Visiting Instructor of Industrial Design Jacob Turetsky was selected to be the jury captain for the Speculative Design category in Core77’s Design Awards, for which he will be “evaluating work that operates in the space between what is and what could be. His guidance to entrants acknowledges the category’s unique demands while emphasizing a crucial anchor point.”
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Jennifer Hubert Swan has a book review published in The New York Times. “In two newly published children’s books — one an English translation of an Italian classic and the other an exploration of the tragic consequences of the Nazi occupation of France — bravery arrives in a pint-size package and is all the better for it,” writes Swan.
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The firms of Ashely Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14, and Harry Chadha, BArch ’17, are featured on The Architect’s Newspaper’s 20 to Watch list of rising residential architecture design talent in New York. Kuo’s firm is A+A+A, while Chadha’s is Chadha Ranch.
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La MaMa will present the world premiere of FOOTNOTES, created, designed, and directed by Emerita Professor of Art and Design Education Theodora Skipitares.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Rhys Dreeszen Bowman co-authored a new article, “Contesting Queer Books: Analyzing the Discourses in Public Comment Sections at School Board Meetings,” which has been published in The Library Quarterly.
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Thomas Prendergast, BPS Construction Management ’28, earned Atlantic East Defensive Player of the Week honors for stalwart performances in the paint in recent games for the men’s basketball team. He also notched his first career double-double with career highs of 22 points and 10 rebounds.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Pamela Pavliscak has a chapter about how teens use chatbots as a way to rehearse difficult conversations in the new book Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach (Bloomsbury, 2026). Pavliscak also has a new book coming out on June 9: All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World (Hachette, 2026).
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Stefan Sagmeister, MS Communications Design ’88, was selected as a member of the Adobe Creative Collective, “a group of exceptional creative leaders whose work reflects the innovation, diversity, and imagination driving the future of creativity.”
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Isabelle Brourman, MFA Fine Arts ’19, is featured in a Los Angeles Magazine profile after she created the cover for the latest issue. “The multidisciplinary artist’s profile rose when she began capturing high-profile court cases through an abstract lens as a courtroom sketch artist, first starting with Depp v. Heard in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2022. Since then, she has crafted pieces from The People v. Donald Trump and The People v. Danny Masterson, and at Nicolás Maduro’s arraignment at immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, among others.”
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis was invited by The Booker Prizes to reflect on her experience translating the International Booker Prize-winning novel, At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop. “Each book I take on becomes an obsession of sorts, one that bleeds into my life and, naturally, my writing.”
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