The Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC)'s General Meeting and Symposium 2014, "Making Connections: Cooperating for a Sustainable Future" will kick off on Thursday evening with a public presentation by keynote speaker Joanna Kerr, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada. She will present "How to be courageous in a planet in crisis," at 7:00 pm in McDougall Hall, Room 242. The event will be followed by a networking event. All are welcome to attend. More about Joanna: Joined Greenpeace Canada in October 2013 after serving as the first female Chief Executive of ActionAid International, a global development organization based in South Africa and operating in 45 countries. Much of her career has been dedicated to women’s rights, international policy and climate change; as Policy Director at Oxfam Canada, as Executive Director of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development, and as a Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute. A Canadian, she has worked across Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. For more information on the full Symposium please visit: www.acic-caci.org

UPEI’s Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI)’s 11th biennial conference—“L.M. Montgomery and War”—will take place June 25–29 in Charlottetown. The conference will include open discussions on war, conflict, the Canadian Home Front, gender roles, and more. Keynote speakers include distinguished historian Jonathan Vance; Montgomery scholar, LMMI founder, and former UPEI President, Elizabeth “Betsy” Epperly; and Canada Research Chair Irene Gammel. In addition to the full conference program, there will also be a public exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Public Library entitled “The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on The First World War,” curated by Dr. Laura Robinson of the Royal Military College. “Maud of Leaskdale,” a fantastic one-woman play will also take place at the Carrefour Theatre in Charlottetown during the conference, and much more! Visit the Conference website for more details: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ or contact conference coordinator Elizabeth DeBlois at lmmconference@upei.ca

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, June 23 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, June 23 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

UPEI’s Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI)’s 11th biennial conference—“L.M. Montgomery and War”—will take place June 25–29 in Charlottetown. The conference will include open discussions on war, conflict, the Canadian Home Front, gender roles, and more. Keynote speakers include distinguished historian Jonathan Vance; Montgomery scholar, LMMI founder, and former UPEI President, Elizabeth “Betsy” Epperly; and Canada Research Chair Irene Gammel. In addition to the full conference program, there will also be a public exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Public Library entitled “The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on The First World War,” curated by Dr. Laura Robinson of the Royal Military College. “Maud of Leaskdale,” a fantastic one-woman play will also take place at the Carrefour Theatre in Charlottetown during the conference, and much more! Visit the Conference website for more details: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ or contact conference coordinator Elizabeth DeBlois at lmmconference@upei.ca

Dr. Adam Fenech has applied for a tenure track position in Climate Change Management. He will be presenting his research talk "Understanding Prince Edward Island's Past and Future Climate" on Wednesday, June 11 at 11:00 am in McDougall Hall, Room 242. Everyone is welcome to attend.

UPEI’s Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI)’s 11th biennial conference—“L.M. Montgomery and War”—will take place June 25–29 in Charlottetown. The conference will include open discussions on war, conflict, the Canadian Home Front, gender roles, and more. Keynote speakers include distinguished historian Jonathan Vance; Montgomery scholar, LMMI founder, and former UPEI President, Elizabeth “Betsy” Epperly; and Canada Research Chair Irene Gammel. In addition to the full conference program, there will also be a public exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Public Library entitled “The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on The First World War,” curated by Dr. Laura Robinson of the Royal Military College. “Maud of Leaskdale,” a fantastic one-woman play will also take place at the Carrefour Theatre in Charlottetown during the conference, and much more! Visit the Conference website for more details: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ or contact conference coordinator Elizabeth DeBlois at lmmconference@upei.ca

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, June 23 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

You're invited to submit stories, announcements, or departmental updates to UPEI's newsletter, the Campus Connector. The submission deadline for the next edition is Monday, June 23 by 5:00 pm. Submissions must follow these guidelines: -be emailed to Sheila Kerry at communications@upei.ca -sent in a Microsoft Word or plain text document -be no longer than 250 words -maximum one photo per story The editors reserve the right to edit content, will not consider incomplete submissions, and cannot guarantee that all submitted materials will be published. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communications@upei.ca. Not receiving the Campus Connector? To subscribe, please email communications@upei.ca to get your email address on the list!

Dr. Adam Fenech has applied for a tenure track position in Climate Change Management. He will be presenting his research talk "Understanding Prince Edward Island's Past and Future Climate" on Wednesday, June 11 at 11:00 am in McDougall Hall, Room 242. Everyone is welcome to attend.

