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

Note: early arrivals can register at the Q Center, 202 Merrill and are invited to the Chemistry Department seminar with SSP Alumna Allegra Eroy-Gonzalez ’01, from UC, Santa Cruz.

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 am – Noon   The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today

Mead Art Museum tour: space limited

12:00  Lunch and Discussion: “Access and Opportunity: The Summer Science Program”  location TBA

1:15   KEYNOTE: we are still arranging a replacement speaker.

2:15   Coffee and Discussion:

College from the Past to the Present

                                                Moderated by Blair Taylor ’85, Amherst Trustee

Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather

4:00   SSP round-table discussion.

6:45 pm  Dinner with Black Alumni weekend

Demisha W. Lee, Associate Dean of Admissions

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

 

Tribute to Sidney Davis ’73

 

Possible evening activities:

  8 pm Senior Concert: Eon Song

  10 pm  Movie at Campus Center: currently schedules “Atonement”

  11 pm – 3 am:           Party hosted by BSU, location TBA

Sunday, April 6

 

11:30 – 1pm  Lunch and poster session.  Merrill lobby.

 

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