After 40 years of active service to UPEI, Velma Affleck is retiring. In order to celebrate her significant contribution to our university and in order to wish her well as she embarks on the next stage of her life journey, a celebration will be held in the Faculty Lounge (Main Building) on Wednesday, May 11 from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. See you all there.

The UPEI Music Department presents "A Mother's Day Concert" featuring Katharine Rapoport, viola/violin; Frances Gray, piano and Natalie Williams-Calhoun, cello performing works by Schumann, Chopin and Shostakovich. Admission $10 adults; $8 students and seniors.

All are invited to attend the second annual UPEI Graduate Research Recognition Day, which will take place in the Alex H. MacKinnon Lecture Theatre (Room 242) and Schurman Market Square in McDougall Hall. This event is being planned and presented by the Office of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Studies Advisory Committee, and the Graduate Student Association. This showcase of graduate student research and scholarship will include oral and poster presentations from graduate students from all programs across campus, and a presentation on, and celebration of, graduate student scholarship and award success over the past year. Lunch and refreshments will also be served.

Sunday evening Masses resume Sunday September 11 at 6:00 pm. Join others of faith each week for Mass followed by a social time.

Come and eat, come and see ! All that the the Chaplaincy Centre has to offer. Meet others, check out the Food bank and Clothing Rack.

Once a month, after mass Sunday evening, stay around the Chaplaincy Centre for a Fun Night, brought to you by UPEI's Canadian Catholic Student Association (CCSA).

Speaker: Dr. Rita Raisman-Vozari, Research Director, INSERM Research Centre of the Institute of the Brain and Spinal Cord TITLE: "Pleiotrophin: a new trophic factor for the dopaminergic system."

UPEI graduate and Governor General's Award Winner for Children's Literature, Rachna Gilmore, will read from her new book, That Boy Red, on Saturday, June 18, 2:00 p.m. at the Confederation Centre Public Library. This event is co-sponsored by the UPEI Department of English.

Move into your Residence room, meet your roommate and your Residence Life Advisor. Also pick-up your Orientation package in the lobby of your Residence.

Residence students will meet with their floors to discuss rules, guidelines and to meet your new floor mates.