Please join us for the Cornell Club of Boston's premier event of the year, the Annual Keynote Reception at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. Enjoy connecting with fellow Cornellians over heavy appetizers and drinks.

The Cornell Club of Boston is excited to welcome this year’s keynote speaker, Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Hans A. Bethe Professor and Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Under his watch, Dean Jayawardhana has recruited 120 new faculty, enhanced the research enterprise and student opportunities, and elevated public and media engagement dramatically. In his “downtime,” he uses the largest telescopes on the ground and in space, including the James Webb Space Telescope, to do “remote sensing” of planets around other stars (“exoplanets”). He has authored award-winning popular science books and a wonderful children’s book, Child of the Universe. For the Cornell Club of Boston Annual Meeting, he will offer an eye-opening cosmic perspective of our place in the universe with his keynote presentation, “The Quest for Alien Worlds and Life Beyond Earth,” followed by a Q&A.
The second part of our program will include voting on this year's slate of Cornell Club of Boston board members and some CCOB updates for the months ahead.

About the Speaker:

Ray Jayawardhana is the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Hans A. Bethe Professor and Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University.

As the leader of the largest and most academically diverse college at Cornell, he is responsible for an institution with over 520 professorial faculty, 400 academic professionals and staff, 4600 undergraduates and 1300 graduate students. The College offers 40 undergraduate majors and 35 graduate fields, and boasts a network of over 65,000 alumni. Within the past five years, applications to Arts & Sciences have risen by nearly 70% and the early-decision pool has more than doubled, resulting in the greatest selectivity and the highest yield in the College’s history.

When
June 22, 2023
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Where
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142

Cost

$40 for Young Alumni (undergrads '13 - '22) | $50 for Alumni

Event questions? Contact Meryl Fink
Registration questions? Contact Lizeth Jaimez