RPI 2016 Earth Week Kick-Off

RPI 2016 Earth Week Kick-Off

When: April 16, 2016 @ 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Where: RPI Student Union, 15th St & Sage Ave, Troy, NY 12180, USA

SAVE THE DATE, REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS  Saturday, April 16, 9:30-5:30 RPI 2016 Earth Week Kick-Off Saturday RPI Student Union, 15th Street and Sage, Troy RPI’s 2016…

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Meeting: Capital Region Sustainability Educators' Working Group

Meeting: Capital Region Sustainability Educators’ Working Group

When: October 5, 2014 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Radix Center/Campus South Center, 153 Grand Street, Albany, NY 12202, USA

Meetings of sustainability educators in the Capitol Region are opportunities to make new connections, learn about initiatives in the region, and discuss potential collaboration. All…

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Talk: Terike Haapoja - A View From Nowhere - tracing the animal perspective

Talk: Terike Haapoja – A View From Nowhere – tracing the animal perspective

When: October 2, 2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where: Room 211, West Hall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Terike Haapoja is a Finnish -born visual artist, currently based in Berlin. Having a specific focus in how the non-human world and its inhabitants are…

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Talk: Amy Franceschini - Future Farmers

Talk: Amy Franceschini – Future Farmers

When: October 16, 2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where: Room 211, West Hall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding us. Founded…

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Talk: Heather Davis – Plastic: An Ethology of Oil

Talk: Heather Davis – Plastic: An Ethology of Oil

When: November 6, 2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where: Room 211, West Hall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

From airplanes to medical technologies to the containers that surround food shipped from across the world to our phones and computers, so many of the…

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Demonstration: Citizens' Water Monitoring Lights Up

Demonstration: Citizens’ Water Monitoring Lights Up

When: April 26, 2014 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
Where: Robinson Pool, Robison Pool, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Anthropologist and tech-innovator Sara Wylie (Northeastern Environmental Health Research Institute), working with tech-innovators in the Troy community, will demonstrate technologies developed to help citizens monitor water quality…

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Film and Discussion: Bhopali

Film and Discussion: Bhopali

When: April 25, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: CBIS Auditorium, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Bhopali is a documentary about the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, drawing out the enduring impacts of exposure to toxic chemicals and questions…

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Panel and Discussion: Sustainability, Economics and STS

Panel and Discussion: Sustainability, Economics and STS

When: April 23, 2014 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Where: CBIS AUditorium, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Economists Faye Duchin and John Gowdy (Rensselaer) will describe their current research, and how it advances contemporary theory and practice in Economics, while contributing to growing understanding…

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Research Roundtable: Cultivating Art and Science Sensibilities: Bioart + Biotech

Research Roundtable: Cultivating Art and Science Sensibilities: Bioart + Biotech

When: April 23, 2014 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Where: CBIS Bruggerman, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

 

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Lecture: Water is Life

Lecture: Water is Life

When: April 24, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Where: CBIS Auditorium, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Geomicrobiologist Yuri Gorby discusses the increasing loss of freshwater resources and the implications for environmental and human health.

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