Calendar

April 2024

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	Spring Course Preview Event 10:00AM - 11:00AM Spring Open House/Reception 11:00AM - 12:00PM Ukraine Then and Now (Part 2) (OLLI @ U of A) 12:00PM - 1:45PM	Spring Course Registration Opens 10:00AM - 10:01AM Technology Committee Meeting 3:30PM - 4:30PM Introduction to Hinduism: History, Religion, Philosophy, Culture (OLLI @ U of A) 4:00PM - 5:45PM	Summer Seminar Trip Registration Opens Executive Committee Meeting 3:15PM - 4:15PM	Member Relations Meeting 1:00PM - 2:00PM Ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom (OLLI @ U of A) 7:00PM - 8:45PM	Purls of Wisdom SIG (Knitting/Needlecrafts) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom (OLLI @ U of A) 7:00PM - 8:45PM
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	Tips and Tricks for Planning Exciting Memorable Low-Cost Vacations (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:00AM - 11:00AM Ukraine Then and Now (Part 2) (OLLI @ U of A) 12:00PM - 1:45PM	Mystery Book SIG 10:00AM - 12:00PM Frost in Summer - A Few Months Early (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 10:30AM - 12:30PM Introduction to Hinduism: History, Religion, Philosophy, Culture (OLLI @ U of A) 4:00PM - 5:45PM	Brunch for New Members, Course Leaders, Wizards, & COC 10:30AM - 11:00AM Course Leaders/Wizards/COC Meeting 11:00AM - 12:00PM New Member Orientation 11:00AM - 12:00PM Present at This Creation (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:01AM - 1:00PM Course Offerings Committee Meeting 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Is It Soup Yet? (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 3:00PM - 5:00PM In Your Genes: Hope or Hype, Promise or Peril (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 4:30PM - 6:30PM	Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome: Environmental Challenge and Cultural Response (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:30AM - 11:30AM Apple Devices SIG (iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac) 11:30AM - 12:30PM
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	Spring Term Begins (8 Weeks) 8:30AM - 8:31AM Tips and Tricks for Planning Exciting Memorable Low-Cost Vacations (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:00AM - 11:00AM Current Events 9:30AM - 11:00AM Very Basic Japanese: Part 3 9:30AM - 11:00AM Tennyson's Poetry Today 1:30PM - 3:30PM Express Yourself Through Writing Fiction 1:30PM - 3:30PM Senior Living Options 1:30PM - 3:00PM Introduction to Supply Chains for Consumers (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Scandinavia and the Vikings 9:30AM - 11:00AM Frost in Summer - A Few Months Early (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 10:30AM - 12:30PM Can Virtue Be Taught? 11:15AM - 12:45PM Memoirs 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Space Telescopes that Have Changed Our Understanding of the Universe 11:15AM - 12:45PM Beauty 1:30PM - 3:00PM Irish Culture and Literature 1:30PM - 3:00PM The Novel that Changed Detective Fiction Forever 1:30PM - 3:00PM Summer Seminar Committee Meeting 3:30PM - 4:30PM	Discussing The New Yorker Magazine 9:30AM - 11:00AM Socratic Philosophizing: The Nature, Practice, and Defense of Philosophy 9:30AM - 11:00AM Pillaging Europe: Nazi Art Theft in World War II 9:30AM - 11:00AM Present at This Creation (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Contemporary Events 11:15AM - 12:45PM Writing Workshop 11:15AM - 12:45PM Energy and Life 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Hour That Changed Ben Franklin Forever (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:30AM - 1:00PM The Future of Health, Medicine, and Biotechnology: Part 3 1:30PM - 3:00PM Staging Shaw's Heartbreak House 1:30PM - 3:00PM Seminar in Medical Ethics 1:30PM - 3:00PM Council Meeting - Osher 3:15PM - 4:15PM	Intermediate Spanish 3 9:30AM - 11:00AM You Be the Critic: A Film Discussion Group 9:30AM - 11:00AM Law in the News 9:30AM - 11:00AM Pfaudler Lecture Series: From the Navy to the News: Finding Self Confidence through Chaos 12:15PM - 1:30PM History of New England in the Colonial Era 1:45PM - 3:15PM Flickstory 1:45PM - 3:45PM Sherlock Holmes Portrayals: From Baffled to Ben 1:45PM - 3:45PM Is It Soup Yet? (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 3:00PM - 5:00PM In Your Genes: Hope or Hype, Promise or Peril (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 4:30PM - 6:30PM	Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome: Environmental Challenge and Cultural Response (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:30AM - 11:30AM Applied Games of Modern Economics (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Purls of Wisdom SIG (Knitting/Needlecrafts) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Osher Photography SIG 3:00PM - 4:00PM News & Events Submission Deadline 4:30PM - 4:31PM
