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THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OVERVIEW (CONT’D) THURSDAY, APRIL 6 (CONT’D) FRIDAY OVERVIEW UCIE: ENTREPRENEURSHIP LUGGAGE DROP-OFF 8:30 a.m. LIBRARY, LUNCH Jerry Huang, Senior Program Director of Drop off your luggage with our staff, and we’ll UChicago Careers in Entrepreneurship, will ROCKEFELLER – IDA NOYES Boxed lunches will be provided to all guests THIRD FLOOR 12:30 p.m. MEMORIAL 2:00 p.m. take care of it for you during the program. Please HALL 11:30 a.m. between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in the three THEATER, lead a panel of students who have started their CHAPEL retrieve all luggage no later than 2:00 p.m. – WEST LOUNGE, 2:30 p.m. locations available. You may go to any of these OR EAST LOUNGE, own businesses with the help of our Career areas located on the second and third floors of IDA NOYES HALL Advancement office. Ida Noyes Hall. (Thursday only.) SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: FRIDAY, APRIL 7 MODEL CLASS: ASTROPHYSICS MAX P. Richard Kron is a Professor of Astronomy and CINEMA, ECONOMICS INFORMATION SESSION Astrophysics and the College, and is the former IDA NOYES HALL Grace Tsiang, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Director of the Yerkes Observatory. STUDENTS MEET OVERNIGHT HOSTS Undergraduate Studies in Economics, will give ROCKEFELLER 9:30 a.m. MEMORIAL All students staying overnight must attend MAX P. CINEMA, 4:15 p.m. an overview of academic resources and research CHAPEL this session. Please note: This session is for IDA NOYES HALL opportunities in our incomparable economics students only. COLLEGE AID: NO BARRIERS MANDEL HALL, department. A financial aid officer will lead a session on REYNOLDS financing a UChicago education. CLUB UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SESSION RECEPTION FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARLEY D. CATHEY WEST LEARNING CENTER, Amy Chan, UCSC Director and Associate Dean of 4:15 p.m. Join staff and faculty for refreshments and LOUNGE, HARPER MEMORIAL Students in the University, and a panel of current IDA NOYES conversation. LIBRARY COURTYARD, students will discuss service and social change HALL CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES HALL opportunities in the College. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: THURSDAY, APRIL 6 BUSINESS SCHOOL AND LAW SCHOOL COLLEGE AID: NO BARRIERS CLOISTER CLUB, Nancy Schaller, Senior Program Director of A financial aid officer will lead a session on IDA NOYES UChicago Careers in Business; Rachael Ward, financing a UChicago education. HALL ROCKEFELLER Deputy Director, Career Advancement and 8:30 a.m. EARLY-BIRD CAMPUS TOUR MEMORIAL ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL 1:30 p.m. Director, Student Services; and Nahida Teliani, MEMORIAL CHAPEL COURTYARD, Program Director for UChicago Initiatives at the CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES Booth School of Business, will comprise a panel HALL ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL TOUR/ARTS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE discussing how UChicago students fare in applying The Rockefeller team offers a tour of the iconic ROCKEFELLER to Business and Law school. Thursday and Friday 9:30 a.m. Chapel, introducing the artistic and spiritual MEMORIAL THE ARTS CHAPEL Students of the various Arts programs will discuss CLOISTER April 6–7, 2017 programming (for students and the wider CLUB, 10:30 a.m. opportunities in the academic departments and community) that happens there. IDA NOYES COLLEGE HOUSING student arts groups. Bill Michel, Executive Director of HALL Tara Ford, Resident Head of Alper House in MAX P. the Logan Center for the Arts, will lead the session. UCHICAGO CAREER ADVANCEMENT CINEMA, Meredith Daw, Associate Vice President for Max Palevsky Residential Commons, will lead a IDA NOYES MAX P. discussion with a few of our Resident Assistants HALL Enrollment and Student Advancement and CINEMA, MODEL CLASS: MOLECULAR ENGINEERING APRIL Director of Career Advancement, will discuss IDA NOYES from College Housing. David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor in HALL Molecular Engineering and Deputy Director OVERNIGHT professional opportunities for students, through ROCKEFELLER our eight separate co-curricular career programs. for Space, Infrastructure, and Facilities at our MEMORIAL CHAPEL COURTYARD, new Eckhardt Research Center, will discuss COURTYARD, CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES opportunities within the Institute of Molecular CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES HALL HALL Engineering. MODEL CLASS: RHETORIC THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OVERVIEW UCHICAGO LEADS PRE-ORIENTATION PROGRAM SESSION Larry McEnerney is the Director of the University MAX P. WEST CINEMA, Meg Sieberg, Assistant Director of Student MODEL CLASS: ECONOMICS ROCKEFELLER LOUNGE, 2:30 p.m. Writing Program as well as a Resident Master 10:30 a.m. Preparation, will lead a session on several 10:30 a.m. Larry Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in MEMORIAL IDA