Members of RENCI staff will be on hand to demonstrate technologies at the Open House.

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC Asheville invites the public to attend a drop-in open house to be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at the RENCI at UNC Asheville Community Engagement Site, located in Suite 116 of the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public. Visitors will see a 16-foot visualization wall, an immersive GeoDome, and 3-D visualizations in action as they learn about projects such as mapAsheville’s Priority Places, the newly released Urban Growth Model for the Asheville region, a multi-hazard risk analysis tool, geographic information systems (GIS)-based analysis of threats to eastern forests, flooding impacts and mitigation, and geospatial climate information viewers. For more information on the event, see http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2009/RENCIopenhouse.html.

GIS Day at RENCI at UNC Asheville

RENCI at UNC Asheville and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (A-B Tech) announce the third annual celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day in Western North Carolina. The community drop-in event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the RENCI at UNC Asheville Community Engagement Site, located in Suite 116 of the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public. For more on the event, see http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2009/GIS_DAY.html

Official Ribbon Cutting at the Grand Opening of the RENCI at UNC Asheville Engagement Site

Community and university leaders celebrated the opening of the new downtown location of RENCI at UNC Asheville on October 1. The event featured a ceremonial ribbon cutting and messages of support for the Asheville center from Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina System, UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder, and Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy. For more on the grand opening, see the Asheville Citizen-Times story and video and WLOS ABC 13 story and video.

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