Digital Fellows Workshop on Image Manipulation

This semester, the Digital Fellows at the Graduate Center are offering free workshops for all students and faculty. These workshops will go beyond introducing you to software and websites; we’ll be suggesting new, digital solutions to ongoing research problems. The latest workshop of the Spring 2014 term: Introduction to Image Editing Thursday, April 10th 2014 – 6:30-8:30pm; Room C196.03 In this workshop Digital Fellows Alice Lynn McMichael and Micki Kaufmanwill demonstrate the use of Adobe Photoshop for image editing in digital or print production. With a special emphasis on WordPress, social media and high-resolution print production techniques, attendees interested in …

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Brownbag Series: Julian Agyeman on Just Sustainabilities

Critical Social/Personality & Environmental Psychology Brownbag Series in partnership with the Geography Earth Science & Oceanography Series (GEOS) present: Julian Agyeman, Ph.D. Tufts University (Medford, MA) Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Just Sustainabilities: Re-Imagining E/Quality, Living Within Limits   Wednesday, April 2, 2014 11:45 AM Room 6304.01 The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Ave, New York

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Graduate Center HASTAC and CUNY Futures Initiative Fellows Programs

Graduate Center HASTAC and CUNY Futures Initiative Fellows Programs In July 2014, two new programs will be coming to the Graduate Center and will be working collaboratively with existing Graduate Center programs, including the GC Digital Fellows Program.  The online open learning community HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) will be moving its central administrative offices to the Graduate Center.  In tandem with teams of researchers and technologists at hubs at Duke University, the University of California at Irvine, the Simpson Center at the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, HASTAC  (“Changing the Way We …

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ARC Student Research Praxis Awards 2014-2015

ARC Student Research Praxis Awards 2014-2015   As part of its effort to encourage student research, the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) will be offering a number of Research Praxis Fellowships for the coming academic year 2014-2015. The Awards are valued at $4,000 each and are for one semester only.   To be eligible, you must be a full time registered doctoral student who has completed the First Exam but not yet completed the Second at the time of the tenure of the award. Preference will be given to those who have been enrolled for no more than three years and …

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Upcoming Technological Skills Workshops at the GC

We are pleased to announce the UPDATED Spring 2014 Skills Workshop schedule. These workshops, designed as part of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program core curriculum, are free (except as noted) and open to MALS and Ph.D. students at the CUNY Graduate Center. To register for a workshop, email lwalker1@gc.cuny.edu. Wednesday February 19, 6:30-8:30pm HTML workshop with Jared Pike Wednesday February 26, 6:30-8:30pm Wiki workshop part 2 with Ann Matsuuchi Thursday March 6, 6:30-8:30pm WordPress 1 with Patrick Smyth Wednesday March 12, 6:30-8:30pm CSS with Jared Pike Thursday March 20, 6:30-8:30pm WordPress 2 with Patrick Smyth Wednesday March 26, 6:30-8:30pm Mobile App Development Basics with Damon …

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