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UAA Freshman Convocation: Saturday, August 22, 2009
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the UAA Campus


Freshman Convocation, sponsored by the University Honors College's Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, formally welcomes the Class of 2013 and their families to UAA, and inspires students with a sense of discovery and creativity to last them throughout their years of study.

UAA faculty and all incoming freshmen, along with their families, are invited to join Chancellor Fran Ulmer and distinguished keynote speaker Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D., a 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry for his work on Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP).


3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Freshman Convocation Wendy Williamson Auditorium
4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Student Dessert Social
Cuddy Hall
4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Parent Dessert Reception
Cuddy Hall
5 to 7 p.m.
UAA Campus Kickoff
Cuddy Quad

7:15 p.m.

Concert Board Comedy Show

Wendy Williamson Auditorium

8 p.m.
Roger Tsien Public Lecture*
Arts 150
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 



* In addition to Roger Tsien's Freshman Convocation Keynote address at 3:30PM, he will give a free public lecture at 8PM titled "Painting Cell Signals with a Palette of Fluorescent Proteins." Dr. Tsien's fascination with colors has revolutionized the fields of cell biology and neurobiology by allowing scientists to peer inside living cells and watch the behavior of molecules in real time. He is building on his fluorescent protein work to develop a novel way to image and possibly even deliver specially targeted drugs to cancer tumors. Please join us for this exciting event. 


Keynote Speaker

Roger Tsien

2009 Freshman 
Convocation Keynote
Speaker, Roger Tsien

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