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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, presented on the Apollo Theater’s Career Panel, “Beyond the Algorithm: New Voices in AI & AR.” 

  • Jack McKernan, Lauren Holmes, and Cleo de Lasa, all MSLIS ’26, presented their paper, “The Revolution, In Boxes,” at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2025 conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on May 19–21, 2025.

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  • Sixty-five projects were presented at this year’s InfoShow, representing the work of over 100 students, with over 350 attendees. You can find the program here with detailed information on each presentation. Awards were presented to Jocelyn Fung, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’26, (School shootings and the manosphere: spatially correlated or moral panic?); Jeffrey Delacruz, MSIXD ’25, Chieh Lei, MSIXD ’25, Qasim Malik, MSIXD ’26, Yuri Minami, MSIXD ’25, Indrani Thool, MSIXD ’25, and Pete Wise, MSIDX ’25, (Internet of Things (IoT) Class project demos); Simran Kaur, MSIXD ’26, (Beyond the Western Gaze); and Shreedhar Verma, MSIXD ’25, (Visualizing Cognitive Health: Data Viz in Healthcare).

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  • James Garrison, adjunct professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GA/LA/UD), was interviewed in Gothamist for an article on whether modular housing can address New York City’s housing crisis. “One of the great benefits of modular construction is that it assembles very rapidly, sometimes in half the time of a conventional building,” he said. “So that means that that 10%, 12% construction loan that you’re paying now is cut in half.”

  • Twenty-two students in the School of Information are receiving nine-month fellowships beginning this fall to engage in projects with NYC institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, MoMA, The Frick, and Museum of the City of New York. The fellowship program supports two-semester practicum internships designed to provide students exceptional professional-level experience in NYC’s world-class institutions.

  • Kate Evans, MFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’25, received the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Award. “Her work explores the self-importance that saturates society—whether through social media, political corruption, or daily chaos. By highlighting these themes, she pokes fun at our perceptions of ourselves, revealing the gaps between reality and self-image.”

  • Rosetta S. Elkin, academic director of Landscape Architecture, received Pratt Institute’s Research Recognition Award for her “varied contributions to the field of landscape architecture across architectural practice, pedagogy, and scholarship. Her research often takes her into the ground, as plant life develops underfoot. In writing and scholarship, she aims to experiment with the ways in which we compose our worlds, blurring the traditional boundaries in the research process.”

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