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March 8, 2024
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Vignelli Center Lecture: Faride Mereb

When: March 19, 2024 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Where: Wegmans Theater, MAGIC Spell Studio

Faride Mereb is a Venezuelan award-winning book designer, researcher, and educator based in New York City. She is presenting on campus as part of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies' Design Conversations lecture series at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in MAGIC Spell Studios' Wegmans Theater.
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Vignelli Center Spring Open House

When: March 20th and 21st, 2024 10:00 pm–4:00 pm
Where: Vignelli Center for Design Studies

"If you can design one thing, you can design everything."

The Vignellis were the rare type of designers who worked across all design disciplines and often for the same client. The Vignelli Center for Design Studies' next round of Open Houses will focus on the theme “Design is One.” We’ll be focusing on the clients for which the Vignellis did it all. Graphic identity and publications. Products and furniture. Interiors and exhibitions. See how “Design is One” comes to life through the archives. 
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EmpowHER: Engaging Meaningful Programs& Outcomes With HER

When: March 20, 2024, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm
Where: Student Alumni Union, MOSAIC, Room 2510

Undergraduate and Graduate students are welcome to join Counseling and Psychological Services therapists, Patrice Anderson, LMHC, Dr. Tiarra Mitchell, Psy.D., and Shantél Richardson, LMHC, and Gena Willis from DDI/MCAS on Wednesday’s for this weekly group meeting aimed to give RIT Students a safe space to process feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Sessions will include topics and crafts regarding self-love, painting, vision boards, games, and more!
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READ FASTER, UNDERSTAND MORE: Strategies for academic reading in your graduate classes

When: March 21, 2024, 12:00pm–12:50pm
Where: Monroe Hall 2000

Read articles for your graduate classes more efficiently. This workshop will present reading strategies, look at common organization patterns in research papers from various fields, and identify common language that introduces “moves” of research paper.

Josh Snyder and Kris Mook from the English Language Center will show you how to develop an approach to improve your reading and understanding of research articles.
 
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Spreading joy and peanut butter 

Dean Diane Slusarski and Assistant Director, Lauren Cannon, donned bright orange hairnets and entered the bustling scene at the annual United Way Campaign kickoff event- PB Jam, hosted by CLCE last Friday.

Students, faculty, and campus visitors alike, gathered under one roof, united by a singular mission: to spread joy, one sandwich at a time. Together, they rolled up their sleeves and joined a sandwich-making marathon, churning out 2000 PB&J creations destined for organizations like the Center for Youth, the Boys and Girls Club, Willow, and the YWCA.

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New grant supports Image Permanence Institute’s research on the stability of 3D-printed objects

Museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions have embraced 3D printing as a tool for display, storage, preservation and conservation, and more. However, there is not much known about the safety and longevity of 3D-printed materials in these contexts, despite their widespread use within cultural heritage.

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RIT Datafest: Creative Use of AI Contest With the Fram Chair

Join us in the Gosnell Atrium on Friday, March 8th, at 4 PM for an inaugural social event and information session. Please submit your work to be displayed and judged before 6 PM Friday, March 22nd, at RIT DataFest. Top winners are invited to display their works at UPSTAT and Imagine RIT.

Students will use ‘prompt engineering’ of ChatGPT and other AI systems towards a creative goal or task. Some examples might include AI-generated computer code towards a creative task, creative pieces of writing or visual art or design, deceptions such as a fake scientific article or a deep-faked news video, or a prompted AI interaction that probes its ability to appear human (Turing Test) or its potential for self-awareness (Gallup Mirror Test)  

To participate, email a letter of intent to enter the contest by Friday, March 15th, to Dr. Ernest Fokoue at epfeqa@rit.edu and Dr. Gregory Babbitt at gabsbi@rit.edu. Please include a title, objective/goal, and a 200-word proposed plan. Please email Gregory Babbit with any questions!