Dr. James Taylor, of the University of Waterloo, will give a public seminar called What is dark matter? And why should we care? in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104, at UPEI on Friday, March 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include dark matter, cosmological structure formation, galaxy formation, galaxy dynamics, galaxy clusters, massive black holes, cosmology, computational & theoretical astrophysics.

'Many independent strands of evidence from astronomical observations indicate that roughly 85% of the matter in the universe is ‘dark matter', a gas of weakly interacting particles undetected in current particle accelerators and unaccounted for in the ‘standard model' of particle physics,' says Taylor. 'The detection and identification of dark matter in the lab has proven impossibly difficult in the past. Now, after many decades of diligent work, we may be on the verge of a revolution in this field.'

During his presentation, he will review the astrophysical evidence for dark matter, the theoretical candidates for this strange substance, and the instruments and experiments poised to reveal its true nature, opening a new chapter in fundamental physics.

Taylor's seminar is part of a lecture tour of the Maritime provinces, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Physicists.

P.E.I. poet David Hickey, whose collection In the Lights of a Midnight Plow was a finalist for the Lampert Award for best first Canadian poetry book, will read from his work on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.

The reading is co-sponsored by the UPEI English Department and Art Gallery, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Hickey, now a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of Western Ontario, spent part of his childhood in Labrador and the north shore of Quebec, but identifies most strongly with his Island home. Showing his literary gifts early, as an Honours English and Creative Writing student at UPEI, he won the Milton Acorn Poetry Competition in the Island Literary Awards, and represented P.E.I. as a young artist at the Canada Winter Games in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.

Many of his poems vividly evoke the P.E.I. landscape and heritage, and poignantly share his experience of growing up on an Island poised between its traditions and inexorable change. In 'Evening at the Charlottetown Airport,' he shows us his aging grandfather, perplexed by the lights and tarmac 'seeded' where his farm used to. A poem about Elephant Rock chronicles the mythology and erosion of that landmark. His poetry also ventures into other legends, such as that of Ted Williams, the great baseball hitter who spent summers fishing on the Miramichi River, and whose body was cryogenically frozen for future DNA access.

Also reading that evening will be Jeffery Donaldson, poet, critic, and professor of English literature at McMaster University. Donaldson's books include Once Out of Nature, Waterglass, and his recent Palilalia (the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words). Toronto-born, Donaldson lives on the Niagara Escarpment near Grimsby, Ontario.

A multi-faceted research project based at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has been awarded $2.5 million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to create significant new knowledge about a basic human activity that crosses and connects generations, cultures and disciplines.

Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) is headed by UPEI's Dr. Annabel Cohen, a pioneer in the growing field of music psychology. She is leading an international, multidisciplinary research team in the exploration of the continuum between speech and song. AIRS is one of just four projects in Canada supported under the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives fund this year, and the only one in the Atlantic region.

'The superb and innovative research initiatives launched this year illustrate how the social sciences and humanities build understanding of complex issues that affect our society,' says Dr. Chad Gaffield, President of SSHRC.

The seven-year initiative will co-ordinate the work of more than 70 researchers from every province in Canada, and numerous countries on every continent except Antarctica. It will focus on three areas: the development of singing ability; the connections between singing and learning; and the enhancement of health and well-being through singing. AIRS researchers will contribute and share knowledge and expertise from the perspectives of numerous fields of study, including social psychology, musicology, education and medicine. They will present and develop their work audiovisually, using a digital library and virtual research environment (VRE) already established at UPEI.

'The collaborative research environment at UPEI is an important factor in our ability to host a major initiative with such broad participation from scholars around the world,' says UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan. 'Moreover, a project of this scale requires special inspiration and leadership, and for that we can thank Dr. Annabel Cohen.'

"This is such an exciting development for Annabel and her team and this university,' says Dr. Richard Kurial, Dean of Arts. 'This grant is one of only four approved by the federal government. Not only that, it's the first time ever that a SSHRC MCRI has been awarded to a university in Atlantic Canada. This is a singular achievement."

