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ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR September 2021 ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR This calendar includes events specifically planned for alumni of the University of Minnesota. For more information, please click on the event name or contact the host unit. September 2021 DATE EVENT HOST UNIT LOCATION NOW-FALL Why Canoes? Capricious Vessels and Indigenous Northrop, Heritage Studies Northrop Gallery in Minneapolis, MN – See 2021 Futures of Minnesota’s Peoples and Places & Public History Program, listing for details Institute for Advanced Study, and University Honors Program NOW-FRI Just Yesterday Weisman Art Museum, Façade of the Weisman Art Museum in 10/1 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN – See listing for details Interdisciplinary Students, and SOLVE NOW-SUN Bugs: Outside the Box Bell Museum – College of Bell Museum in Saint Paul, MN 9/12 Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences NOW-MON Nature: Wild and Wonderful Art Exhibit at the Minnesota Landscape Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, 9/6 Arboretum Arboretum MN WED 9/1 Explore the Minnesota MHA Executive Program School of Public Health Virtual Event – Register Online MHA Executive Program WED 9/1 Planetarium Live Stream: What’s Up? September University of Minnesota Virtual Event – Register Online Edition Duluth Planetarium THURS 9/2 Ski-U-Mania Pregame Party UMAA McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN THURS 9/2 Rochester Fan Bus to Gopher Football Rochester, MN Alumni Rochester City Lines in Rochester, MN Network THURS 9/2 Gopher Football Game Watch Parties UMAA Alumni Networks See listing for game watch locations and details THURS 9/2 Gopher Football vs. Ohio State Gopher Football Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN THURS 9/2 Amplifying Solidarity: Joe Davis & The Poetic Collaboration between - Northrop Plaza in Minneapolis, MN Diaspora Northrop, Radio K, Welcome Week, Multicultural Student Engagement, and the School of Music THURS 9/2 Bullet Journaling for Motivation University of Minnesota Virtual Event – Register Online Libraries SAT 9/4 Portland Alumni Breakfast Portland Alumni Network Elmer’s in Tigard, OR SAT 9/4 Planetarium Live Stream: September Constellation University of Minnesota Virtual Event – Register Online Story Time Duluth Planetarium SUN 9/5 Yoga in the Gardens Minnesota Landscape Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, and THURS Arboretum MN – Register Online 9/16 TUES 9/7 First Tuesday: University of Minnesota Basketball Carlson School of Virtual and McNamara Alumni Center in Coaches Ben Johnson and Lindsay Whalen in Management Minneapolis, MN conversation with Lea B. Olsen TUES-SUN Design Mentor Program - Student Applications College of Design See listing for details 9/7-26 Open WED 9/8 SPH Alumni Career Transitions Network School of Public Health Virtual Event – Register Online Career and Professional Development Center and Office of Alumni Relations 2 THURS 9/9 Helping Insects Build Their Homes, with Dragons Presented in Conjunction Virtual Event – Register Online Wynd with the Bell Museum Bugs Outside the Box Exhibit THURS 9/9 Amplifying Solidarity: Lady Midnight Collaboration between - Northrop Plaza in Minneapolis, MN Northrop, Radio K, Welcome Week, Multicultural Student Engagement, and the School of Music THURS 9/9 Teo Nguyen: A Reflection on Being Minnesota Landscape Minnesota Landscape Arboretum – Reedy – MON Arboretum Gallery in Chaska, MN 11/29 FRI 9/10 Iliza: The Forever Tour Northrop Northrop in Minneapolis, MN FRI 9/10 Hubbard Street Dance: Chicago Dance Films Northrop Northrop in Minneapolis, MN FRI 9/10 West Central School of Agriculture All-School West Central School of AgCountry Auditorium in Morris, MN Reunion Agriculture – College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences FRI & SAT Dentistry Alumni Weekend School of Dentistry See listing for details 9/10-11 FRI 9/10 – EXHIBITION: Say it Loud! Goldstein Museum of HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall in Minneapolis, MN SAT Design 1/30/2022 FRI 9/10 & KDI (Kusske Design Initiative) Exchange College of Design Virtual Event – Register Online 24, 10/8 & 22, 11/5 & 19, 12/3 & 17 SAT 9/11 Rochester Fan Bus to Gopher Football Rochester, MN Alumni Rochester City Lines in Rochester, MN Network 3 SAT 9/11 Gopher Football Game Watch Parties UMAA Alumni Networks See listing for game watch locations and details SAT 9/11 Ski-U-Mania Pregame Party UMAA McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN SAT 9/11 Gopher Football vs. Miami (OH) Gopher Football Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN TUES 9/14 Explore the Minnesota MHA Executive Program School of Public Health Virtual Event – Register Online MHA Executive Program TUES 9/14 Medical Industry Leadership Institute Annual Fall Carlson Executive Virtual and Carlson