Friday, October 16, 2009

Fall 2009, Week 8

Deadlines

10.19 Mid-Semester Grades due by 9:00pm
10.21 Mini Grades due by 9:00pm

SoArch Events

10.29 6:00pm, Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre | Carnegie Mellon's David Lewis Lecture Series Presents Renowned Practitioner and Urban Theorist Peter Bosselmann
10.30 4:00pm, Hunt Library 4th Floor | Open House and Exhibit: Le Corbusier: An Architect of Books; with Scale Models of Le Corbusier's Villas Built by SoArch First-Year Students
10.30 5:00pm, CFA 214 | Faculty/Student/Alumni Dialogue "Intersection of Art and Technology"
10.31 1:00-3:00pm | Tour the Solar Decathlon and Digital Fabrication Lab

CMU Events

10.19 5:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) | In conjunction with Brazil Today course The Many Faces of Brazilian Jazz Lilly Abreu, Soprano and Jazz Vocalist
10.19 7:00pm, Rashid Auditorium in the Gates Center for Computer Science | Giler Humanities Scholars/International Relations and Politics Program Speaker Series American Politics: A View From Home and Abroad Andrew Sullivan, British blogger, author, and political commentator
10.19 7:30 p.m., Kresge Recital Hall | Professor Sergey Schepkin, Carnegie Mellon Performance:  Book II of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier in concert  This performance is free and open to the public.
10.20 4:30pm, Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall 103 (Breed Hall) | International Relations & Politics Program Program Speaker Series Annotations on Europe after the 2009 Parliamentary Elections Eva Maria Höller-Cladders, former Senior Vice President, Robert Bosch GmbH
10.21 7:00pm, Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland | Franklin Toker, University of Pittsburgh will be discussing his new book "Pittsburgh: A New Portrait":  No admission to either the museum or the talk.
10.21 2:00pm, Hamburg Hall 1000, Heinz College | International Relations Politics Program Speaker Series America’s Global Navy: In the Middle East and Beyond Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations
10.22 4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) | Title TBA (on growing food in urban settings) Dickson Despommier, Columbia University
10.23 2:30pm, TBA | From Research Lab to Jungle Ops: Computer speech translation for humanitarian relief Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon Unviersity
10.24 7:00pm, Kresge Recital Hall, CFA | Special Event: $10 general admission/ $8 students/ seniors alekhya: Spilling Ink presented by the Spilling Ink Project, (Washington, DC)

Pittsburgh Events

11.06-21 The Three Rivers Film Festival 
Through 11.08 | Scavenger Hunt with City Theatre in the South Side to help promote their new production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a cellphone based experience. Players look around the neighborhood for clues, solve puzzles and receive information that furthers their pursuit of the nefarious Edward Hyde.  The game will be running through 11.08.

Competitions

Detaching from Architecture The 2nd International Student Competition in Architecture  Deadline 28 November     
2010 Urban Land Instittute / Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Student Competition  Deadline:  04 December

Opportunities

2010 Gensler African American Internship & Scholarship   Deadline:  15 January 2010  
Eindhoven University of Technology has two fully funded open positions in the area of building energy and lighting simulation.  The first position is for 4 year PhD research.  The second is for a postdoc position until the end of 2010 and starting as soon as possible. 

Faculty News

Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy | Their Boston gallery, pinkcomma, was recently written up. The Double Feature "Heroic" and "Publishing Practices" appeared in October's Architect's Newspaper Blog.

Alumni News

Case Technologies, Inc. and Autodesk held a Collaborative Design and Construction Town Hall Luncheon on October 6 in CFA 214. 
Robert J. Worsing (BArch '56) | Passed away on October 9.