UPEI faculty and staff members who volunteer with Academics for Higher Education & Development (AHED) made a recent trip to Namibia to revisit the University of Namibia (UNam). AHED, an organization that actively works to promote and improve higher education in developing countries has a project which teams up UPEI and UNam. The UPEI team travelled to Namibia on October 24, and returned...

Steven Heighton, one of Canada's most talented, versatile, and eloquently riveting writers, will be the Winter's Tales featured author for November on November 24, at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. A book signing and reception will follow. As a novelist and short story writer, Heighton combines spell-binding narratives, intensely realized characters, vivid settings...

Kyle Simpson, a fourth-year business student at UPEI, recently won a brand new 2011 Mazda 3 Sport GT after Mazda Canada chose his video as the winner of its 'What Do You Drive?' Facebook contest. When Simpson found himself in the market to buy a new car, he stumbled upon the Mazda Canada contest. The contest asked participants to write a story, share a picture, or create a video,...

The Faculty of Education is hosting an open house on Wednesday, November 16 from 4:30-7:30 pm in Memorial Hall (3rd floor). Program presentations will take place from 6:30-7:15 pm. Come and check out displays on our BEd specializations in Indigenous Education, International Education, BEd (français langue seconde), BEd HRD, CAE, MEd and PhD programs. Discuss with students, faculty, and...

The UPEI men's and women's soccer teams finished off their seasons strongly by advancing to the finals, respectively. Unfortunately, both teams were unsuccessful during their final games with the SMU Huskies winning back the AUS men's banner (6-0), and the Dalhousie Tigers taking home the women's banner (2-0). Despite these tough losses, both soccer teams had impressive...

UPEI's Relay for Life was another successful event raising $14,800 in its annual fundraiser to fight cancer. On Friday night, October 28, 145 student, faculty, and staff participants walked the track until 6 a.m. Saturday morning to spread awareness and celebrate the lives of those touched by cancer. This event marks UPEI's fourth year hosting the Canadian Cancer Society's...

Use your day away from classes on November 10 to experience UPEI in an entirely different way, at two great events designed to teach, engage, and let you meet up with friends while making new ones. • Think you know UPEI? Put your knowledge to the test along with your profs with some UPEI trivia, contests and more! It's all happening at McMillan Hall from 11 am- 2 pm....

Who: Pamela Courtenay Hall (Philosophy & Env. Studies), Irene Novaczek (Island Studies) in collaboration with the PEI Food Security Network Inc. and the Food Counts project (Wilfred Laurier U) What: Potluck dinner, 'Who will grow our food? Island farmers' voices on food safety' film launch, after-dinner discussions & reflections from Island farmers...

Because of help from generous donors, UPEI's Annual Fund recently replenished the university's nearly empty campus food bank. UPEI Annual Fund coordinator, Rose Barbour, and five UPEI students went on a shopping spree with donations designated for the food bank, filling six shopping carts to stock the food bank's shelves. In addition, the Charlottetown Superstore generously...

UPEI has moved four spots from eighth position to rank fourth overall among ‘primarily undergraduate' universities in this year's Maclean's magazine's annual university rankings. The climb is due in large part to UPEI's strong showing in the ‘student awards' and ‘total research dollars' categories, placing the University in a tie with Alberta...