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The following message was distributed to faculty and staff to their @upei.ca emails on August 24, 2021.

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Over the past year and a half, we have worked together to overcome tremendous challenges during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. While ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® has done very well to return to a more in-person educational delivery mode for the fall semester, it has become very apparent that we need to take further measures in order to ensure that our campus continues to be as safe as possible for all members of our community.

For Dr. Karem Simon and Dr. Greg Doran, this day has been a long time coming.

¾«Í¯ÓûŮ’s new residence building, now under construction, will be home to a new performing arts venue, including a 400-seat theatre. The University is launching a campaign to raise $3 million to enhance and deliver outstanding programming and state-of-the-art equipment for that venue, as well as renovate the beloved and historic Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

A project to develop an early warning system for identifying complex gill disease on salmon farms, led by Dr. Mark Fast, professor of fish health and immunology, Atlantic Veterinary College at ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®, has received $4.7 million in funding through Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP).

The following message was distributed to ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® students, staff, and faculty on March 3, 2021, to their @upei.ca emails and via the ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® SAFE app.

The ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® wishes to update students, faculty, and staff following today’s announcement by the PEI Chief Public Health Office (PEI-CPHO).

With this weekend’s announcements by the PEI Chief Public Health Office (PEI-CPHO) to introduce circuit breaker restrictions and move to a modified red alert level for a period of 72 hours, ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® will implement several measures and close the campus, effective immediately.

The Atlantic Veterinary College’s Animal Welfare in Practice Symposium, hosted by the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre (SJDAWC) and the AVC Animal Welfare Club, will be held virtually on March 4 and 6, 2021. The theme of the symposium is animal abuse and neglect, including the link between cruelty to animals and violence against people. 

Dr. Laurie McDuffee, professor of large animal surgery at the Atlantic Veterinary College, has won the ’s Dr. Carol Morgan Memorial Award.

Established in memory of Dr. Morgan who passed away in 2015, the is to be used for continued education and training-related costs in the areas of ethics and/or animal welfare for veterinarians working to increase the application of these subjects within the profession broadly.

U SPORTS, the national governing body of university sports in Canada, gives special recognition to student-athletes across the country with an academic standing of 80 per cent or better. ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® is proud to announce 87 of its student athletes in the 2019–2020 season have been named U SPORTS Academic All-Canadians. That’s more than 43 per cent of the student-athlete population, and the highest number of Academic All Canadians at ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® in a single year.

The next presentation in the Institute of Island Studies’ Island Lecture Series will feature Irish researcher Rory McCabe, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway, via Zoom on January 19, at 1 pm AST.