The UPEI-based research team underwent a world-class peer-review process before being selected. Various strengths of the team and the proposal were recognized, including their international and interdisciplinary scope.

'Our AIRS team represents an extraordinary collection of the best minds worldwide,' says Dr. Cohen. 'Our commitment to promoting opportunities for student research was singled out for special mention, as well as our plans to disseminate our findings in non-traditional ways that are directly useful to the general community.'

Approximately half of the funding will be used to support graduate students in the three major research fields under investigation. In addition to using traditional methods of disseminating the results of their research through scholarly articles, journals and conferences, AIRS researchers will share their findings through guidelines and handbooks, and singing festivals. The research will provide resources and best practices for teaching singing across cultures and generations, and will provide a means for enhancing quality of life through improved intercultural and intergenerational understanding.

For further information contact: Dr. Annabel Cohen, Department of Psychology, (902) 628-4325 or acohen@upei.ca, or go to vre.upei.ca/AIRS.

Photo: UPEI psychology professor Annabelle Cohen, PhD (seated), director of the AIRS project; Nicolas Germain (left), program officer, SSHRC's research grant division; Corrine Hendricken-Eldershaw, CEO, Alzheimer's Society of PEI, a partner in the project; and Jean-Francois Fortin, PhD (right), team leader, SSHRC's research grant division, at a recent start-up meeting held for the UPEI AIRS team.

Backgrounder

Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing: AIRS

WHY IS THIS RESEARCH IMPORTANT?
Singing, like speaking, is a natural human expressive ability. Yet, in comparison to speaking, less scholarly inquiry has been directed to it. Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations.

WHO IS INVOLVED?

An international collaboration of more than 70 scholars is integrating new multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and education, assisted by computer science and audio engineering.

WHAT ARE THE AREAS OF FOCUS?

AIRS will address the following three main themes from the perspective of individual, cultural, and universal influences:

Singing and Well-being

Cultural Understanding through Singing: Examining the role of teaching songs of foreign cultures to children to promote lifelong cultural understanding of others and themselves. This entails acquiring information about the songs of various cultures.

Intergenerational Singing: Determining how singing increases individual physical and psychological well-being and community well-being, with a special focus on intergenerational singing where elder members of a society teach children songs of their culture.

Singing and Health: Specific health benefits of singing as in breathing exercise compliance in lung disease through singing

Education

Teaching Singing and Educating through Singing: Assessing and improving instructional methods for teaching and learning, and using singing to teach and learn the curricula of other disciplines.

Development of Singing

Acquisition of Singing: Determining through cross-cultural and longitudinal research, the universal, culture specific and idiosyncratic aspects of the development of singing.

Singing and Speaking Comparisons: Defining the features that distinguish singing and speech acquisition so as to advance linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, music and education.

HOW WILL KNOWLEDGE BE SHARED?

An interactive web-based virtual research environment, already in development (vre.upei.ca/AIRS) is supporting the research team, enabling discussion forums and information sharing across Canada and throughout the world. The site is hosting a one-of-a-kind comprehensive digital library database of singing that will accelerate progress on each research theme. Internet access to the AIRS database will enable multidisciplinary teams of experts and students to address the five related research themes.

WHAT IS THE EXPECTED IMPACT?

The research program will heighten the value of singing as an effective source of well-being for individuals, communities, and societies.

The digital multimedia resources will furnish cultural contexts for education and enhancing learning in general through singing.

Through broad and varied means of dissemination of the AIRS findings, the research will benefit universal education, language training, peaceful co-existence, intergenerational understanding, personal well-being, societal cohesion, and the preservation of cultural diversity.

More than 40 university students will receive training opportunities through involvement in all intellectual aspects of the work and through participation in videoconferences, workshops, and annual meetings.

AIRS will revolutionize research in singing resulting in growth of basic knowledge and advances on practical issues that will benefit the human condition.

