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Pratt Welcomes New Faculty and Administrators This Fall

A look at Pratt’s new full-time faculty members and academic leaders for 2026–27
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Behind the Runway: Pratt Fashion Students at New York Fashion Week

From Pratt Institute News

From hand sewing and fabric manipulation to production files and factory shipments, Pratt fashion students are contributing to collections before they reach the runway.
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Prattfolio Wins 2026 Circle of Excellence Awards

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The magazine of Pratt Institute received honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees: Recently Elected Members and Trustee Emerita

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Evan Akselrad, Iona Fromboluti, Zara Harris, and Michael Schafler have joined the Board of Trustees. Longtime Trustee Katharine L. McKenna became trustee emerita.
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Designing Regenerative Futures

From Pratt Institute News

Following President Frances Bronet’s recent appearance at the UN for the Regenerative Communities Summit, explore some of the ways in which Pratt students, faculty, and alumni are developing design solutions that restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and address climate change.
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A Centralized Hub for Student Wellness Opens on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

From Pratt Institute News

The newly opened Student Wellness Center at Pratt Institute brings a wide range of health, counseling, and student support services together under one roof, creating a more accessible, welcoming hub at the heart of campus.

Welcome to Pratt! A New School Year Kicks Off

From Pratt Institute News

In preparation for the fall semester, Pratt welcomed students with a bustling week of activities, information sessions, and orientation events on campus and around New York City.

In the Press

The Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor in the School of Information Chris Alen Sula has published “Provocations for Platform Studies,” a scholarly commentary on the latest episode of the Positions podcast, which offers critical reflections on topics in cultural studies for scholars, students, and a general audience. The episode discusses Digital Platforms and Agency, a special section published in Lateral, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Cultural Studies Association, which Sula co-edits. “Think of this as a guided tour through my [Foundations] syllabus,” Sula writes, “told in relation to the themes of the special section.”

  • Assistant Professor of Fashion Design Susan Cianciolo is receiving this year’s Isabel Toledo Board of Directors’ Tribute at the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards. “Cianciolo’s RUN collection was an early model of sustainable fashion and community, incorporating handwork, reuse, repair, performance, installation, film, painting, and food.”

  • Professor of Math and Science Mark Rosin has launched the undergraduate minor in Coding and Data at Pratt. He and Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann were recipients of an SLAS Curriculum Incubator award to build connections between the School of Information and the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS), including creating a program to connect undergraduates to data visualization curriculum.

  • Professor of Industrial Design Constantin Boym and Michael Yarinsky, BArch ’11, have work featured in The New York Times article 8 Design Products Inspired by Nature. “For Constantin and Laurene Boym, the ready-made is a way to shake up people’s views of familiar things. Using bark shed by sycamores and other trees near their summer home in the Hudson Valley, the designers have created sculptural LED lamps and clocks with hand-painted embellishments. ‘Very little needs to be added to appreciate their beauty,’ Boym said about the objects in the series, named Artifacts.”

  • Assistant Professor in the School of Information Rhys Dreeszen Bowman presented a poster at the National LGBTQ+ Health Conference: “‘I have a huge community where I feel accepted and loved’: Trans joy as a protective health factor,” this past August in Chicago. They are also presenting “‘Any Act of Joy You Feel as a Trans Person Is Inherently Rebellious’: Explorations of Trans Joy in a Southern Context” at the Queer as Method: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Art, Research and Resistance conference.

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Recent Pratt Institute alumni share their personal strategy guides for launching a creative career.