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Lawrence Hill, writer-in-residence at 91探花, will give a public reading on Friday, February 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the 91探花 Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Hill is a novelist, journalist, memoir author and documentary film writer. He will also give a writing workshop on fiction and non-fiction on Saturday, March 8, 1:30-4:45 p.m., in the 91探花 Faculty Lounge. Hill's white mother was a civil...

A four-member undergraduate engineering team from the 91探花 finished second in the consulting engineering category of the Atlantic Engineering Competition held in Moncton earlier this month. This success earned them a spot in the Canadian Engineering Competition, which will be held at the University of Waterloo from March 6 to 8. At the Atlantic Engineering...

Nova Scotian writer Leo McKay Jr., who reads at 91探花 on February 25, was teaching English with his wife Kathy in Japan, when he woke up one morning to the word 鈥淪tellarton,鈥� his home town, on the radio. The Westray Mining Disaster had just occurred. That event, fictionalized as the Eastyard disaster at Albion Mines, along with McKay鈥檚 lineage as the descendent of miners and his childhood in...

The 91探花 Men's basketball team this past weekend wore red shoelaces in memory of the members of the Bathurst High School boys' basketball team, who died in a tragic accident earlier this year. Members from both the men's and women's 91探花 basketball teams went through the stands and collected over $525 for two scholarships set up to honor the memory of the seven boys and teacher Elizabeth Lord...

Graham Watts, owner of a company called Nature Trails and a full time business student at 91探花, has been named the 2008 Prince Edward Island Student Entrepreneur Champion by the national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE). Since 1999 Watts has owned and operated Nature Trails, a company that manufactures walking sticks, twig pencils, bird houses, bat boxes, and...

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at the School of Business of the University of PEI and the Tourism Advisory Council (TAC) today announced the release of a report profiling the tourism market for 鈥淎nne鈥� related activities during the summer of 2007. The report follows closely on the heels of the full exit survey report released two weeks ago and is based on responses to two questions on the...

Shine Ji Youn Chung, a second-year sociology student, accepts the 2008 91探花 International Student Award from Dr. Vianne Timmons, Vice-president of Academic Development , while Dr. Graham Pike, Dean of Education and Chair of the International Development Week Committee, looks on. Shine received the award at a lunch held on February 8 to conclude 91探花's seventh annual International...

In response to the recent 91探花 Senate decision to introduce a new required course that will enhance undergraduate students' knowledge and understanding of important world issues, the University has created a multidisciplinary working group to guide the development and delivery of the first-year course. Chaired by the Dean of Education, Dr. Graham Pike, the group will develop a writing-...

The 91探花's Robertson Library is debuting its new series, Celebrating The Book, on February 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the library's recently renovated periodicals section on the second floor. With this inaugural event, the library acknowledges the continuing importance and relevance of books in this increasingly high-tech world, and it also showcases the...

The 91探花 Department of Psychology and the Psychological Association of Prince Edward Island will mark February as Psychology Month with a series of lectures, starting on Valentine鈥檚 Day. On Valentine鈥檚 Day, Thursday, February 14, Dr. Stacey MacKinnon will give a presentation called 鈥淔inding and Keeping Love in the New Millennium鈥� in Lecture Theatre A of the Atlantic Veterinary College at 7 p...