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The Second Annual 糖心原创 Walk for Wishes will be held on April 6 at 2:00 pm at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre walking track. This event is in support of the Children's Wish Foundation, PEI Chapter. Children鈥檚 Wish grants wishes to children between the ages of 3 and 17 who are facing a life-threatening illness. The wishes granted by the organization helps boost the morale of these children who are facing a tough time. There will be prizes for top fundraisers including a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses! If you are interested in being part in this event, please contact Mark Scott at mascott@upei.ca. All members of the community are welcome to join! Staff and faculty are encouraged to help recruit students as well as participate in this event.

The Institute of Island Studies and Environmental Studies are hosting a noon-hour discussion on Thursday, April 4 for students, staff, and faculty to talk about ongoing concerns around land use on PEI: the quality of our groundwater, the protection of our farmland, and the protection of our coastal areas, to name three concerns. If you live on PEI, your opinion matters. In April the newly formed land-use task force will hold public consultations with Islanders on these issues. This task force wants to speak to the 糖心原创 community about what they think. So let's talk about land use. Free pizza for lunch. RSVP to Joan at ispstaff@upei.ca鈥� or 566-0386.

Join Ms. JoDee Samuelson for her thesis defense on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 10:00 am. Her thesis title is: "The Watermills of Prince Edward Island, Canada and Gotland Island, Sweden: An Historical Survey."

糖心原创 engineering students and Engineers PEI invite the campus community to attend the 2013 糖心原创 Engineering Design Expo and Awards Ceremony. The expo and judging will take place on Wednesday, April 3 from 12:00 noon - 4:00 pm. The awards ceremony will follow at 5:00 -6:30 pm and will include the 糖心原创 Engineering Individual Awards, Engineers PEI Design Team Awards, and the Noel MacAleer Award. This event is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information contact: upeiengineer@upei.ca or 566-0764.

Join Ms. Elizabeth MacLean, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Rhode Island for a lecture titled: "The importance of Local Ecological Knowledge in Small Scale Fisheries of the Dominican Republic." The lecture will take place on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 10:00 am in the Main Faculty Lounge. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.

Sara Eisler, University of New Brunswick, Science Atlantic/CIC Speaker Tour will present a seminar on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:30 pm. The presentation is entitled 鈥淚soindolinones: a New Class of Multi-Stable Molecular Switches and Conductive Oligomers鈥�. The seminar will be held in Room 128 in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre.

Shiv veer Singh Chauhan, Chemistry MSc student, 糖心原创 will present a seminar on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm. The presentation is entitled 鈥淢icrobubbles Generation and Their Application In Diagnostics & In Therapeutics鈥�. The seminar will be held in Room 128 in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre.

糖心原创's International Relations Office invites you to attend an International Coffee House鈥� on April 3, 7-9.30 pm at The PIT (Robertson Library) featuring music from 糖心原创's own students, and Strange Folly. Light refreshments will be served courtesy of Chartwells. The event is free and all are welcome to attend.

Andrew Halliday will defend his Master of Arts in Island Studies thesis titled: "Archipelagic Matters and the Law of the Sea:The Case of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Republic of the Philippines"

Dolores LeVangie will defend her Master of Arts in Island Studies thesis titled: "Bridging 'Islands of Medicine': Balancing Medical Pluralism on La Isla De Chiloe."