Family Weekend Schedule

Off Campus Study

Paris Room, The Commons

A study abroad experience can be life changing, educational, and beneficial as today's students begin their careers as global citizens. Attend this session to learn about Cornell courses that are offered off-campus, recommended programs outside of Cornell College and other ways that your student can incorporate an international experience into his or her college career. Tips for parents will include selecting a program and supporting your student during this exciting time.

Cornell Fellows and Internships

Stockholm Room , The Commons

Cornell offers a variety of resources to help students connect with hands-on experiential learning opportunities through fellowships and internships. This session will highlight how your student can take advantageof the various fellowship and internship programs around campus including Cornell Fellows, the college's premier internship program.

Introduction to Dimensions: The Center for Science and Culture Healtcare

Hedges Room , The Commons

Parents are invited to attend this reception to learn about Cornell’s interdisciplinary health science program, Dimensions: The Center for the Science and Culture of Healthcare. If your student is interested in medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, public health, pharmacy, or any other health science area, come hear about opportunities for internships, research experiences, off campus study, workshops, course offerings, and the professional school application process.

Introduction to The Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy

Shaw Lounge , The Commons

What is the Berry Center? And, does it apply to my student? Come learn about the program designed to supplement what our economics, business, and public policy students learn in the classroom to prepare them for life beyond the Hilltop. The Berry Center exposes students to distinguished scholars, provides international academic programs, internships, off campus study, reading groups, graduate school and MBA program preparation, student-faculty research, career opportunities, and much more.

Fire Balls & Glowing Pickles: How chemists know about atoms even though we can't see them

Room 100, West Science Bldg

Professor Charles Liberko

The field of chemistry is based on a microscopic world of atoms and molecules; particles too small to be seen in any detail, even with the most powerful microscopes.  To understand this world, chemists must rely on observations of the macroscopic world and from them, infer what must be happening in the level of atoms and molecules.  This talk will incorporate some of our most spectacular classroom demonstrations in order to explore basic concepts of chemistry. Class limit is 40. Call (319) 895-4334 to register.

Introduction to Pottery

Room 128, McWethy Hall

Professor Doug Hanson

Here is a chance to try making a piece of pottery on a potter's wheel, following a 5,000-year-old tradition.  The course iwll consist of working on a simple bowl form plus others depending on the skill of the participants. Class limit is 12. Call (319) 895-4334 to register.

Creative Holiday Entertaining

Harlan Dining Room, The Commons

Join the Sodexho Dining Services team for holiday entertaining tips. We will make and sample a variety of holiday appetizers. Also enhance your entertaining skills by learning about tablescaping and wine presentation. Participants will receive handouts with the tips and recipes discussed in the session. Class limit is 20. Call (319)895-4334 to register.

Cornell History 101

Hedges conference room, The Commons

Travel through 150 years of Cornell history and learn the stories of Cornell's founding fathers and mothers, as well as the lore of its National Historic Register campus and the people who have passed through it since 1853. Your guide is Cornell Communications Director Dee Ann Rexroat, a 1982 graduate who worked with the authors of Cornell's two history books. Class limit is 40. Call (319)895-4334 to register.

A discussion of The Zookeeper's Wife- There's No Place Like Home- CANCELLED