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17³Ô¹Ï Women's Hockey Head Coach Bruce Donaldson is very pleased to announce that Madison Clarke is joining the Panthers for the 2014-15 season. Clarke, originally from Hilden, Nova Scotia, played defence for the past three years with the East Hants Pro Cresting Penguins of the Nova Scotia Midget AAA hockey league. The team won the 2014 Provincial Championship and competed at the...

17³Ô¹Ï Women's Rugby Head Coach Shannon Atkins is pleased to announce that Emma Baker is joining the Panthers for 2014-15. Baker is currently attending Lockview High School in Fall River, Nova Scotia. Captain of the rugby team, Baker has played rugby at Lockview since grade 9, was MVP of the Capital Region championship match, and a provincial silver medalist and winner of two Rothesay...

With final exams underway, the 17³Ô¹Ï Mathematics and Statistics department introduced a fun way for students to prepare for their exams through its inaugural 17³Ô¹Ï Integration Tournament that took place on April 2. The top sixteen first-year advanced calculus students were selected to take part in an integration competition where the students went head-to-head in a single knockout battle to solve...

Congratulations to 17³Ô¹Ï Panthers Cole MacMillan and Barb Carmichael who received Sport PEI awards at the 40th annual awards ceremony this past weekend. MacMillan, a dual-sport athlete involved in soccer and hockey at 17³Ô¹Ï, took home the Intercollegiate Male Athlete of the Year award, while Barb Carmichael, 17³Ô¹Ï Field Hockey General Manager received the Sport PEI President's Award for her...

Congratulations to Jonathan Dingwell, fourth-year business student who took home the $500 grand prize in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The draw took place on Thursday, April 10. A big thank you to all first - and fourth-year students who participated. 17³Ô¹Ï received a response rate of 56%! For those students who have not yet had the chance to complete the survey, it...

On Thursday, April 3, 17³Ô¹Ï's annual Engineering Expo participants educated attendees, including approximately 200 junior high and high school students on their innovative designs, and on the exciting field of engineering. The event was open to the public, with students from the PEI Science Fair also attending for special tours of the event, and to learn more about engineering at 17³Ô¹Ï. First...

17³Ô¹Ï Athletics and Recreation celebrated its 45th year by recognizing outstanding student athletes at the annual 17³Ô¹Ï Athletics Awards ceremony held at the PEI Brewing Company in Charlottetown. The 17³Ô¹Ï Alumni Association's Outstanding Athletes of the Year awards went to women's soccer star Sarah Stanley and men's hockey standout Reggie Traccitto. In her fourth year, Stanley, a...

On Thursday, April 3, more than 200 young scientists from 30 schools across the Island will come together in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on the 17³Ô¹Ï campus to participate in the 2014 PEI Science Fair. The theme of this year's fair is 'Science Matters.' For some students, this will be their first science fair experience, but for many, it will be a return engagement. Students...

UPDATE: Please note this event has been postponed due to weather. The discussion will be held Tuesday, April 8 at 7 pm at the Pourhouse, above the Old Triangle Irish Alehouse. At the next Research on Tap, join us for a discussion about the bloody history of free blood in Canada. Dr. Sarah Glassford, assistant professor of history at 17³Ô¹Ï, will lead a discussion entitled 'Blood: It's...

The 17³Ô¹Ï installed its eighth Chancellor, Dr. Don McDougall, during a ceremony today at McMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. McDougall was unanimously selected and replaces 17³Ô¹Ï's seventh Chancellor William E. 'Bill' Andrew who served from 2005-2013. As Chancellor, McDougall will become the University's voluntary titular head...