Friday, November 5, 2009
Deadlines
11.16 5:00pm | Gindroz Prize Applications Due to Susan Tolmer, CFA 100
11.16-11.21 | Spring Registration
SoArch Events
11.09 10:30am | (SBW) - Attend an Architecture Class
11.09 11:30am | (SBW) - Architecture Information Session and Tour
11.09 1:30pm | (SBW) - Architecture Open Studios
11.09 4:30pm | Year 2 Group Advising Meeting
11.11 4:30pm | Year 4 Group Advising Meeting
11.18 7:00pm | Boston Alumni Reception
CMU Events
11.09 8:00pm, Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland | Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Concert Part of City Wide Holocaust Project. Maestro Ronald Zollman leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a performance of works by prominent European-Jewish composers whose music was banned during the Nazi regime. The performance is part of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project, a month-long collaborative effort with a variety of Pittsburgh organizations that creates educational programming to inspire dialogue about the Holocaust. Tickets for this concert are $5 for general admission, $4 for senior citizens, and free to all college students with valid ID. Press Release[pdf]
11.09 4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) | The Humanities Center Lectures, 2009-2010: Global Connections, Global Responsibilities Is Water ‘The New Oil’?” The New Water Monopolies and the World’s Poor Karen Piper, University of Missouri-Columbia Co-sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy (CAAEPP)
11.11 6:00-8:00pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) | Great Decisions Webcast: Egypt in the 21st Century Panel discussion webcast from World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh Details
11.11 7:00pm, Baker Hall A51 (Giant Eagle Auditorium) | Design Lecture Series 2009- 2010 "Type Outside the Bubble" Christian Schwartz (Design '99), Type designer, Schwartzco Inc.
11.12 4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall) | Managing Risk in the Global Society Stewart E. Sutin, University of Pittsburgh
11.13 12:30-2:00pm, Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Schenley Room (4215 Fifth Avenue) | Cyprus: The European Union's Lighthouse in the Eastern Mediterranean- Why Reunification Matters His Excellency Andreas Kakouris, Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States and High Commissioner of Cyprus to Canada
11.11-12.02 | The International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Test will be offered CARNEGIE MELLON POLICY and Pennsylvania State Law (English Fluency in Higher Education Law) require that all nonnative English speakers (NNES), both graduate and undergraduate, pass the ITA Test before they can work as teaching assistants who interact with students. Note that the test is required for TAs on both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses.
Pittsburgh Events
11.12 6:30pm | PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS and the THREE RIVERS FILM FESTIVAL present: Is Film Dead? The Changing Ways Movies are Made and Displayed link
Faculty News
Freddie Croce and Jennifer Lucchino's architecture firm, inter*ARCHITECTURE, was featured in Pop City "Cool Digs: Pittsburgh Architecture Part Two". Projects from adjunct faculty, Gerard Damiani and Jeff King are discussed, as well. Their project was also featured in an article in the Post-Gazette last September, when their building was on the Friendship House Tour.