EDUCATION: An Update on Generation Next
9:30 – 10:30
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: R. T. Rybak, Executive Director of Generation Next, Former Mayor of Minneapolis,

Generation Next is a partnership of education, community, government, and business leaders who believe closing the achievement gap is of vital importance. Rybak will discuss how Generation Next leaders will use a cradle-to-career framework to help students achieve five key goals necessary for students’ developmental progress.

FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE: Neuromodulation for Treating Brain Disorders
10:45 – 11:45
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: Dr. Matthew D. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Dr. Johnson’s research deals with the use of electronic brain stimulation technologies to improve the quality of life for people with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
11:45 – Noon

LUNCHEON
12:00 – 1:15

THE ARTS: What Does the Artist Say
 About the Spiritual and Moral Issues of Our Time?
1:15 – 2:15
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: Wilson Yates, PhD, President Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, United Theological Seminary

Major 20th century artists powerfully explored the spiritual and moral issues of our time. Three such artists,
Kathe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, and Barbara Hepworth, uniquely touched the human heart in their probings of the way we encounter death and experience joy, the way we experience suffering, and envision wholeness in our own lives. This presentation will offer a journey through selected drawings, paintings, and sculpture and allow us to see through their eyes something of what it means to be alive in our own time.