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Media Releases

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

For Dr. Martha Mellish, “it’s all horses all the time.”

A member of AVC’s Class of 2005, Dr. Mellish recently joined the Atlantic Veterinary College as an assistant professor in the College’s Ambulatory Equine Service (AES), responsible for teaching veterinary students, and providing veterinary and theriogenology services to AES clients.

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

Three years ago, Dr. Etienne Côté, professor of cardiology at AVC, was asked to co-edit the eighth edition of the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, widely recognized as the most authoritative textbook for small animal internal medicine.

 
| Speakers

Dr. Peter Childs will be the first of two keynote speakers at Atlantic Green Expo, presented by E365, held at the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering on April 21 to 23. 

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

By: Dr. John VanLeeuwen, Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI

The 2017 Farmers Helping Farmers-AVC three-week senior veterinary student course in Kenya was a resounding success. Over 500 smallholder dairy farmers received education and services in cattle health management; over 650 animals were given individual treatments or health management interventions; and another 130 animals were treated for identified health concerns.

 
| Atlantic Veterinary College

Dr. Alfonso López, professor emeritus, and Dr. Shannon Martinson, assistant professor, AVC’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology, are authors of a chapter in the recently published sixth edition of Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease.

 
| International

Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of UPEI, joined Premier H. Wade MacLauchlan's mission to China. 

 
| Students

The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS) at UPEI recently held its fourth annual Pi Day event. 

 
| Students

Newpy, a social networking app created by fourth-year UPEI Business student Erin O’Halloran and her sister Alana, won the top national prize at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) Breakthru competition.

 
| Music

The UPEI Wind Symphony presents its final performance of the 2016-2017 academic year featuring a diverse set of pieces designed to showcase the colour of the modern wind band.

 
| Students

UPEI’s Faculty of Business sent two teams to the Alberta Not-For-Profit Association (ANPA) Case Competition, and one came home with second-place honours.