News

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Media Releases

| Theatre Performance

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, UPEI’s Theatre Studies program regrets to announce the cancellation of its upcoming production of Everyone, which was slated to run March 17– 21.

| University

An urgent message with updated information about in-person classes and labs in response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was distributed to the University community on March 15, 2020 on behalf of the Office of the President.

| Students

A message with updated information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was distributed to students on March 13, 2020 on behalf of the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research.

| Athletics

In a joint release issued late tonight, the University of Prince Edward Island and U SPORTS, the governing body for university sport in Canada, announced the cancellation of the 2020 U SPORTS Women’s Hockey Championship. 

| Music

The PEI Symphony Orchestra (PEISO) is hosting a fundraising concert featuring two new Charlottetown residents, including UPEI’s recently appointed assistant professor of piano Magdalena von Eccher.

| University

Researchers from UPEI’s Health and Wellness Centre and the Department of Applied Human Sciences are seeking participants for a free lifestyle intervention program called CHANGE, which stands for Canadian Health Advanced by Nutrition and Graded Exercise.

| University

A message with updated travel information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was distributed to faculty, staff and students on March 11, 2020 on behalf of the Office of the Vice-President Administration and Finance. An COVID-19 FAQ is now available online at upei.ca.

| Athletics

UPEI is proud to host the 2020 U SPORTS Cavendish Farms Women’s Hockey Championship!

| Athletics

They laid their hearts out on the court and in the end, it paid off. Now the UPEI Panthers can call themselves national bronze medalists after a gutsy 57-50 comeback win over the Laval Rouge et Or. 

 

| Speakers

The Department of Modern Languages, the Master in Global Affairs program, and UPEI’s Spanish Club are pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Lúcia Helena Marques Ribeiro, entitled “Literatura pós-colonial da Africa Portuguesa: Uma visão de dentro” (Post-Colonial Literature of Portuguese Africa: A Vision from Within).