Please join us for a talk by Dr. Trent Hergenrader, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, and Director of the Center for Worldbuilding and Storytelling in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology. For Dr. Hergenrader, worldbuilding is an engaging and flexible framework for improving our work in games, narrative, and teaching. In this presentation, Dr.
Please join the Cognitive Science department at 12pm on Wednesday, April 10th, in Carnegie 113 for a presentation titled "Understanding hidden neuron activations in a convolutional neural network" by Dr. Pascal Hitzler of Kansas State University.
Please join the school of HASS Sustainability Studies program on Wednesday, April 17th from 4:00 - 6:00 PM in Sage Labs room 2211, as they host a student-run event in the International Repair Cafe model, where volunteer repairers work to mend items brought in by other students and community members, learn about the repair movement, and work together to reduce waste, learn repair skills, and meet new people. There will also be a Junk Arts & Crafts station where people can transform trash into creative works.
What does plastic recycling have to do with colonialism? Can oaks save us from fire? How can we think through neurodivergence toward a more sustainable way of knowing? Three films by Pratama Yudya Pradeska (PhD, STS), Ethan Turpin (The Burn Cycle Project, Santa Barbara, CA), and Allison Leigh Holt (PhD, EARTs) break down these intersectional issues at the crux of our current and future climate reality. Curated by Allison Leigh Holt. Showings will be on April 16th in Sage 5510, from 7:00 - 10:00 PM.
Please join the Cognitive Science department at 12pm on Wednesday, April 17th, in Carnegie 113 for a presentation titled "From Seeing to Comprehending: The Complex Coordination Between Lower- and Higher-Level Processes During Reading" by Dr. Andriana Christofalos of the University at Albany.
GameFest returns to the Curtis R.
On Wednesday, April 24 from 4:00 - 6:30 PM, Graduating music majors will share their senior capstone projects, which encompass a wide range of disciplines, in the HASS Media Studio, DCC 174. Live and recorded performances from bands and the RPI orchestra will be featured, alongside presentations detailing students’ work. Refreshments will be available following the showcase.
May 18
1pm-4pm
NATURE Lab 3319 6th Avenue, Troy NY
Date: September 10
Time: 5-6:30pm
Location: CBIS Auditorium
Date: September 18
Time: 11:30am-1pm
Location: Sage 5711
Population Panics in Illiberal Times: Shifting Demographic Dynamics, Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory