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ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Women's Hockey continues to add to its roster and the latest additions are Islanders Samantha (Sam) Sweet and Melanie Matthews. Both women played with the Western Wind in the provincial midget AA female hockey league this past season and for Team PEI at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax. Sam Sweet started her love of hockey after her very first ice session at Dave Cameron's...

The ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Wind Symphony has just released its 13th annual compact disc, Freebirds, a compilation of music performed during this past academic year. Overall, this CD is an eclectic mix of a variety of contemporary works for the modern wind band. The title track, Freebirds, is a virtuosic double concerto featuring Wesley Ferreira and Jana Starling, clarinet professors at Mount Allison and Arizona...

Activities are now underway for this year's convocation. Click here for the Convocation 2011 website. On Sunday, May 1, Father Charlie Cheverie, retiring ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú chaplain, and Father Denis Grecco, Visiting SDU Scholar, con-celebrated Convocation Mass at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre for graduates, family, friends, staff, and faculty. Members of ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú's Class of 2011 will...

The ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Women's Hockey team is excited to announce the addition of three players for the 2011-12 season, Jessie Howard from Kingston, Ontario; Ashley Fitzpatrick from Twin Butte, Alberta; and Margaret Lockyer from Burlington, Ontario. Howard, a 5'8' forward, has played the last three years with Brewster Academy in New Hampshire. This past season, her team was 19-8-1 with Howard...

The Canadian Journal of Education (CJE)/Revue canadienne de l'éducation (RCE) has published its first issue since being housed at the Centre for Education Research at the ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú. 'The journal provides the opportunity for a variety of scholars and community advocates from across the country to share important educational research findings and ideas...

ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú alumna and former ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú lecturer, Dr. Betty Anne Younker has been named the new dean of the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. Younker will begin her five-year term on August 1. Younker is currently at University of Michigan, where she is associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of music (music education) in the School of Music, Theatre &...

The ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú will soon be launching an exciting new international exchange program that will give student an opportunity to attend universities in the United States and Mexico. A new NAFTA initiative, the ‘Program for North American Mobility' will partner ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú with five other universities in Canada, Mexico, and the US to create a consortium that focuses on...

A recent CD recording of O Canada by the ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Wind Symphony is now being played in public schools across Prince Edward Island and is receiving rave reviews. O Canada became part of this academic year's ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Wind Symphony programming when they were invited to be part of the inaugural concert at the new Montague Regional High School in October. There, the ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú group collaborated with the high...

The Honourable Robert Vessey, minister of Tourism and Culture, ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú President Wade MacLauchlan, and University Librarian Mark Leggott cut the 'virtual' ribbon today for IslandArchives.ca, the website home of the digitization process and resulting collections maintained by the Robertson Library at ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú. The website encompasses a number of collections related to Prince Edward Island and...

On Friday, April 15, ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú engineering students will display their designs and network with community and engineering industry members at the 2011 Engineering Design Expo. As part of their engineering design class in the three-year engineering diploma program at ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú, students formed into groups and were partnered with various mentor organizations. Ranging from government...