UPEI Spotlights

UPEI is a place built on stories—from student success, to faculty and staff honours, to ground-breaking research. In UPEI Spotlights, you can read and watch videos about the important things that make UPEI unique.

Our Stories

upei chemistry graduate maggie leclair working in a laboratory
| ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´s, UPEI Viewbook

After completing an honours project in natural product chemistry, Maggie hopes to become a physician in the future.

Zoe Furlotte at the Canadian centre for climate change and adaptation
| ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´s, UPEI Viewbook

Zoe discovered a passion for studying climate change at UPEI after moving to the Island from New Brunswick.

upei engineering student prabhakar bholah standing in the faculty of sustainable design engineering building
| ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´s, UPEI Viewbook

Following his father's advice to study in North America, Prabhakar travelled from Mauritius to join UPEI's unique engineering program.

alex gallant-wood working in a kitchen laboratory
| Success Story

"If given the chance to choose again, I would 100% pick UPEI’s Foods and Nutrition and Dietetic Internship programs!"

Chris Vessey
| Faculty

Chris Vessey is a Systems Administrator, Laboratory Instructor, and a Sessional Instructor in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at UPEI. Older than dirt itself, he’s been around UPEI in a teaching capacity since 2000, but also had a stint from 1990 to 1995 as a User Services Support Technician in what is now called ITSS.