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ARCS® Foundation Atlanta Chapter 2020 Retreat to Pittsburgh
Wednesday, May 13 – Sunday, May 17th
Registration opens at 9am on July 15, 2019
A waitlist will be maintained for those who register after "the bus is full."
Join us in Pittsburgh!
Four Days of Festivities when you can:
Say hello at our opening reception and dinner at the exclusive Duquesne Club.
Join in an optional historian-led walking tour of Pittsburgh before visiting Carnegie Mellon and an interactive session on The Chemistry of Taste. Take part in a Tedx style presentation by the Carnegie Mellon faculty on cutting-edge research in areas such as robotics, cybersecurity and autonomous cars.
Enjoy dinner at The Frick. We will tour the house, then move to the Carriage House museum for cocktails and dinner.
Visit the University of Pittsburgh Human Engineering Research Laboratory for a tour led by director Rory Cooper. His team will lead us through some very interesting and interactive sessions. These innovative researchers will join us for lunch.
Immerse yourselves in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of Pittsburgh's greatest treasures, and meet the Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Matt Lamana. You will be guided through the Paleolab, Dinosaurs in Their Time and the Big Bone Room sections for lectures and tours on research aspects of paleontology.
Explore the rest of the Carnegie, including the celebrated Museum of Art, or the beautiful city of Pittsburgh. A list of favorite sites & restaurants will be provided.
Say goodbye at our farewell dinner at The National Aviary. You will encounter beautiful, rare and endangered birds up close as you venture through the exhibits.
The cost of the trip is $799/person with a deposit of $300/person due at registration. Balance of $499 is due on January 15, 2020.
Registration is open to members and one guest.
Remember, the retreat to New Orleans filled up within hours of the start of registration! So, sign up now!
Despite Covid-19, this year’s celebration of our scholars will go on! Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, the strategic planning session took place, led by Janie Wilson, Lee Doyle and Susan McGonigle, and facilitated by Debra Semans. One of the many initiatives that came out of this effort was the formation of a Scholar Awards Luncheon Task Force, which formed in June 2020 and met via Zoom to deliberate the new direction for this event. Sadly, there will not be an in-person luncheon, as we have had for the past 26 years. The event, re-named the “Scholar Awards Celebration,” or SAC, will be a virtual fundraiser and “friend-raiser”. Our SAC chair Farideh Azadi has secured a wonderful guest speaker and moderator. We will also hear from our event sponsor, BlackRock, and the president of Morehouse, Dr. David Thomas.
Meet our Guest Speaker: Dr. Ann Chahroudi
Dr. Chahroudi will speak on "COVID-19 in Children and the Path to Normality.” She is the associate chief for basic/translational research in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and associate professor of pediatrics in the Emory School of Medicine. Dr. Chahroudi directs the Center for Childhood Infections & Vaccines (CCIV) of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University and is associate director for clinical affairs for the Emory MD/PhD Program. Her research focuses on viral infections in children, including HIV, Zika, and SARS-CoV-2.
Dr. Ann Chahroudi
Meet our Moderator: Mariela Romero
Mariela Romero is an Emmy award winning communications professional with over 25 years of experience in journalism, public relations and broadcast television. She is the regional community empowerment director for Univision Atlanta, Philadelphia and Raleigh. Mariela anchors, writes and is the producer of news magazine "Conexion Fin de Semana" in all three markets.
Mariela Romero
The live event will begin at 2:00pm EST on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Be on the look out for e-mails with complete registration and viewing instructions. A special thanks goes to Farideh Azadi and Kristen Gibbs, our event chair and chair elect respectively, for their vision, creativity and patience in orchestrating our first virtual SAC!