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Media Releases
| Alumni
Two of Canada's outstanding poets, John Donlan and Sue Sinclair, will read at the Confederation Centre Library, on Tuesday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Donlan was raised in Ontario's Muskoka lakes district. His father worked with teams of horses hauling logs in the bush; neighbours raised skunks, crows, and porcupines as domestic pets (a neighbour's crow, named for his father, stole...
| Alumni
Investment expert Sydney Tremayne will give a free public presentation on Thursday, September 24, at 2 p.m. in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre's McMillan Hall.
Tremayne's presentation, made possible in part by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Student Business Society and the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Alumni Association, is part of the university's third annual Homecoming Weekend, which takes place from September 24...
| Alumni
As the busy academic year gets underway, the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú will take time to celebrate its extensive history and look forward to a bright future at its tenth annual Founders' Day ceremony on Friday, September 25, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
On Founders' Day, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú honours its rich heritage and traditions, acknowledges people who have contributed to it in an...
| Alumni
As part of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú's Homecoming Weekend, the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Alumni Association will honour four distinguished alumni at its annual awards luncheon on Thursday, September 24, at noon in the Main Building Faculty Lounge.
Receiving awards this year are Dr. Doris M. Anderson (PWC '42), George A. MacDonald (SDU '64 and ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú '69), Major-General Matthew G. Macdonald (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú '...
| Alumni
Inspirational teaching was the topic of a day-long seminar organized recently by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Faculty Development Office to launch the new academic year. The guest speaker was TA Loeffler, Professor of Outdoor Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She spoke on the topic 'Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Teaching I Learned from Climbing Mountains.'
Professor...
| Alumni
Seventeen students from the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú and seven from the Memorial University of Newfoundland will spend the fall semester exploring intersections between literature, art and religious thought at MUN's campus in Harlow, England.
Entitled Faith, Love and Lore: Literature, Art and Religion in England, this interdisciplinary program is a co-operative effort...
| Alumni
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú faculty members Brent MacLaine, Deirdre Kessler and Sean Weibe will join other Island writers this coming weekend, September 18-20, in readings and workshops at the Pen & Inkling Festival, a celebration of the Prince Edward Island Writers' Guild's 20th anniversary.
This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a...
| Alumni
The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Student Union Shinerama campaign once again exceeded expectations as students raised approximately $21,550 for Cystic Fibrosis research in a matter of hours last weekend.
'We are extremely proud of the students who chose to participate in this year's campaign,' said ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿ÚSU President Timothy Cullen. 'We had one of the largest groups of students to ever...
| Research
A team of researchers from ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú and the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) have found a potentially deadly strain of fungus for amphibians on Prince Edward Island. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, more commonly known as chytrid fungus, is blamed for the extreme decline or extinction of more than 200 species of frogs and toads around the world.
'We started this summer asking...
| Alumni
The Institute of Island Studies will launch its latest book, A Magnificent Gift Declined: The Dalton Sanatorium of Prince Edward Island, 1913-1923, on September 16th at 7 p.m. at the Emyvale Recreation Centre in Emyvale, P.E.I.
Written by educator Leonard Cusack, the book is no ordinary community history. Cusack skillfully portrays provincial and federal political manoeuvring and the social...