The second week of Junior AVC Vet Camp is scheduled for July 15-19. Students in grades 7-9 will be "living the dream" exploring the world of veterinary medicine at AVC. They will be participating in activities such as pathology, anatomy, toxicology, pet first aid, a visit to a dairy farm, dog agility demonstrations and much more.

The third week of AVC Vet Camp is scheduled for July 22-26. Students in grades 10-12 will be "living the dream" exploring the world of veterinary medicine at AVC. They will be participating in activities such as pathology, anatomy, toxicology, pet first aid, a visit to a sheep farm, dog agility demonstrations and much more.

The UPEI Art Committee in partnership with Aboriginal Survivors of Healing Inc.(ASH), invites you to the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to former students of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School on Thursday, June 27 at 2:30 pm in the Robertson Library. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to Rebecca Gass at rjgass@upei.ca or (902) 566-0949.

The Office of Graduate Studies invites you to our Annual Graduate Research Recognition Day on June 20 from 3:00-6:30 pm. There will be oral presentations from 3:00-5:30 pm with the poster presentationsand refreshments to follow. This will be held in the Health Sciences Building, Main Floor. Come see some of the great research work done by UPEI's graduate students. For more information, please contact Colleen Gallant at 620-5120 or cgallant@upei.ca.

The Prince Edward Island Registered Music Teachers' Association (PEIRMTA) recently chose two fine UPEI student musicians to represent PEI at the Annual Convention and Piano and Voice Competitions of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Association (CFMTA), this year to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from July 3 to July 5. In preparation for their trip to Halifax, Echo and Rebecca will give a joint concert at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI Campus, on Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 pm. Tickets will be $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors and all proceeds will go to help cover the expenses of the two musicians while they are in Halifax.

Jason Ellis, UPEI’s Turning Technologies representative will give a presentation from 12:00-1:00 pm on designing effective questions, teaching techniques and new response system developments. From 11:00 am - 12:00 noon, Jason will also be available to answer individual questions from people new to using clickers and wishing to learn more about them. A light lunch will be provided. Please contact Christa Curran in the Dean of Science Office at 566-0382 or chcurran@upei.ca to confirm attendance. Open to all UPEI and AVC staff and faculty.

UPEI Clarinet Professor Karem J. Simon will collaborate with organist Leo Marchildon in performance on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 1:00 pm at St. Dunstan’s Basilica. The program will feature several works for clarinet alone, a solo organ piece, and a transcription of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto. Admission by donation.

Speaker: Rand Askalan, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Department of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Assistant Professor Paediatrics, University of Toronto TITLE: Neuroprotection for the Ischemic Developing Brain: can we do better?

A seminar with Evan O'Connor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, will be held on Wednesday, July 3 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm. The presentation is titled “Core-Collapse Supernovae: Essentials to Explosions".

A seminar with Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, will be held on Tuesday, July 9 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. The presentation is titled "'Fuzz' Structures: on the Role of Electrostatics in Intrinsically-disordered Proteins."