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17³Ô¹Ï (17³Ô¹Ï) student Adam Arsenault is one of 20 outstanding Canadian university students who will travel to Botswana in May to participate in a six-week workshop on HIV/AIDS in the Southern African country. Originally launched in 1948 by World University Service of Canada (WUSC), the International Seminar is delivered through Uniterra, a joint program of WUSC and the...

After two years of discussions, the 17³Ô¹Ï recently signed an agreement with The University of the West Indies (UWI) which will offers students, faculty and staff a wide variety of opportunities for exchanges between 17³Ô¹Ï and UWI in Bridgetown, Barbados. The agreement provides for student exchanges at the undergraduate and graduate levels, faculty exchanges, joint...

17³Ô¹Ï Business Professor Donald MacCormac has been named the recipient for the 2005 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in Public Administration by the PEI chapter of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC ). "Throughout his career, Don MacCormac has shown dedication and leadership in the public administration field as a practitioner and as an educator. For all his many...

This coming weekend, March 3to 5, over a hundred biology and aquaculture students will be on the 17³Ô¹Ï campus to take part in their annual research conferences. The Atlantic Universities Undergraduate Biology Conference (AUUBC) and the Atlantic Universities Aquaculture Conference (AUAC) offer the opportunity for students to present their own scientific work as well as gain exposure to other areas...

The 17³Ô¹Ï's first ARTC student, Beverly Gerg, successfully defended her Master's thesis recently. In May, Gerg will be 17³Ô¹Ï's first graduating student in the Master of Applied Health Services Research (MAHSR) program, offered through the Atlantic Regional Training Centre (ARTC). Gerg's thesis focused on teenagers with diagnosed intellectual disabilities. Her research...

The four-member team from the 17³Ô¹Ï Department of Engineering has won this year's Atlantic Engineering Student Competition, beating out eight other teams from the region. Daniel Palmer, Hannah Sutherland, Caleb Curtis, and Gabriel Landry took first place in the team design category of the competition held in Halifax recently. The challenge was to build a machine that would propel itself off a...

One of the more important documents in the history of higher education in Prince Edward Island has just been added to the PEI Special Collection in the Robertson Library at 17³Ô¹Ï. The document is Sister Bernice Cullen's 1941 Bachelor of Arts degree, the first degree ever granted by St. Dunstan's University (SDU). Before 1941, SDU was affiliated with Laval University and degres were granted in the...

From fan, to volunteer, to financial supporter; Steve Connolly and his wife Marg have created the Steve and Marg Connolly Family Basketball Awards to be presented to members of the 17³Ô¹Ï Men's Basketball Team each year. "Marg and I know how difficult it is for student athletes to be at the top of their game while attending to their studies. Our family wants to acknowledge those players who...

The Behavioral Neuroscience lab at 17³Ô¹Ï has developed a promising new animal model for the study of temporal lobe epilepsy. The temporal lobes, part of the brain responsible for emotion and memory, are located on each side of the brain, at about ear level. Seizures arising from this region usually affect consciousness of the victim and are sometimes preceded by warnings of overwhelming feelings...

A celebration to showcase four recent publications by professors in the 17³Ô¹Ï Faculty of Arts took place at the University on January 20. The books reflect the significant contributions that 17³Ô¹Ï faculty members are making to diverse areas of new knowledge, both nationally and internationally. "The Faculty of Arts is extremely proud of the accomplishments of our scholars, both in terms of...