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Media Releases

 
| Athletics

The UPEI Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams are partnering with Bell Aliant this weekend to present Bell Let’s Talk Night. 

 
| University

UPEI invites students and employees to fully make use of UPEI Emergency Alert—UPEI's new emergency mass notification system—by signing up to receive texts during an emergency or for storm closures. Sign up and opt-in to receive text notifications for storm closures and emergencies on UPEI Emergency Alert before February 2, 2018, and you'll have a chance to win one of four $100 gift certificates for the UPEI Bookstore. 

 
| Athletics

UPEI Women’s Basketball Head Coach Greg Gould is pleased to announce that Abby Lacey has committed to the Panthers for the 2018–19 season. 

 
| Seminar/Conference

UPEI and Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina are partnering to present a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about our increasingly toxic online interactions. 

 
| Events

UPEI is hosting information sessions on Thursday, January 25 for those interested in the new course-based Master's in Island Tourism starting in August 2018.

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Kiera Rigby and Marcus Power, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for January 15–21!

 
| Events

Island filmmaker and photographer Will Beckett will be the first speaker in the 2018 Island Studies Lecture Series. 

 
| Chaplaincy Centre

The UPEI Chaplaincy Centre will host an interfaith panel on the role of women in society. The discussion begins at 2:00 pm, Sunday, January 21 in the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre.

 
| University

The University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to announce a $25,000 Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund grant in support of UPEI’s Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) program.

Funding will allow two UPEI Student Affairs employees to be professionally trained as instructors in the ASIST program. Once trained, these instructors will offer the two-day ASIST program free-of-charge to students, faculty and staff at UPEI, beginning with high-priority groups such as residence life coordinators, Student Affairs staff and other employees who may be the first point of contact for students in a crisis.

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Kiera Rigby and Amin Suleman, the UPEI Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for January 8-14!