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Family Weekend Friday, September 19, 2014 10 A.M.-8:50 P.M SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014 Family Weekend Friday, September 19, 2014 10 a.m.-8:50 p.m. Fitness Center Open House David S. Mack Fitness Center, North Campus Exercise or take a tour of the beautiful Mack Fitness Center. Please note that you don’t need passes or tickets for Friday events. The Family Weekend check-in and on-site purchasing starts on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the tent outside Hofstra USA, North Campus. The Family Weekend welcome event is the 10-10:50 a.m. Family Welcome Brunch Saturday Family Welcome Brunch at 10 a.m. Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus. Vice President for Student Affairs W. Houston Dougharty welcomes Hofstra families to Hofstra parents, family members and students are welcome to participate Family Weekend. Network with faculty and administrators. in all non-meal events of the Asia Transforming Conference (see page 8). Please identify yourself as a Hofstra parent or family member. For more information and the schedule visit hofstra.edu/asiatransforming. 11-11:50 a.m. MODEL CLASSES (Please choose one.) 4What Every Pre-Med Needs to Know About Ecology and Evolution 6 a.m.-8:50 p.m. Fitness Center Open House 109 C.V. Starr Hall, South Campus David S. Mack Fitness Center, North Campus Russell L. Burke, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, Exercise or take a tour of the beautiful Mack Fitness Center. Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Biology has more undergraduates than any other department, primarily because of all the 12:30 p.m. The Taiko Masala Drum Ensemble students interested in pre-health fields. Pre-med majors are traditionally interested in skin-in Main Dining Room, Mack Student Center, North Campus topics, such as anatomy, genetics, and cell biology. But these valuable topics are only part of Witness powerful traditional Japanese drumming. what biology has to offer the health professions. 3-4 p.m. The Taiko Masala Drum Ensemble – Music Workshop 4 The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus Who Thought Engineering Could Be Hilarious? The Helene Fortunoff Theater, 142 Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus Join the musicians of this talented ensemble for an interactive music workshop. In addition to Mauro J. Caputi, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of Freshman this event, you are invited to all non-meal events of the Asia Transforming Conference; please Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science see page 8 for more information. Can a love of TV and movies be combined with an outgoing and humorous personality to produce 3:10-4:25 p.m. Asia Transforming Conference Keynote Address a Freshman Engineering Design class that is entertaining as well as educational? That’s just what Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus happened when Dr. Caputi decided to conduct his ENGG 15 lecture class as if it were a live TV show. Bridget Welsh, Senior Research Associate, Center for East Asian Democracy, He facilitates the course in an engaging and humorous style to allow the students to have a great National Taiwan University and Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar deal of fun while actively learning and experiencing the three main areas of study: the informed Dr. Welsh presents Democracies Under Threat in Asia? Political Transitions and Transformations. design process, teamwork, and communication. Why not see for yourself how Dr. Caputi is developing innovative ways to make engineering classes accessible and fun for all. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Exhibition Reception: Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Hofstra University Museum (HUM) 4The ABC’s of Good Communication: How to Get Your Points Across and Emily Lowe Gallery (Behind Emily Lowe Hall), South Campus Make the Grade 205 C.V. Starr Hall, South Campus 7 p.m. Hofstra Women’s Soccer Ellen Tashie Frisina, Associate Professor of Public Relations, The Lawrence Herbert Hofstra Soccer Stadium, North Campus School of Communication Go Hofstra Pride! Please ask your student to pick up 2 free tickets with his/her HofstraCard. If Whether in the classroom, in the workplace, at the family dinner table, or in social situations, you need more than 2 tickets, please purchase them at the Soccer Stadium Box Office one hour communicating well is the secret to being successful. Professor Frisina will take you through before the game. the steps of why communicating is much more than just “talking” and introduce you to ways that will improve your chances of getting what you want – good grades, good jobs, happy life. 8 p.m. King and Queen Showcase John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus 4Technology for Creativity and Design-Based Learning Join us for one of the highlights of Fall Festival as members of the Homecoming Court compete iDesign Lab, Hagedorn Hall, South Campus in this creative explosion to select the 2014 Hofstra King and Queen. Roberto Joseph, Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education Programs, School of Education In this workshop, participants are introduced to the School of Education’s state-of-the-art iDesign Lab. Various design stations will be setup with interactive activities, including Game Saturday, September 20, 2014 Design, 3D Design and Printing, Graphic Design, Lego/Wedo Robotics, Electronics Design, XBox One – Full Body Game Play, and Movie and Sound Editing. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Family Weekend Check-In and On-Site Purchases Hofstra USA Tent, North Campus 4HFT: Fair & Balanced: An Academic and Historic Perspective on the If you preregistered online, please pick up your passes and tickets. For those families interested High Frequency Trading in purchasing passes or tickets, please be advised that tickets for certain events are limited. Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room, 104 C.V. Starr Hall, South Campus In order to attend Vibe Live, Hofstra students must swipe their HofstraCards at Hofstra USA Ahmet Karagozoglu, Professor of Finance and Academic Director of the Martin B. Greenberg between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Don’t forget to buy chances for the Parent Council Chance Auction. Trading Room, Frank G. Zarb School of Business Dr. Karagozoglu illustrates, using Bloomberg terminals in the Martin B. Greenberg Trading 9 a.m.-1 p.m. View Parent Council Chance Auction Baskets and Room, and discusses the inner workings of modern financial markets and trading. Electronic Buy Chances trading has transformed the capital markets, giving rise to algorithmic trading, direct market access and high-frequency trading. For better or for worse, it has been a natural evolution, Mack Student Center Atrium, North Campus and Dr. Karagozoglu will present an overview of this evolution, demystifying new financial Support Parent Council Chance Auction, benefiting student programs. The drawing is Sunday vocabulary such as “flash,” “dark pool,” “HFT,” and “maker-taker.” during Family Farewell Lunch from noon-1:30 p.m. Winners need not be present. At the Mack Student Center Atrium, you may purchase chances by check or cash only. At the Hofstra USA check-in tent, you may pay by check, cash or credit card. 1 2 4Are We Alone? The Search for Earth-Like Planets and Extraterrestrial Life 114 Berliner Hall, South Campus 2:30-3:30 p.m. Exhibition Tour: Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art Stephen S. Lawrence, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University Museum (HUM) Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Emily Lowe Gallery (Behind Emily Lowe Hall), South Campus Is Earth unique? Are we the only planet that supports life? Only in the last 20 years have Karen T. Albert, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Collections, HUM astronomers been able to make any meaningful progress in answering these profound Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, an original multimedia exhibition, focuses on questions. As of August 2014, astronomers have confirmed nearly 1,800 “exoplanets” contemporary works of art by Asian artists who demonstrate the mixing or juxtaposition of orbiting other stars, many in multiple-planet solar systems similar to our own. Over 150 of these planets orbit within the “habitable zone” of their parent star – at the right distance traditional Asian art-making practices with modern Western ideas. Included in the exhibition are to allow for liquid water on their surface. In this model class, Professor Lawrence reviews the works by: Chinese artists Xu Bing, Yun-Fei Ji, and Ai Weiwei; Indonesian artists Fx Harsono and astronomical techniques used to find these planets, and the future research that will allow us Nyoman Masriadi; Bari Kumar from India; Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê; and Shazia Sikander, a to determine if any of these planets are truly habitable and possibly even inhabited. native of Pakistan. The exhibition is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional exhibition funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Astoria Federal Savings. 4The Amazing Race: The Road to Academic Success 309 C.V. Starr Hall, South Campus Holly J. Seirup, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling and 2:30-8 p.m. Vibe Live Concert and Carnival Mental Health Professions, School of Health Sciences and Human Services Intramural Fields, North Campus Congratulations! Your student has successfully completed the college search and selection The concert features Janelle Monáe, Matt & Kim, TLC and the ’80s cover band Rubix Kube. process. Now the exciting and rigorous path of earning a bachelor’s degree begins. Gallup Hofstra King and Queen are announced. Please bring your chairs, blankets, umbrellas and has recently reported that hope is a stronger predictor of academic success in college than appropriate weather gear. Food is available for purchase on the field.
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