UPEI welcomes all new students and their families to campus for the second annual Welcome Day on Saturday, August 31, 9:00 am-3:00 pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall's Schurman Market Square. Welcome Day is a chance for new students to tour campus, pick up their UPEI student ID card, shop at the Bookstore, pay for tuition and other services, meet staff, faculty, Student Union...

Beginning in September 2013, UPEI's departments of physics and biology will offer a new minor in biomedical physics. Biomedical physics is an interdisciplinary field of study in the life sciences that involves the application of physics methodology to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. In the areas of physiology and health, physics and physical...

A pioneer in the field of biomedical optoacoustics will give a public lecture at the University of Prince Edward Island about how doctors are using light to better detect breast cancer. The lecture by Dr. Alexander Oraevsky begins at 7 pm on Wednesday, August 7 in room 242 of UPEI's Don and Marion McDougall Hall. Dr. Oraevsky is the chief technology officer at TomoWave Labs and is an...

UPEI Athletics and Recreation is proud of all Panthers participating at the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Quebec, over the next two weeks. 'Congratulations to all entering and returning student-athletes who are not only wearing the Island green but the Panther green at the Canada Games,' commented UPEI Director of Athletics and Recreation Bill Schurman. 'We wish each...

Despite torrential rain, UPEI Athletics and Recreation hosted the Panther Golf Classic on Friday, July 26 at Green Gables Golf Course. The annual event which brought together 108 golfers raised $14,000 to support student-athletes at UPEI. 'The support for this event was wonderful. The participants weren't concerned with getting a little wet, and they went on to enjoy a great day...

The UPEI Alumni Association presented its annual Distinguished Alumni and Inspiring Young Alumni Awards on Friday, July 26 as part of this year's summer reunion weekend. The Honourable J. Armand DesRoches, SDU'63 and J. Paul S. Young, BSc'02, BScR'07, MBA'12 are this year's recipients. DesRoches will be presented with this year's Distinguished...

UPEI Athletics and Recreation would like to determine the level of interest from students and community members in forming a power-lifting club to be based out of UPEI's Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. Those interested are invited to an information meeting in the Sports Centre boardroom on Wednesday, July 31 at 7:00 pm. More information is available by emailing panthercentral@upei.ca or by...

The Federation of Canadian Music Festivals will host the 2013 National Competition August 8-10, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. It is exciting for Prince Edward Island to be sending three solo competitors to this prestigious national festival. All three are students of the Department of Music at UPEI. Echo Lau, piano, a student of Dr. Frances Gray, graduated this...

Two UPEI music students-Morgan Wagner and Emily Emberton- were nationally recognized after placing second and third, respectively, in the Canadian Music Educators' Association's Kenneth Bray Undergraduate Essay Competition. This year's annual competition attracted 30 submissions from across Canada. Students select their own topic, but it must be relevant to current...

The UPEI Alumni Association will present its annual Distinguished Alumni and Inspiring Young Alumni awards on Friday, July 26 at 3:30 pm in UPEI's Faculty Lounge, Main Building, as part of this year's summer reunion weekend. This year's recipients are the Honourable J. Armand DesRoches, SDU'63 and J. Paul S. Young, BSc'02, BScR'07, MBA'12. DesRoches...