2008 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
4/10/08 - Brown Professor Elaine Bearer: Mapping the Brain 4/14/08 - Music at Meyer Brown Alumni Night Charles Giancarlo '79 Speaking at Harvard Club Dinner Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Menlo Circus Club
Charles Giancarlo recently joined Silver Lake, a leader in private technology investments, as a Managing Director. A senior executive at Cisco Systems from 1993-2007, Mr. Giancarlo most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, where he was directly responsible for Cisco's expansion into a large number of new markets and technologies. His first position at Cisco was Vice President of Business Development, where he developed Cisco's merger and acquisition strategy and practice. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Giancarlo founded four communications equipment companies and successfully sold two of them to larger companies. Mr. Giancarlo holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
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Brown Professor Elaine Bearer
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Palace Hotel, Pacific Heights Room
The biological behavior of neurons and glia in the brain are rapidly being discovered and explained. Yet this information has yet to reveal the biological basis of experience, such as consciousness, feelings, or the uniquely human appreciation of music. The brain is composed of an interacting distributed network of neurons that conduct electrical and chemical signals along anatomical pathways at both short and long range. These circuits are maintained by proteins that are synthesized in the neuronal cell body and trafficked to distant sites by an active biochemical process, termed axonal transport. In the Brain Sciences Program at Brown, researchers use herpes, the squid giant axon, peptide-conjugated nanobeads and magnetic resonance imaging to understand the molecular mechanisms and functional dynamics of these circuits in action. In this talk, Professor Bearer will present new work from her lab and from collaborators at Caltech that apply this dynamic imaging to the understanding of thought in action. Elaine L. Bearer, MD-PhD, is a Professor at Brown University. Her primary tenure is in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and she is also tenured in Engineering and holds a courtesy adjunct appointment in the Music Department. Bearer came to Brown from UCSF where she had completed the combined MD-PhD in a record 6 years, a residency in Pathology and a post-doctoral fellowship with Bruce Alberts in Biochemistry and Biophysics. She is in San Francisco for a symposium at UCSF honoring Prof Alberts, who served for 12 years as the President of the National Academy of Sciences. Bearer has also been Moore Distinguished Scholar and Visiting Associate at Caltech, studied with Nadia Boulanger long ago in Paris and Fountainbleau, and has received many awards from NIH, NEA, Meet the Composer, the Moore Foundation, Dart Neurosciences LLP, NSF, and others. Her scientific publications are posted on Pubmed, her musical scores are available from Hildgard Publishing Co, CDs from Albany Records, and CDs and books from Amazon. To find our more, see her Brown faculty website Light refreshments, wine and soft drinks will be served.
BAANC Dues-paying Members: $20
Why not join the club and save? For questions about the event, contact Susan Buchanan '82 (415) 710-8273Music at Meyer Brown Alumni Night
Monday, April 14, 2007
Temple Emanu-El
You are invited to a special evening of classical music featuring a concert by Israeli pianist, GILA GOLDSTEIN. Ms. Goldstein has captivated audiences around the world with her unique artistry and soulful interpretations. London's Pianist magazine says of her, “Goldstein has a technique as fierce and fiery as the color of her hair." Last year's event was a big success. Invite your friends and family!
Bach - Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
The venue is the acoustically superb Martin Meyer Sanctuary, described by the SF Chronicle as "wonderfully intimate," as part of the Music at Meyer concert series, now in its fifth year co-founded and produced by Mike Tekulsky '83. A special reception for Brown Alumni to meet Ms. Goldstein and MAM Artistic Director Roslyn Barak will follow the concert. Light refreshments will be served.
BAANC Dues-paying Members: $20
Why not join the club and save? Street parking available or Valet parking beginning at 6:45
For more information, contact Mike Tekulsky '83 (415) 531-1301
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