Open House: Milstein Center

Please see below for more information on the OPEN HOUSE: THE MILSTEIN CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, which will take place on Friday, October 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m

The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning serves as the academic hub in the heart of the Barnard College campus. Opened in Fall 2018, it is a distinctive place that convenes students and faculty, facilitates collaboration, fosters dialogue, and links departments and disciplines across campus. Its library brings together current technologies and learning spaces in interactive settings, and its centers offer students the opportunity to explore areas such as design, media, movement, empirical reasoning, and computational science. 

• Movement Lab (Lower Level, Room 020) — Visit the Movement Lab, a space for experimentation at the intersection of movement, performance, and technology, and experience our Stillness Lab, an immersive projection and audio environment designed to encourage you to relax, reset, and explore an often-overlooked element of movement: stillness. 
• Empirical Reasoning Center (1st Floor, Room 102) — The Empirical Reasoning Center (ERC) is a centralized support system for any and all things data, providing the campus community with tools to engage critically with data in all forms. Join us today to create a data visualization postcard using your own data, and collect some T-shirts and stickers along the way! 
• Digital Humanities Center (1st Floor, Room 103) — The Digital Humanities Center (DHC) is a space for students, staff, and faculty to think critically about technology through humanities research and courses. Visit to enjoy DHC zines, coloring pages, puzzles, cookies, and a featured book display. 
• Design Center (1st Floor, Room 104) — The Design Center is an interdisciplinary makerspace that offers tool training and project support and addresses the powerful ways in which design and making impact our lives — stop by to see our tools in action and view students’ creations.
• Sloate Media Center (1st Floor, Room 105) — Participate in a stop-motion animation workshop at the Media Center, where you will bring life to objects through the magic of frame rates, and celebrate with a mini film festival at the end! The stop-motion animation workshop will begin at 10:30 a.m. and last approximately one hour. 
• Center for Engaged Pedagogy (1st Floor, Room 126) — The Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP) strengthens Barnard’s deep academic engagement and support for student, faculty, and community well-being. Stop by to pick up stickers and snacks, browse the CEP reference library, and reflect on student learning in action. 
• Information and Circulation Desk (2nd Floor) — The Information and Circulation Desk staff welcomes visitors to the Library on the second floor of the Milstein Center, supporting access to our spaces and collections. They will be available to provide directions and will share information about our collections, including our games. 
• Barnard Zine Library (2nd Floor, on the right past the Circulation Desk) — The Barnard Zine Library collect zines created by women, nonbinary, and trans authors; a sample of zines created by students and others will be available to peruse, discuss, and take home!
• Personal Librarians (3rd Floor Office Suite; turn right after exiting elevator) — Stop by to pick up swag and learn more about the Personal Librarians, who aim to help Barnard students become sophisticated users of information for their academic and personal lives as well as their professional endeavors.
• Athena Center for Leadership (4th Floor) — The Athena Center for Leadership is Barnard’s hub for creative, collaborative change-makers. Come talk to students and staff about all Athena has to offer.
• Barnard Archives & Special Collections (4th Floor, Room 423) — Visit the Barnard Archives to talk with archivists and explore Barnard’s past through yearbooks, photographs, and other primary sources from our signature collections.
• FLI Partnership Library (4th Floor, South Side) — Through the FLI Partnership Library, first-generation and/or low-income (FLI) students can borrow books used in their courses for the entire semester, making accessing books for class simple, efficient, and free of cost.
• Vagelos Computational Science Center (5th Floor, Room 516) — The Diana T. Vagelos and P. Roy Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC) facilitates the understanding, exploration, and use of computational science and technology across disciplines by engaging students, faculty, and staff in learning about computing in meaningful ways. Stop by to learn more and interact with the visualization wall. The CSC will be open from 11 to 11:15 a.m. only. 
• Barnard Center for Research on Women (6th Floor, Room 614) — The Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) is committed to vibrant and engaged research, pedagogy, art, and activism, supporting the work of scholars and activists to advance intersectional social justice, refine how we understand the world around us, and contribute to social transformation.