The UPEI Department of Religious Studies and the 8th Avenue Players will present a free concert featuring songs from Godspell on May 12, at 8 pm, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, Steel Building. 

UPEI will celebrate over 1,200 graduates at Convocation ceremonies to be held from May 13 to 16, 2025, at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Each ceremony will start at 10:00 am and will be preceded by a procession of graduates across campus.

The Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, will present a talk titled “The ‘family farm’: A keyword in Prince Edward Island land politics” by Heidi Haering on May 20, at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building 201.

UPEI Board of Governors Chair Shannon MacDonald and President Wendy Rodgers shared the Year 2 Implementation Plan for the UPEI Action Plan in a message emailed to UPEI students, staff and faculty on May 1, 2025.

Each year, the UPEI Co-operative Education Program recognizes its exceptional students and employers with the UPEI Co-op Awards. The winners of the 2024 awards were Rosie Legault, UPEI Science Co-op Student of the Year; Carol Edzeame, UPEI Arts Co-op Student of the Year; Diya Bubna, UPEI Business Co-op Student of the Year; and MRSB Group, Co-op Employer of the Year.

The UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) showcased a wide range of innovative design projects in sustainable design engineering by its students at the annual Student Design Expo on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. 

Dr. Rhonda Hamilton, a graduate of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), is the winner of the College’s 2024 Atlantic Award of Excellence in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Care.

Red Dress Day is a National Day of Awareness and Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Gender Diverse Peoples (MMIWG2S) that takes place on May 5. It is a day to remember, to learn, and to take action.

UPEI is saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Lawson Drake, UPEI Founder, former dean of science, retired professor and founding chair of the Department of Biology, and Prince of Wales College alumnus on April 23, 2025, in Charlottetown. 

The fourth in this series of President's town halls in the 2025 winter semester, Let's 'talk' SDGs, will be held on Monday, April 28, 2025. For this town hall, there will be a broad introduction to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with a discussion on how they relate to UPEI and the work that we do.