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 doctor of veterinary medicine student farnaz farnaghi in an operating room](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2022-09/ffarnaghi_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=ejGZTm-5)
"After completing my Bachelor of Science in Ontario, I was ready to complete my Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and I thought that Prince Edward Island would be the perfect place."
![upei chemistry graduate maggie leclair working in a laboratory](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2022-09/mleclair_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=HQ1WWQnU)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2022-09/zfurlotte_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=uj0GOvQ8)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2022-09/pbholah_spotlight_sq.jpg.webp?itok=auBFaOQI)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_landing_round/public/2022-09/awood_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp?itok=Lrpk25oV)
"If given the chance to choose again, I would 100% pick UPEI’s Foods and Nutrition and Dietetic Internship programs!"