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February 15 - 28, 2011
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Swarthmore, PA (February 2, 2011) –
Swarthmore College – Kohlberg - Scheuer Room
Join Andrew Bunting, Curator for the Scott Arboretum, on a birding and botanizing tour of the eastern Andes starting in the cloud forests around San Isidro at 6,500 feet; crossing over the summit of the Andes; viewing high alpine South American flora and ending on the western slope in the Cordillera de Guacamayos. This week-long trip explored many of the plant habitats that are represented in Ecuador. Space is limited to 100 people for this lecture.
Free and open to the public, Travels at Twelve are an informal way to share what has been seen and discovered in various gardens and natural spaces both in the United States and abroad. Held from Noon to 1 p.m. in the Scheurer Room of Kohlberg Hall at Swarthmore College. Contact the Scott Arboretum Offices at 610-328-8025 for more information and parking.
Swarthmore College - McCabe Library
Riding camels, drinking mate, dancing and drumming are some of the experiences shared by Swarthmore students who have had the opportunity to study abroad. In recent years, students have successfully completed study abroad in more than a hundred different programs organized in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Continental Europe, the English-speaking world (Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), Latin America and Oceania. Approximately forty percent of Swarthmore students study abroad during their undergraduate careers.
To recognize the variety of student cultural explorations, the Off Campus Study office and the Library are exhibiting mementos and ephemera from students who have recently returned from programs overseas.
On Wednesday, February 23 the library is hosting a Study Abroad Party, starting at 4p.m.. Representatives from the six Swarthmore sponsored programs, Buenos Aires, Cloud Forest, Ghana, Grenoble, Krakow, and Northern Ireland will be available for questions and discussion.
Reaching to the Stars: African American Physicists and Astronomers
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Swarthmore College - Science Center 101
In celebration of Black History Month, Swarthmore will host three preeminent African American scientists in a symposium on the future of their fields.
Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin Dr. Eric Wilcots, former NASA Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, and Chief and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute Dr. Derrick Pitts will enlighten and entertain as they discuss the future and science of space and space exploration in a post-Avatar world as well as the specifics of their own paths to success.
Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin Dr. Eric Wilcots, former NASA Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, and Chief and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute Dr. Derrick Pitts will enlighten and entertain as they discuss the future and science of space and space exploration in a post-Avatar world as well as the specifics of their own paths to success.
Swarthmore College – Kohlberg - Scheuer Room
Take a photographic journey with Rhoda Maurer, Assistant Curator and Greenhouse Manager for the Scott Arboretum, through the desert of Death Valley up the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range and over Tioga Pass into Yosemite Valley. She will be sharing images she took during a photographic workshop in the autumn of 2010 with famous photographers of the American west (Jack Dykinga, Jay Dusard, and Bruce Barnbaum) and a full day of one-on-one mentoring with the impressionistic photographer, William Neill.
Temperatures, geology, and flora will represent the extremes starting at 282 feet below sea level at Badwater Basin (the USA's point of lowest elevation) going up to 11,680 feet on the alpine trails of the White Mountains, through Yosemite National Park and finally back down to Yosemite Valley and the giant sequoias. Space is limited to 100 people for this lecture.
Free and open to the public, Travels at Twelve are an informal way to share what has been seen and discovered in various gardens and natural spaces both in the United States and abroad. Held from Noon to 1 p.m. in the Scheurer Room of Kohlberg Hall at Swarthmore College. Contact the Scott Arboretum Offices at 610-328-8025 for more information and parking.
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