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For the first time, the 17³Ô¹Ï will send two teams to this year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport/Canadian Curling Association Curling Championship in Montreal from March 25 to 29. The mens's team includes three members of this year's Canadian Junior championship and World Junior silver medallist rink. The women's team, skipped by Sarah Clow, curls...

A multi-faceted research project based at the 17³Ô¹Ï (17³Ô¹Ï) has been awarded $2.5 million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to create significant new knowledge about a basic human activity that crosses and connects generations, cultures and disciplines. Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) is headed by 17³Ô¹Ï...

P.E.I. poet David Hickey, whose collection In the Lights of a Midnight Plow was a finalist for the Lampert Award for best first Canadian poetry book, will read from his work on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The reading is co-sponsored by the 17³Ô¹Ï English Department and Art Gallery, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Hickey, now a Ph.D....

Dr. James Taylor, of the University of Waterloo, will give a public seminar called What is dark matter? And why should we care? in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104, at 17³Ô¹Ï on Friday, March 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include dark matter, cosmological structure...

Imagine spending four weeks this summer in Cairo, Egypt. Imagine visiting the Pyramids, riding a camel, and exploring some of the world's most renowned sites, while earning credits towards your degree. Misr International University (MIU) in Cairo is offering a number of $5,000 scholarships to 17³Ô¹Ï students for its Middle East Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program consisting of a...

The 17³Ô¹Ï Aboriginal Student Association, in partnership with the Native Council of PEI, will hold an event called Cultural Connections: Building Our Future Through Education on Friday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the W. A Murphy Student Centre on campus. During the event, members of the local First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities will share their cultures through dancing,...

Graham Watts, a fourth -year student in the School of Business at the 17³Ô¹Ï, has won a prestigious Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business. A native of Montague, Watts is one of only six university students in Atlantic Canada to receive this honour. Other winners are from the University of New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's...

William E. "Bill" Andrew, a 1973 Engineering graduate of 17³Ô¹Ï, has been reappointed as the Chancellor of the 17³Ô¹Ï (17³Ô¹Ï) for the next four years. Andrew was first installed as the university's seventh Chancellor on March 6, 2005, replacing philanthropist and journalist Norman Webster who served as Chancellor from 1996 to 2004. Andrew's...

A team of engineering students from the 17³Ô¹Ï is off to the Canadian Engineering Competition from March 5 to 8 after placing second in the junior design division of the recent Atlantic Engineering Competition. This marks the fifth year in a row that 17³Ô¹Ï students have won the right to compete at the national engineering competition. Katie Hughes, Mandy McKenna...

17³Ô¹Ï's Island Studies program will present a public lecture by Bjarne Lindstrom, director of the Statistical Agency of the Aland Islands, on Wednesday, March 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Atlantic Veterinary College's (AVC) faculty lounge. Located on AVC's fourth floor, the lounge may be accessed via the elevators on the right at the far end of the college's main...