20 Years: the Amherst college summer science program

APRIL 5-6, 2008  Amherst College

 

Getting to Amherst

How to get to campus

Local lodging

Parking

Parking behind the Life Science Building and pick up parking permit at registration.

 

Registration email

There is no registration fee but there will be a charge for Sat. night dinner.  If you think you will be attending, please send an email to jbinnes@amherst.edu with your name(s) so that we can plan for events and meals. Thanks.

 

Who'll be there: we will be posting a list of participants for 2008 soon. 

 

Seeley Mudd Building

 

SSP Reunion

Friday, April 4

Early arrivals can register at the Q Center, 202 Merrill and are invited to:

3 pm Chemistry Department seminar with SSP Alumna Allegra Eroy-Gonzalez ’01, from UC, Santa Cruz.  In Merrill 4, “Development of Manganese Nitrosyl Complexes and Materials for the Light Controlled Release of Nitric Oxide.”

Saturday, April 5

Note: This weekend has a number of important events going on (a Trustee meeting and debate featuring Gen. Wesley Clark) and we will share some events with Black Alumni weekend.

All morning: Registration at the Q Center (202 Merrill Science).

Breakfast:  Valentine Dining Hall (7:30 – 10:00 am, Brunch 10:00 – 11:00 am)

10:00 – 11:00 am  Breaking Barriers:  Alumni Career Panel  (Fayerweather Lecture Hall) including SSP alumna Marvalyn DeCambre.

 

Kimberlyn Leary Ph. D ’82 Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director of Psychology and Psychology Training, Cambridge Health Alliance,  Amherst College Wade Fellow

 

Marissa Horne ’00, Sales Operations Manager for the Northeast District of Microsoft, Waltham, Massachusetts

 

Shelly Dugas-Thomas ’91 Therapeutic counseling (children and families), Mediation (family and community), Education (training and consulting to school systems), Davidson, North Carolina

 

Stephen Jackson ’92, Digital Kidz, Inc., Laurel, Maryland

 

Marvalyn DeCambre M.D. ’91, Pediatric Urologist, San Diego, California

 

11:15 a.m. - noon   Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at Amherst

Director and Chief Curator Elizabeth Barker will introduce the Mead's growing collection of African art, formed with generous support from Herman Copen, Gilbert and Roda Graham, Ambassador Ulric St. Clair Haynes '52 and Yolanda Toussaint Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Marks '56, Barry D. Maurer '59 and Drs. James and Gladys Strain and Jamie Strain '90.

11:30 – Noon  Curator of European Art Carol Solomon Kiefer will discuss the special exhibition

The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today with two of the featured artists: French Algerian Zoulikha Bouabdellah (artist in residence) and Ghaniaian-German Daniel Kojo (Copeland Fellow).

12:00   Lunch and Discussion: “Access and Opportunity: The Summer Science Program” a discussion of the future of Summer Science in the Octagon.

1:15     Summer Science tour: new Earth Science Building and Natural History Museum.

3:15     A Conversation with President Anthony W. Marx
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall

4:15     Race, Place and Amherst: A Glimpse of Black Student Life at Amherst College from Past to Present
Moderated by Blair Taylor '85, Amherst College trustee, with SSP alumna Stephanie Sneed.  Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall.

  • Ameerah Phillips '10
  • Denicia Cadena '10
  • Stephanie Sneed '08
  • Dionne Thomas '98
  • Jean Fugett '72

6:00 pm  Reception and Cocktails 

6:45 pm  Dinner with Black Alumni weekend (reservation required)

Demisha W. Lee, Associate Dean of Admissions

and Director of Diversity Recruitment at Amherst College, Lewis-Sebring Commons

 

Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons in Valentine Hall

 

Possible evening activities:

8 pm  Senior projects in Choreography, Kirby Theater. 

10 pm  Movie at Campus Center: “Atonement.”  Keefe Campus Center Theater

Sunday, April 6

 

11:00 – 12:30 pm  Brunch for Alumni.  Location to be decided!

 

1  pm  Hermenia T. Gardner Bi-Semester Worship Service (Chapin Chapel)