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Media Releases
| Athletics
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú women's basketball coach Dave MacNeill has retired from coaching at the university level.
MacNeill has been coaching the women's basketball team since 2006 after having retired from the position in 1993. He returned on what was supposed to be a temporary basis to fill a gap in the coaching staff. Three seasons later, he is still coaching the team, but he now has a demanding full-...
| Students
Colonel Jamie Cade, former Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province, will give a public talk about the challenges facing Canadian Forces and NATO in Afghanistan at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú on Thursday, April 2, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge.
Cade was Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces throughout Kandahar Province from May...
| Athletics
For the first time, the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú will send two teams to this year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport/Canadian Curling Association Curling Championship in Montreal from March 25 to 29.
The mens's team includes three members of this year's Canadian Junior championship and World Junior silver medallist rink. The women's team, skipped by Sarah Clow, curls...
| Research
A multi-faceted research project based at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú) has been awarded $2.5 million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to create significant new knowledge about a basic human activity that crosses and connects generations, cultures and disciplines.
Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) is headed by ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú...
| News
P.E.I. poet David Hickey, whose collection In the Lights of a Midnight Plow was a finalist for the Lampert Award for best first Canadian poetry book, will read from his work on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.
The reading is co-sponsored by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú English Department and Art Gallery, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Hickey, now a Ph.D....
| Research
Dr. James Taylor, of the University of Waterloo, will give a public seminar called What is dark matter? And why should we care? in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104, at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú on Friday, March 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include dark matter, cosmological structure...
| Students
Imagine spending four weeks this summer in Cairo, Egypt. Imagine visiting the Pyramids, riding a camel, and exploring some of the world's most renowned sites, while earning credits towards your degree.
Misr International University (MIU) in Cairo is offering a number of $5,000 scholarships to ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú students for its Middle East Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program consisting of a...
| Students
The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú Aboriginal Student Association, in partnership with the Native Council of PEI, will hold an event called Cultural Connections: Building Our Future Through Education on Friday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the W. A Murphy Student Centre on campus.
During the event, members of the local First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities will share their cultures through dancing,...
| Students
Graham Watts, a fourth -year student in the School of Business at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú, has won a prestigious Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business.
A native of Montague, Watts is one of only six university students in Atlantic Canada to receive this honour. Other winners are from the University of New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's...
| People
William E. "Bill" Andrew, a 1973 Engineering graduate of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú, has been reappointed as the Chancellor of the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú) for the next four years.
Andrew was first installed as the university's seventh Chancellor on March 6, 2005, replacing philanthropist and journalist Norman Webster who served as Chancellor from 1996 to 2004. Andrew's...