News

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Media Releases

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Emma Moore and Nick Robertson, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for September 10-16.

 
| Recreation

UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies and the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability hosted a weekend of meetings with representatives and researchers from a dozen islands around the world. 

 
| News

The UPEI Department of Modern Languages is proud to welcome its first ever French Writer-in-Residence Dominic Langlois, poet and young-adult novelist. 

 
| Athletics

The Panthers are back for the 2018–2019 season!

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Class of 2022 officially started their veterinary education on August 24 at their 2018 AVC-CVMA Blue Coat Ceremony. The new students were presented with blue lab coats, signifying the beginning of their four-year journey toward their doctor of veterinary medicine degrees.

 
| Events

UPEI will host an evening of Japanese cinema to mark 90 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and Japan. 

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

AVC is embarking on an exciting project that will celebrate its long-standing relationship with the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and recognize the remarkable career of renowned wildlife pathologist Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust, Professor Emeritus, who retired from AVC in 2018.

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Ali Muise and Jake Deighan, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for September 3–9.

 

 
| University

Irish Ambassador Jim Kelly visited Prince Edward Island last week including a stop at UPEI where he met with President Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, Vice-President Academic and Research Robert Gilmour, Dean of Business Jurgen Krause, and Dean of Arts Neb Kujundzic. 

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College’s 2018 Animal Welfare in Practice conference shines a spotlight on the timely topic of whale stranding. Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Moore, Director, Marine Mammal Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cape Cod, will give a public lecture called “Food for Thought: How we all kill whales” on Friday, September 14, at 7 p.m., in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI. The conference will take place at UPEI and AVC from September 14 to 15.