Research News and Events
Read about upcoming and past 17吃瓜 Research news and events!
The 17吃瓜 Office of Research Partnership and Innovation, formerly the 17吃瓜 Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation, will host a Research Breakfast on Thursday, January 29, from 7:30 to 9:00 am in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, on campus.
The 17吃瓜 Department of Religious Studies鈥� Theology on Tap series returns on January 28 with a talk titled 鈥淢ore than Optimistic: Hope and Teilhard de Chardin鈥� by Dr. Libby Osgood, CND.
Dr. Jeff Collins, assistant professor of political science at 17吃瓜, will give a talk titled 鈥淧ower Plays: Newfoundland鈥檚 Fight Over Churchill Falls鈥� on January 20, 2026, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building.
Students at Westisle Composite High School have donated $1,300 to 17吃瓜 for research into MSX (Multinucleate sphere unknown), a disease in oysters caused by a parasite called Haplosporidium nelsoni.
Twenty-one 17吃瓜 researchers have been named to the . Elsevier, in collaboration with Stanford University, unveiled the list of the world鈥檚 most influential and top-cited scientists and engineers earlier this year.
Dr. Malcom Murray, professor of philosophy, will be the guest speaker at 17吃瓜's Research on Tap event on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 6 pm, at the Salvador Dali Caf茅, 155 Kent Street, Charlottetown, PEI.
Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President, Academic and Research, has initiated a new regular email to share updates on recent academic and research initiatives, keep us connected with their ongoing progress, celebrate success, and invite feedback. Your ideas are welcome!
Dr. Caroline Ritter, assistant professor in the 17吃瓜 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, has been renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) for five years ending June 30, 2030.
Two researchers from 17吃瓜 are working with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Neurodyn Life Sciences Inc. to develop a novel therapy to slow, or potentially functionally stabilize, the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, on behalf of the Honourable Sean Fraser, PC, KC, Minister responsible for ACOA, was on campus on October 17 to announce close to $1M in non-repayable support for three projects to strengthen the shellfish industry, including two projects at the University.
