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The Panthers kick off the New Year with an exciting mix of home games this weekend.

Despite a New Year's Day storm, hundreds of ºÚÁÏÍø faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends attended the University's annual New Year's Levee. ºÚÁÏÍø’s version of the social event—held at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building—proved yet again to be a popular stop for levee-goers, and, with the inclement weather, led to participants staying a bit longer to mingle, given that a number of levees were cancelled.

Students along with representatives from ºÚÁÏÍø’s Alumni Association, Board of Governors, and administration will greet guests at the annual ºÚÁÏÍø New Year’s Day Levee.

Director of Athletics and Recreation Chris Huggan announced late today that the ºÚÁÏÍø has hired Glen Miller as the new head coach for the ºÚÁÏÍø Women’s Soccer team.

Patti Proud and Rodney Penny, of Charlottetown, bring Karma, their four-year-old Great White Pyrenees, to AVC every couple of months but not because she is sick. She comes to help save the lives of other dogs.

Dr. Richard Raiswell, an associate professor of history at ºÚÁÏÍø, has co-edited two new books. 

Dr. Mike van den Heuvel, Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute and a professor at the ºÚÁÏÍø, has been awarded an from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to study the health of the Barbara Weit estuary in New Annan. 

Enooyaq Sudlovenick, a graduate student at AVC, has won a $15,000 W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research (Master’s level) from the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. 

The ºÚÁÏÍø and the ºÚÁÏÍø Alumni Association invite you to ring in the New Year at the ºÚÁÏÍø New Year's Levee on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building. The Levee will mark the official start to !

On November 21, ºÚÁÏÍø President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz and Island Studies professor and UNESCO Chair Jim Randall welcomed a delegation from the University of the Ryukyus, an island university based in Okinawa, Japan. The purpose was to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two universities, to formalize the current relationship that exists and to facilitate future academic exchange of students and faculty.