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.

Join Catherine MacNeil, BSc, for her MSc Defense entitled: Youth livelihood strategies and the role of Youth in environmental decision-making in six villages in eastern Cameroon. The seminar will be held on Friday, June 20, 2014 at 10:00 am at the Health Sciences Building, room 105. Everyone is welcome.

Join Dr. Brian Wilcock, Professor, University of Guelph for a special pathology seminar with an emphasis on oncology. The seminar is entitled: If Plato were a Pathologist – An Irreverent Look at How Human Insistence on Disease Classification Conflicts with Biological Reality? The seminar will take place on Monday, June 16, at 10:30 am in AVC Lecture Theatre B. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The UPEI Alumni Association AGM will be held on Wednesday, June 18 at noon in the Health Science Building, room 103. All UPEI, PWC, and SDU alumni are welcome to attend. A light lunch will be provided and parking is available in the MacLauchlan Arena parking lot. For more information please contact Anthony Gill at 566-0761 or alumni@upei.ca.

Staff, students and faculty are invited to attend UPEI Graduate Research Recognition Day on Wednesday, June 18 beginning at 3:00 pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 246. The afternoon will feature oral presentations from Erin McCauley, Atlantic Veterinary College; Jessica MacKenzie, Business; Tom Hilton, Education; Krista Gill, Science; Abigail Franco Vazquez, Island Studies. These graduate students have been chosen by their respective faculties. A poster presentation by graduate students from all faculties will take place at 5:00 pm. See attached schedule for more information.

Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join the Faculty of Education Graduate Studies Committee, and the Faculty of Education for their Celebration of Graduate Achievements on Wednesday, June 18 at 6:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building. For more information or to RSVP, contact Cathy Hennessey at cahennessey@upei.ca or 902-566-0731.

Dig through your attic, then drop-by and have your First World War (1914-1918) documents and artifacts permanently preserved in digital form. UPEI library and History Department staff and students will be scanning and photographing artifacts in the UPEI Robertson Library from 2-4pm on Wednesday June 25, 2014, and recording anecdotes and stories from the period of the First World War in conjunction with the 11th Biennial L.M. Montgomery Conference. Documents and artifacts from this period might include things like: letters, photographs, battlefield souvenirs, pamphlets, postcards, toys, knitting instructions, recipes, clothing, maps, etc -- if it comes from war years (or thereabouts), we're interested! You will retain your artifacts, but the UPEI library will permanently house the scan/photo of it (and any further details you provide) in an online, accessible format. This may include the Atlantic Canada First World War database, and/or the national Wartime Canada database www.wartimecanada.ca If you have a large amount of material, or items that are awkward to transport, please contact Dr. Sarah Glassford at sglassford@upei.ca to make alternative arrangements for digitization. If necessary, we'll make a house call! This event will also be held on Saturday, June 28 from 2:00-4:00 pm.

Dig through your attic, then drop-by and have your First World War (1914-1918) documents and artifacts permanently preserved in digital form. UPEI library and History Department staff and students will be scanning and photographing artifacts in the Confederation Centre Public Library from 2-4pm on Wednesday June 25, 2014, and recording anecdotes and stories from the period of the First World War in conjunction with the 11th Biennial L.M. Montgomery Conference. Documents and artifacts from this period might include things like: letters, photographs, battlefield souvenirs, pamphlets, postcards, toys, knitting instructions, recipes, clothing, maps, etc -- if it comes from war years (or thereabouts), we're interested! You will retain your artifacts, but the UPEI library will permanently house the scan/photo of it (and any further details you provide) in an online, accessible format. This may include the Atlantic Canada First World War database, and/or the national Wartime Canada database www.wartimecanada.ca If you have a large amount of material, or items that are awkward to transport, please contact Dr. Sarah Glassford at sglassford@upei.ca to make alternative arrangements for digitization. If necessary, we'll make a house call!

Join Dr. Brad Walters, Mount Allison University, for a special seminar presented by the Science Graduate Studies Committee. The seminar is entitled: Do Property Rights Matter for Conservation? Family Land, Forests and Trees in St. Lucia, West Indies, and will take place on Thursday, June 19 at 3:30 pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 246. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Staff and faculty are invited to join Dr. Ben Sutherland, Université Laval, QC for a seminar entitled: "Comparative transcriptomics in salmonids and their parasites: predictive smoltification markers and drug resistance traits." The seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 24, at 10:00 am in room 287N - AVC McCain Learning Commons. Everyone is welcome.