Summer 2012 - eDisk - Franklin & Marshall College

Summer 2012 Page 10Homecoming 2012~ highlights especially for our alumni ~Friday, October 19, 2012Noon - 1:15 pm, Light Lunch - Hackman 119Join us for our weekly colloquium. Lunch will be provided.Speaker: Stephen Noel ‘75The Local Hydrogeologic Conditions in the Phoenix Basin, Arizona (or how a Fummer Historymajor became a hydrologist)”.12:30 - 3:30 pm, Student Research Fair - Frey Atrium, Barshinger Life Sciences and PhilosophyBuilding. Stroll through the poster presentations and speak with students as they describe theirsummer research experiences.3:30 - 5:30 pm, special screening of SWITCH & Panel Discussion - Adams Auditorium, HackmanAddition. Join students, faculty and alumni in this special showing of the definitive newfilm about global energy issues. “Realistic, pragmatic, balanced”, a research-based look at issuesthat impact us all, this film by Scott Tinker, director of the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology,is being shown on campuses and special venues around the US this fall. After the film, studentsand alumni will host a group discussion to talk about renewables, oil, natural gas extraction, andour energy future.Saturday, October 20, 20128:00 - 9:00 am, Geoscience Founders Society Annual Meeting - Hackman 119. This is open toall alumni and friends of the department. Please come to sing the Alma Mater, get an update onthe Society and the Department, hear from our student Research Award winners, share ideas andenjoy breakfast with faculty, current students, and fellow alumni.We hope to see you at all of these special events! Please come by and be part of the departmentagain!Calling All TeachersWe would like to do a story on our department alumni who teach, any subject, any grade (Kgraduateschool). Please send us a paragraph or two about what you do and how your experienceat F&M may have been useful to you. We’d love a photo as well. Please send it by November 1st,2012 for inclusion in the Winter Newsletter.