Daniel Lopatin, MSLIS ’10, has created original music for the upcoming film Marty Supreme directed by Josh Safdie and featuring Timothée Chalamet. Lopatin has a prolific musical career as Oneohtrix Point Never.
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Garrett Benisch, continuing and professional studies lecturer, was interviewed by Martha Stewart for an article on the environmental harms of peat moss and what gardeners should use instead. Benisch is also the director of design development for Bioforcetech, a company that transforms waste into carbon-negative solutions.
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Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann published an article “Mapping super-gentrification in large US cities, 1990–2020” in Urban Geography with his co-authors.
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Jen Pawol, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’00, became the first woman to umpire a regular season game in Major League Baseball.
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Michelle Towse, BFA Photography ’91, was interviewed by Little Black Book about her career in film and what it takes to succeed. “Creative problem solving relies on the same principles regardless of implementation. The language is the same; sometimes, you just need to learn a few new vocabulary words.”
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Izzy Chavez, BFA Digital Arts (2-D Animation) ’24, had their work, Adam and Eve in the Kingdom of Animals, screened at the 2025 Annecy Festival.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Bill Levay, MS Library and Information Science ’15, spoke at the Creative Operations Summit in New York, sharing how the New York Philharmonic Archives—and the digitized historical assets in our DAMS—play a vital role in marketing, storytelling, and audience engagement at the Philharmonic.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Photography Matthew Leifheit was featured in The New York Times for his sound installation No Time at All, which played this summer at the New York City AIDS Memorial. The piece is composed of VHS tapes of gay men’s choruses made at the height of the AIDS crisis. “One of the most powerful ways to encounter an artwork is if you’re not expecting to have the experience of art,” said Leifheit of the installation in the West Village.
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Assistant Professor of Foundation Oasa DuVerney’s exhibition of works on paper, Into the Shining Dark at Welancora Gallery, was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail. “Bring[ing] together nine of DuVerney’s new and recent works on paper which together present her attentiveness to Black womanhood, lineage, community, and survival.”
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Gabriela Mestriner, MID ’26, was on the winning team at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) 2025 Wanted Design Schools Workshop. Students were “tasked with imagining innovative, systems-based interventions that could reshape how New Yorkers grow, access, prepare, and share food,” writes Laura A Des Enfants in Core 77.
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