As a part of the 2013 Summer Reunion weekend, join your classmates and meet other UPEI alumni at the All Years Reunion Mixer at 4:00 pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. All are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Sarah MacInnis, alumni outreach coordinator, at (902) 566-0687 or alumni@upei.ca. Visit http://www.upei.ca/summerreunion for a full schedule of events.

As a part of the 2013 Summer Reunion, the PWC All Years Luncheon will be held on Sunday, July 28 at 1:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. For more information, contact Sarah MacInnis, alumni outreach coordinator, at (902) 566-0687 or alumni@upei.ca. Visit http://www.upei.ca/summerreunion for a full schedule of events.

Three UPEI musicians will perform in a recital on Sunday, July 28, 7:30 pm, at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI campus. Echo Lau, piano; Branden Kelley, percussion; and Lucas McPhail, saxophone, will be attending the 2013 National Competition for The Federation of Canadian Music Festivals from August 8–10, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Echo will be accompanied both here and in Waterloo, by Frances Gray. Branden and Lucas will be accompanied by Frances McBurnie. Admission will be by donation to assist Echo, Branden, and Lucas with expenses as they travel to Waterloo for this competition. For more information, please contact Dr. Frances Gray at (902) 566-0680 or fgray@upei.ca

Join the Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee for a Master of Science thesis defense on Tuesday, July 23 at 9:00 am in the Duffy Science Centre, room 204. Mark Alexander Robbins, BSc. will defend his Master of Science thesis entitled: Assessment of the Face Validity, Construct Validity, and Etiological Validity of a Novel Animal Model of Schizophrenia All are welcome to attend.

Dr. M. Jake Pushie, Molecular and Environmental Science Research Group, University of Saskatchewan will present a research seminar on Friday, July 19th, 2013 at 10:30 am. Dr. Pushie’s presentation is entitled “Computational Chemistry and Synchrotron Radiation Illuminate the Bioinorganic Chemistry of Human Health and Disease Pathogenesis". The seminar will be held in Room 104 in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre. All are welcome to attend.

The University has engaged an independent panel of three reviewers to conduct an assessment of programs and activities related to Island Studies. Panelists include Dr. Liette Vasseur of Brock University, Dr. Graham Whitelaw of Queen's University, and Mr. David MacDonald, PC. On July 25, Dr. Vasseur will visit UPEI to conduct the first site review and to meet with as many of the key stakeholders as possible. Interested members of the campus community are invited to an Open Campus Meeting with Dr. Vasseur on Thursday, July 25 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the main floor lounge area of Kelley Memorial Building. The Terms of Reference for the assessment are available upon request by emailing vpa@upei.ca.

Join the UPEI Alumni Association for the presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Awards as a part of Summer Reunion 2013. The awards will be presented on Friday, July 26 at 3:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building. This year's recipients include: J. Armand DesRoches, SDU'63 will be presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award. This award commemorates a graduate for their outstanding contributions to knowledge, the arts, the community, and the university or humanity. J. Paul S. Young, BSc'02, BScR'07 & MBA'12 will be presented with the Inspiring Young Alumni Award, which honours a graduate, under the age of 40, who has shown outstanding determination in achieving success at a young age. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Anthony at alumni@upei.ca or 566-0761. Immediately following this event is the All-Years' Reunion Social, all are welcome to attend.

Join Dr. Alexander A. Oraevsky, a scientist and pioneer in the field of biomedical optoacoustics for a public lecture entitled "New imaging technology uses light to make cancer 'talk' to the doctor," on Wednesday, August 7 at 7:00 pm, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, room 242. Dr. Oraevsky presently leads TomoWave Labs as Chief Technology Officer holds an adjunct professor position at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Houston. He will discuss a new emerging imaging technology that uses light and sound to detect breast cancer. Presently breast cancer is being detected with mammography using ionizing radiation, which may cause cancer in the breast. Mammography also uses painful compression. Mammography misses 20 per cent of cancerous tumors in elder women and cannot visualize tumors in the breast of young women. Furthermore, when something is detected, it is likely a noncancerous tumor, but mammography cannot differentiate the two types, exposing too many women to unnecessary surgical procedures. A new imaging technology that uses red light that can be converted into sound in tumors, making them “speak” about their location and their medical conditions. The new modality uses the fact that aggressive cancers develop their own system of microscopic blood vessels to support their rapid growth. Thus, all aggressive tumors have more blood. Red light can be strongly absorbed in cancerous tumors, producing signals that can be detected at the skin surface. This way, early tumors can be reliably detected. Dr. Oraevsky is the recipient of multiple research awards advancing biomedical applications of the optoacoustic imaging sensing and monitoring. Alexander is the primary inventor of 17 patents, has published five book chapters and over 200 scientific papers dealing with novel laser technologies applicable in biology and medicine. For more information about Dr. Oraevsky's visit to UPEI or to organize a time to meet with him, please contact Dr. Bill Whelan, Department of Physics at 566-0419, wwhelan@upei.ca.

On Saturday, July 20, the UPEI Physics department in partnership with the Charlottetown branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will put on free public viewing within our telescope dome on the top of the Memorial Building. This is a weather dependent event, so please check http://physics.upei.ca/astronomy for any cancellation notice.

Join Dr. Alexander A. Oraevsky, a scientist and pioneer in the field of biomedical optoacoustics, for a research lecture on "Laser Optoacoustic Ultrasonic Imaging System and Biomedical Applications," on Wednesday, August 7 at 2:00 pm in Lecture Theatre A, AVC. Dr. Oraevsky will discuss the principles of operation, methods of signal processing and image reconstruction, advantages, limitations and biomedical applications of a recently developed, combined laser optoacoustic ultrasonic imaging system (LOUIS). The idea of combining the optoacoustic and laser ultrasonic tomography in one modality for the purposes of co-registration of functional and anatomical images drives present developments in the field of optoacoustic imaging. Optoacoustic images can provide natural and useful enhancement of almost every application of medical ultrasound. Deep tissue imaging with high contrast and resolution is the most important niche for optoacoustic tomography, unattainable neither in pure optical imaging or pure ultrasonic imaging. Dr. Oraevsky presently leads TomoWave Labs as Chief Technology Officer holds an adjunct professor position at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Houston. Dr. Oraevsky is the recipient of multiple research awards advancing biomedical applications of optoacoustic imaging, sensing and monitoring. Alexander is the primary inventor of 17 patents, has published five book chapters and over 200 scientific papers dealing with novel laser technologies applicable in biology and medicine.