Researchers at the University of Prince Edward Island have launched a new website to help track the population and activity of the Island’s coyotes. The site, upei.ca/coyote, will provide valuable data about this non-native species which first arrived on the Island in the early 1980s. The project is called the Advanced Coyote Mapping Exercise, or ACME.

The post is the fourth in a series on the Student as Scholar initiative at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Dr. Sarah Glassford is an assistant professor of history at UPEI. In her History/Women’s Studies 286 course, History of Women in Modern Canada, she teaches her students to dig for artefacts that tell the story of women. In honour of International Women’s Day, we asked her the question, "why is it so difficult to find the voices of women in history?"

This is the third post in a series on the Student as Scholar initiative at UPEI.

“The eyes of my three-year-old daughter sparkle when she learns something new,” says Dr. Stacey MacKinnon, Associate Professor of Psychology at UPEI. “I think somewhere along the way, we train that sparkle out of kids, because a lot of my students wonder why I bother teaching them anything that won’t be on the final exam.”

A recent study of Canadian students tells us they like school, but they dislike learning. At the next Research on Tap, Dr. Sandy McAuley will present his ideas for how we can better engage students by challenging them to problems, rather than filling them with knowledge.

Research on Tap begins at 7 pm, Tuesday, January 8 at The Pourhouse, above The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse in Charlottetown.