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 business student Ehimen in Don and Marion McDougall Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2023-08/ehimen_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=41wx1a2D)
Meet Ehimen, Bachelor of Business Administration program graduate (Class of 2023). He's focused on a career in the music industry as a rapper and producer.
![Tanner speaking with another student in a UPEI student lounge](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2023-08/tanner_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=-63UT2MX)
Meet Tanner, DSJS and Philosophy student at UPEI. Tanner is from Goose River, PEI, and hopes to work in human rights, child advocacy, or law in the future.
![upei nursing graduate Henrietta](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2023-08/henrietta_spotlight_rnd.jpeg.webp?itok=4k6QBRKe)
Meet Henrietta, Bachelor of Science in Nursing program graduate (Class of 2023). Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Henrietta graduated in May 2023 and served as her class valedictorian at UPEI Convocation.
![Ethan Taweel outside the PEI Government Offices](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2023-07/spotlight_etaweel_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=7olV0Pkq)
Ethan Taweel, a UPEI Bachelor of Environmental Studies graduate (Class of 2021), works as a Senior Environmental Technician and Project Coordinator with the PEI Department of Environment.
![a group of faculty members in session at the UPEI Faculty Development Summer Institute](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2023-06/fdsi_2023_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=ns8SK1f9)
UPEI’s Teaching and Learning Centre hosted the 33rd Faculty Development Summer Institute (FDSI) from June 6–9, 2023, signalling the return of the successful academic conference after a five-year break.