News

A chronological list of 17勛圖 media releases. Enter keywords in the "search" box to find applicable releases.

Media Releases

 
| Students
A student group will screen 'Education Under Fire,' a 30-minute documentary on Monday, March 25 at 7:00 pm in the Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 242. Today, thousands in Iran are denied formal university education due to their religious or ideological beliefs. This documentary is a response to that and tells the poignant and compelling story of the Bah獺'...
 
| Research
A pair of undergraduate physics students at 17勛圖 were awarded top honours at the 2013 Science Atlantic Physics & Astronomy Conference, held recently at the Universit矇 de Moncton. Logan Montgomery won the Science Atlantic Science Communication Award, and Taylor Dunn won the ACEmat Award in Computational Modeling of Materials. Dunn's award is for his project, titled Polymer...
 
| Students
17勛圖 students will host the second annual Battle of the Jocks fundraiser on Saturday, March 23. The event showcases varsity athletes competing in hockey, basketball, and soccer games and skills competitions to raise funds for the Children's Wish Foundation (PEI Chapter) and 17勛圖's Passion for Life Award, an award created to honour Rene Ayangma, a member of the 17勛圖 men's soccer...
 
| News
17勛圖 kicked off National Co-operative Education Week today with the signing of an official proclamation by PEI's Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning Allen Roach. National co-op week (March 18-22) is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of Canadian co-op students. The 17勛圖 Co-operative Education program will celebrate the national week by recognizing student work...
 
| News
Over 70 high school students across the province are taking part in 17勛圖's first ever open class days being held March 18 and 19. 17勛圖 invited high school students to attend classes, have lunch, tour the university, and experience what a university class is all about. 'This is a great opportunity for students to experience 17勛圖 in the company of friends and classmates,'...
 
| Music
On Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm the 17勛圖 music department will present 'Sing me a Story' featuring third-year soprano students Nadine Haddad and Morgan Wagner with the assistance of Frances McBurnie on piano. The recital will include works by J.S. Bach, Enrique Granados, Henry Purcell, Richard Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, and Hugo Wolf as well as traditional and jazz...
 
| Students
CIBC has generously donated $125,000 to the 17勛圖 and its School of Business to assist 17勛圖 business administration students. The CIBC Awards in Business Administration will be granted on an annual basis over a five-year period, to ten undergraduate students enrolled full-time in the bachelor of business administration program. The scholarships are valued at $2,...
 
| Athletics
The 17勛圖 curling team is off to Kamloops, BC, for the 2013 CIS/CCA University Curling Championship which takes place March 20-24 at the Kamloops Curling Club. The team, consisting of skip Veronica Smith, Jane DiCarlo, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty, is coached by Paul Smith. 17勛圖 and Saint Mary's University had strong showings at the AUS curling championship back in January-17勛圖...
 
| News
Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, on the Takhini River. She will read and talk about her poetry on Monday, March 18 at 7:30 pm in the 17勛圖 Faculty Lounge, Main Building as part of the Winter's Tales Author Reading Series. Here Is Where We Disembark, her debut collection, consists of two sections. The first follows cycles of the season and domestic life. 'You know you...
 
| News
17勛圖's Executive MBA (EMBA) program and the PEI Business Women's Association partnered on a workplace bullying presentation on Wednesday, March 13. The event took place in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, on the 17勛圖 campus. Jodi Murphy, a 17勛圖 EMBA graduate and teacher with the Prince Edward Island English-language School Board shared her research findings from...