Of UPEI's 19,000 alumni, approximately 58% live and work on PEI.

20 “Corporate Heroes” are partnering with the University in its pursuit of sports excellence. The businesses are supporting UPEI’s push to enhance teams, programs, and community outreach activities though a new initiative called the Heroes program.

For more information: www.upei.ca/news/upei-celebrates-its-panther-sport-heroes

The Webster Centre is a unique facility located in the Annex of the Robertson Library Building at the University of Prince Edward Island. It provides a central place for resources and people committed to the academic success of students, the professional development of faculty, and the integration of complementary programs that support teaching and learning.

The Webster Centre partners with UPEI's Student Services, the Centre for Life-Long Learning and other campus groups that provide academic support programs. Their input and partnership has allowed the Webster Centre to maximize the use of resources to better identify gaps in services and to thereby create strategies that more closely target demonstrated areas of need. The Webster Centre reaches far beyond the geographic location of the university through the English Academic Preparation (EAP) program. EAP is a bridging...

Island Studies Journal (ISJ) is a scholarly journal dedicated to the inter-disciplinary study of our “world of islands.” Published twice a year (May and November), the first issue appeared in May 2006. Editor-in-chief is Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies, based at the Institute of Island Studies, UPEI. The international Editorial Board is made up of island studies scholars from over 50 universities and institutions.

Students in UPEI's School of Nursing work to promote public health through their clinical placements in health centres, public health offices, hospitals, and manors across Prince Edward Island. In the fall 2009 semester alone, UPEI placed 240 students all across these clinical sites. Fourth-year nursing students also provided much-needed assistance with H1N1 vaccination clinics in November. They worked in public health offices in Charlottetown, Summerside, and Souris, and in various schools across the province.

Maritime Quality Milk (MQM), one of the Atlantic Veterinary College’s centres of expertise, serves all the Atlantic provinces. MQM uses milk-quality research to strengthen the region's agriculture and agri-food sectors and develops and markets milk-based diagnostics for disease surveillance through non-invasive testing methods.

Each year, MQM works with 335 dairy farms--that's 20,100 cows and 150,750,000 litres of milk.

For more information: www.milkquality.ca

The proposed Island Archives Centre at the Robertson Library will house, protect, and offer access to all of PEI's contributions to our local and national heritage. This will occur through the digitization of historical records and images of items held in libraries and museums, as well as artifacts and documents contributed by individuals.

Current Robertson Library initiatives include:

IslandLives
A flagship project digitizing the Island's local, architectural, and personal histories to create a living encyclopedia of PEI's heritage. Almost 400 PEI community histories are being digitized, resulting in 50,000 digital page images.

IslandNewspapers
Digital versions of PEI's historic newspapers from the first issues to the 1950s. Original page images will be linked to the searchable full text, providing the first complete online history of the Island...

Since 1999, over 1,400 children from Canada, the United States, and as far away as Saudi Arabia and Australia have experienced the day-to-day life of a veterinarian at AVC’s award-winning summer vet camp. In 2008, AVC Vet Camp was named Best Community Outreach Program in Canada by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.

This dynamic program allows young students opportunities to learn about the life of a veterinarian while taking part in interactive activities, including viewing surgeries, touring anatomy and pathology labs, learning about radiology, checking out microscope labs, and getting hands-on with aquaculture and fish health, clicker training, animal welfare, and more.

For more information: www.upei.ca/vetcamp/home

Enthusiasm, motivation and a caring hearts; UPEI students worked to raise over $25,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Research during the 2010 Shinerama campaign. UPEI has been involved in Shinerama since 1977.

The Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island (ECO-PEI) is a community based action group that has provided information and support to various departments at UPEI. ECO PEI has also assisted with a UPEI Environmental Policy Forum, various presentations and regularly provides information booths on campus.

David Taylor, Sustainability and Energy Manager at UPEI has recently developed commercial workshops with ECO PEI to educate Island businesses on how to reduce energy.

Senior veterinary students provide consistent basic and preventative health care to incoming and resident horses at 2 horse sanctuaries on PEI— PEI Equine Retirement Society, Inc in O’Leary (since 1997) and Handibear Hills in Breadalbane (since 2004). The care of these horses includes vaccination, physical examination, dental work, and monitoring and treatment for parasites.

Senior veterinary students provide consistent basic and preventative health care to incoming and resident horses at 2 horse sanctuaries on PEI— Handibear Hills in Breadalbane (since 2004) and the PEI Equine Retirement Society, Inc in O’Leary (since 1997). The care of these horses includes vaccination, physical examination, dental work, and monitoring and treatment for parasites.