Executive Education Kick-Off Education Suite in Minneapolis, MN TUES 9/14 Visual Culture Lecture Series: Wing Young Huie University of Minnesota Virtual and Solon Campus Center in Duluth, Duluth College of Arts, MN Humanities & Social Sciences John and Mary Gonska Cultural Fund, the Department of Art & Design and the Tweed Museum of Art WED 9/15 Caught in the Crossfire: 150 Year of Chinese China Center Virtual Event – Register Online Students at the Nexus of Sino-U.S. Relations WED 9/15 20 Years of the Global War on Terror: Minnesota’s Law School Virtual Event – Register Online Leadership Defending the Rule of Law WED 9/15 Latterell Visiting Alumnus Alex Jarvis: What Is University of Minnesota Science Building, UMM in Morris MN Success? Morris THURS 9/16 Amplifying Solidarity: Why Canoes? Featuring The Collaboration between - Northrop Plaza in Minneapolis, MN Milanesians Northrop, Radio K, Welcome Week, Multicultural Student Engagement, and the School of Music Orientation Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Earl E. Bakken Center for Virtual Event – Register Online THURS 9/16 Spirituality & Healing 4 Course 9/23-11/11 FRI 9/17 GWSS 2021 Colloquium Series: Black Women Department of Gender Virtual Event – More information to come Healing for Justice: Fierce Resolve in Times of Women and Sexuality Political Crisis with Cara Page Studies FRI 9/17 15th Annual Robert J. Feigal Symposium: Out-of- School of Dentistry Live Session at the Minnesota Landscape the-box Thinking in Pediatric Dentistry Arboretum - MacMillian Auditorium in Chaska, MN or Zoom Webinar FRI 9/17 Pillsbury Hall Grand Reopening College of Liberal Arts Pillsbury Hall in Minneapolis, MN FRI 9/17 Mikio Akagi “Microaggressions in social explanation Minnesota Center for Rapson Hall in Minneapolis, MN and individual phenomenology” Philosophy of Science colloquium series FRI 9/17 Virtual Star Party – Fall Highlights College of Science & Virtual Event – Register Online Engineering FRI 9/17 Gophers vs. Buffaloes ‘Sota Social in Denver, CO UMAA Three Dogs Tavern in Denver, CO FRI & SAT MBA Class Reunion Weekend 2021 Carlson School of Carlson School of Management in 9/17-18 Management Minneapolis, MN SAT 9/18 Gopher Football Game Watch Parties UMAA Alumni Networks See listing for game watch locations and details SAT 9/18 Gopher Football at Colorado Gopher Football Boulder, Colorado SAT 9/18 Autumn Yoga Retreat Minnesota Landscape Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Arboretum MN – Info Coming Soon SAT 9/18 Providing Exemplary Care to LGBTQ+ Youth and School of Dentistry Live Session at the Recreation and Wellness Young Adults Center - Beacon Room in Minneapolis, MN or Zoom Webinar MON 9/20 Homecoming: Screen Printing Open House Student Unions and McNeal Hall in Saint Paul, MN Activities 5 MON 9/20 Geological Society of Minnesota Fall Banquet Geological Society of U Garden Restaurant in Minneapolis, MN Minnesota MON-SAT Homecoming 2021 University of Minnesota Event information to come 9/20-25 TUES 9/21 Unlocking Your Path to Purposeful Aging with Earl E. Bakken Center for Virtual Event – Register Online Richard Leider Spirituality & Healing TUES 9/21 Homecoming Blood Drives Student Unions & Activities Coffman Union, Great Hall in Minneapolis, MN THURS 9/21 Retail Merchandising & Apparel Design Career Fair Career & Internship Virtual Event – Register Online Services TUES 9/21 Public Life Project Launch Party College of Liberal Arts Virtual Event – Register Online TUES 9/21 Minnesota Night Skies in October Bell Museum Virtual Event – Facebook Live TUES & Fall 2021 College of Science and Engineering College of Science & Virtual Event – Register Online WED 9/21- Virtual Career Fair Engineering 22 Orientation Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Earl E. Bakken Center for Virtual Event – Register Online TUES 9/21 Spirituality & Healing Course 9/28-11/16 WED 9/22 What You Need to Know About Trump Supporters Center for the Study of Virtual Event – Register Online Politics and Governance – Humphrey School of Public Affairs WED 9/22 CDes Research Impact Challenge College of Design Virtual Event – Register Online THURS 9/23 Alumni Awards Affair UMAA Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN THURS 9/23 Rufus Wainwright and José González: Unfollow The Northrop Northrop in Minneapolis, MN Rules In The Local Valley Tour 6 FRI 9/24 Homecoming Parade University of Minnesota Event information to come FRI 9/24 Fall 2021 Core and Mandatory Training for the School of Dentistry Live Session or Zoom Webinar – See listing Entire Dental Team for details FRI 9/24 Thinking Spatially Symposium: Mapping Civic and Institute for Advanced Virtual Event – Register Online Community Engagement Study, U-Spatial, DASH, Latis, and UMN Libraries SAT 9/25 Japan Minnesota Association Golf Tournament Japan Minnesota Showa no Mori Golf Course in Tokyo, Japan 2021 Association SAT 9/25 Ski-U-Mania
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