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Despite a New Year's Day storm, hundreds of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends attended the University's annual New Year's Levee. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú’s version of the social event—held at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building—proved yet again to be a popular stop for levee-goers, and, with the inclement weather, led to participants staying a bit longer to mingle, given that a number of levees were cancelled.

Students along with representatives from ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú’s Alumni Association, Board of Governors, and administration will greet guests at the annual ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú New Year’s Day Levee.

Director of Athletics and Recreation Chris Huggan announced late today that the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú has hired Glen Miller as the new head coach for the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Women’s Soccer team.

Patti Proud and Rodney Penny, of Charlottetown, bring Karma, their four-year-old Great White Pyrenees, to AVC every couple of months but not because she is sick. She comes to help save the lives of other dogs.

Dr. Richard Raiswell, an associate professor of history at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú, has co-edited two new books. 

Dr. Mike van den Heuvel, Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute and a professor at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú, has been awarded an from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to study the health of the Barbara Weit estuary in New Annan. 

Enooyaq Sudlovenick, a graduate student at AVC, has won a $15,000 W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research (Master’s level) from the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. 

The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú and the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Alumni Association invite you to ring in the New Year at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú New Year's Levee on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building. The Levee will mark the official start to !

On November 21, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz and Island Studies professor and UNESCO Chair Jim Randall welcomed a delegation from the University of the Ryukyus, an island university based in Okinawa, Japan. The purpose was to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two universities, to formalize the current relationship that exists and to facilitate future academic exchange of students and faculty.

Researchers from ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú’s Active Living Lab are seeking people with breast cancer, or who have previously had breast cancer, to participate in a twelve-week exercise-training program.