News

• A total of 77 student-athletes across 10 sports were named to the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll Friday for the 2021 fall semester. To be eligible for the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must participate in at least one of the league's 19 sponsored sports during the most recent (or current) season, have completed three semesters (four quarters where applicable) and own a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.00 scale. Leading the Colonials was the track & field and softball programs, which placed 13 student-athletes each on the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll. The RMU women's soccer program had 12 student-athletes earn a spot on the honor roll, followed by men's soccer (11), volleyball (10), women's basketball and men's golf (6 each) and men's cross country and men's basketball (1 each). Read more here.

Personal Mention

• Christine Holtz, university professor of media arts, has new photography included in URBAN, a juried exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, from January 21 through February 18.

You're Invited

• The Media Arts Visiting Artist and Scholar Program invites you to a public lecture with new media artist Lori Hepner on Tuesday, February 1, at 12:30 p.m. in the Wheatley Center Atrium. Lori Hepner is a Pittsburgh based new media artist working primarily in new media performance, wearable technologies, fine art photography, and community centered public art projects. She has spent considerable time over the last five years in artist residencies in two Pittsburgh neighborhoods, in a small Arctic community in coastal Norway, as well as in Finland, Iceland, and the Canadian Yukon. Hepner was featured in the WQED documentary, Visible, featuring five female artists from Pittsburgh, in Spring 2018, and focusing on the Color Beechview project, an intergenerational, community centered public art project in the city neighborhood of Beechview.

  A collaboration with singer Kendra Ross has manifested itself into live performance as Hepner & Ross in Intersection*ology. A feminist exploration into the power of women, technology, and individual voices, she developed the real‑time, light painting system that is used to draw with light using the body. Intersection*ology has been awarded grants by the Heinz Endowments, the 2018 Carnegie International, and The Opportunity Fund and has been performed at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios, in Durban, South Africa, the InLight Richmond Festival in Richmond, Virginia, and at the Luminaria Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Hepner's personal photographic work has been featured in Time, Wired, and Next Level Magazine and has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, in photo festivals in the Netherlands, China, and Spain One of her Twitter portraits from Status Symbols, as well as her performative photographs from #Crowdsourced Landscapes project, will be sent to live on the Moon in 2021 in The MoonArk project.

  Hepner holds an MFA in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. She was promoted to Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State University and recently returned from the community of Træna, Norway, where she founded a community makerspace and plastic recycling project for 3D printing, as a Fulbright Scholar. Learn more at www.lorihepner.com.

• As part of the Roger Gillan Program Speakers Series, the Department of Arts and Humanities will host a panel discussion Thursday, February 10, featuring novelist Megan Lucas, author of Songbirds & Stray Dogs. The event takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Wheatley Center Atrium and will focus on careers in writing and the publishing industry. Other panelists include Eliada Griffin El, the director of the Massey Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Sarah Monroe, marketing manager and acquisitions editor, West Virginia University Press; and Sara J. Gunkel '13, author of Dear Santa Paws. Anyone is welcome to attend this free event and should RSVP to Edward Karshner at karshner@rmu.edu. 

• The Career and Professional Development Center will be hosting two career fairs this Spring:

  In-Person Career Fair will be held Wednesday, February 23, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the UPMC Events Center. Sixty-five employers will be participating. Student Registration begins January 24 via Handshake. 

  Virtual Career Fair will be held Tuesday, March 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. via Handshake.com. Students can sign up for 10-minute, one-on-one and 30-minute, group employer sessions. Student Registration begins February 21 via Handshake.

Upcoming Sports

NCAA Division I

• Men's basketball vs. Milwaukee, Thursday, 1/27 @ 7 p.m. at the UPMC Events Center
• Women's basketball vs. Oakland, Friday, 1/28 @ 7 p.m. at the UPMC Events Center
• Men's lacrosse vs. Seton Hill (scrimmage), Saturday, 1/29 @ 1 p.m. at Joe Walton Stadium
• Men's basketball vs. Green Bay, Saturday, 1/29 @ 7 p.m. at the UPMC Events Center
• Women's basketball vs. Detroit Mercy, Sunday, 1/30 @ 1p.m. at the UPMC Events Center

Go to rmucolonials.com for ticketing and other information about NCAA Division sports at RMU.

Club Sports

• D1 Club Hockey vs Mercyhurst, Charity Game for Pets for Vets, Saturday 1/29 @ 8 p.m. at the RMU Island Sports Center
• Co-ed Tier II Roller Hockey vs Duquesne, Wednesday 2/2 @ 9:30pm at the RMU Island Sports Center

Go to rmuclubsports.com for more information about club sports at RMU.

Upcoming Concerts

• Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, March 10-11
• Trinity of Terror, April 7
• Lil Durk, April 26

All concerts are at the UPMC Events Center. Go to www.upmceventscenter.com for more information.