The Daily Hub

Gothamist featured the bus shelter rooftop gardens pitched by Ben Matusow, MS Sustainable Environmental Systems ’22, to the NYC Department of Transportation. He developed the idea while a graduate student.

Construction management, facilities management, and real estate practice students, faculty, staff, and off-campus guests recently gathered for a workshop on the challenges and trends in their fields, and what needs to be taught to students for success in the industry. Read more on LinkedIn.

Salman Toor, MFA Painting ’09, was featured in the Financial Times article “How Salman Toor became the art name to know”: “I like the medium of painting, but the stories in the painting are equally important to me.”

Students Tianyu Hao, Hannah Chou, and June Kim are the 2023 Platinum Award Winners. They will be working with Platinum Jewelry to bring their designs to life.

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.