Parents Weekend- October 21-22, 2011

This coming weekend is another exciting opportunity to revisit the beautiful Geneseo campus and experience a number of fun campus activities—Parents Weekend.  If you are a parent or guardian of a current SUNY Geneseo student, this event is specially designed for you!

This weekend, October 21-22, 2011 will be host to an array of events, ranging from concerts to sporting events. Geneseo will have concerts, performances, workshops and much more. Some of these events include:

• Sporting Events/Games
• Performances, concerts, and Displays
• Kaleidoscope
• Equus
• Campus galleries open for public viewing
• School of the Arts Honors Recital Showcase
• Fall Festival Dinner
• Late Knight Ice Cream Social
• Demonstrations and Displays
•  Wave Tank and Flume Demonstration
•  Pelletron Particle Accelerator Display and Discussion
• Faculty-offered 45-minute college classes
• What is Abnormal? Taught by Jennifer Katz, Professor of Psychology
• What is Digital Humanities? Taught by Paul Schacht, Professor of English
•  Promotion of Democracy in the Post-Bush Era, taught by Jeremy Grace, Lecturer of International Relations
• Evolution and Creationism, taught by D. Jeffrey Over, Professor of Geological Sciences
• You Said What? Exploring Language as Symbolic Action, taught by Meredith Harrigan, Assistant Professor of Communications
• The Immune System:  Friend and Foe, taught by Robert O'Donnell, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biology
• Why Dante Still Matters, taught by Ronald Herzman, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English
• The Physics of Baseball taught by Charlie Freeman, Chair and Associate Professor of Physics
• The Irish Harp Over Niagara:  The 1866 Invasion of Canada, taught by Joseph Cope, Associate Professor of History
• Nutrition:  Separating Truth and Hype, taught by Wendy Pogozelski, Professor of Chemistry
•  Parent workshops
• G.O.L.D.
• Study Abroad
• “What I know now, that I wish I knew then…” Discussion Panel
•  Gain insight and information about coursework, extra-curricular activities and more that will help current students get a leg up in job and post-graduate school interviews.

For a full list and times of all the great events scheduled for Parents Weekend, visit the parents weekend website or skip right to Registration!

                                        -The Geneseo Alumni Team