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Ever wonder how rainfall becomes drinking water?  Flo: The Watershed Project, a new game simulation by Rensselaer students directed by Professor of Arts Kathleen Ruiz, lets you experience the journey for yourself—and gives you a unique, memorable perspective on this vital process! 

Five RPI graduate students present an impressive range of work in digital animation and photography,electro-acoustic chamber music, and accompanied film on Sunday May 12, 6–8 PM in West Hall Gallery.  Free and open to the public.

"Anyone who follows dual keyboardists like Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia or Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson will be staggered by the work here. Completely improvised, the nine interlocking suites expose almost all variations of what can be extracted from 176 keys." 

"A Sunday walk in Prospect Park is usually a quiet affair, possibly with children's voices heard from afar. This past Sunday, however, the park was filled with the sound of drums; the Taiko drums of Japan, American-Indian drums and even the well-known drums of the Troy High School Drum Corp.  The sounds of the world's percussion traditions were brought to the park by Michael Century, a pianist and composer who is also a professor of new media and music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute."

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Please check out the in-depth interview with retiring RPI Professor Neil Rolnick, the lead article on this month's NewMusicBox.org.  Prof Rolnick talks about his career as a composer and plans for the future.  With video and music links.

The Deep Listening Institute is accepting proposals for scholarly lectures, poster presentations, or experience-oriented expositions and/or demonstrations, for the First International Conference on Deep Listening.  The deadline for submission is April 15, 2013.  For more information, please see http://deeplistening.org/site/conference

The Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites applications, expressions of interest, and nominations for the position of full-time Lecturer in Music.  Deadline: May 6, 2013.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Program Ranked in Top 15 Out of 150 Programs in U.S. and Canada

Anton Hand, Master of Fine Arts student is thrilled to announce that RUST LTD’s entry “The Museum of the Microstar” was awarded first place in the Unity DirectX 11 game competition.

and reception for Professor Mary Anne Staniszewski's new book Alternative Histories: New York Art Space, 1960 to 2010.  Friday January 4, 2013, 6 to 8 PM

Professor Mary Anne Staniszewski's new book, Alternative Histories: New York Art Space, 1960 to 2010 (co-edited with Lauren Rosati, MIT Press/Exit Art) was reviewed by the New York Times and described as "an indispensable source book . . . that stands as vibrant and irrefutable evidence of what happens when people take things into their own hands."

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is please to invite community participation from across the Capital District for a seasonal Festival Choir.

The school of HASS is seeking candidates for all levels, including tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor with tenure.

The annual ranking of Rensselaer by U.S. News & World Report — 41st in the nation among national research universities — is one of a number of recent external surveys that recognize the high quality of a Rensselaer education.