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T3 Trius Transit has added a one-time bus service on Sunday, April 19 to assist students writing exams at the 17³Ô¹Ï. University Avenue Express route (#1), that travels between the Confederation Centre of the Arts and the Charlottetown Mall, will operate from 8:00 am to 10:30 pm, following the Saturday schedule. Buses will leave the Confederation Centre every half hour...

Over the next several weeks, a number of candidates for tenure-track positions in the School of Sustainable Design Engineering will be visiting campus. The School encourages members of the campus community to attend the public presentations scheduled for each candidate as per the following schedule: Dongbing Li - Monday, April 20, 2:45-3:45 pm, McDougall Hall, Room 246 "Process and...

Engineers PEI, the association of professional engineers on Prince Edward Island, announced the addition of two scholarships and the creation of a new endowment to support students enrolled in 17³Ô¹Ï's new School of Sustainable Design Engineering. This brings the total number awards that Engineers PEI funds from six to nine. Justin Dunn, President of Engineers PEI, made the announcement at...

On March 30, CBC's The National aired an emotional feature story on McGuigan family who lost father and husband, Brendon McGuigan, in a double homicide last summer. Last November, the Men's Hockey Panthers held a benefit game for the family in Montague and were so touched by seven-year-old Kayden that they connected the family with New York Islander defenceman Travis Hamonic. Hamonic...

17³Ô¹Ï'S Centre for Health and Biotech Management Research (CHBMR) is running the first instance in Canada of a web-based addictions treatment program known as CBT4CBT. The pilot program will be run in Lennox Island and Abegweit First Nations communities. CBT4CBT is an award-winning Cognitive Behavioural Therapy developed at the Yale School of Medicine by Dr. Kathleen Carroll. In PEI,...

Dedicated to making 17³Ô¹Ï ‘destination of choice' for higher learning The 17³Ô¹Ï's Board of Governors announced today that Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz has been reappointed to the position of President and Vice-Chancellor of the University for a second five-year term. 'Since joining 17³Ô¹Ï, Alaa has worked tirelessly with the University community to...

17³Ô¹Ï's Robertson Library and the Canadian Museum of History are proud to announce that the launch of a new website, bowingdownhome.ca, will take place at a series of events across the province in early April. The website is devoted to Prince Edward Island fiddling traditions. The launch parties, fittingly being held at community halls, will include presentations about the website,...

Gough, MacMillan, and Scott named Athletes of the Year 17³Ô¹Ï's Department of Athletics and Recreation celebrated the 2014-15 season at the 46th annual 17³Ô¹Ï Athletic Awards Gala on Saturday, March 28, recognizing outstanding student athletes who have excelled in sport, the classroom, and serving the community. The 17³Ô¹Ï Alumni Association's Outstanding Athlete of the Year awards...

National Phase 3 clinical trials have begun for the most promising new stroke treatment in decades. Paramedics at five hospitals across the country are testing NA-1: a drug that had some of its most important early testing right here at 17³Ô¹Ï by a team including Dr. Tracy Doucette, Dr. Catherine Ryan (Psychology), and Dr. Andrew Tasker (Biomedical Sciences). NA-1, which The Globe and Mail calls...

17³Ô¹Ï women's hockey coach Bruce Donaldson is excited to announce Korean national hockey team member Ye Eun Park has committed to join the team for the 2015-16 season. Park, who plays defence, is from Seoul, South Korea, and currently plays on the Korean national hockey team. She soon will be attending the World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands....