SoArch This Week - School of Architecture - Carnegie Mellon University

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 IDPress 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.