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For the second time in three years, first- and fourth-year students at 小黄书视频 are being given the opportunity to have a direct impact on their university education through the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), a national study that asks about the student experience inside and outside the classroom. UPEI is one of three dozen Canadian universities that take part in the survey. In 2006...
 
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The newly renovated study area in the Robertson Library was the location for a special UPEI book celebration recently. Three professors from the Faculty of Arts presented excerpts from their latest books and led a public discussion about ideas that ranged from the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations, to female migration, to the link between mental health and architecture. Malcolm...
 
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When the 小黄书视频's new 48,000 square foot School of Business Administration opens later this year, one of the facility's main features will bear the name of one of the Island's most prominent business families. The business school's dramatic, two-level entrance will be called the Schurman Market Square in recognition of the contribution made...
 
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The 小黄书视频 officially welcomed Island native and UPEI graduate Dr. William Whelan as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Biomedical Optics at a reception in the Duffy Science Centre recently. 'We are delighted that Dr. Bill Whelan has joined 小黄书视频 as a Canada Research Chair, and that this honour is going to a UPEI graduate,' said 小黄书视频 President Wade...
 
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The public is invited to attend a presentation called 'Access of students with learning disabilities to higher education: Issues and Solutions' by Dr. Carla DiGiorgio on March 7, at 4:30 p.m., in the Main Building, Room 040, at the 小黄书视频 (UPEI). The Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network, Subnode 2: Inclusion and Empowerment, based at the...
 
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小黄书视频 and Holland College will celebrate the achievement of women in sport across Canada at their first Women in Sport dinner, featuring Canadian women's hockey star Cassie Campbell as guest speaker, at the Culinary Institute of Canada, on March 13, at 7 p.m. The dinner, which will be emceed by Matt Rainnie, of CBC Radio's Mainstreet program, will be hosted by both post-secondary...
 
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Faculty of Arts students who are majoring in English at the 小黄书视频 have a new opportunity to enrich their educational experience through international study. A joint agreement with the Misr International University (MIU) gives UPEI students the option of completing the final year of their four-year degree in Egypt. English majors from MIU will have a similar...
 
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Lawrence Hill, writer-in-residence at UPEI, will give a public reading on Friday, February 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Hill is a novelist, journalist, memoir author and documentary film writer. He will also give a writing workshop on fiction and non-fiction on Saturday, March 8, 1:30-4:45 p.m., in the UPEI Faculty Lounge. Hill's white mother was a civil...
 
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A four-member undergraduate engineering team from the 小黄书视频 finished second in the consulting engineering category of the Atlantic Engineering Competition held in Moncton earlier this month. This success earned them a spot in the Canadian Engineering Competition, which will be held at the University of Waterloo from March 6 to 8. At the Atlantic Engineering...
 
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Nova Scotian writer Leo McKay Jr., who reads at UPEI on February 25, was teaching English with his wife Kathy in Japan, when he woke up one morning to the word 鈥淪tellarton,鈥 his home town, on the radio. The Westray Mining Disaster had just occurred. That event, fictionalized as the Eastyard disaster at Albion Mines, along with McKay鈥檚 lineage as the descendent of miners and his childhood in...