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	Tips and Tricks for Planning Exciting Memorable Low-Cost Vacations (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:00AM - 11:00AM Current Events 9:30AM - 11:00AM Very Basic Japanese: Part 3 9:30AM - 11:00AM Battle of Britain: Invasion 1940 11:15AM - 12:45PM Express Yourself Through Writing Fiction 1:30PM - 3:30PM Senior Living Options 1:30PM - 3:00PM Tennyson's Poetry Today 1:30PM - 3:30PM Introduction to Supply Chains for Consumers (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Scandinavia and the Vikings 9:30AM - 11:00AM Frost in Summer - A Few Months Early (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 10:30AM - 12:30PM Can Virtue Be Taught? 11:15AM - 12:45PM Memoirs 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Space Telescopes that Have Changed Our Understanding of the Universe 11:15AM - 12:45PM Climate Change: What's Really on the Horizon? (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Using Watercolor and Inktense Pencils (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Beauty 1:30PM - 3:00PM Irish Culture and Literature 1:30PM - 3:00PM The Novel that Changed Detective Fiction Forever 1:30PM - 3:00PM Zen Drawing 101 (OLLI @ Chico) 4:00PM - 5:30PM Let's Keep Knitting (OLLI @ Chico) 6:00PM - 7:30PM	Pillaging Europe: Nazi Art Theft in World War II 9:30AM - 11:00AM Discussing The New Yorker Magazine 9:30AM - 11:00AM Socratic Philosophizing: The Nature, Practice, and Defense of Philosophy 9:30AM - 11:00AM Present at This Creation (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Energy and Life 11:15AM - 12:45PM Contemporary Events 11:15AM - 12:45PM Writing Workshop 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Hour That Changed Ben Franklin Forever (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:30AM - 1:00PM Hail to the Celts (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Seminar in Medical Ethics 1:30PM - 3:00PM The Future of Health, Medicine, and Biotechnology: Part 3 1:30PM - 3:00PM Staging Shaw's Heartbreak House 1:30PM - 3:00PM Travel SIG 3:15PM - 4:30PM	You Be the Critic: A Film Discussion Group 9:30AM - 11:00AM Law in the News 9:30AM - 11:00AM Intermediate Spanish 3 9:30AM - 11:00AM Pfaudler Lecture Series: Ice on Fire: Can We Reverse Climate Change? 12:15PM - 1:30PM Aviation History: American Airpower Ascendant 1944: Part 2 (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Sherlock Holmes Portrayals: From Baffled to Ben 1:45PM - 3:45PM History of New England in the Colonial Era 1:45PM - 3:15PM Flickstory 1:45PM - 3:45PM Food Glorious Food! (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 2:00PM - 4:00PM Intermediate Spanish Grammar & Conversation, Part 2 (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 2:00PM - 4:00PM Active French - Beginner Français (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 3:00PM - 5:00PM Osher Social Hour! 3:30PM - 5:00PM In Your Genes: Hope or Hype, Promise or Peril (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 4:30PM - 6:30PM	New Nuclear is Hot (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:30AM - 11:30AM Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome: Environmental Challenge and Cultural Response (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 9:30AM - 11:30AM Applied Games of Modern Economics (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 11:00AM - 1:00PM	Imagine RIT Festival 10:00AM - 5:00PM
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	Current Events 9:30AM - 11:00AM Very Basic Japanese: Part 3 9:30AM - 11:00AM America's First Religious Scandal: The Beecher-Tilton Affair 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Athenaeum Book Club 11:15AM - 12:45PM Anna Rosenberg: Confidante of Presidents 11:15AM - 12:45PM Express Yourself Through Writing Fiction 1:30PM - 3:30PM Senior Living Options 1:30PM - 3:00PM Tennyson's Poetry Today 1:30PM - 3:30PM Introduction to Supply Chains for Consumers (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Scandinavia and the Vikings 9:30AM - 11:00AM Frost in Summer - A Few Months Early (OLLI @ Dartmouth) 10:30AM - 12:30PM Can Virtue Be Taught? 11:15AM - 12:45PM Memoirs 11:15AM - 12:45PM The Space Telescopes that Have Changed Our Understanding of the Universe 11:15AM - 12:45PM Using Watercolor and Inktense Pencils (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Climate Change: What's Really on the Horizon? (OLLI @ Chico) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Beauty 1:30PM - 3:00PM Irish Culture and Literature 1:30PM - 3:00PM The Novel that Changed Detective Fiction Forever 1:30PM - 3:00PM Zen Drawing 101 (OLLI @ Chico) 4:00PM - 5:30PM Let's Keep Knitting (OLLI @ Chico) 6:00PM - 7:30PM

