U SPORTS announced today that 23 student-athletes, including UPEI Men’s Hockey Panthers TJ Shea, Kyle Maksimovich, and Matt Brassard, have been selected to play for Team Canada in men’s hockey at the 2023 Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU) Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, New York. The 31st edition of the FISU Games is set for January 11–22, with the men’s hockey event running from January 12–22.

The UPEI Panthers will be well represented when the U SPORTS men’s hockey all-stars compete against Canada’s national junior team selection camp hopefuls this weekend.

This year, U SPORTS has selected players exclusively from Atlantic University Sport (AUS), and five of them play for the Panthers.

The following message was distributed by email to students, staff, and faculty on behalf of the Office of the President.

Dear Members of the Campus Community,

The following joint message was distributed to students, staff, and faculty on behalf of the Office of the President and the UPEI Student Union on December 1.

Dear Members of the University Community,

The University of Prince Edward Island is participating in Giving Tuesday on November 29, an international day of giving that follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

This year’s campaign focuses on raising funds to support the AVC Wildlife Service at UPEI. An anonymous donor has offered to become UPEI’s “Matching Funds Partner” for the campaign. All donations made on Giving Tuesday for the AVC Wildlife Service will be matched up to $10,000, doubling the impact.

The UPEI Faculty of Education officially launched an Island-wide literacy and numeracy outreach project on Friday, November 18, 2022.

The project is supported by a generous donation of $750,000 from Master Packaging. In recognition of the company’s support, a plaque will be placed in Memorial Hall, where the Faculty of Education is housed, at the entrance to the educational learning commons, which now includes updated resources made possible through the project. 

In August, Dr. Dennis Makau (PhD ‘19) was honoured with the prestigious Wayne Martin International Symposium for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) Emerging Scientist Award at the sixteenth international symposium.

On Remembrance Day, November 11, people across Canada gathered on the eleventh hour to pay tribute to the veterans who serve their country—past and present.

Dr. Greg Keefe, interim president and vice-chancellor of UPEI, laid a wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of the University during the Charlottetown Remembrance Day Ceremony. He was accompanied by Acting/Sub Lt Cedric Stead, an officer with HMCS Queen Charlotte and a political science student at UPEI. The UPEI Student Union executive also laid a wreath. On the campus, the flags were lowered to half-mast.

Dear Members of the University Community,

Each year during Veterans’ Week in Canada, we honour, pay tribute, give thanks, and remember the brave men and women who served—and who continue to serve—our country during times of war, conflict, and peace. We do this all week but in particular today, on November 8, Indigenous Veterans Day, and on November 11, Remembrance Day.

The following message was emailed to faculty and staff on October 27, 2022.
 

Dear Members of the University Community,

The development of the joint UPEI-Memorial Doctor of Medicine program has progressed a great deal over the last six months. Following our public town hall meetings and meetings with Indigenous groups in May, our committees ramped into high gear and have made tremendous strides in a number of areas.