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Green thumbs from across the 17³Ô¹Ï campus recently came together to plant St. Dunstan’s Gardens. Vegetables grown in the gardens will be used by the Soup for the Soul project, which provides free healthy soup once a month as an outreach of the 17³Ô¹Ï Chaplaincy Centre.

Dr. Ryan O’Connor, a historical consultant, writer, and graduate of the 17³Ô¹Ï, was recently honoured with the J.J. Talman Award from the Ontario Historical Society (OHS) for his book The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario, published by UBC Press.

17³Ô¹Ï’s Island Studies Press will mark two firsts with its book launch on Wednesday, July 13, 7 pm, at Upstreet Craft Brewery on Allen Street in Charlottetown.

17³Ô¹Ï Women’s Basketball Head Coach Greg Gould is pleased to announce Lauren Shallow has committed to the Panthers for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Graduating students are highly satisfied (87%) with the overall quality of post-secondary education (PSE) they have received across the region’s universities and community colleges.

The L.M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI) at 17³Ô¹Ï has launched an exciting tool for scholars researching the life and legacy of Lucy Maud Montgomery. 

The Climate Research Lab at 17³Ô¹Ï has begun its summer field season by flying its fleet of drones over Prince Edward Island. 

Sixteen distinguished individuals, including 17³Ô¹Ï’s very own chancellor, Dr. Don McDougall, received honorary degrees when Western University hosted its Convocation this spring.

Chancellor McDougall received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LL.D.) at the June 14, 2016 ceremony.  (Western University has 16 convocation ceremonies.)

The 17³Ô¹Ï named two of its distinguished faculty members as the recipients of the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Research Professorships in Nutrisciences and Health.

Two distinguished faculty members from 17³Ô¹Ï’s Department of History were honoured with national awards at the recent Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities conference in Calgary.