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| Athletics
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Men's Basketball Head Coach Tim Kendrick is pleased to announce the addition of Nova Scotian Jake Kendrick and Charlottetown native Kyle Welton to the Panthers roster for the 2014 season. Kendrick, a six-foot-one guard and son of Coach Kendrick, will join the Panthers basketball team as a red shirt to work on his development, while six-foot-four Welton will be looking to crack the...
 
| Research
ºÚÁϳԹÏ's School of Nursing hosted two days of discussion, dialogue, and research about the value of the Registered Nurse in creating transformative change in health care at the Atlantic Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (ARCASN) research conference and the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï School of Nursing/Health PEI Nursing Research Day. Dr. Gina Browne, a distinguished researcher and founding director...
 
| News
ºÚÁϳԹÏ's annual Presidential Recognition Awards of Merit and 25-Year Service awards were presented to staff and faculty at a special ceremony on Wednesday, May 7. The awards, created by ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, recognize outstanding performance and dedication to students and our community-on-campus, provincially, and globally. Later that evening, the ºÚÁϳԹÏ...
 
| News
The ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï was deeply saddened to hear the news last month of the passing of honorary degree recipient and highly respected Nunavut Elder Dr. Donald Uluadluak. He passed away on Thursday, April 24 at the age of 81 and is survived by his wife Ruth, 13 children, and large extended family. Dr. Uluadluak received an honorary degree at last year's special convocation...
 
| Athletics
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Athletics and Recreation is pleased to announce this year's Stewart McKelvey Panther Classic Golf Tournament is returning to PEI's beautiful Green Gables Golf Course on July 25. The annual event generates support for student-athletes at ºÚÁϳԹÏ, and last year raised $11,683. Tournament organizer Brian King comments, 'The support for this event is wonderful and the golf course...
 
| News
ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI)'s 11th biennial conference-'L.M. Montgomery and War'-will take place June 25-29 in Charlottetown. The conference will include open discussions on war, conflict, the Canadian Home Front, gender roles, and more. Keynote speakers include distinguished historian Jonathan Vance; Montgomery scholar, LMMI founder, and...
 
| News
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï sends its congratulations to editor Dr. Richard Lemm for the PEI Book Award for Riptides: New Island Fiction. The collection of 23 short stories, published by Acorn Press, took home the honour at the Atlantic Book Awards Gala in Charlottetown on Wednesday, May 21. Dr. Lemm is a professor of English at ºÚÁϳԹÏ. Among the authors in the collection are several writers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏ...
 
| Students
ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Department of Education would like to extend special congratulations to its 84 Bachelor of Education Kindergarten graduates who crossed the stage on May 10. In 2010, kindergarten moved from private governance into the PEI public school system. Educators working in kindergarten at that time were given a unique opportunity to pursue a modified Bachelor of Education degree specialized...
 
| Research
The Honourable Gail Shea, Canada's Minister for Fisheries and Oceans, on behalf of the Hon. Ed Holder, Minister of State for Science and Technology, formally announced today the awarding of a new Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Young Lives in Global & Local Contexts at the ºÚÁϳԹÏ. The chair was awarded by the CRC Secretariat and Social Sciences and Humanities...
 
| Research
Join us for the launch of 'Some weather we're having! 2015 PEI Weather Trivia Calendar' written by Don Jardine and Dr. Adam Fenech and published by ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Climate Research Lab. The launch takes place from 7-9 pm, May 20 at the Carriage House Beaconsfield Historic House in Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island history comes to life in this first-ever PEI weather trivia...