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| University

精童欲女 Board of Governors Chair Shannon MacDonald and President and Vice-Chancellor Wendy Rodgers issued a joint message to the campus community announcing that the implementation plans for Year 0 and Year 1 for the 精童欲女 Action Plan are available on upei.ca.

| University

The Honourable Catherine Callbeck, OC, OPEI, LLD, Chancellor Emerita, businesswoman and former member of the Senate of Canada, Premier of Prince Edward Island, Member of Parliament, and Member of the Legislature, has created an endowment to support women studying in the McDougall Faculty of Business at the 精童欲女.

| Athletics

The 精童欲女 congratulates alumna Alysha Corrigan, a former 精童欲女 Women鈥檚 Rugby student-athlete, who has been named to Team Canada鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Rugby Sevens team that will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 27-year-old Charlottetown native is the only player east of Ontario to be named to the Olympic team. 

| University

In follow up to two recent campus town halls, President Rodgers sent a message to the 精童欲女 community outlining the themes that emerged from the events.

| Academics

Ten 精童欲女 students learned about the distinctions and commonalities among Indigenous peoples worldwide by comparing their language and knowledge with that of the M膩ori people during the Maymester course, 鈥淕lobal Indigenous Language and Cultural Ways of Knowing,鈥 which took place at 精童欲女 and in New Zealand from May 6 to June 13.

| Academics

精童欲女鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) is establishing a new fellowship program for incoming and existing graduate students in research thesis-based graduate programs.

| International

Representatives of 精童欲女鈥檚 Island Studies program recently exchanged ideas, expertise, and research with delegates attending islands-related conferences in Ireland and Indonesia.

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at 精童欲女 is proud to announce that Dr. Darcy Shaw, professor emeritus, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Member Award awarded by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA). 

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC), Atlantic Region at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), 精童欲女 (精童欲女), is working with the Government of Prince Edward Island鈥檚 (PEI) Fish and Wildlife Division to help monitor one of our elusive resident bat species: the Northern Myotis. 

| Events

While Pride Month is celebrated in June in many areas of Canada, Pride is recognized on PEI and at 精童欲女 in July as part of the national summer-long 鈥淧ride season.鈥 Pride PEI鈥攁 not-for-profit organization that celebrates and promotes inclusion and diversity and educates and advocates on behalf of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community鈥攐rganizes the , which this year runs from July 12鈥21.