Access to the vast new AIRS data repository of singing will advance basic knowledge by:

• Identifying universals and particulars of singing development and defining the distinctions between singing and speaking and between song and speech
• Producing pedagogy protocols for teaching singing in general, teaching songs of foreign cultures, and using singing to teach other knowledge while providing benefit of the arts,
• Improving intercultural understanding within communities and across nations
• Developing guidelines for intergenerational singing, aimed at enhancing quality of life for older adults, inspiring children, and benefiting general health for all who sing.

For further information contact:

Dr. Annabel Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island

902 628-4325 or acohen@upei.ca, or go to vre.upei.ca/AIRS

AIRS Director and Theme Leaders

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Annabel J. Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, and Project Leader of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition

RESEARCH THEME LEADERS/CO-LEADERS

Acquisition of Singing

Laurel Trainor, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour; Director McMaster Institute for Music & the Mind

Steven Brown, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser (moving to the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind)

Comparison of Singing and Speaking

Sandra Trehub, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Frank Russo, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University

Singing and Education

Andrea Rose, Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Darryl Edwards, Director of Voice Program, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Singing and Intercultural Understanding

Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies, UPEI

Singing and Intergenerational Understanding

Rachel Heydon, Associate Professor Education, U. Western Ontario

Music & Health

Jennifer Nicol, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, U. Saskatchewan,

AIRS Digital Library of Singing

Mark Leggott, University Librarian, UPEI

For the first time, the University of Prince Edward Island will send two teams to this year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport/Canadian Curling Association Curling Championship in Montreal from March 25 to 29.

The mens's team includes three members of this year's Canadian Junior championship and World Junior silver medallist rink. The women's team, skipped by Sarah Clow, curls regularly out of the Cornwall Curling Club and finished in the top three in this year's provincial juniors.

"UPEI Athletics is proud to send two teams to compete at the 2009 CIS/CCA Curling Championship,' says Ron Annear, director of athletics at UPEI. 'Both teams will represent the university and province very well. The emergence of university curling across Canada provides curling student athletes an exciting level of competition between the junior and open divisions."

Canadian junior champ Adam Casey will skip the men's team, with his regular teammates Anson Carmody at third, and Jamie Danbrook throwing lead stones. Business student Brett Gallant, who normally skips the rink, is sitting out this event. Nick van Ouwerkerk joins the team at second, with Jeff Wilson coaching. The Clow foursome includes Brielle Quilty at third, Christina Hennessey at second stone, and lead Courtney Moore. Angela Hodgson is head coach, assisted by Nancy Yeo.

For fans who want to see the weekend action rinkside on March 28 and 29, UPEI is offering a great travel package, including transportation on the eye-catching Trius Panther fan bus leaving on March 27 and returning on March 29. The cost is $100 per person for the bus, based on a minimum of 40 people; accommodation is available for $90 per room per night (double occupancy). To sign up, please contact Carol Heartz, UPEI Athletics Department, at 566-0432.

Now in its second year, the championship, sponsored by The Dominion General Insurance Company (The Dominion), will be held at the Royal Montreal and the Montreal West curling clubs.

Round robin play gets underway at 8 am Wednesday morning, March 25, and wraps up with a noon draw on Saturday. Twelve teams, from the ten provinces, plus two additional Ontario teams, are taking part in both the men's and women's divisions. The top teams from each of two men's and women's round robin pools will then play the second-place team of the opposite pool in the semi-finals, which go Saturday at 4 p.m. (men's) and Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. (women's). The semi-final winners will then square off in the gold medal games on Sunday at 2 p.m. All times are Eastern.

The winning teams will advance to the 2010 Karuizawa International Curling Championships, which take place late February in Japan. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, skipped by Mike Anderson and Holly Nicol, are the defending champions, winning both the men's and women's titles respectively last year.

Live results will be available at universitysport.ca and PEICurling.com.

Photo: UPEI men's CIS Championship team (left to right): Jeff Wilson (Coach), Jamie Danbrook, Nick van Ouwerkerk, Anson
Carmody, Adam Casey. Submitted photo.

