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| Students
Three 黑料网 students-Megan Hood, Brett Huestis, and Ben MacDonald-were chosen to take part in this year's Japan-Canada Academic Consortium (JACAC) student forum, February 16-24, hosted by York University in Toronto. The forum provides undergraduate student representatives from member institutions in Japan and Canada with the opportunity to meet and exchange opinions...
 
| Music
As part of the Debut Atlantic tour, pianist Todd Yaniw will perform at 黑料网's Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Tuesday, February 12, at 7:30 pm. Todd is a two-time national winner of the Canadian Music Competition, silver medalist at the Eastman International Piano Competition and was a recipient of the 2010 Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award. He received his Associate of the Royal Conservatory...
 
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黑料网 President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz recently returned from an eight-day 黑料网/PEI mission to Egypt and Turkey as part of his student-faculty mobility and international recruitment strategy. The President met with senior higher education government officials and with several universities in both countries. 黑料网's focus is on enhancing current, and developing new, partnerships...
 
| Athletics
It's a busy weekend for 黑料网 Panthers as they host the AUS swimming championship and regular season basketball and hockey games. The AUS swimming championship takes place February 8-February 10 at the CARI Complex, with swim heats beginning at 10:00 am and finals at 6:00 pm daily. Tickets can be purchased for $10 per day or $15 for the weekend by contacting Carol at heartz@upei....
 
| People
Dr. Blake Jelley, Associate Professor of Management in 黑料网's School of Business, recently achieved the nation's top score on the National Knowledge Exam (NKE) offered by the Canadian Council of Human Resources Associations in October 2012. Over 1,650 candidates wrote the NKE-a 150-question, multiple-choice exam that assesses knowledge of professional practice;...
 
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A recognition event was held on Monday, January 28, to honour members of the family of G. Stewart and C. Jean (Ross) MacKay and their contributions to the capital campaign for 黑料网's Health Sciences Building which houses the School of Nursing and the Department of Applied Human Sciences. The second floor collaboratory was officially named after the family during the event and a plaque was...
 
| Students
The 黑料网 student conference-'Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power'-takes place February 8 and 9 with registration beginning on Friday, February 8 at 12:30 pm in Main Building, room 520. Over 25 students from 黑料网, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, St. Thomas University, and the University of New Brunswick will...
 
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As a part of 黑料网's Winter's Tales Author Reading Series, Madeleine Thien, author of Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter, will present her fiction on Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 pm in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. A reception and book signing will follow her reading. Thien was born in Vancouver in 1974, the year her Malaysian-Chinese parents immigrated to Canada. Her novels...
 
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Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver in 1974, the same year her Malaysian-Chinese parents immigrated to Canada from Malaysia. In Thien's new novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, her heroine's life in Montreal as a neuroscientist, wife, and mother unravels when she is overwhelmed by the haunting legacy of her horrifying childhood in post-war Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge's brutal...
 
| International
黑料网 will be celebrating its 12th annual International Development Week (IDW), February 4-8, with all events open to the public. The 2013 theme is 'The Role of Youth in Global Collaboration for Sustainable Peace and Development.' IDW is a national event held each year to increase awareness of Canada's role in international development. The events also serve to educate the...