Blog Above Cayuga's Waters http://blogs.cornell.edu/lisa Detached, bite-sized yippity-yap Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:47:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://blogs.cornell.edu/?v=3.4.1 Events for the Week of 16 September http://blogs.cornell.edu/lisa/2011/09/12/events-for-the-week-of-16-september/ http://blogs.cornell.edu/lisa/2011/09/12/events-for-the-week-of-16-september/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:47:13 +0000 hck1 http://blogs.cornell.edu/lisa/?p=187 Monday
Cornell Abroad In France & French Speaking…
Cornell Abroad In Australia & New Zealand
(Just remember that if you go abroad, I expect both post cards and blog entries!)
Dilmun Hill Farm Stand
Zen Meditation Practice

Tuesday
From Fruit Flies To Flying Robots: The Present…
2001: A Space Odyssey
Positive Psychology: Increase Your Happiness

Wednesday
Writing Through The Rough Spots
Salsa Classes at Big Red Barn

Thursday
Coffee Hour

Friday
A Cappella United
Cornell Games Club

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Casablanca
Downtown Ithaca to Host 9/11 Commemorative Exhibit (all month, actually)
Animal Legends: From the Trojan Horse to Godzilla

Tuesday
Do We Really Have Topological Insulators Yet? (I, for one, am dying to know)
Strengthen Your Interview Skills
Fear No Weevil (I don’t actually expect anyone to go to this–I just love the title.)

Wednesday
CU Music: Midday Music for Organ 9/7

Thursday
Cornell Abroad In The United Kingdom
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Story Of A Tribe…
Demonic Divine

Friday
September 11 Memorial
Super 8

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Today is Valentine’s Day…buy someone something small and tell them they make your day brighter. The smile you get will be worth it.

Recyclemania

Two-Day Designer Fashions Event (use your Cornell card and tell Dad that $300 charge was a text book)

Chimes Sweetheart Concert

NASA Stardust-NExT encounter with Comet Tempel 1 (how many times in your life will you get to see a spaceship collide with a comet?)

Tuesday

Info Session: Teach in China this summer

Wednesday

Relax for Success

Writing Through the Rough Spots

Thursday

Art for Lunch: Unpacking the Nano

Soup and Hope

Reflections of the Egyptian Revolution (you should go to this if you can–Carolyn Witte ’12, is going to talk about what it was like to be there)

Friday

University Lecturer – What is Contemporary About Contemporary Fiction?

Beer & Cheese Pairing (21 and over, please)

Men’s Basketball Game

Men’s Ice Hockey Game

Public Viewing Night at the Fuertes Observatory

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Recyclemania (this actually runs through April, but kick-off on campus is today)

Huge Poster Sale

Cornell in Hollywood Information Session

Tuesday

Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (Seriously.  I want pictures of someone paddling on the lake in Feb)

The Harlem Globetrotters (Remember when they were on Scooby Doo?  No?  Damn I’m old.)

Wednesday

What’s Next? Egypt’s Revolution, where it came from and its implications for the region

Men’s Squash Meet (Have you ever seen Squash? No?  Neither have I.)

Thursday

The Social Network

Friday

Sustainability Cafe

Shoals Marine Lab Open House

Men’s Basketball Game

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

Public Viewing Night at the Fuertes Observatory (a romantic way to kick of Valentine’s Day weekend…)

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Build a Better Resume

Congratulations You’ve Got the Job: Now What?

Tuesday

Unpacking the Nano

Summer Study in Europe Infomation sessions Looking for something to do this summer?

Cornell University Genetic Ancestry “Swabbing/Sampling” Event This is really cool (though I will admit it does sound somewhat unsanitary). Drop by and get a free DNA profile…maybe you are related to The Queen.  Or Ghengis Khan.  Or maybe even…Elvis!

Wednesday

Salsa Classes at Big Red Barn

Thursday

The Stories Objects Tell: Life in Latin America Before Columbus

Annual Blood Drive Dream Factory/Cornell Lacrosse

Soup and Hope

Friday

Men’s Ice Hockey Game

Women’s Basketball Game

Public Viewing Night at the Fuertes Observatory

The Social Network When one of you invents the next Facebook, please keep in mind that I would like to be played by Jenna Elfman in the movie adaptation.

