Hello MOU-net subscribers, this is another reminder that this year's Paper Session will be held at the *Minnesota Landscape Arboretum* on *Saturday, Dec. 2*. If you've ever attended one of our Paper Sessions, you know that the event has always been held at the Bell Museum of Natural History on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. As the Bell Museum transitions to its new home in a brand new building on the St. Paul campus of the U at the corner of Larpenteur and Cleveland, the MOU continues to work with the museum and its staff on future events and opportunities for collaboration. The new building, however, does not contain a space large enough to hold an event for the amount of people that attend the Paper Session each year, and thus as the old building undergoes renovations the MOU has been afforded the opportunity to make a transition of its own in finding a new location for the Paper Session.
Thus we are very excited to be hosting the Paper Session at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen! I know that most of us have been to the arboretum at some point in our lives, whether it was for a walk through its many gardens and native flower beds, chasing a Summer Tanager (present for two summers in a row now), or perhaps attending a wedding or other venue. Some might not know that the arboretum has undergone some major changes of its own in the last fifteen years, adding a larger visitor center that not only looks beautiful and is more functional but also contains a state-of-the-art auditorium for hosting larger events, the MacMillan Auditorium. It is in this auditorium where the MOU will be hosting its Paper Session in December. Check out the arboretum's website for more information about the space: http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/ Another bonus for MOU Paper Session attendees: the regular arboretum admission fee of $15.00 will be waived, and there is plenty of free parking right next to the building! While the MOU will continue to cherish memories of Paper Sessions past in the old Bell Museum, we are eager to make new memories at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. See you in December! Bob Dunlap MOU Vice President ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
