Thursday, 14 Sep 2017
President's Annual Address
Interim President Benjamin Allen will welcome back faculty, staff and students for the academic year. Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, 15 Sep 2017
Gilman Lecture
Dale Boger, chair of the chemistry department at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, will present "Redesign of Vancomycin for Resistant Bacteria."
Saturday, 16 Sep 2017
Lecture and recital: C-HOP Festival
"Terpsichore: Danses pour l'orgue et clavecin," Miriam Zach, organ and harpsichord faculty. C-HOP is a festival of dance music for carillon, harpsichord, organ and piano.
Lecture and recital: C-HOP Festival
"Structure and Symmetry in Bach's Goldberg Variations," Caroline Hong, guest pianist. C-HOP is a festival of dance music for carillon, harpsichord, organ and piano.
Monday, 18 Sep 2017
Lecture: The History of Experimentation on Black Americans
"Medical Apartheid," Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of the best-selling book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. She has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University.
Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Chasing ice through space and time - reconstructing polar ice sheets through the Cenozoic using the marine sediment record" by Dr. Howie Scher, 2017 Ocean Discovery Lecturer, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Mental Health Fair Keynote: Sara Benincasa
"Help! You Need Somebody!" Sara Benincasa is a comedian, mental health advocate and author of "Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom."