Well-being Roundtable: “An Attitude of Gratitude”

The Well-being Working Group invites you to join us for our next informal roundtable to share ideas, successes, and concerns around community well-being at RPI (in the context of ongoing global and national crises). This session will be facilitated by Holly Traver, with a special focus on gratitude.

 

  *   What is the importance of gratitude for ourselves and our students?

Spaceship Earth film screening with Director Matt Wolf (virtual online event)

Please join us for a screening of Spaceship Earth by award-winning documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf on Friday 2/26/2021 at 6:00 PM. The film brings a fresh perspective to the famed 1991 habitation experiment in which eight volunteers lived within a biosphere that replicated the earths ecosystem at the earth system science facility in Oracle, Arizona. By asking why these people wanted

Writing Grief, Writing Growth: Authors Speak on Creativity During Difficult Times

Join us for a special collaborative symposium hosted by the McKinney Committee at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and SUNY Albany's English Graduate Student Organization in collaboration with New York State Writers Institute, featuring Amina Gautier (fiction), Molly McCully Brown (essay, poetry), and Susan Nguyen (poetry). Each author will read from their work, to be followed by a panel discussion on writing about grief and loss, writing through stressful experiences, and the benefits of creative practices during difficult times. There will also be time for audience questions.

Stress: Friend or Foe?

The Well-being Working Group invites you to join us for our next informal roundtable to share ideas, successes, and concerns around community well-being at RPI (in the context of ongoing global and national crises). This session will be facilitated by Alicia Walf, with a special focus on stress.

“Pig girl among the debs” An installation and web launch by Carolyn Tennant

Over sixty years ago, a shepherdess from Central France became the ingénue author of two novels. According to her publisher, the retired mail carrier in her village helped the barely literate girl of 16 transcribe her fantastic stories, which became critically acclaimed. The story of Berthe Grimault impressed Muriel Orr-Ewing, the headmistress of The Grove Finishing School, who extended an invitation to Berthe to study among a class of elite young women. The Pygmalion tale made the international press, with Orr-Ewing claiming that Berthe’s attendance was a type of experiment.

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