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Kristin Oberheide, director of international affairs, was honored with the UTEP College of Education’s 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled “The International Student Border Commuter Experience: An Investigation on The Southern U.S. Border.”

Minh-Ha T. Pham, associate professor of humanities and media studies, joined the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast from the Conversation for a discussion about fast fashion and the lives of garment workers.

The Distributaries publication series from CUNY’s Center for the Humanities featured an interview with Claire Donato, assistant chair of the Writing Department, and Audrey Lindsey, visiting instructor in the Math and Science Department, about the newly formed Pratt seminar series Speculating the Environment.

The Pratt Center for Community Development has released a new report on the growth of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) across New York City as a tool for collective ownership and permanent affordability of land for housing, small businesses, and community space.

Miranda Mote, visiting assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, was honored with the 2023–24 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. The highly competitive fellowships from the American Academy in Rome support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.

The Pratt Center for Community Development is now accepting applications for the annual Taconic Fellowships that support Pratt faculty, staff, and students working on community development projects throughout New York City. The deadline to apply is June 30.

Helena Eisenhart, BFA Fashion Design ’15, was featured in a Brooklyn Magazine article that highlighted their use of vintage and found materials for inclusive design: “In a time when gender issues are at the front of public discourse, blurring the lines of gendered fashion can serve as a positive step towards more inclusivity and progress.”

Portlyn Houghton-Harjo, BFA Writing ’25, won the 2023 Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition. She was featured in the Mount Holyoke News: “I think that part of being a poet is finding a bit of inspiration in a lot of things.”

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, was named to President Biden’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Committee advises the President and cultural agencies on policy and efforts to enhance federal support for the arts, humanities, and museum and library services.

Interior Design magazine featured a class led by Kevin Walz, visiting associate professor of industrial design, in which students experimented with materials from the Italy-based SICIS to learn about the history of mosaics. They spent time at SICIS’s showroom in the Bronx where SICIS artists then assembled the students’ large-scale mosaic designs.