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The 69´«Ã½women's soccer program has received a $5,000 award from the national True Sport Community Fund for leadership in community sports development work. 69´«Ã½women's soccer team captain Mandy Lise McKenna will be presented with a certificate of the award prior to the start of the team's home game against Cape Breton University on Saturday, October 3, at 3 p.m. ...

The Tourism Research Centre at the University of PEI is pleased to release a new report on visitors to P.E.I. Using the visitor exit survey from July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008, visitors were profiled based on how much they spent while in P.E.I. 'Low-spending travel parties tended to be Maritime baby boomer couples who made P.E.I. their primary destination,' said Dr. Paul...

Dr. Stephen Scherer, Director of The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, will give the 2009 Gairdner Faculty Lecture at 69´«Ã½on Thursday, October 1. His talk, entitled 'What you are and who you are in the era of genome projects,' will take place in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre's lecture theatre from 3 to 4...

A group of fourth-year 69´«Ã½nursing students who worked in Kenya this summer will hold a fundraising event on Friday, October 2, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre's McMillan Hall on the campus. Rianne Carragher, Marley Bruce, Ashley Caulier and Cheryl Edmunds travelled to Kenya as part of the Canadian International Development Agency's Students for...

The Honourable Thomas Cromwell, of the Supreme Court of Canada, will be the guest lecturer at the Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law at the 69´«Ã½ on Monday, October 5. Cromwell will give a lecture entitled 'Atlantic Canada's Contributions to the Supreme Court of Canada' in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), Don and Marion...

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...

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 69´«Ã½Student Business Society and the 69´«Ã½Alumni Association, is part of the university's third annual Homecoming Weekend, which takes place from September 24...

As the busy academic year gets underway, the 69´«Ã½ 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, 69´«Ã½honours its rich heritage and traditions, acknowledges people who have contributed to it in an...

As part of UPEI's Homecoming Weekend, the 69´«Ã½Alumni 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 69´«Ã½'69), Major-General Matthew G. Macdonald (69´«Ã½'...

Inspirational teaching was the topic of a day-long seminar organized recently by the 69´«Ã½Faculty 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...