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Kathy Wang, BID ’20, and her BroadAR, Inc. co-founder Ziqing Li were honored with a 2021 San Francisco Design Week Award for Smell Revived, the first virtual reality smell training system targeting post-COVID smell dysfunction.

Eddie Bautista, alumnus and visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was featured in Crain’s New York Business for his work tackling environmental racism through green policies in underserved communities, something that goes back to his childhood in Red Hook: “I made the connection to race, class and our lack of political power and the way our neighborhood was neglected.”

The inaugural fellows for the New Voices in Architectural Journalism initiative launched by the Architect’s Newspaper in partnership with the Pratt School of Architecture have been announced. Monty Rush, Ekam Singh, and Catherine Chattergoon will be joining the mentor-based journalism program for undergraduate and graduate Pratt architecture students in the 2021-22 academic year.

Incoming writing student Lily Burgess and a Pratt print sale held near campus were included in the New York Times Magazine feature “NYC Wakes Up” on how the city has reopened with increased vaccination.

Elise Kaufman, adjunct associate professor of foundation, was profiled in a Provincetown Independent story on her mixed media work that involves photography, printmaking, drawing, and collage: “So much of what I think about is light and trying to capture its relationship to remembrance.”

Former Pratt creative writing student Lisa Hagen was recognized with a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for a story on National Public Radio (NPR) about gun rights activists. The series, No Compromise, is available online.

Taylor McGinnis, who recently joined the Pratt Center for Community Development as the democratizing data researcher, joined Ben Dodd, communications specialist/planner at the Pratt Center, for a conversation on data and this new role: “I am taking a lot of methods that are similar to what software development companies use in terms of user research and user centered design, and I’m trying to merge those methods with a community based approach, a public resource approach.”

The United Arab Emirates Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is featuring photographs by Farah Al Qasimi, visiting assistant professor of photography, that visualize the tension between urban development and nature in the UAE’s sabkha salt flats.