Edith Coffin Giggey Memorial Award

The Edith Coffin Giggey Memorial Award is granted to a returning full-time undergraduate student enrolled in the Applied Human Sciences program at UPEI who has shown extraordinary interest in the nutritional needs and care of seniors. The successful recipient will be recommended by the Chair of the Department of Applied Human Sciences in consultation with faculty. This award has been established by Edith Coffin Giggey's family in recognition of her pioneering work in nutrition and health of seniors through the extension of dietetic services and standards to seniors homes in Prince Edward Island and through her teaching of nutrition to health professionals at UPEI. Edith Coffin Giggey was an early graduate of UPEI (1970) who became the first dietitian in the province to work specifically with the elderly, and was instrumental in PEI becoming the first Province in Canada to have its seniors homes accredited to national standards for hospitals.