NOYES IDA NOYES of the Renee Granville-Grossman Residential HALL CHECK-IN Economics and the College. CHAPEL ways for incoming students to get involved in HALL 8:00 a.m. A complete schedule, meal passes, and luggage LOBBY, Commons East. programs before the academic year begins. – IDA NOYES 3:00 p.m. tags will be provided in your name badge at HALL check-in. CAAP: CHICAGO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INFORMATION SESSION Learn about this intensive summer academy COURTYARD, CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES UCHICAGO EXPERIENCE that is designed to help make your transition WEST HALL LUGGAGE DROP-OFF MAX P. to college easier. The CAAP application is open LOUNGE, An admissions counselor on our staff will lead a CINEMA, CLOISTER IDA NOYES 8:00 a.m. Drop off your luggage with our staff, and we’ll IDA NOYES to everyone, though many CAAP Scholars are CLUB, discussion of the various aspects of student life HALL – HALL take care of it for you during the program. Please IDA NOYES the first in their family to go to college, have 5:30 p.m. on campus. MODEL CLASS: PALEONTOLOGY retrieve all luggage no later than 5:30 p.m. on HALL attended under-resourced high schools, or are Paul Sereno is a Professor of Paleontology in the ROCKEFELLER Thursday and 2:00 p.m. on Friday. from lower-income backgrounds. 11:30 a.m. MEMORIAL Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy CHAPEL COURTYARD, and Committee on Evolutionary Biology. CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES REGISTRATION FOR FACILITY TOURS COURTYARD, HALL Those students who were not able to sign up for CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES COURTYARD, HALL their facility tour online can do so in the Library KEYNOTE ADDRESS CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES 8:00 a.m. of Ida Noyes Hall. Students can only select one LIBRARY. Mary Lou Gorno, a UChicago alumna and ROCKEFELLER HALL – IDA NOYES 3:30 p.m. MEMORIAL 2:30 p.m. facility to visit. Space is limited; we strongly HALL Trustee of the University, will offer the keynote CHAPEL encourage you to sign up for these tours before address to the April Overnight program. KEYNOTE ADDRESS arriving on campus. Please note: These tours are David Axelrod, a University of Chicago alumnus, and for students only. UCISTEM AND RESEARCH Director of the Institute of Politics on campus, will Tara Ford, Director of UChicago Careers FORTH YEAR STUDENT PANEL discuss the resources available to students interested ROCKEFELLER Jim Nondorf, Dean of Admissions and ROCKEFELLER in politics. Mr. Axelrod was the Senior Strategist to in Science, Technology, Engineering, and ROCKEFELLER CLASS VISIT REGISTRATION 11:30 a.m. MEMORIAL MEMORIAL Financial Aid, will moderate a panel of fourth- 12:30 p.m. former President Obama’s successful re-election MEMORIAL Those students who were not able to sign up for Mathematics (UCISTEM), and current students CHAPEL CHAPEL year students who will discuss their overall CHAPEL their class visit online can do so in the Library will discuss various research opportunities across campaign and worked in the White House as Senior 8:00 a.m. LIBRARY. experience at UChicago. Adviser to the President until February 2011. After the – of Ida Noyes Hall. Students can only select one IDA NOYES all academic disciplines. 1:30 p.m. HALL 2012 campaign, he turned his focus to helping inspire class to visit. Please note: Because classes are and train the next generation of political leaders at small, only students may visit classes, but all are STUDENTS MEET OVERNIGHT HOSTS the Institute of Politics. welcome to attend the model classes. Students who will be staying overnight on campus must be at Ida Noyes Hall for this session. MAX P. CINEMA, 4:15 p.m. Hosts will then take students to dinner in the dining STUDY ABROAD SESSION AND PANEL IDA NOYES CAMPUS TOURS MAX P. halls. Additional information on the evening events HALL Current students will lead walking tours of campus Elana Kranz, Associate Director of Study Abroad, CINEMA, 8:30 a.m. COURTYARD, and current students will discuss our exceptional IDA NOYES for students staying overnight can be found inside – at 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 IDA NOYES HALL the name badges received at registration. 2:30 p.m. p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and 9:30 HALL and dynamic study abroad opportunities. a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. on Friday. RECEPTION FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS All guests of our admitted students are invited to ARLEY D. CATHEY THANK YOU FOR COMING! MODEL CLASSES join Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University, LEARNING 10:30 a.m. Join members of our faculty for insightful SEE COURTYARD, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College, and Jim CENTER, – FOLLOWING CAMPUS TOURS IDA NOYES Nondorf, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, HARPER 2:30 p.m. presentations drawn from the material covered in SCHEDULE HALL MEMORIAL one of their small, discussion-based classes. for an opportunity to meet and mingle with staff LIBRARY and faculty members. CAMPUS MAP E.