News

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Media Releases

| Athletics

Bruce Donaldson, coach of the UPEI Women’s Hockey team, has recruited defender Elizabeth Beiersdorfer from Orleans, Ontario, to play for the Panthers in 2021–2022.

| Students

The Japan-Canada Academic Consortium (JACAC) recognized UPEI psychology student Dylan Rose with its Leadership Award at the 2021 JACAC Student Forum, held this past February.

| Students

Three teams of student entrepreneurs will split $45,000 in start-up funding in the first ever UPEI Panther Pitch competition.

| Athletics

The Bunny Hop has been a popular PEI road-running race in early spring for years.

| People

Dietitians of Canada (DC) has named Dr. Debbie MacLellan the recipient of the Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Award.

| Research

As cold-water islands with a shared history, Newfoundland and Labrador and Iceland are often compared.

| University

In an email message issued to the campus community on behalf of the UPEI Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Steering Committee on Tuesday, March 16, Dr. Kathy Gottschall-Pass, Vice-President Academic and Research, and Ms. Jackie Podger, Vice-President Administration and Finance, released the first campus-wide UPEI EDI Strategy.

| Students

Join us on Wednesday, March 24, from 7-8:30 pm as six student entrepreneur teams compete for a portion of $45,000 in the first ever UPEI Panther Pitch.

| Research

UPEI has awarded Internal Research Grants (IRG) to six outstanding members of the research community.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

A project to develop an early warning system for identifying complex gill disease on salmon farms, led by Dr. Mark Fast, professor of fish health and immunology, Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI, has received $4.7 million in funding through Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP).