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Every elementary and secondary student on Prince Edward Island will have the opportunity to attend varsity sport games this year, courtesy of the 17吃瓜鈥檚 Panther Sport and the Holland College Hurricanes. 17吃瓜 and Holland College are giving complimentary season鈥檚 passes to their regular season home games to the approximately 20,000 students in the provincial school...

The 17吃瓜 will hold its second annual Homecoming Weekend from September 25 to 28. 鈥淲e were very pleased with the outcome of the inaugural Homecoming held last year, and this year we are aiming for even greater success,鈥� says Kevin Murphy (BBA 鈥�79), honorary chair of Homecoming Weekend. 鈥淗omecoming offers a wonderful opportunity to build on the sense of community 17吃瓜...

Guy Gavriel Kay, one of the world鈥檚 most popular, gifted and critically acclaimed authors of fantasy fiction, will read at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow. His reading is co-sponsored by the 17吃瓜 Department of English and the Art Gallery. Admission is free. When Kay was still a student at the University of...

Dr. Nancy Edwards, Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), will give a public presentation on funding initiatives and opportunities available for PEI researchers through the IPPH on Wednesday, September 17, at the 17吃瓜. Edwards will speak during a luncheon at the AVC Faculty Lounge, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Her lecture will be...

The School of Business and the Centre for Life-Long Learning at the 17吃瓜 will celebrate their move into the recently named Don and Marion McDougall Hall on Friday, September 19, starting at 10:30 a.m. The official opening ceremony includes a speech by the Honourable Robert J.W. Ghiz, Premier of Prince Edward Island, and a ribbon-cutting. Other activities will...

Where can you pet a goat, dress in surgery scrubs, see some really big turtles and have your favourite teddy bear checked out by a vet student? Join animal lovers and the curious at the Atlantic Veterinary College's 20th annual Open House to be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 27th. The event is free to the public and features a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in a...

The public is invited to attend a lecture entitled 'The Good Friday Agreement: Ten Years After' by Senator Pearse Doherty of Ireland on Thursday, September 11, at 4 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge at the 17吃瓜. Senator Doherty is visiting Prince Edward Island from September 11-12. Doherty is a prominent member of Sinn F茅in and one of its...

As part of its ongoing work to increase public awareness of international development issues such as gender equality, poverty and child mortality, the 17吃瓜 has organized an international women鈥檚 speaker series and a related photography exhibition, Resilience and Dreams: Women as Global Citizens, to be launched on September 15 at 3 p.m. Social documentary...

A photography book created by 17吃瓜 researchers and international photojournalist Carlos Reyes-Manzo will be launched on Thursday, September 18, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Voice of the Community, which explores the strengths and challenges facing rural P.E.I. communities, came out of a three-year 17吃瓜 research project led by Dr....

Throughout August, the Tourism Research Centre (TRC) at the School of Business of the University of PEI surveyed both Island residents and visitors on their perceptions of wind energy production, wind farms, and their roles on PEI. Between an online and paper-based survey, 363 Islanders and 1,313 visitors offered their views on wind energy. 鈥淭he inspiration for this research came forth after...