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  • Dr. Yuliya Dzyuban, assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, has been appointed to the Fifth New York Panel on Climate Change, “an independent advisory body that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises city policymakers on local resiliency and adaptation strategies that protect against extreme heat, heavy rain, coastal storm surge, and other climate hazards.” Dzyuban, the first full-time faculty member in the Sustainable Environmental Systems program, specializes in studying the impacts of rising temperatures in cities and helps to develop nature-based solutions that improve climate resilience.

  • Yihang (Edward) Xu, BID ’25, has been recognized with a Red Dot Concept Award for his project AirFarm, a self-sustainable mobile solution for modern nomads that he began in a studio taught by Chamille Thayer, professor of industrial design. Red Dot aims to celebrate the best ideas in design and business.

  • A new exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, BFA Photography ’83, was featured in Smithsonian Magazine. The exhibition is presented by the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art.

  • Duke Riley, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’06, was featured in a Forbes roundup of artists embracing environmentalism or sustainability at Paris Art Week. Riley was recognized for his “sustainable artistic practice” that “explores the dichotomy between powerful institutions and the natural world, and addresses environmental issues raised by an overwhelmingly consumerist, capitalist society.”

  • Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice in Fine Arts Carlos Motta was featured in ArtNet for his series “Descubriendo el nuevo mundo” or “Discovering New World.” Motta used AI to create work that responds to the 16th-century Flemish engraver Theodore de Bry’s visual depictions of the Americas, “flip[ping] the script on de Bry’s austere whitewash of the violence of conquest.”

  • Rob Redding, MFA Fine Arts ’22, celebrated ten years and 2,000 episodes of his podcast, Redding News Review Unrestricted. “I am very fortunate to have such a faithful audience of subscribers who have helped solidify my longevity in Black-focused news talk,” said Redding.

  • Art by Terry Winters, BFA ’71, is reviewed in Whitehot Magazine. “With hesitation one can only posit what Winters level of study would have produced had he taken up the field of science, rather than his dedication devoted to the calling he has pursued?” writes Edward Waisnis. “This thought is approached with hesitation since the realization of such an alternative would result in an intense loss. We benefit having Winters in the upper tier of contemporary painting.”

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