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Unpacking the Nano (at the Johnson museum)

Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (I feel like this must be a mistake, but on the off chance that it isn’t, I will buy you a burrito if you can prove to me that you did this in January)

Wednesday

Aseismic Slip and Upper Plate Earthquakes in the Hellenic Subduction Zone (Translation: sometimes, there are earthquakes in Greece)

Salsa Classes at Big Red Barn

Thursday

Does Facebook, Texting, YouTube…Make You Stupid?

Friday

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

Easy A

Welcome back, folks.  Stay warm out there!

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Share the Warmth (donate old coats, hats, and gloves to those in need)(Santa likes people who donate to charity)

Tuesday

How Rhinos Breathe: Building Conservation Partnerships Through Science (I got to hear a Rhino snore once.  It was pretty cool.)

Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (This seems like it would be chilly at best.)

Wednesday

CU Music: Midday Music for Organ (music for the holiday season)

Choosing a Sustainable Future: Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY

Ithaca Beer Co. & Taverna Banfi Educational Event

Thursday

Former Ambassador to Germany, Richard Burt, to Speak at Cornell (this might be interesting, given the recent WikiLeaks news)

Easy Rider – New Print! (A classic)

Friday

End Grain: A History of Wood Engraving (My dad would find this fascinating.  You might use it to cure late semester insomnia…)

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

All-NITER 2010: Last Day of Classes!

Men’s Ice Hockey Game

Women’s Polo

ChristmaHanuKwanzaakah (concert)

Saturday

Men’s Polo

Nationally Ranked Women’s Ice Hockey Team’s Game to Benefit United Way (Did you know there are Olympians on the team?)

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Taking Time Off Before Graduate School (sidebar: consider this carefully.  my “gap year” has lasted dangerously close to two decades)

Red Newt & Taverna Banfi Culinary Bounty Dinner

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

Election Watch

Wednesday

Trees and Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture (i love this title)

Need Connections? Learn How to Make Professional Connections before You Need Them

Amelie

Thursday

NASA Spacecraft Comet Encounter (where else in the world are you going to see stuff like this in real time?)

Friday

America 2050: High-Speed Rail and the Reshaping of America (in 2050, I will be entirely too old to take the train, but you guys will sit next to George Jetson)(wait)(do you even know who George Jetson is?)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

Men’s Polo

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How Goes the Recovery? Challenges for the Nation, The Region and the Fed

Job-Search Strategies for Summer Positions

Vietnamese Cuisine Week at Cornell University

Tuesday

Dilmun Hill Student Farm market stand (your mother called, she wants you to eat more veggies)

The Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker’s Guide To Culture

Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club

Wednesday

Werner Pfeiffer: Book-Objects and Artist Books

CU Music: Midday Music for Organ

Zen Meditation Practice

Thursday

Increasing Student Engagement using Clickers (I tried to clicker-train my dog, once…it didn’t really work.)

Scary Tales from Around the world

Friday

State of the University Address

Halloween Swing Dance

Men’s Ice Hockey Game

Nightmare on Edgemoor Lane- Zombie Island

Women’s Polo Go cheer on Ali!

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Friends of the Gorge Fall Foliage Hike

Orlando (sadly, this is not a two-hour ode to Mr. Bloom)

Tuesday

Shop for Sharsheret

The Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker’s Guide To Culture

Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club

Wednesday

Campus Sustainability Day

“Too Big to Fail” Book Signing

“Too Big to Fail” – Andrew Sorkin ’99 on the Greatest Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression

Thursday

Cornell Campus Architecture Walk (I know this sounds boring, but I have done it and it’s actually rather cool–lots of stories about Ezra and AD White at the start of things)

Friday

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History

Dilmun Hill Ho Plaza Farm Market

Corning Local Harvest Festival

Women’s Ice Hockey Game

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