Colonel Jamie Cade, former Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province, will give a public talk about the challenges facing Canadian Forces and NATO in Afghanistan at the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, April 2, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Main Building Faculty Lounge.

Cade was Deputy Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces throughout Kandahar Province from May 2008 to February 2009. During his presentation entitled 'The Struggle for Kandahar: Canadian Soldiers Making a Difference in Afghanistan,' he will talk about the counter-insurgency struggle currently taking place in the heart of Kandahar Province and how Canadian Forces and NATO stood firm during one of the most tumultuous periods in the mission to date.

He will also speak about NATO combat operations, the challenges of command during a demanding and complex mission marked by attacks on civilians, school children, government officials and religious leaders as well as the Sarpoza Prison break, and his views on what is required to achieve mission success. And he will discuss advances being made by Canadian soldiers and civilians in spite of the difficult conditions in the region.

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Cade entered the Army in June 1979. A graduate of Royal Roads Military College with a Bachelor Degree in Military and Strategic Studies, he joined Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) in Calgary, May 1984.

The highlight of Cade's career was his appointment as Commanding Officer, Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) from 2002 to 2004. During his tenure, the Regiment deployed two squadrons to Bosnia, a Squadron to Afghanistan and deployed to British Columbia to fight the forest fires of 2003. In June 2005, he was promoted Colonel and assumed the position of Director Land Force Readiness (Army G3), responsible for coordinating all aspects of Army force generation for overseas and domestic operations. In August 2007, he assumed his appointment as the Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force Afghanistan (Rotation 5).

UPEI women's basketball coach Dave MacNeill has retired from coaching at the university level.

MacNeill has been coaching the women's basketball team since 2006 after having retired from the position in 1993. He returned on what was supposed to be a temporary basis to fill a gap in the coaching staff. Three seasons later, he is still coaching the team, but he now has a demanding full-time position with the 2009 Canada Games as CEO of Operations.

'In order to be success and fair to the athletes, one needs to spend time developing a team,' he says. 'With my full-time job with Canada Games, that is not possible. I would like to thank all of the players and other support staff for their dedication and hard work over the past three years. It has been a pleasure to work with them.'

UPEI Athletics Director Ron Annear praised MacNeill for his work with the women's basketball team.

"I thank Dave for his time and effort developing and coaching women's basketball at UPEI,' says Annear. 'Dave is a UPEI Sport Hall of Fame Coach who symbolizes commendable traits all young coaches aspire to, sport knowledge, teacher, motivator, competitor, commitment, character and pride. We are very appreciative of Dave's dedication over the years and wish him well with 2009 Canada Games and his future beyond."

MacNeill has a long history with athletics at UPEI and St. Dunstan's University (SDU), one of UPEI's two founding institutions. A basketball player in the 1960s for SDU, he coached the UPEI women's basketball team from 1978 to 1993, with a break from 1980-1983 and again from 1990 to 1991.

In 1978-79, his first year of coaching, he was named AUS Coach of the Year. The following year, he coached the women to a 14-2 record, and first place in the NB/PEI division of the AUS before losing to Dalhousie in the playoff semi-finals before losing to Dalhousie in the playoff semi-finals.

Over the next 10 years, he coached four AUS Championship teams, including three in a row from 1986 to 1989. MacNeill was named AUS Coach of the Year five more times and coached 26 players to AUS All-Conference honours.

The high point of MacNeill's coaching career came in 1988-89, when he coached UPEI to a silver medal at the CIS, losing to the undefeated Calgary Dinos in the championship game. The following year, he returned to lead his team to a 10-6 record and a berth in the nationals as UPEI hosted the CIS women's tournament. In 1992-93, UPEI, under MacNeill's leadership, once again captured the AUS title and represented the Conference in Victoria.

MacNeill was inducted into the UPEI Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.

The UPEI Co-operative Education Student of the Year Awards for 2008 were awarded to three students on Wednesday, March 25, at a special event held in Don and McDougall Hall.

