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Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NY1 Features Pratt Young Scholars and the Institute’s 120-Year History of Community Outreach

  Pratt Institute’s Pratt Young Scholars (PYS) program was highlighted in a segment that aired this week on NY1, the New York City-based news network. Filmed on…

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

From a Hike Play to Hydroponic Plants, Blue Week Offered Hands-On Experiences in Sustainability

Now in its fifth year, Blue Week, presented by the Pratt Sustainability Coalition, celebrated the sustainability initiatives happening year-round on campus by engaging students, faculty, and staff from across departments in environmental…

Pratt Opens Emerson Place Residence, an Innovative New Home for First-Year Students

This fall semester, first-year students were welcomed into the newest residence hall at Pratt Institute: Emerson Place Residence. With amenities like maker spaces and open floor plans, every aspect of the ten-story tower advances a…

School of Design

Pratt Summer Abroad: Dispatch from Copenhagen

This summer, Pratt students are traveling the world to engage with international cultures and global perspectives in their disciplines. Pratt’s news page is featuring these experiences in a series of dispatches from around the world. Scandinavian design’s functionality…

The Black Alumni of Pratt

2019 Black Alumni of Pratt Scholars Explore College Life and the Career Possibilities of Art

This year’s Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) PreCollege Summer Program Scholars spent four weeks living on Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus alongside 358 high school students from around the world. They learned from creative professionals who instructed classes…

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Pratt Summer Abroad: Dispatch from Tokyo II

This summer, Pratt students are traveling the world to engage with international cultures and global perspectives in their disciplines. Pratt’s news page is featuring these experiences in a series of dispatches from around the world. Over two weeks…

Graduate Industrial Design

Building Bridges: Pratt Students Partner to Address the Experience of Undocumented People

How do designers design toward the right questions? In the case of students in Pratt’s industrial design studio Undocumented Design, zoning in on problems they could tackle—nested within a complex and far-reaching issue—meant connecting directly with…

School of Information

Physical Computing with Cat-Operated Tech & Interactive Lights in the School of Information

The coursework in the Pratt Institute School of Information often engages with the potential of digital technologies in enhancing and facilitating archives, libraries, museums, and other information and cultural institutions. However, students don’t typically get hands-on…

Architecture

Pratt Summer Abroad: Dispatch from Tokyo

This summer, Pratt students are traveling the world to engage with international cultures and global perspectives in their disciplines. Pratt’s news page is featuring these experiences in a series of dispatches from around the world. …

Architecture

Pratt Summer Abroad: Dispatch from Rome

This summer, Pratt students are traveling the world to engage with international cultures and global perspectives in their disciplines. Pratt’s news page is featuring these experiences in a series of dispatches from around the world. Pratt Institute students…