Amherst College Event Calendar Academic Year at a Glance

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Time	Event Title
3:00 p.m. Nov 21	Men's Ice Hockey vs. Trinity Orr Rink
6:00 p.m. Nov 21	Women's Basketball vs. Farleigh Dickinson LeFrak Gymnasium
Nov 22	Women's Basketball vs. Western/Staten Island LeFrak Gymnasium
3:30 p.m. Nov 30	Biology Lecture Merrill Science Center Ethan R. Graf, Ph.D., of the Department of Developmental Biology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will present "Activating the active zone: Dynamic control of synaptic structure and function by Rab3" on Monday, Nov. 30, in Merrill 4. Dr. Graf is a candidate for the Biology Department's Molecular Neurobiologist faculty position.
1:00 p.m. Dec 1	Amherst Select Internship Program (ASIP) Info Session Career Center The Amherst Select Internship Program (ASIP) features summer internship opportunities sponsored by alumni, parents and friends of Amherst College. Some internships will be funded by the CCE, some are paid by the employer, and some are unpaid. The first step in obtaining a summer internship through this program is the submission of application materials, including a resume, cover letter and list of three references, through Experience by 5 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2009. Learn more about the program at www.amherst.edu/academiclife/cce/students/internships/asip or at an info session on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 1 in the Career Center.
7:00 p.m. Dec 1	Women's Basketball vs. Keene State LeFrak Gymnasium
7:00 p.m. Dec 1	Bonner Community Engagement Leader Program Info Session Center for Community Engagement This information session will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. in the CCE. Would you like to work to make community engagement the norm at Amherst College? Then you want to join the Center for Community Engagement's Bonner Community Engagement Leader team! Our leaders manage local partnerships, work with campus groups and departments and organize campus events while developing their own leadership and management skills. Come to an info session to learn more about this exciting opportunity and to meet the current BCELs. Positions available for Spring 2010: Training and Enrichment Coordinator, Pipeline Partnership Leader and Advocacy & Activism Liaison. Detailed job descriptions and the online application are available at the CCE Web site.
4:00 p.m. Dec 2	"Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farm and Fertility Mattered" Earth Sciences & Natural History Woody is the founder of Slow Food Alliance and author of "Nature of Slow Money." He writes "If there is one thing that the recent economic recession has taught us, it's that there is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, and finance that is too complex. Therefore, we must slow our money down, bring it back to earth, and invest in an economy based on preservation and restoration, rather than extraction and consumption." Following the lecture, you are invited to join Woody and members of the Pioneer Valley Sustainability Network for a special gourmet dinner (prepared with as much local food as available) at the Green Street Cafe on Green Street in Northampton, from 6 to 9 p.m. The dinner is a kick-off event for the PVSN's first ever membership drive. Membership fees are: Individual: No less than $20 + $30 for dinner = $50 Student: $10 membership + $30 for dinner = $40 Organizational memberships are available. For dinner reservations, call or e-mail Catherine Ratte at 413-781-6045 or cratte@pvpc.org by Nov. 27. This event is sponsored by Amherst's Environmental Studies Major and the Pick Readership.
4:00 p.m. Dec 2	"The Dragon Binder and Other Discoveries" Frost Library The Five College area is an excellent place for the study of book history. Please join us for a panel discussion on collection and use of rare books with Phil Palmer, curator of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, and Professors Joe Black and Steve Harris of the UMass English Department.
7:00 p.m. Dec 2	High Mountain Institute: Rocky Mountain Semester Apprentice Program Info Session Career Center The Rocky Mountain Semester Apprentice Program is a professional residency in traditional and outdoor education for college graduates. At the High Mountain Institute (HMI), we believe deeply in the philosophy of education through experience. Apprentices will be immersed in an intense, semester-long seminar that combines formal lessons in educational techniques and philosophies of outdoor education, with a hands-on apprenticeship with the Rocky Mountain Semester (RMS). Specifically, apprentices will participate, as both students and teachers, in the wilderness, academic and residential components of the RMS. Graduates of this program will be well prepared for employment in outdoor or experiential education, boarding and traditional high schools, adventure recreation and residential programs. Graduates will also be in an excellent position to pursue an advanced degree in education. The apprentice program has a partnership with Prescott College, allowing us to offer graduate credit to apprentices. To find out more, please attend this information session on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Career Center.