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Please Join Us for Network Nights 2009!

New York City
Thursday, January 8
6:00-7:00 p.m., Career Panel Discussion
7:00-9:00 p.m., Networking
Madison Square Garden
7th Avenue and 32nd Street

Rochester
Sunday, January 11
3:00-5:00 p.m., Networking
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Ithaca College - Rochester Center
1100 South Goodman Street

Boston
Tuesday, January 13
6:30-7:15 p.m., Career Panel Discussion
7:15-9:00 p.m., Networking
Omni Parker House, 60 School Street

Philadelphia
Thursday, January 15
6:30-8:30 p.m., Networking
Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel Philadelphia
1701 Locust Street

Washington, D.C.
Thursday, January 29
6:30-7:15 p.m., Career Panel Discussion
7:15-9:00 p.m., Networing
Renaissance M Street Hotel
1143 New Hampshire Avenue NW

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose message to Mission Control -- "Houston, we’ve had a problem" -- initiated one of the most dramatic episodes of the space age, has accepted an invitation to deliver the main address at Ithaca College’s Commencement ceremony on May 17, 2009.

In April 1970, Lovell was serving as commander of the Apollo 13 spacecraft when it suffered an explosion en route to its planned moon landing. The command module was crippled, the vessel quickly lost most of its air and power supply, and simple survival became the new mission. Lovell and his crew were able to modify the systems in their lunar module into an effective lifeboat, and he steered it in a trajectory around the moon and back to a safe landing on Earth. The book he later wrote about the incident became the basis of the 1995 Tom Hanks film Apollo 13.

"Jim Lovell’s remarkable courage, creativity, and determination serve as an inspiration to us all," says Ithaca College president Tom Rochon. "This is an outstanding opportunity to hear from a man who has given so much to the advancement of science and learning on behalf of all humankind.

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