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The Prattler is hosting a summer web series with recent student stories including Lauren Jonaitis examining the strangeness of COVID time and Nicole Delp discussing the challenges and triumphs of raising Seeing Eye puppies.

Eddie Bautista, alumnus and visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was featured in Crain’s New York Business for his work tackling environmental racism through green policies in underserved communities, something that goes back to his childhood in Red Hook: “I made the connection to race, class and our lack of political power and the way our neighborhood was neglected.”

Kathy Wang, BID ’20, and her BroadAR, Inc. co-founder Ziqing Li were honored with a 2021 San Francisco Design Week Award for Smell Revived, the first virtual reality smell training system targeting post-COVID smell dysfunction.

Current fashion student Jose Salazar was interviewed for the WWD story “Young Faces of Pride: What the Month Means and What It Shouldn’t”: “I celebrate Pride by trying to engage with what’s happening around my community. Even though society has progressed a lot in the past couple of decades, there is still a long way to go.”

The inaugural fellows for the New Voices in Architectural Journalism initiative launched by the Architect’s Newspaper in partnership with the Pratt School of Architecture have been announced. Monty Rush, Ekam Singh, and Catherine Chattergoon will be joining the mentor-based journalism program for undergraduate and graduate Pratt architecture students in the 2021-22 academic year.

Elise Kaufman, adjunct associate professor of foundation, was profiled in a Provincetown Independent story on her mixed media work that involves photography, printmaking, drawing, and collage: “So much of what I think about is light and trying to capture its relationship to remembrance.”

Incoming writing student Lily Burgess and a Pratt print sale held near campus were included in the New York Times Magazine feature “NYC Wakes Up” on how the city has reopened with increased vaccination.