Events

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025: Accessibility in Action

Thursday, May 15, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rangos Ballroom, CUC

Join us for dynamic half-day event dedicated to advancing digital access and enhancing user experiences.

This year’s event will feature a fireside chat with Jennison Asuncion, LinkedIn’s head of accessibility engineering evangelism and co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Explore various accessibility topics through lightning talks, product demos and interactive table discussions covering screen readers, ADHD research, accessible document tools and more.

Registration is required.

Ensuring Successful Research & Program Partnerships with the Pittsburgh Public Schools

Thursday, May 15, 11 a.m. to noon, CUC Danforth

Please join the Simon Initiative in welcoming Dr. Ted Dwyer, chief accountability officer, and Jennifer Jacobs, director of research and evaluation, from the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) Data, Research, Evaluation, and Accountability team to campus for a session titled "Ensuring Successful Research + Program Partnerships with Pittsburgh Public Schools."

Dwyer and Jacobs will present best practices for how members of the CMU community can engage with PPS in a research or program capacity while ensuring compliance with the district's requirements. This will include updated and comprehensive information about the PPS IRB process (a requirement for many engagement opportunities with the district) and allow time for questions. If you have ever been interested in creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with the district that ensure compliance with all PPS requirements, this is your chance to talk to the folks who make it happen!

This event will not be able to be recorded. Registration is required.

If you have any questions, please reach out directly to the Simon Initiative K-12 Coordinator, Lindsay Forman (lforman@andrew.cmu.edu)

AANHPI Month Luncheon Featuring Dr. Rosalind Chow

Tuesday, May 20, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., McKenna, Peter & Wright Rooms, CUC

Part of the May celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage.

Join us for a special luncheon featuring Professor Rosalind Chow of the Tepper School of Business, who will guide an engaging conversation highlighting the remarkable contributions of prominent Asian American leaders, activists, artists and beyond. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about the impactful legacies within the AANHPI community.

Share stories, connect and be part of a meaningful discussion that celebrates the richness and strength of community. All are welcome!

Register for the luncheon.

Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion

Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society - The Art of Hospitality

May 28 to 30, all day, various locations within the CUC

The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus.

2025 Special Focus — The Art of Hospitality

• Theme 1: Pedagogies of the Arts
• Theme 2: Arts Histories and Theories
• Theme 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts
• Theme 4: The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life

Register for the conference

2025 LEAP Showcase

Saturday, May 31, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., The Frame Gallery

Join us at The Frame Gallery for the 2025 LEAP Showcase, featuring original artwork by high school students in CMU’s LEAP program! Discover how these local, young students use storytelling in the arts and humanities to express ideas about social change. Enjoy free food from the Mommalicious Food Truck!