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VR Open Lab

OpenLab connects the Pitt community with technology for hand-on making and experiential learning. Drop in to experience virtual reality, learn to 3D print and 3D scan, use a vinyl cutter, or laser cut onto virtually any material.

 Bobbi Watt Geer

Join us for the Francis Hesselbein Lecture Series featuring Bobbi Watt Geer on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 10:30 am - Noon in the Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, Third Floor.
Bobbi Watt Geer, Ph.D. (GSPIA '09) is President & CEO of United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania and has had a more than 35-year career in the nonprofit sector. ...more

Digital Media & Design Showcase

You are invited to stop by Open Lab @ Hillman Library (Room 132) on Thursday, April 10, 2025 from Noon - 3 p.m. to view the innovative digital and design projects created by students in English and Digital Narrative & Interactive Design courses, or in connection with campus makerspaces. Please stay awhile, explore, and celebrate! Light refreshments and snacks provided! This event is free to the Pitt community.

Gephi log and networking graphic

This workshop will share strategies and resources for arts and humanities scholars to explore relationships in their research data. Whether you study literature, history, art, or another humanistic field, join English PhD candidate & Digital Scholarship Services GSA Yujin Jang on Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 2-3:30pm at Hillman Library, Room 254 (Executive Conference Room) to learn more about how you might create, visualize, and analyze networks using Gephi!

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Archival Scholars in Conversation Logo

Join us on Friday, April 11, 2025 from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, 340 Hillman Library, 3rd Floor where students will talk about their research into the University Library System's archival, rare, or special collections. Following the conversation, the students will officially launch their exhibit on the Archives & Special Collections Digital Interactive Wall.

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City of Bones Gem of The Confluence, A Listening Session

Please join us on April 25, 2025 from 6-8 p.m.at the Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, 340 Hillman Library, 3rd Floor for a listening party which will feature sound works created by Malik Washington. Malik Washington is a recipient of the August Wilson Archive Community Artist Scholar Award and will present and discuss his recently created body of work which is based on August Wilson's play Gem of the Ocean, set in Pittsburgh circa 1904....more

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