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The cold wind blows. The long winter night creeps in. What better way to chase away the winter doldrums than an evening of ideas, discussion, and good cheer? When: Tuesday, December 1, 7 p.m. Where: Mavor's, Confederation Centre of the Arts Who: Dr. Joe Velaidum, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Director of the Centre for Christianity in Culture ...

The ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ, through its community and institutional partnerships across PEI, throughout Atlantic Canada, and around the world, is building a strong foundation for a 21st-century success story. ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ President Wade MacLauchlan delivered that message during his annual update, on November 26, to the campus community and members of the public. Through an...

The ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ expanded its expertise in the areas of education and epidemiology with the addition of two Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Dr. Crawford Revie, CRC in Population Health: Epi-informatics, uses tools of informatics - hardware, software, databases, and other methods of storing large and complex sets of data - to help answer questions about how...

The public is invited to attend a research symposium about Prince Edward Island and the Chiloe Islands, off the coast of Chile, in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ on Monday, November 30, from 2-4:30 p.m. Entitled 'We are People of the Island,' the symposium is hosted by the Institute of Island Studies at ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ. The featured speaker is anthropologist Manuel Munoz,...

ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ recently received an accessibility award from the City of Charlottetown for improvements to the campus that benefit people who have disabilities. Displaying the award are President Wade MacLauchlan; student Paul Cudmore, a member of the university's Access-Ability Committee; and Joanne McCabe, chair of the committee. ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ is among five organizations that received accessibility...

Three ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ students are bringing the English language and a taste of Canadian culture to elementary, secondary and language students in Spain and France in 2009-2010. ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ student Darrah Richardson of Hunter River won a highly sought after lectorship last spring from the Spanish Embassy to work in Andalucía, Spain, as a language and culture assistant. She is teaching English to...

The Tourism Research Centre at ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ has released its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. The report provides a summary of comments from visitors to P.E.I. The comments were solicited through two open-ended questions. The first asked if the visitor experienced any problems that would impact their decision to return to P.E.I. or to recommend it to...

Well-known scientist and public speaker Dr. Joe Schwarcz, a.k.a 'Dr. Joe,' will give a presentation called Hey! There Are Cockroaches in My Chocolate Ice Cream! at the ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ on Wednesday, November 18, and again on Thursday, November 19. The presentation on November 18 will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Steel Recital Hall, and the one...

The Tourism Research Centre at ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ is pleased to announce the release of its latest report using exit survey results collected from July 2007 to June 2008. This report groups visitors based on the activities they participated in while on PEI. 'We have divided our visitors into four groups based on what they did while on PEI,' said Dr. Sean Hennessey, Faculty Director of the...

The Winter's Tales Author Reading Series will feature and celebrate 13 talented Island writers, most of them new voices, several of them familiar to Island audiences, at a public reading on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ. The writers are currently participating in a creative writing master class offered by the ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ Department of English...