UPEI student-athletes have set a university record, not on the field or the court, but in the classroom. For the third year in a row, the number of UPEI Panthers who have achieved Academic All Canadian status has increased to 81.

University of Prince Edward Island Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tim Kendrick is pleased to announce the Panthers have added an early Christmas present in the form of 6'8”, 240-pound Bluefield High School graduate Jon Hovingh.

For the past ten years, teams of veterinarians and veterinary students from the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at UPEI have been heading north to give free veterinary care to animals in remote communities in Canada's North through the Chinook Project.

Dear members of the University community:

With the first semester already behind us and winter on our doorstep, we can now reflect on the past year and prepare to usher in 2016.

The University of Prince Edward Island invites the nomination of candidates for honorary degrees to be conferred at Convocation in May 2016. The deadline for nominations is January 4, 2016.

University of Prince Edward Island Women’s Hockey Coach Bruce Donaldson is pleased to announce that Antigonish, Nova Scotia native Breah MacEachern has committed to the Panthers for 2016–17.

MacEachern is attending the Ontario Hockey Academy (OHA) in Cornwall, Ontario and plays defence for the U20 Gold Team.

Dr. Ian Dohoo, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at UPEI, has been recognized by his peers for his contributions to the field of epidemiology through the commissioning of a portrait.

Unveiled at a recent celebration at AVC, the portrait depicts Dohoo relaxing at his home on Prince Edward Island. Painted by Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka, of Guelph, Ontario, it will hang in the AVC Department of Health Management, Dohoo’s academic department.

Dr. Etienne Côté of the Atlantic Veterinary College celebrated his 3M national teaching fellowship with a four-day teaching retreat at the Banff Springs Hotel this month. 

Over the last 30 years, libraries have been transformed by the changes in information and learning, many of them wrought by developments in digital technologies.

The Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island has been an innovator in the development of new approaches to serving a diverse community of learners and scholars, and has demonstrated a creative approach to developing new services.

University of Prince Edward Island Women’s Hockey Coach Bruce Donaldson is pleased to announce that Havelock, New Brunswick native, Faith Steeves has committed to the Panthers for 2016–17.

Steeves is currently attending Petitcodiac Regional High School and plays for the Moncton Midget AAA Rockets. In 28 games this season, the forward has recorded 28 goals with 9 assists and 13 minutes in penalties.