April 25

Pfaudler Lecture Series: Ice on Fire: Can We Reverse Climate Change?

12:15PM - 1:30PM

Location: HYBRID: Room 3/4 & Zoom

Register to attend: https://forms.gle/XQW6y71fJsEVVUsb8 Presented by Staša Puškari, Environmental Science Professor, RIT Croatia Campus Staša Puškari is researching a way to stave off the escalating global warming crisis. As featured in the HBO documentary Ice on Fire, his team is working to leverage marine snow, a shower of organic material falling from upper waters to the deep ocean, in order to reduce carbon in the Earth's atmosphere.

April 25

Aviation History: American Airpower Ascendant 1944: Part 2 (OLLI @ Chico)

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Location: Zoom

Leader: Gary Hendrickson This course is offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Chico State University.

April 25

History of New England in the Colonial Era

1:45PM - 3:15PM

Location: HYBRID: Room 1 & Zoom

Leader: Tom Lathrop

April 25

Sherlock Holmes Portrayals: From Baffled to Ben

1:45PM - 3:45PM

Location: HYBRID: Room 2 & Zoom

Leader: Bill Brown

April 25

Flickstory

1:45PM - 3:45PM

Location: HYBRID: Room 3/4 & Zoom

Leaders: Bob Schlosky, Mike Maxwell, & Gene Clifford

April 25

Food Glorious Food! (OLLI @ Dartmouth)

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Zoom

Leader: Chef Larry P. Canepa This course is offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth.

April 25

Intermediate Spanish Grammar & Conversation, Part 2 (OLLI @ Dartmouth)

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Zoom

Leader: Morris Kaplan This course is offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth.

April 25

Active French - Beginner Français (OLLI @ Dartmouth)

3:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: Zoom

Leader: Gloria Finkelstein This course is offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth.

April 25

Osher Social Hour!

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Location: Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr, Rochester, NY 14623, USA

Join us after the last class period for an informal gathering at Lovin' Cup. Feel free to order your own snacks/drinks at the bar or grab a table with fellow members. Remember to wear your Osher name tag!

April 25

In Your Genes: Hope or Hype, Promise or Peril (OLLI @ Dartmouth)

4:30PM - 6:30PM

Location: Zoom

Leader: Iain Sim This course is offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth.