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Media Releases

| University

The Honourable Catherine Callbeck, OC, OPEI, LLD, Chancellor Emerita, businesswoman and former member of the Senate of Canada, Premier of Prince Edward Island, Member of Parliament, and Member of the Legislature, has created an endowment to support women studying in the McDougall Faculty of Business at the 小黄书视频.

| Athletics

The 小黄书视频 congratulates alumna Alysha Corrigan, a former UPEI Women鈥檚 Rugby student-athlete, who has been named to Team Canada鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Rugby Sevens team that will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 27-year-old Charlottetown native is the only player east of Ontario to be named to the Olympic team. 

| University

In follow up to two recent campus town halls, President Rodgers sent a message to the UPEI community outlining the themes that emerged from the events.

| Academics

Ten UPEI students learned about the distinctions and commonalities among Indigenous peoples worldwide by comparing their language and knowledge with that of the M膩ori people during the Maymester course, 鈥淕lobal Indigenous Language and Cultural Ways of Knowing,鈥 which took place at 小黄书视频 and in New Zealand from May 6 to June 13.

| Academics

UPEI鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) is establishing a new fellowship program for incoming and existing graduate students in research thesis-based graduate programs.

| International

Representatives of UPEI鈥檚 Island Studies program recently exchanged ideas, expertise, and research with delegates attending islands-related conferences in Ireland and Indonesia.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at UPEI is proud to announce that Dr. Darcy Shaw, professor emeritus, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Member Award awarded by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA). 

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC), Atlantic Region at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), 小黄书视频 (UPEI), is working with the Government of Prince Edward Island鈥檚 (PEI) Fish and Wildlife Division to help monitor one of our elusive resident bat species: the Northern Myotis. 

| Events

While Pride Month is celebrated in June in many areas of Canada, Pride is recognized on PEI and at UPEI in July as part of the national summer-long 鈥淧ride season.鈥 Pride PEI鈥攁 not-for-profit organization that celebrates and promotes inclusion and diversity and educates and advocates on behalf of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community鈥攐rganizes the , which this year runs from July 12鈥21.

| Athletics

The 小黄书视频 is proud to announce that Shannon Gillis-Atkins will be the first Panther rugby representative to be inducted into the UPEI Sports Hall of Fame. This prestigious honour recognizes Gillis-Atkins for her outstanding contributions to the sport during her time from 1992鈥2015.