Description
The Cornell Club of Boston is excited to welcome Dr. Dan Huttenlocher, Founding Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech, back to the Boston area. Dean Huttenlocher’s talk will coincide with the Club’s Annual Meeting, our premier event of the year when the Club’s new leadership will be vote on by the membership. All alumni, current students, parents, and friends are encouraged to attend this special event.

 Cornell Tech develops pioneering leaders and technologies for the information age. Now, with about 150 students and four degree programs, Cornell Tech is charting a new course for higher education and economic development in New York City and beyond. Dean Huttenlocher will provide an update on academic programs, faculty, research and commercialization, and the new campus (referred to as “at once a refuge in the wild and a place for discovery”) being built on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center
1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Cost: $25 for alumni, parents, friends, and guests
           $15 for recent alumni (classes of 2007-2016)
           $10 for current students
Ticket Price (includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine, beer, soft drinks)
    

About Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher
Daniel Huttenlocher is the founding Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech. As Dean, he has overall responsibility for the new campus, including the academic quality and direction of the campus’ degree programs and research. Working with both internal and external stakeholders, he is developing approaches for working with companies, nonprofits, government agencies and early stage investors, as well as overseeing the faculty recruitment and entrepreneurial initiatives of the campus. 

Huttenlocher has a mix of academic and industry background, having worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and served as CTO of Intelligent Markets, as well as being a faculty member at Cornell for over two decades. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and both his Master’s and Doctorate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He currently serves as a Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Corning, Inc.

    
Event Agenda
6:30-7:00 pm: Networking reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments
7:00-7:15 pm: Annual Meeting of the Cornell Club of Boston
7:15-8:15 pm: Presentation by Dan Huttenlocher with Q&A
8:15-8:30 pm: Open Mic
8:30-9:00 pm: Networking

Questions?
Please contact Shane Dunn ’07, President of the Cornell Club of Boston, at sad37@cornell.edu
Registration questions? Contact Claire Stack at cms362@cornell.edu