Accenture To Host This Year's Archer Center Leadership Conference
The Archer Center for Student Leadership Development will hold its annual leadership conference from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 21, in the Rensselaer Union. This year's conference, sponsored by Accenture, will center around the theme "Accent on Leadership: Are You Ready for Success?" The conference is open to all undergraduate and graduate students who preregister.

Students will have the opportunity to choose morning and afternoon educational sessions led by key Accenture employees. Topics range from "Job-Seeking From an Employer's Perspective" to "Corporate Strategies for Building Effective Teams" and "Consulting 101: A Day in the Life."

"The Archer Center is so proud of this conference because it offers students the unique opportunity to network with these executives while experiencing leadership training from corporate professionals," says Linda McCloskey, director of the Archer Center.

Past leadership conferences have attracted more than 250 students and have been hosted by corporations such as Lucent, IBM, and Lockheed Martin, among others.
Students can register at the Union, room 3702. The event requires a $10 deposit that will be returned at check-in on the day of the event. 9/16/02

Kagan Art Featured at Rice Gallery
Recent shadow sculpture by Professor Larry Kagan will be on exhibit through Nov. 17, as part of a three-person show at The Rice Gallery at the Albany Institute of History and Art, located at 125 Washington Ave., Albany. Kagan says that the three pieces "were built at a time when Palestinians were blowing themselves and others up on a regular basis, and are in some way a meditation on what it is like to be talking to someone and seeing him disintegrate before your very eyes." There will be an artists' reception on Thursday, Sept. 19, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. 9/16/02

Rensselaer at Hartford To Welcome New VP and Dean Oct. 10
To honor Alan Eckbreth's appointment as vice president and dean of the Rensselaer at Hartford campus, President Jackson will host an in-house reception there Thursday, Oct. 10, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Hartford faculty and staff are cordially invited to stop in for some refreshments and to meet their new leader in the Seminar Hall area of the facility at 275 Windsor Street. In addition, President Jackson will introduce Eckbreth, who began his tenure at Hartford Sept. 3, to the city's business, educational, and political communities at a separate event later that evening. 9/16/02

Fall Fest Slated for Oct. 5
The Office of the First Year Experience will help to celebrate the autumn season by hosting Rensselaer's annual Fall Fest on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 1 to 7 p.m. on Eighth Street at the Approach. The outdoor "communiversity" event will feature music, food, and activities for students, faculty, staff, and the city of Troy. Alex Torres, Hair of the Dog, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, the Persuasions, and WRPI will provide the day's soundtrack and street performers promise to tickle even the most stressed doctoral candidate's funny bone.

Various local merchants and community organizations will have booths offering refreshments and more. And area elementary and middle-school students will be hard at work on their gumdrop projects for "ZOOM into Engineering," a program sponsored by the Junior Museum, public television station WGBH, and Rensselaer that is aimed at getting kids excited about careers in engineering.
For more information, contact the Office of the First Year Experience at ext. 6864. 9/16/02

Season Hockey Tickets on Sale Sept. 17
Season tickets for the 2002-2003 Rensselaer men's hockey team go on sale beginning Tuesday, Sept. 17 in the Rensselaer Union. Applications for season tickets are now accessible for download (in a PDF format). Student application forms are located at www.rpi.edu/dept/athletics/m_hockey/02-03_MHKY_Student_Tix_App.pdf and forms for the faculty, staff, alumni, and the general public are at http://www.rpi.edu/dept/athletics/m_hockey/02-03_MHKY_Season_Ticket_Brochure.pdf.

Season tickets will be on sale at the Field House box office until Thursday, Oct. 10. The season begins on Friday, Oct. 11 and the first home game is on Friday, Oct. 18 against UMass Lowell. 9/16/02

Low Gallery Dedication Sept. 27

Rensselaer will celebrate the grand opening of the George M. Low Gallery on Friday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.

George Low '48, Rensselaer's 14th president, led the Apollo Spacecraft Program that successfully landed man on the moon. Low died in 1984. A collection of his space memorabilia, donated to Rensselaer by his widow, Mary R Low, will be on permanent display in the newly designed gallery. The George Low Gallery, formerly known as the Low Lounge, is located in the Low Center for Industrial Innovation.

A dedication ceremony will be held on Friday, Sept 27, at 5 p.m. in the RPI Playhouse. Gallery tours will immediately follow the ceremony.
RSVP to Shirley Gully by Sept. 20. 9/9/02

Star Gazing at the Hirsch

The Hirsch Observatory will be open for Public Observing every Wednesday and Friday through the second week in December, weather permitting. The Observatory will be open from sunset until three hours after sunset, as long as the sky is mostly clear.

For more information, call ext. 6763 or visit http://galileo.phys.rpi.edu. 9/9/02