Alumni & Parents
Reed on the Road, Spring 2012
Thinking Reed: A Centennial Celebration
February 29
Rainier Club, Seattle
http://www.therainierclub.com/
6-8 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- Psychology Rules, remarks by Steven Luck ‘86
Steve Luck completed his PdD in 1993 in neuroscience at UC San Diego, with a year at Reed as a visiting assistant professor in 1989. After postdoctoral work at UC San Diego and at the National Institutes of Health, he took a faculty position at the University of Iowa, then moved in 2006 to UC Davis, where he is the director of the Center for Mind and Brain. An expert on the use of brain waves to study the human mind, he literally wrote the book on this technique. His research has covered many topics, including vision, attention, memory, infant development, neuropsychology, speech perception, and schizophrenia.
Note: this venue has a business casual dress code
March 10
Marriott Hotel, Marina del Rey
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/laxmb-marina-del-rey-marriott/
10 a.m-noon
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- The Status of Status: a Report from the Pock Mafia, remarks by Donald Treiman ‘62
Donald Treiman received his PdD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1962. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia, and since 1975 has taught at UCLA, where he is distinguished professor emeritus. He was a staff director at the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He has been a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and was the NUSS Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.
March 14
Union League Club, Chicago
http://www.ulcc.org/
6 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- Confessions of a Flower Sniffer, remarks by Jennifer Ferenstein ‘88
Jennifer Ferenstein lives in Missoula, Montana, with her husband and son. She has tracked and studied golden eagles, taught college-level field courses in natural-resource policy, and worked on federal legislation to protect public lands. She earned an MS in environmental studies from the University of Montana. In 2001 Ferenstein was elected president of the Sierra Club, the youngest woman to serve in this role since the club was founded in 1892.
Note: this venue has a business casual dress code
March 15
Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Washington
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/cobs/chob_caucus_rm_1.cfm
6-8 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- Clean Up Man, remarks by James Coddington ‘74
James Coddington worked at the legendary Portland restaurant L’Auberge for several years before studying at the University of Delaware, first in art history and then in art conservation, obtaining an MS in 1982. Prior to arriving at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1987, he worked for a private conservator in Washington, D.C. This was followed by a Mellon fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was appointed the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at MoMA in 1996. He has done research on the structural restoration of paintings and the development of new imaging technologies for paintings. His publications include studies of Pollock, Miró, Cezanne, Pissaro, and de Kooning.
March 22
City Club, San Francisco
http://www.cityclubsf.com/
6-8 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- Mastered Mountains, Midnight Molecules, remarks by Arlene Blum '66
Arlene Blum, a biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer, is executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute and a visiting scholar in the department of chemistry at UC Berkeley. She has taught chemistry at Stanford, Wellesley, and Berkeley. Blum led the first American all-women's ascent of Annapurna and the first woman's team up Mount McKinley; she was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest and has traversed the Great Himalaya Range of Bhutan, Nepal, and India. She was honored by the National Women's History Project in 2009 as one of one hundred women "taking the lead to save our planet" and is the recipient of a gold medal from the Society of Woman Geographers.
Note: this venue has a business casual dress code
March 27
Yale Club, New York City
http://www.yaleclubnyc.org/
6-8 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- Capturing Hot Tape, remarks by Robert Smith ‘89
Robert Smith is a New York correspondent for NPR news. He covers politics, the arts, and whatever other mayhem erupts in Gotham City. He started in radio at Reed’s KRRC, broadcasting a late-night music show from the basement of Doyle to at least a four-block radius around campus. He went on to report for public radio stations with slightly larger audiences in Portland, Seattle, and Salt Lake City. He joined NPR in 1999 to cover education.
Note: this venue has a business casual dress code
March 28
Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge
http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/
6:30-8 p.m.
Program includes
- Reception
- Video Presentation
- Colin Diver remarks
- The Rest is History, remarks by Susan Strasser ‘69
Susan Strasser has been praised by The New Yorker for “retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-granted minutiae of everyday life.” Her books detail the creation of an American consumer culture. She did graduate work at SUNY Stony Brook, and has taught at Evergreen State College, Princeton, George Washington, the Bard Graduate Center, and the University of Delaware, where she is Richards Professor of American History. Her work has been supported by numerous major fellowships from such institutions as the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Historical Institute, Harvard Business School, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Note: this venue has a business casual dress code