The guest speaker of the event was Dave Perry, Director of Radiology Information Systems Research and Development, for Carestream Health Group in Summerside. His presentation focused on the importance of having interdisciplinary skills, coming to work with the right attitude and being able to work well in a team.

The 2008 Co-op Student of the Year Award for Business went to Julie Mutch of Earnscliffe, who recently completed her 2007-2008 work term at the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce. As special events and communications assistant at the Chamber, she worked on several projects including monthly business mixers, fundraising and sponsorship events, and the members' magazine. Previous work terms included working with UPEI's Advancement Services and Service Canada's Communications Division. She will graduate in May 2009 with her Bachelor of Business Administration from UPEI. She is currently employed with Service Canada in its Nova Scotia-PEI Integrity Services Division and is involved in her community.

Nathan Christensen of North Wiltshire, received the Co-operative Education Student of the Year Award for Computer Science. A third-year mathematics and computer science student, Christensen worked at in the Provincial Treasury's Infrastructure Information Technology Shared Services Division for his 2007-2008 work term. He produced an online database for the division that has proven to be a valuable tool for the server team. He is keenly interested in computer gaming and was pleased to experience the infrastructure behind a large organization. This May, he will begin an eight-month work term with Longtail Studios, a developer of video games, at their Charlottetown studio in the Atlantic Technology Centre. He will graduate in 2011.

Carolyn Ward of Springfield, Nova Scotia, won the Co-operative Education Student of the Year Award for Physics. A fourth year physics co-op student, Ward worked at Defense Research & Development Canada in Dartmouth in 2007-2008 where she was involved in a complex sonar classifier project. Her work earned her recognition as co-author on a paper being presented to the Acoustical Society of America. Previous work terms were at Omega AAT Wind Site in Quebec and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth. An award-winning student, she tutors grade 10-12 students in math and physics. Ward is a member of the UPEI Physics Society and the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference planning committee, and is involved in her community. She will graduate in 2010.

The recipients are selected based upon a variety of achievements -- job performance, academic performance, academic/school involvement, writing skills, responsibility, and particular contributions to their employers during co-operative education work terms.

For more information, please contact the UPEI Co-operative Education Office at (902) 628-4395.

Photo: Award recipients from left are Carolyn Ward, physics; Nathan Christensen, computer science; and Julie Mutch, business. Looking on is guest speaker Dave Perry (right), Director of Radiology Information Systems Research and Development for Carestream Health Group in Summerside.

Sheep-for-Wheat Productions is staging Eugene Ionesco's absurdist one-act play, The Lesson, at The Guild on April 2, 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m.

The actors are Chris Doiron, Meaghan Blanchard, and Kelsey Moore. Stage direction is by Rob Reddin; stage management is by Ashley Clark; and the music is by Keith Baglole. Co-producers Fraser McCallum and Chera-Lee Hickox round out the company. Everyone involved is a past or present UPEI student.

Written in 1951, the critically acclaimed play was one of the French playwright's most distinguished works, as well as one of the most notable in the history of the Theatre of the Absurd genre. It revolves around a strange study session between a naive young student (Blanchard) and a delirious yet powerful professor (Doiron).

Sheep-for-Wheat Productions is an independent theatre company based in Charlottetown. This is their second production after great success in staging the Harold Pinter drama, The Dumb Waiter.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased in advance at the box office (902-620-3333) or at showtime. Come one, come all!

The Chair of UPEI's English Department, Dr. Brent MacLaine, is on the shortlist of poets whose books have been nominated for the prestigious Atlantic Poetry Prize, to be given out at a gala awards presentation on May 8, during the ATLANTIC INK Writers' Festival.

MacLaine's Shades of Green, published by Charlottetown's Acorn Press, is his third collection of poetry. Whether emerging from the local landscapes of memory or the present-day streetscapes of Manhattan, the poems record the poet's attempt to seize the chromatic complexity of experience.

Also shortlisted for the 12th annual Atlantic Poetry Prize are Breaker by Sue Sinclair (Brick Books) and Sky Atlas by Alan R. Wilson (Fitzhenry & Whiteside).

MacLaine is a Professor of English and a 3M Teaching Fellow at UPEI where he teaches 20th-century literature. His previous volumes include Wind and Root (Vehicule 2000) and These Fields Were Rivers (Goose Lane 2004). He also co-edited Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land (Acorn 2001). He lives with his family in Rice Point where he grew up.

MacLaine will give a public reading from his work on May 6 at 7:30 p.m. along with shortlisted authors Douglas Arthur Brown and Alan R. Wilson. Hosted by the PEI Writers' Guild, the reading will be held at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Everyone is welcome.

The ATLANTIC INK Writers' Festival is a week-long fanfare from May 4 to 9, recognizing the 12 finalists for this year's Ann Connor Brimer Children's Literature, Atlantic Poetry, Thomas H. Raddall Fiction and Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction book prizes. The festival includes readings, signings, school appearances, writing workshops, and panel discussions in the four Atlantic provinces. Prince Edward Island plays host to Philip Roy, author of the shortlisted children's book, Submarine Outlaw (Ronsdale Press). He will visit schools from May 4 to 6.

The awards ceremony will be held at Saint Mary's University Sobey Building in the Scotiabank Theatre. Acclaimed Cape Breton writer Alistair MacLeod will deliver ATLANTIC INK's first keynote, 'A Writer's Life: Geography as Inspiration,' as a prelude to four readings by the winners of this year's book prizes.

More than 300 young scientists will come together at the provincial science fair Thursday, April 2nd to showcase their science abilities and connect with other young scientists from across the province.

Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Gerard Greenan encouraged the public to attend the fair.

'Participating in the school science fair is an excellent opportunity for Island students to think critically about science and get hands-on experience running a science experiment,' said the minister. 'Being invited to the provincial science fair is a great achievement and Islanders are encouraged to come out and celebrate the students' success.'

The theme, Celebrating Science on PEI, was chosen to highlight how every year parents, family members, educators, elected officials, community leaders, donors and volunteers from across the province come together to celebrate student curiosity, the type of curiosity that has led to many incredible discoveries.

The fair will be held at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre at UPEI. Parents, family members and friends are invited to attend after 2:00 p.m. The awards ceremony begins at 4:00 p.m.

Over $10,000 in specialty prizes and awards has been donated by government, industry, community groups and organizations across PEI.

PEI Science Fair Coordinator Bill Whelan says participating in the science fair can have a lasting positive outcome.

'Research shows that a positive science experience in elementary school can build a positive attitude towards science in the junior and high school years, and ultimately attract many to the field of science as a career,' he said.

The provincial fair is run by a team of dedicated volunteers who have a passion for science.

Once again, UPEI scientists will open up their research laboratories to science fair participants in the afternoon. There will also be innovative engineering demonstrations and activities throughout the day.

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, which is the largest supporter of the provincial science fair, covers most of the expenses to put on the fair.

This year the top five students will represent PEI at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Winnipeg.

Last year at the Canada-Wide Fair in Ottawa, Prince Edward Island students walked away with some of the top awards.

• Rebecca Wolfe from Three Oaks Senior High won the prestigious Manning Innovation Achievement Award ($4000 sponsored by the Ernest C Manning Foundation).
• Simon Trivett from Stonepark Intermediate won the Bronze Medal in the Engineering Category and a $1000 Scholarship to the University of Western Ontario.
• Brandon Doyle from East Wiltshire won the Silver Medal in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Category and a $1500 Scholarship to the University of Western Ontario.

'This level of success on the national stage is remarkable,' said Bill Whelan.

For more information, visit the PEI Science Fair website at http://scifair.upei.ca

Contact:

Jean Doherty
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
902 368 6449
jmdoherty@gov.pe.ca

Bill Whelan, Provincial Science Fair Coordinator
UPEI Department of Physics
902 566 0419
wwhelan@upei.ca

This release is distributed by Island Information Service at the request of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Photo: Brian Simpson