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    Experience a cycle of learning and analysis leading to answers and better questions - welcome to the Faculty of Science at UPEI. 

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    The UPEI Faculty of Science offers research-based programs at the Master and shortly at the PhD level.

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    UPEI's Faculty of Science offers undergraduate and post-graduate programs in many scientific disciplines and specialties. 

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About Us

Experience a cycle of learning and analysis leading to answers and better questions - welcome to the Faculty of Science at UPEI. 

Science at UPEI

Congratulations, 2013 graduates!

Student Profile of the Month

'Student of the Month'
Ben Cameron, Math and Statistics Student

Ben Cameron (Mathematics and Statistics) finished in the top third of all contestants in the 73rd Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition which was held last December and is this year's winner of our own Icosahedron Prize for the best score on the Putnam by a UPEI student. The "Putnam" is the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics competition in North American and this year attracted 4277 contestants from 578 institutions.

A top third finish is indeed an impressive result - congratulations Ben!

Faculty Profile of the Month

'Faculty Member of the Month'
Dr. Tracy Doucette

Dr. Tracy Doucette has been awarded a five year NSERC Discovery Grant for her research entitled: Changes in frontocortical function originating during brain development in the rat. This work will examine the effect of early life chemical intervention on subsequent changes in behavioural expression, including the increasingly interesting phenomenon of "vulnerability priming" of the central nervous system in relation to both adult cognition and cortical circuitry. Understanding this "priming" of CNS vulnerability is critical to explaining variability in adult behaviour including learning and memory.

Congratulations Dr. Doucette!