Commencement
Friday, May 9, 2008
10 am
Grand Mall, Brooklyn Campus
For more information, please visit our Commencement website at: www.pratt.edu/commence
Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise.
With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions.
Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
Industrial Design Alumni Speak at BKLYN Designs May 9
Pratt's 119th Commencement To Be Held May 9
2008 Pratt Show to be Held May 6-8 at Manhattan Center
Two Pratt Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Annual Manhattan Runway Show of Senior Fashion Designs May 7
Pratt Institute will present “Breaking In,” a panel of five Pratt alumni discussing how they are making their mark on the design world, led by Julie Taraska, a contributor to Interior Design, at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 9 at St. Ann’s Warehouse on 38 Water Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. The event is part of the sixth annual BKLYN DESIGNS™ show presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and featuring designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings.
Pratt Institute will present degrees to approximately 1,000 bachelor's and master's degree candidates during its 119th Commencement at 10 a.m. on May 9 on The Grand Mall of the Brooklyn campus. The Institute also will award honorary degrees to architect Zaha Hadid, dancer/choreographer Judith Jamison, and arts administrator Thomas J. Cahill, who will deliver Pratt’s Commencement address at approximately 11 a.m. It will also honor 2008-2009 Distinguished Teacher Floyd Hughes, adjunct associate professor, Communications Design.
Pratt Institute will present 2008 Pratt Show, an annual juried exhibition of exceptional design work by 300 of Pratt’s graduating students from May 6 - 8 at The Manhattan Center, located at 311 West 34th Street. The show is free and open to the public and will be open on Tuesday, May 6 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday, May 7 from 9 a.m.-9 p.m; and Thursday, May 8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Pratt Institute professors Joe Fyfe and Thad Ziolkowski were recently selected as two of 190 to receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fyfe is a Brooklyn-based painter who is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting in the Fine Arts Department. Ziolkowski, a Brooklyn-based writer, is Associate Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Writing Program.
Pratt Institute will present to the fashion world the creative talents of its senior class during the annual Pratt Fashion Show on May 7, 2008. There will be two shows – one at 2 p.m. and one at 5:30 p.m. – at The Altman Building located at 135 West 18th Street in Manhattan. The 2008 Pratt Fashion Show is sponsored by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and Cotton Incorporated.
Login with your OneKey to access advisement, registration, and billing academic tools, the learning management system (LMS), human resources data, email, faculty, staff and student directories, and FAQs.
200 willoughby avenue
brooklyn, ny 11205
144 west 14th street
new york, ny 10011
(718) 636-3600
info@pratt.edu
Sustainability Opportunities and Update
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY - Effective Jan. 1, 2008
I am writing to you from the role of Pratt's newly appointed Academic Director of Sustainability and would like to share some of Pratt plans to address the issues of global warming and environmental sustainability in 2008. - Deb Johnson
The Pratt Institute Board of Trustees has approved our Intellectual Property Policy (IPP) which will become effective January 1, 2008.
Main Building 1
(718) 636-3744
Principal of Light and Space,a New York City lighting design firm. Clients include: AT&T, Xerox Corp., Marriott Corp., Guggenheim Museum, NBC, GE, Samsung. IDSA,PE.
Engineering Building LL
(718) 636-3690