UPEI students will host the second annual Battle of the Jocks fundraiser on Saturday, March 23. The event showcases varsity athletes competing in hockey, basketball, and soccer games and skills competitions to raise funds for the Children's Wish Foundation (PEI Chapter) and UPEI's Passion for Life Award, an award created to honour Rene Ayangma, a member of the UPEI men's soccer...

UPEI kicked off National Co-operative Education Week today with the signing of an official proclamation by PEI's Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning Allen Roach. National co-op week (March 18-22) is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of Canadian co-op students. The UPEI Co-operative Education program will celebrate the national week by recognizing student work...

Over 70 high school students across the province are taking part in UPEI's first ever open class days being held March 18 and 19. UPEI invited high school students to attend classes, have lunch, tour the university, and experience what a university class is all about. 'This is a great opportunity for students to experience UPEI in the company of friends and classmates,'...

On Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm the UPEI music department will present 'Sing me a Story' featuring third-year soprano students Nadine Haddad and Morgan Wagner with the assistance of Frances McBurnie on piano. The recital will include works by J.S. Bach, Enrique Granados, Henry Purcell, Richard Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, and Hugo Wolf as well as traditional and jazz...

CIBC has generously donated $125,000 to the University of Prince Edward Island and its School of Business to assist UPEI business administration students. The CIBC Awards in Business Administration will be granted on an annual basis over a five-year period, to ten undergraduate students enrolled full-time in the bachelor of business administration program. The scholarships are valued at $2,...

The UPEI curling team is off to Kamloops, BC, for the 2013 CIS/CCA University Curling Championship which takes place March 20-24 at the Kamloops Curling Club. The team, consisting of skip Veronica Smith, Jane DiCarlo, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty, is coached by Paul Smith. UPEI and Saint Mary's University had strong showings at the AUS curling championship back in January-UPEI...

Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, on the Takhini River. She will read and talk about her poetry on Monday, March 18 at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building as part of the Winter's Tales Author Reading Series. Here Is Where We Disembark, her debut collection, consists of two sections. The first follows cycles of the season and domestic life. 'You know you...

UPEI's Executive MBA (EMBA) program and the PEI Business Women's Association partnered on a workplace bullying presentation on Wednesday, March 13. The event took place in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, on the UPEI campus. Jodi Murphy, a UPEI EMBA graduate and teacher with the Prince Edward Island English-language School Board shared her research findings from...

Fourth-year Panthers hockey forward Jordan Knox received the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Dr. Randy Gregg Award at the SaskTel Awards Presentation at TCU Place in Saskatoon on Wednesday, March 13. Knox was honoured with the award for his excellence in hockey, academics, and community service. The Skinners Pond native also received an Academic All-Canadian mention in each of the four...

The Signal, an online publication of the United States Library of Congress that chronicles trends in digital preservation, recently profiled the work of UPEI Librarian Mark Leggott. The article, entitled 'Islandora's Open-source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott,' can be read in full here. The article is part of a series from The Signal on open-...