News – RISD Academic Affairs

Dr. Claudia B. Rebola Featured at Georgia Tech

Written on March 2, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Under the direction of Claudia B. Rebola (Associate Professor, Industrial Design), the 2016 TechSAge Design Competition was launched in October 2015 and sought to inspire talented designers to develop innovative, technology-enabled design solutions...

Rebola lectures on Aging and Human-Robot-Hybridity

Written on March 2, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Claudia Rebola (Associate Professor, Industrial Design) will be speaking at two conferences in April. SGS New Horizons in Aging“Design Thinking as a Strategy for Older Adults Solutions”Authors: Dr. Claudia B. Rebola and Elizabeth Hermann...

Hall Appointed Dean of Libraries

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Library, Updates from & for Faculty.

Dear RISD Community, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Lareese Hall as RISD’s Dean of Libraries. Lareese comes to RISD from MIT where she has served as an Architecture + Art Librarian since 2014. In her position at MIT, Lareese has worked...

RISD Museum and Sheridan Center Fall Workshops

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty, Updates from the Museum of Art.

Unframed Objects: A Sheridan-RISD Museum Workshop Series This Sheridan Center-RISD Museum collaborative workshop series invites instructors to explore object-based teaching and learning opportunities at Brown and beyond. Participants will learn how...

Albani Appointed Associate Director, Off-Campus Global Learning

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty.

RISD Global is delighted to announce that effective 1st September, 2016, Valeria Albani will assume the role of Associate Director, Off-Campus Global Learning. Valeria brings to this role multi-lingual skills, experience living, studying and working...

Better and Textiles Students, Tilt-Down Fence, Dorchester

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Fine Arts.

Hansy Better (Professor, Architecture) and RISD Textiles students are currently working on a public arts installation at Fields Corner Station, Dorchester. The piece entitled Tilt-Down Fence was designed and installed by the BR+A+CE (Building Research...

Raftery Showing at Ryan Lee Gallery, NYC

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Andrew Raftery (Professor, Printmaking) will open his new exhibition entitled Autobiography of a Garden on Twelve Engraved Plates at the Ryan Lee Gallery (515 West 26th Street) in New York City. The exhibition opens on 10th September with a reception...

The Way Macaulay Works, Illustration Studies + RISD Auditorium

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Writing Center Welcomes Jim Zvi, Assistant Director ELL

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Writing Center.

http://academicaffairs.risd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/jim-zvi.mp4 The Writing Center is delighted to introduce Jim Zvi, RISD’s new Assistant Director of English Language Learning (ELL). Jim will work as an educator and advocate for RISD’s ELL...

Maly’s DredgeFest Turns Up Award

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Research.

Tim Maly (Assistant Professor, Industrial Design) and his DredgeFest research team won the American Society of Landscape Architects 2016 Honors Award for Communications. The DredgeFest Research Collaborative is a roving symposium, field expedition,...

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