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Director of Athletics and Recreation Chris Huggan announced late today that the 69´«Ã½ has hired Glen Miller as the new head coach for the 69´«Ã½Women’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 UPEI, has co-edited two new books. 

Dr. Mike van den Heuvel, Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute and a professor at the 69´«Ã½, 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 69´«Ã½ and the 69´«Ã½Alumni Association invite you to ring in the New Year at the 69´«Ã½New 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, 69´«Ã½President 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 UPEI’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. 

The Atlantic Veterinary College’s Diagnostic Services unit has been awarded $1.5 million in partnership with the Canadian Pork Council for a project that will improve detection of enteric diseases in swine. 

A team from UPEI’s Faculty of Business recently took second place at the Alberta International Business Competition, hosted by the University of Alberta in Jasper.