What is the role of the University of Prince Edward Island in supporting adult literacy? A team of investigators from the UPEI Webster Centre for Teaching and Learning and the UPEI Centre for Education Research explored that specific question looking at:

Developing a clearer understanding of adult learning needs;
Identifying existing successful adult learning opportunities at UPEI;
Identifying any barriers and opportunities that exist in improving adult learning at UPEI;
Identifying successful and innovative programs offered in other universities;
Suggesting ways to create a “climate of opportunities and possibilities” to support adult learners and learning at UPEI
Research Team: Dr. Martha Gabriel (Faculty of Education, UPEI), Dr. Ray Doiron (Faculty of Education, UPEI), Dr. Ron MacDonald (Faculty of Education, UPEI)

Funded through the...

The Research in Early Child Development (RECD) Initiative is a multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers at the UPEI Centre for Education Research (CER) and the PEI Children's Secretariat. The PEI Children's Secretariat, a group of twelve local networks involved in healthy childhood development, includes both government and community contacts. The RECD research team are working on developing and implementing a conceptual research framework of early child development (ages 0 to 8 years) in Prince Edward Island. The research model nests the child in several spheres of influence — the family, the community, the society, and the global world. Such a framework presents new challenges for the early child sector to rethink current policies and practices related to healthy child development, with the goal of developing more integrated approaches to supporting children and their...

Executive Director Gail Lecky was invited to an ED485 class to discuss how her organization and parents are involved in French Second Language education on PEI. CPF is an important community partner in FSL Education.

Visual artist Lynn Gaudet from Western PEI shared her talent and experience with GenieArts with ED 403F students. She shared an activity to demonstrate how visual art can be intergrated into a Math lesson. The activity was called Battleship Mathematiques. Students created an ocean of fish on canvas with paint and hidden under the fish were math equations. Students then played the game trying to catch the fish by guessing where they were located in the ocean by correctly solving the equations.

Professor Brian Wagner from the UPEI Chemistry Department, presented a 40 minute lesson on his research into using luminescence in pesticides to track fish health in PEI waterways to grade 6 French Immersion students.

Capital Area Recreation Inc., (CARI) is a comprehensive athletics facility located on the UPEI campus, adjacent to the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre. It was built to facilitate the residents of Charlottetown, Stratford and the surrounding area and is fully accessible to the public as well as to the University’s population. The CARI Aquatics Facility houses an eight-lane, 82 feet (25 metre) competition swimming pool, a leisure pool with waterslide, a toddler’s pool and a whirlpool. The MacLauchlan Arena, which officially opened in 2003, houses two NHL-sized ice surfaces and is named after well-known Island businessman, Harry MacLauchlan. UPEI is a shareholder in the Cari complex, together with the City of Charlottetown and the Town of Stratford, and is active in the development and operations of the facility.

Occupants include the Seniors Active Living Centre, Andrews Hockey...

The 2009 Canada Games, a national multi-sport and cultural event, was held August 15-29, 2009, across the entire province of Prince Edward Island. The Games brought together the best athletes and artists in a specified age group from each Canadian province and territory. Over 4,400 athletes, coaches, and managers came to Prince Edward Island to compete in 18 sports.

UPEI was a proud supporter and an official sports venue, and was Athletes' Village for Week 2. Events took place in the CARI Aquatics Centre, Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre, UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place, and on the artificial turf field. The three residences and Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall became an Athletes' Village, where 2,300 athletes and coaches were housed and fed. In addition, many UPEI faculty, staff, and students welcomed visitors and took advantage of opportunities to volunteer during the Canada Games.

Since 2008, Dr. Bill Whelan has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Home and School Federation. In this role, Dr. Whelan represents PEI on the National Board, networking with the directors from the other provinces on education issues that affect all children in Canada.

The Atlantic Summer Institute provides an important opportunity for exploring issues critical to developing and sustaining healthy communities, bringing together crime prevention, health promotion, and social development.

For more information: www.upei.ca/si/

Since 2008, the Public Sector Leadership Development Program through the Centre for Life-Long Learning has developed and strengthened leadership competencies. The delivery of interactive, practical, and relevant workshops enables participants to discover their leadership potential and thrive when faced with the complex demands in the public sector today and tomorrow. The program begins with an energizing conference featuring keynote speakers, followed by a series of nine modules delivered throughout the year.

Participants learn from leading faculty and practicing professionals from across Canada, and are immersed in an environment that provides them with the time to learn, engage, reflect, and practice new behaviours. Throughout the program, participants have the opportunity to network with their peers at various levels of government, to share and learn from each other’s...

For close to 25 years, Dr. John Burka, a professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, has donated his time and skills to help others help themselves. John is the co-ordinator of Ten Thousand Villages craft sale at UPEI, a three-day event that involves close to 50 volunteers and hundreds of hours of planning and set-up. He is also the publicity person for six annual sales across the province, which generated $76,000 in 2008.

Ten Thousand Villages sells handicrafts made by groups of artisans from 30 developing countries. Items are made in home workshops in small-group settings. Co-operatives, and eventually small businesses, are developed. The artisans are paid a fair price for their products, which is the essence of fair trade and sustainable development.