2008 Meeting for

20 Years: Amherst college summer science program

APRIL 5-6, 2008  Amherst College

 

Getting to Amherst

How to get to campus

Local lodging

Parking

 

 

Registration email

If you think you will be attending, please send an email to qcenter@amherst.edu with your name(s) so that we can plan for rooms and lunch. Thanks.

 

Who'll be there: the current list of participants for 2008. 

Seeley G. Mudd Building

 

Seeley Mudd Building

 

SSP Reunion

Friday, April 4

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

Registration at 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)

 

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 amNoon   The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today

Carol Solomon Kiefer, curator of European art at the Mead, will be joined by Amherst College Copeland Fellows Indonesian Entang Wiharso and Afro-German Daniel Kojo, to will discuss this exhibit, which considers cultural identity in a global society. Works by Wiharso and Kojo are included in the exhibit.

The Ulric Haynes ’52 Collection: Professor Abiodun Rowland, Professor of Art, Art History and Black Studies, will discuss the exhibit on African art of works donated by Ambassador Ulrich Haynes '52.
Mead Art Museum

12:00  Lunchtime and Discussion: “Access and Opportunity: The Summer Science Program”

1:15   KEYNOTE

 

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

6:45 pm  Dinner with Speaker

Demisha W. Lee, Associate Dean of Admissions

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

 

Tribute to Sidney Davis ’73

 

8 pm Senior Concert: Eon Song

10 pm  Movie at Campus Center: Atonement

11:00 pm – 3:00 am:        Party hosted by BSU, location TBA