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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Students Explore Intersections of Photography and Wildlife Conservation with Camera Traps
Pratt Institute recently welcomed wildlife biologist Dr. Roland Kays, who is research associate professor at North Carolina State University and director of the Biodiversity and Earth Observation Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, to the Brooklyn…
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Graduate History of Art and Design
The Art of Protest: What Role Do Artists Play as the Agents of Change?
The recent political climate has spurred a proliferation of artist involvement in expressions of protest and resistance, from banners and signs used at the Women’s March on Washington to works shared on social media or displayed in more conventional museum…
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
National Science Foundation Awards $938,000 Grant to Pratt for Science Learning Project
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of over $938,000 to Pratt Institute for the development of a project, “Research and Development on Understanding STEM Identity Using Live Cultural Experiences” (National Science Award Number: 1612719), which will be…
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Macarena Gómez-Barris Named Chair of Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies
Author, scholar, researcher, and teacher Macarena Gómez-Barris will become Chair of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies within the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Pratt Institute at the start of the fall 2016 semester. She will…
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Beyond Flint, Michigan: Addressing the Challenge of Environmental Racism
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and high levels of lead found in the water supply of schools in Newark, New Jersey, and other underserved communities have heightened concerns and awareness of the issue of environmental racism. Carl Zimring, associate…
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor James Hannaham Wins Prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
James Hannaham, associate professor of humanities and media studies in Pratt’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the 2016 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Delicious Foods, which was published in 2015. Hannaham is a core faculty member…
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A Syrian Classroom Reveals Bright Spot in War-Torn Country
Visiting Instructor of Humanities and Media Studies Wes Enzinna recently traveled to Rojava, a Kurdish autonomous region in the north of civil war-ravaged Syria, to teach journalism at the Mesopotamian Social Sciences Academy. He wrote about his experiences in The New…
