Arts & Sciences Week 2019

Imagine, Innovate, Impact!

Download the WPI Mobile app and select the Arts & Sciences Week 2019 experience to get access to the full agenda from anywhere and receive updates/notifications during the event.

monday, september 16
8:15 am - 9:30 am	Moon Landing: State of the Art & Sciences Faculty & Staff Breakfast and Dean's Presentation Opening performance by WPI's Festival Chorus and welcome remarks by Provost Wole Soboyejo Location: Odeum A/B
11:45 am - 1:00 pm	Creative Minds, Innovative Spaces: A&S Faculty Lightning Talks Opening performance by WPI acepella group, Ketones Location: Foisie Amphitheatre
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Global Impact: The Latin American Experience Faculty Lightning Round Research Presentations, Scholar Talks & Reception Location: Odeum A/B Scholar Talks: Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Texas State University; and Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies, Brown University Featured WPI Speakers: John Galante, Aarti S. Madan, Angel Rivera, William San Martin, Carlos Odria, Laureen Elgert, Courtney Kurlanska, Joe Aguilar, Andy Trapp Reception at 5:00 pm with music by Carlos Odria, PhD, Ethnomusicologist and guitarist
7:00 pm	Karaoke Night at The Goat's Head Pizza provided by the School of Art & Sciences
Tuesday, September 17
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Going Global in Latin America: Inaugural Latin American Studies Project Awards This competition features the best IQP & HUA projects developed in project centers in Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean during the 2018 -2019 academic year. Location: Odeum A/B
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	The Artist's Way: Visual Art Design Showcase & Gallery Walk Featured artists: Farley Chery, Charlie Roberts, Karen Royer, Joshua Rosenstock, Gillian Smith, Ralph Sutter, Marie Keller, Roshanok Bigonah, Ed Gutierrez, Adryen Gonzalez Location: Foisie I& E Center, Foisie Amphitheatre, & Global Lab Mixed Reality Room
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Latin America Live + Reception Introductory remarks by Panmela Castro, Brazilian grafiteira and performance artist Featured artists: Panmela Castro, Brazilian grafiteira & performance artist Sheila del Bosque Trio Mariana Pachon Puentes and Kit Zellerbach (live coding of music) Location: Foisie 203 & 205, Foisie Amphitheatre
Wednesday, September 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	A&S Undergraduate Student Lightning Talks Opening performance by WPI acapella group, Simple Harmonic Motion Student presenters: Joshua Driscoll, Biology & Biotechnology Delainey O’Connor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Ching Wing Cheng, Computer Science Sahil Nawab and Enyonam Edoh, Professional Writing/Biochemistry Laura Staugler and Kayleigh Campbell, Mathematical SciencesModel” Megan Varney, Physics Floris Van Rossum, Robotics Engineering/Computer Science Paul Pacheco, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Alissa Ostapenko, Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences Location: Campus Center ’46 Lounge - 1st floor
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Justice and Urban Design Scholar talk by Yasar Adnan Adanali, Center for Spacial Justice Location: Hagglund Conference Room
Thursday, September 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Innovate Impact with Tom Szaky, Founder and CEO of TerraCycle and Martin Burt, WPI Entrepreneur in Residence (Brown Bag Lunch) Location: Chairman's Room
1:00 - 3:00 pm	Solve-a-Thon on Preventing Amazon Forest Fires Location: Foisie I&E Center
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Eliminating the Idea of Waste: A Great Minds Multiplied Lecture Tom Szaky, Founder and CEO of TerraCycle Location: Kinnicut Hall (Salisbury Labs 115)
friday, september 20
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Come on In!: Gateway Park Laboratory Open House Location: Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center, 60 Prescott St
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Innovation at the Forefront: A&S Graduate Student Lightning Talks Location: Foisie Amphitheatre
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	A&S Graduate Student Research Poster Session & Networking Event Location: Foisie 2nd floor Reception at 5pm in Foisie 203/205

Monday, September 16th

Monday, September 16, 2019
8:15am to 9:30am

Moon Landing: State of the Arts & Sciences Breakfast & Dean's Presentation

Moon Landing Dean's Presentation (1).jpg

View Event
Monday, September 16, 2019
11:45am to 1:00pm

Creative Minds, Innovative Spaces: A&S Faculty Lightning Talks

AS Faculty Lightning Talks_2.jpg

View Event
Monday, September 16, 2019
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Global Impact: The Latin American Experience - Faculty Lightning Round Research Presentations

Rubin Campus Center
United States

AS_Week_12x18_Global Impact Latin American Experience Lightning Talks (1).jpg

View Event
Monday, September 16, 2019
4:00pm to 6:00pm

Global Impact: The Latin American Experience - Scholar Talks and Reception

AS_Week_12x18_Scholar Talks Latin American Studies (1).jpg

View Event
Monday, September 16, 2019
7:00pm to 8:00pm

Karaoke Night at The Goat's Head

AS_Week_12x18_Karaoke Night at Goat's Head (1).jpg

View Event

Tuesday, September 17th

Wednesday, September 18th

Wednesday, September 18, 2019
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Student Lightning Talks

Undergraduate Student Lightning Talks Poster 2019 with names (3).jpg

View Event
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
4:00pm to 5:00pm

Social Justice and Urban Design: Yasar Adnan Adanali, Center for Spatial Justice

Scholar talk by Yasar Adnan Adanali, Center for Spatial Justice

yasar adnan adanali.tif_.jpg

Yaşar is an Istanbul-based urbanist, activist and researcher. He is one of the co-founders and the director of Center for Spatial Justice, a non-profit working towards fairer, more democratic, ecological urban and rural spaces. His PhD research in Habitat Unit (TU Berlin) is on the right to land movements of informally developed neighborhoods in Istanbul. Yaşar previously worked as an action planner with urban communities in Dominican Republic struggling against evictions and on refugee camp improvement projects in the Middle East. Since 2010, he has been teaching participatory planning and co-housing courses at Darmstadt Technical University (Germany) as a visiting lecturer. Yaşar is a voluntary consultant for Düzce Hope Homes, the first participatory social housing project in Turkey and one of the World Habitat Awards 2017 finalists. He has fellowships from Ashoka Foundation (2016) and Bertha Foundation (2019).
View Event