excited to join the Panthers lineup in September. “I am very pleased to have been chosen to play with the UPEI Panthers, and to be...
Over 900 graduates crossed the stage to receive their degrees, diplomas, and certificates, during convocation on Saturday, May 12. UPEI’s class of 2012 and their proud family and friends gathered in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre for two ceremonies, the first beginning at 10:00 am and the second at 2:30 pm.
Three honorary degrees were conferred upon J. Michael Bliss, historian and academic; Frank Zakem, businessman, politician, and administrator; and Derek Key, lawyer and community leader.
In his convocation remarks to the morning graduates, Bliss advised them not to take themselves too seriously, and although he surmised that they would not remember what he said (Bliss states in one of his books, “whoever remembers what a graduation speaker says?”), he hoped they would remember one word, “balance.”
Bliss went on to...
On Friday, May 11, academic and senior student awards were presented during a ceremony held in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. The celebration is an opportunity to honour fellow graduating students for academic and campus spirit achievements before they embark on new journeys after convocation on May 12.
The ceremony was attended by the deans of each faculty and other faculty members who joined together to acknowledge the years of dedication and sleepless nights the graduates endured to achieve their goals. The ceremony was also attended by many individuals and business representatives who have generously donated prizes to deserving students.
All graduates were encouraged to attend the awards ceremony to promote spirit for the Class of 2012 and to acknowledge the donors for prizes that students received. Students received awards for academics, campus and class...
