Kaimin Wang, BFA Interior Design ’24, participated in and won the UNI Moon Base competition 2024 with his entry Future City of Mars Colonization.
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Quilian Riano, dean of the School of Architecture, was a featured panelist on the nycoba|NOMA This is How We Built This! educators roundtable, which provided “the opportunity to explore what it means to be an architect and educator.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Estefania Velez Rodriguez was awarded a 2024 UCROSS Fellowship.
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Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at the Pratt Center, wrote a piece for City Limits about New York’s $5 billion climate opportunity. “With $5 billion at our disposal and the climate and housing crises looming, we can’t afford to continue the energy efficiency redlining that is currently built into the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) incentive design,” she writes. “It’s time to address long-standing inequities and make investments that will deliver clean energy technology to LMI communities hardest hit by historical disinvestments and the climate crisis.”
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The Seas by Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt was featured on Electric Literature’s list of “7 Books Channeling the Mythic Horror of Girlhood.”
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An exhibition by William Kim, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured as a “Must See” in Artforum.
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Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about PETA. “Its controversial tactics are not above critique,” writes Dutkiewicz. “But the key to PETA’s success has been its very refusal to be well-behaved, forcing us to look at what we might rather ignore: humanity’s mass exploitation of the animal world.”
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Lucy Clary, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’28, won the ‘paint out’ at the Evanston Plein Art Festival.
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Pratt is included in the Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition that features sustainability and other information from 511 schools.
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Visiting Professor in the School of Information Bill Levay, MSLIS ’15, presented at the Archivists Round Table symposium. He spoke about managing and migrating digital collections in recent years at the New York Philharmonic Archives.