For Cornell Reunion Information please visit: http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/reunion/index.cfm
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tours of the New Mann Library
The renovated Mann Library has been drawing rave reviews. Come check out the buzz with a tour of our fabulous new library spaces, designed to facilitate creative modern scholarly research and interaction while retaining the beauty of the original Art Deco building. All tours start in the Mann lobby and last ½ hour. Thursday, June 4, 3:00pm, 3:30pm & 4:00pm
Friday, June 5, 2009
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Open House in Air-Conditioned Snee Hall Atrium
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Visit the Timothy N. Heasley Mineral Museum; see the new mastodon exhibit, and view the earthquake seismograph. Enjoy the stroll and self-guided tour through the Engineering Quad Rock Parks.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Display Booth
Barton Hall, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Hands-on exhibits will feature a tornado in a bottle, minerals and fossils, and a seismograph to demonstrate how seismic waves generated by earthquakes are detected. Faculty members and students will be on hand to answer questions.
All-Alumni Affair, CALS Display Booth
Barton Hall, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Discover what’s happening at the college in classrooms, admissions, career development, and alumni programs. Enjoy the sights and sounds of Barton Hall - music, alumni of all ages and great food - lunch tickets available on site.
Admissions Information Session
102 Mann Library, 2:30 PM
Saturday, June 6, 2009
CALS Reunion Breakfast
Trillium, Kennedy Hall, 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM - Enjoy fellowship with Dean Susan Henry, alumni, faculty, and friends of CALS. Sandra J. Gardner, ‘84, CALS Alumni Association president, will host the association’s annual meeting at this event. Reservations requested (see next page). On-line reservations: http://alumni.aad.cornell.edu/event/register/index.cfm?e_id=14258
Liberty Hyde Bailey Lecture
Call Alumni Auditorium, 9:00 AM –10:00 AM - Larry P. Walker, Ph.D.: Liberty Hyde Bailey Lecture "Managing Diversity and Complexity in the Evolving Biofuels Industry" Call Alumni Auditorium - With a new President and Congress taking the lead on energy and climate change issues, there will likely be more attention and resources directed toward developing renewable energy resources to meet a portion of future domestic energy needs. Bioenergy will be one of the strategic renewable energy options on the table. Walker, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, and his colleagues are exploring ways to integrate biological diversity and methods for managing complex, highly coupled activities to address barriers to bioenergy development He is also the principal investigator for Cornell's Biofuels Research Laboratory, a new state-of-the-art industrial biotechnology laboratory that mimics all the essential steps in a cellulosic biorefinery. Walker has been involved in a number of biomass-to-energy projects while at Cornell, including an assessment of NYS biomass resources for ethanol production, farm-scale methane production and co-generation, the application of nanotechnology to discover and study important biocatalysts for biofuels and industrial biotechnology.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Open House in Air-Conditioned Snee Hall Atrium
10:00 AM-2:00 PM - Visit the Timothy N. Heasley Mineral Museum; see the new mastodon exhibit, and view the earthquake seismograph. Enjoy the stroll and self-guided tour through the Engineering Quad Rock Parks.
All-Alumni Affair, CALS Display Booth
Barton Hall, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Discover what’s happening at the college in classrooms, admissions, career development, and alumni programs. Enjoy the sights and sounds of Barton Hall - music, alumni of all ages and great food - lunch tickets available on site.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Display Booth
Barton Hall, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Hands-on exhibits will feature a tornado in a bottle, minerals and fossils, and a seismograph to demonstrate how seismic waves generated by earthquakes are detected. Faculty members and students will be on hand to answer questions.
Plant Biology Alumni Gathering
Mac Daniels Room G37 Plant Science, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM - Join us for light refreshments while visiting with fellow Plant Biology alumni and current and former faculty and staff. Photos from the department's history will be on display.
Department of Horticulture's Alumni Gathering
Room 22 Plant Science Building, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM - This gathering will involve the Departments of Vegetable Crops, Pomology, and Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture. We hope you can join us to share your reminisce about Cornell and your school days, as well as to share pictures and stories about family and friends. We will have Room 22 open on Friday and Saturday to display our "history". We hope you can join us this year to keep this new tradition alive and well. Light refreshments will be served.
Views of Sustainability: Natural Changes, Anthropogenic Changes, and Natural Resources
1120 Snee Hall, 1:00 PM -2:00 PM - Presented by the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Wine Tasting
Trillium, 1:30 PM -3:30 PM - Savor the Flavor of New York State Wines. Sample wines from over a dozen of New York State's finest wineries. All alumni and guests, 21 years of age and older, are welcome.
Tour of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), Museum of the Earth
2:00 PM -4:00 PM Bus leaves Snee Hall at 1:45 PM. - Join us on the bus for free admission into the Museum. Tour PRI's Museum of the Earth, which is affiliated with Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. A right whale skeleton suspended in the atrium welcomes you to the beautiful new museum, in which the major transformations of life through the ages are displayed through fossils and videos. Observe the newly acquired seismograph and research by EAS faculty and students. You can collect fossils from the Devonian seas of Ithaca. Fun for all ages. (Feel free to sneak out of the seminar to catch the bus).
Department of Communication Alumni Gathering
Underpass between Kennedy & Roberts Hall, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Join us for light refreshments while you enjoy visiting with fellow Communication alumni and former and current professors. Come and see the exciting research and learning opportunities that the communication faculty, graduate students and undergraduates are working on, such as mobile health games, framing environmental issues in the media, mobile social networks, cancer news effects, online identity building, and media literacy.
Albert R. Mann Library
Evolution: Expressed in life, sculpted in clay, and revealed in stone
2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of publication of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species. For this year’s reunion events Mann Library will be celebrating Darwin’s impact on the study of life on earth. Join us for a multimedia program that explores Darwin’s observations of human expression, celebrates our hominid past with photographic views of sculptures by paleoartist John Gurche, and, in a talk by PRI director and Cornell professor of paleontology Warren Allmon, reveals what rocks have to tell us about nature’s evolving complexity through the ages.
Exhibit, Mann Lobby: “Written on Our Faces: Darwin's the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” May 15 through September 15
Gallery exhibit, 2nd floor: “Sculpting Our Hominid Past: Photographic Views of Works by PRI Artist-in-Residence John Gurche,” May 15 – July 31, 2009
Chats in the Stacks book talk: Warren Allmon (Director, Paleontological Research Institution and Professor of Paleontology, Cornell University) For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design, Friday, June 5, 10 am, Room 102
Experience the Cornell Plantations - the arboretum, botanical garden and natural areas of the university. Guided tours offered Friday and Saturday.
Allan Hosie Treman ’21 Memorial Concert featuring the Hangovers, F.R. Newman Arboretum (Flat Rock Entrance), 2:30 PM, Saturday