Harvard College ReConnect
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Westin San Francisco Market Street
Honorary Cohosts
Preston Dodd EdM '94 and Katie Dodd
Mike Kerr '81, MBA '85 and Margaret Kerr P'12, '08
Kat Taylor '80 and Tom Steyer P'10
Harvard College ReConnect, presented by the Harvard Alumni Association and the Harvard College Fund, is a new flagship event designed for the Harvard community in the West. The event will feature seminars with top faculty, an insider’s update from Cambridge, and opportunities to learn from and network with alumni, faculty, parents, and friends of Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History, will launch Harvard College ReConnect as we celebrate the vibrant Harvard community in the West. We hope to see you in January.
To register, click here.
Planning Your Attendance
Hotel
Schedule
Speaker Biographies
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Planning Your Attendance
Fees for Symposia and Luncheon
$55 for attendees
$45 for Harvard Club members
$35 for students and recent graduates*
*College alumni from classes '06 – '10
Hotel
For your convenience, we have reserved a limited number of rooms at
the event venue. When making your reservation, please refer to the
group name “Harvard College ReConnect.” Please note that the reservation deadline for these rooms is December 20.
The Westin San Francisco Market Street
50 Third Street
San Francisco, California
www.starwoodmeeting.com/book/reconnect
415-974-6400
$249
Schedule
10:15 am
Registration
10:45 am
Faculty Symposia
Professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will present research on solutions to complex challenges of our time. Register for one of three sessions. Open to alumni and friends of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
A. Water Security in a Changing World
John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health in the Harvard School of Public Health
B. Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
John Y. Campbell, Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics and Harvard College Professor
C. Beyond Identity Politics: Ethnic Studies Today
Glenda R. Carpio, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
12:30 pm
Harvard Alumni Association Lunch
Featuring a conversation with President Drew Gilpin Faust. Moderated by Walter Isaacson '74, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Open to all Harvard alumni and friends.
Speaker Biographies
John Briscoe
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health in the Harvard School of Public Health
John Briscoe is a well-known expert on water, natural resources, and economic development around the globe. He is a former senior water adviser at the World Bank and currently serves on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and the Advisory Committee for the Murray Darling Basin Authority. At Harvard, Briscoe teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on water management and development, and directs the Harvard Water Security Initiative. In 2010 he was nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching of Harvard undergraduates. He received his PhD in environmental engineering at Harvard University and his BSc in civil engineering at the University of Cape Town.
John Y. Campbell
Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics and Harvard College Professor
John Campbell has published more than 80 articles and three books on finance and macroeconomics, including focuses on fixed-income securities, equity valuation, and portfolio choice. His most recent book, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (with the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation), was published in 2010. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society. At Harvard, Campbell was awarded a Harvard College Professorship in 2006 in recognition of his excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is the chair of the economics department and serves as a board member of the Harvard Management Company. Campbell received his BA from Oxford and PhD from Yale.
Glenda R. Carpio
Professor of English and African and African American Studies
Glenda Carpio is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, published in 2008, and is currently working on a book on Black and Latina/o fiction in the Americas. Carpio started her teaching career in Compton, California where she taught 8th grade English and 4th grade through the Teach for America program. Following her work in Compton, Carpio taught at UC Berkeley and then New York University. She joined Harvard in 2002 and recently was awarded tenure. In 2007 she was honored with Harvard University's Abramson Award for Excellence and Sensitivity in Undergraduate Teaching. She received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her BA from Vassar College.
Drew Gilpin Faust
President of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History
Drew Faust took office as Harvard University’s 28th president on July 1, 2007. A historian of the U.S. Civil War and the American South, Faust is also the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2007).
Faust is the author of six books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (January 2008), which was awarded the 2009 Bancroft Prize, the New York Historical Society 2009 American History Book Prize, and recognized by the New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2008.”
Faust’s honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served for 25 years on the faculty. Faust received her BA from Bryn Mawr and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Walter Isaacson '74
President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
Member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers
Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). Isaacson is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at the Sunday Times of London. He joined Time in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.
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