UPEI’s Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI)’s 11th biennial conference—“L.M. Montgomery and War”—will take place June 25–29 in Charlottetown. The conference will include open discussions on war, conflict, the Canadian Home Front, gender roles, and more. Keynote speakers include distinguished historian Jonathan Vance; Montgomery scholar, LMMI founder, and former UPEI President, Elizabeth “Betsy” Epperly; and Canada Research Chair Irene Gammel. In addition to the full conference program, there will also be a public exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts Public Library entitled “The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on The First World War,” curated by Dr. Laura Robinson of the Royal Military College. “Maud of Leaskdale,” a fantastic one-woman play will also take place at the Carrefour Theatre in Charlottetown during the conference, and much more! Visit the Conference website for more details: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ or contact conference coordinator Elizabeth DeBlois at lmmconference@upei.ca

UPEI's School of Business has two candidates for a term accounting position: 1) Karen Wight, CPA, CA, will present on "The Business of Sustainable Food Production in Canada through Aquaponics" on Thursday, June 12 at 9:30 am in McDougall Hall, Room 243. 2) Brad Colwill, CPA, CA, will present on "The Unification of the Canadian Accounting Profession & its Implication on Course Delivery at UPEI" on Thursday, June 12 at 2:00 pm in McDougall Hall, Room 243. Everyone welcome to attend.

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety Protocols including new applications, renewals and/or amendments, is Friday June 27. These protocols will be reviewed at the July meeting. Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://research.upei.ca/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete the forms. Submit one copy of the original protocol with signatures to 200 Kelley Memorial Building and send one e-copy to reb@upei.ca Please note that protocols received after this deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104.

UPEI's School of Business has two candidates for a term accounting position: 1) Karen Wight, CPA, CA, will present on "The Business of Sustainable Food Production in Canada through Aquaponics" on Thursday, June 12 at 9:30 am in McDougall Hall, Room 243. 2) Brad Colwill, CPA, CA, will present on "The Unification of the Canadian Accounting Profession & its Implication on Course Delivery at UPEI" on Thursday, June 12 at 2:00 pm in McDougall Hall, Room 243. Everyone welcome to attend.

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety Protocols including new applications, renewals and/or amendments, is Friday June 27. These protocols will be reviewed at the July meeting. Please ensure that you download and use the current forms from http://research.upei.ca/forms. Use Adobe Reader to complete the forms. Submit one copy of the original protocol with signatures to 200 Kelley Memorial Building and send one e-copy to reb@upei.ca Please note that protocols received after this deadline will be reviewed the following month. For more information, please contact Joy Knight at 620-5104.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is pleased to offer university students across Canada the opportunity to win a $2,000 bursary. Students will want to familiarize themselves with the Partnership for Research Trade (PRT) and produce a brief video on the merits of supporting its objectives. The videos must be creative, original, and fun, no more than 3 to 5 minutes long. It should address one or more of the three objectives and promote support of the PRT. Participants are to email their videos to prt@chamber.ca where a Project Coordinator will post the video onto the YouTube channel. In addition to the $2,000 bursary, the winning video will be featured in the PRT communications campaign. The goal of this contest is not only to create more awareness among youth on the importance of Canada’s natural resource sectors, but also to further interest and engage our younger generation in one of Canada’s key policy and economic issue. In order to be eligible for the bursary, contestants must be full-time registered students of a Canadian University. In addition, students must "like" the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) on Facebook, follow CCC on Twitter, and subscribe to the CCC’s YouTube channel. Finally, students must sign themselves and five friends as supporters of the PRT at: http://powerofcanada.ca/speak-up/?ccc=1 UPEI staff and faculty are asked to encourage students to apply. For more information visit http://www.chamber.ca/

Central Printing will be closed on Friday, June 6. Please contact Wendy at 566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca

There will be a UPEI biosafety training session on Thursday June 26, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, AVC, Room 286A. Topics to be covered include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. Please note: only those who attended a training session after November, 2012 are currently considered to be “up to date” in their training requirements. If you wish to attend, you must pre-register by contacting Carol Heartz, Research Services and Graduate Studies, before June 20 by email (heartz@upei.ca) or by phone (x 0775). Please include your name, department, email address and phone number in your email.

UPEI alumna and York University doctoral candidate Heather Barnick will give a public presentation of her fieldwork on Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games in Shanghai, "Digital Designs: Cultural Identity and China's Online Role Playing Game Industry," on Monday June 9 at 3:00 pm in Dalton Hall, Room 409. The presentation is sponsored by the Young Lives Research Lab and the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.

Central Printing will be closed on Friday, June 6. Please contact Wendy at 566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca