Friday / April 24, 2026 at 8:00 pm How does a site choreograph us? How might we re-choreograph it—or at least allow its architecture to hold our sense of time differently? Performance nibia pastrana santiago

Friday / April 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm How does dance take up space in the world? Why pay attention to the histories of the places where people gather to create and watch choreography? What happens when those places are contested? Talk Arabella Stanger

Please join the Cognitive Science and Computer Science Departments on Wednesday, April 29th, at 12pm in Carnegie 113 for a seminar by Dr. Ora Lassila titled "Symbolic AI in the Age of LLMs". Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

Please join us as the Department of Economics welcomes Dr. Kyunghoon Ban, who will present: "Difference-in-Differences Models in the Presence of Mediators" next Wednesday, April 29th at 3:30 PM in SAGE 5510.

Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Join the MANE Student Advisory Council (SAC) for Cookies, Coffee, and Questins! Provide the MANE Department feedback on the Spring 2026 semester to get free cookies and coffee! Table will be located on the second floor of the JEC.

Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 4:00 AM - 7:00 AM - RCOS and Computer Science present the CS Expo, a gathering of undergraduate and graduate research poster presentations. Come and see what your friends have been working on in RCOS, in undergraduate research, and in other courses. Light refreshments will be available. We hope you’ll join us!

Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 (all day) - Across the EMPAC building, creative experiments in dance and theater explore power, control, freedom, mutual responsibility, and the potential to move differently. Join us to witness — and even participate in — experiences by rule-breaking artists. RSVP for the group activation of "Raft" by Yanira Castro | a canary torsi; the talk "Dancing Land, Dancing Power" from Arabella Stanger; and the performance "preámbulo" by nibia pastrana santiago. All festival installations are open 11AM–10PM Friday.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team battled through a tightly contested Liberty League matchup on the road, ultimately falling to Union by a narrow 4-3 margin.

Thursday / April 23, 2026 at 6:00 pm The festival opens with a gathering: a free, family-style, long-table supper co-hosted by artist Yanira Castro, with creative contributions by partners and artists from across Troy, NY and the Capital Region, including food grounded in Indonesian ancestral traditions by Chef Ria Ibrahim and musical offerings by Taína Asili.

April 23-May 8, 2026 How are our bodies formed by the shifting ground that holds us up? How do we reshape and reform over time? How are we aligned in space and time with the environment around us? Installation Meg Foley & Carmichael Jones