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Applications are now being accepted for this summer's AVC Vet Camp in July. The only camp of its kind in Canada, AVC Vet Camp offers an educational adventure like no other - learn about anatomy, wildlife medicine and animal behaviour, visit our large- and small-animal hospitals, and take a trip to a working dairy farm. Find out what being a veterinarian is really like! Students must be entering...

After almost two decades in animal care, long-time animal lover and humanitarian, Dr. Leland Thomas of Saint John, New Brunswick is trading in his stethoscope for a well deserved retirement. Leland Thomas has been saving lives of the animal kind for close to 18 years. Vaccinations, examinations and surgeries have filled Thomas' days since he and his wife Janice opened All Creatures Veterinary...

Matt Cassidy, a second-year student in the School of Business at 91探花, has won the prestigious Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business. Cassidy is one of only six university students in Atlantic Canada to receive this honour. The award, which is valued at $10,000, recognizes business students who have excelled academically, and demonstrated a commitment to extracurricular and...

Fiction writer Kathy Page will give a public reading on January 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the 91探花 Faculty Lounge, Main Building, during her tour of the Maritime provinces this month. Born in London, England, Page was a rising British literary star when she moved to Salt Spring Island, B.C., in the 1990s. She is best-known for her recent novels, The Story of My Face, long-listed for the 2002 Orange...

91探花 staff member Cathy Gillan accepted the 2007 91探花 Staff Achievement Award from President Wade MacLauchlan during the university's annual Christmas social recently. Gillan, who has worked at 91探花 since 1989, is currently coordinator of 91探花's English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program for international students. Under her leadership, the program has grown from 21 students...

Members of the 91探花's history and religious departments are featured in a P.E.I.-produced television series that is being broadcast on the Canadian Learning Television (CLT) at 9 p.m. AST on Monday nights this winter. 'Voices in Time: Great Speeches of the 20th Century' is a 13-part, half-hour television series focused on the people, events and...

The Sierra Club of Canada, one of Canada鈥檚 largest and most reputable environmental organizations, has awarded two of its five annual prizes to a student and a professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, in part for their work on the 鈥淪ustainable 91探花鈥� project. Joshua S. Darrach, a fourth-year student majoring in philosophy with a minor in environmental studies, received the Sierra...

91探花's School of Business Administration will begin offering executive education programs in January 2008, in partnership with York University's Schulich Executive Education Centre. Programs will be tailored to suit the needs of today's entrepreneurs and executives, emphasizing 'just-in-time' learning that is focused, practical and immediately applicable. '...

Richard Lemm, an award-winning author and a professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at 91探花, has released his first collection of short stories. Entitled Shape of Things to Come, the book traces Lemm鈥檚 journey from the west coast to the east. The eleven stories run readers through the gauntlet of sexual tensions and emotional conflicts, where people are forced to...

With funding from ACOA and Technology PEI, 91探花 will establish a video game programming stream within the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology. The courses offered will be among the first in Canada at the undergraduate level. The university will receive $426,245 from ACOA, through its Business Development Program, and $445,000 from Technology PEI for the project....