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9:30 am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
10:00 am
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Welcome
Derek A.Wittner ’65, dean,
Alumni Affairs and Development
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10:15 am
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Around the Quad: A Student Panel with
Eash Cumarasamy ’08E, class
president
Michelle Diamond ’08,
CCSC president
Neda Navab ’08,
class president; and
Elizabeth Strauss ’08E, ESC president
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10:45 am –
12:00 noon
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Session 1
LECTURE A
Recovering the Women’s Case Against
Appeasement
Susan Pedersen
Susan Pedersen
Professor of history and James P. Shenton Professor
of the Core Curriculum
B.A., Radcliffe College;
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard
Pedersen is a historian of Britain and Europe in the
20th century. She has written on subjects ranging
from the evolution of welfare states, to the impact
of women’s movements on politics, to the nature
of British imperial rule. Her most recent book,
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
(Yale University Press, 2004), recovers the life and
work of Rathbone, the feminist, social reformer
and member of Parliament who became one of the
fiercest critics of appeasement and most effective
advocates for refugees from fascism and Nazism in
the 1930s and ’40s. With the support of fellowships
from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the
Guggenheim Foundation, Pedersen is writing a book
on the mandates system of the League of Nations.
She taught for many years at Harvard and was dean
of undergraduate education there before joining the
Columbia faculty in 2003.
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LECTURE B
Networking in Today’s Age: Adding Online
Social Networking to Your Tool Box
Emily Seamone and
Kavita Sharma
Emily Seamone
Associate director for alumni career development,
Center for Career Education
M.S.W., C.C., JCTC
Seamone assists alumni of all ages with a variety of
career concerns as well as planning programs and
services for this population. She has worked in various
fields, including career development, social services,
mental health, education and research. Seamone’s
training background consists of a master’s in social
work with a concentration in mental health and
research from Washington University, certificate in
adult career planning and development from NYU,
certification in career and life coaching from the
Life Purpose Institute and the Career Planning and
Adult Development Network, and courses in career
assessment, including the Strong Interest Inventory
and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Seamone also is an
adjunct faculty member at NYU.
Kavita Sharma
Dean, Center for Career Education
B.Sc., Southampton University, United Kingdom;
M.Sc., London School of Economics
Sharma holds a master’s in economics, politics of
the world economy (1991), and a bachelor’s in social
science, politics and international relations (1989).
Her first job was with Voluntary Service Overseas,
the British equivalent of the Peace Corps, where
she placed math and science teachers in developing
countries and recruited professionals for the United
Nations Volunteers in the United Kingdom. A career
change took her to the University of London Careers
Service, the largest higher education careers service
in Europe, where she worked for eight years before
joining Columbia in 2002. As dean, Sharma oversees
30 professional staff who work with employers, students
and alumni to develop career education programs
and services for College students and alumni.
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LECTURE F
Some Thoughts about Estate Planning
Fred Hartwick
Fred Hartwick
Executive Director of Gift Planning
A.B., Stanford; J.D., Hastings College of the Law
Hartwick came to Columbia in fall 2003 after working
in planned giving at Stanford and UC Berkeley for 17
years. Before that, he practiced law, focusing on
estate and tax planning. He works with alumni and
friends of Columbia College, and all other parts of
the University, to find efficient ways for them to
accomplish their philanthropic goals.
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12:00 noon –
1:30 pm |
Dean’s Keynote Luncheon
Austin E. Quigley, dean, Columbia College,
Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature
Gerald A. Navratil, interim dean,
The Fu Foundation School of
Engineering and Applied Science
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1:30 pm –
2:45 pm |
Session 2
LECTURE C
The Increasing Importance of Contemporary
Civilization at Columbia Today
Michael Stanislawski
Michael Stanislawski
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History;
director, Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard
Stanislawski also is the chair of Contemporary
Civilization. He has taught at Columbia since 1980.
Stanislawski’s fields of specialization are modern
Jewish history, Russian history and European intellectual
history. He has written six books and dozens
of scholarly articles and reviews, and has been a visiting
professor at Harvard, Brown, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, and is a frequent
lecturer at the Central European University in
Budapest. He lives in Manhattan with his wife,
Marjorie Kaplan, and their three children.
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LECTURE D
Looking Ahead: What to Expect Your
First Year at Columbia
Kathryn Wittner
Kathryn Wittner
Associate dean, Student Affairs
B.A., Trinity College; M.Ed., National College of Education
Wittner’s career in educational administration and
higher education spans more than 30 years. In 1985,
she moved to New York and shortly thereafter joined
the Dean of Student Affairs staff at the College as
an assistant dean and academic adviser. In 2001,
Wittner became director of Student and Alumni
Programs. Events such as Family Meals, professionbased
panel presentations, the annual Thank-a-Thon
and receptions hosted by alumni in their homes
provide opportunities for students and alumni to
get to know one another, learn from each other
and recount Columbia experiences.
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LECTURE E
Tissue Engineering and the
Medicine of the Future
Helen H. Lu
Helen H. Lu
Associate professor of biomedical engineering; assistant
professor of dental and craniofacial bioengineering
B.S.E., M.S.E., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Lu, who joined the Columbia faculty in 2001, is the
director of the Biomaterials and Interface Tissue
Engineering Laboratory. She holds a joint appointment
in the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia. Her
research focuses on developing tissue engineering–
based solutions for the treatment of sports-related
injuries, especially those of soft tissue such as ligaments
and tendons. Lu’s group recently was awarded
a grant from the National Football League Charities
to develop integrative tissue engineering devices
that will improve the results of current treatments
for sports injuries. Her research has been recognized
nationally and internationally, including a National
Research Service Award from the National Institutes
of Health, Early Faculty Career Award in Translational
Research from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation,
and the international Y’ROBOTS award for Young
Researchers in Orthopedic Biomechanics and Sports
Medicine.
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2:45 pm –
3:45 pm |
Closing Reception
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The event is free for Class of 2012 students and their families.
Savings Package (per person)
Cost includes continental breakfast, lectures, lunch and reception. |
$45.00 |
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Per Lecture (Session 1, 2) |
$15.00 |
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Young Alumni Savings Package
Available to Classes 1997-2007
Cost includes continental breakfast, lectures, lunch and reception. |
$30.00 |
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Reunion Savings Package (per person)
Available to Classes 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988 and
1993. Classes of 1998 and 2003 should pay the Young Alumni Savings Package rate.
Cost includes continental breakfast, lectures, lunch and reception. |
$40.00 |
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Luncheon Only |
$30.00 |
