Author Archives: Hannah Borgeson

SSA Students Shine in ACSA Timber Competition

Congrats to the Spitzer students who were part of three winning teams in the ACSA 2022 Timber in the City 4: Urban Habitats Competition! ⁠ The competition recognizes eight exceptional projects that interpret, invent, and deploy numerous building systems; all focused on innovations in wood design using a real site, the Arts Center MARTA Station

Three SSA Profs Named Co-PIs in CCNY Research Vision Project

Team Climate Solidarity, featuring Spitzer professors Zihao Zhang, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, and Shawn Rickenbacker as co-leads, has been named the recipient of the 2022 College-wide Research Vision (CRV) Initiative and funding of up to $600,000 over the next three years. Of eight multidisciplinary teams, Climate Solidarity was selected by the CCNY College Research Council based

New Academic Year Kicked Off at Convocation

Welcome to the 2022-23 academic year! There is a lot to look forward to, and many ways to get involved! Spitzer School students, faculty, and staff convened in person for Convocation on August 25, a final milestone in the transition to fully reopening. View the presentation here. Dean Marta Gutman led the event, starting with

SSA Faculty Visiting Guest Artist at Wesleyan

Congrats to professor Jerome Haferd, who is a 2022-23 Wesleyan EAI Visiting Artist Fellowship recipient! From Wesleyan Center of the Art‘s Instagram post ( @wescfa ): ・・・ Meet Jerome Haferd (@jhaferd), Visiting Guest Artist Fellow: “As a Black, mixed race, and LGBTQ+, my practice of architectural and urban design, teaching, research, and advocacy seeks the

Dean Gutman Presents at Oxford

Dean Gutman spent the beginning of this summer in England, where she was, among other academic activities, an invited speaker at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood. The center, together with the National Trust Partnership, hosted a two-day colloquium exploring children’s interactions with history and heritage in the past, young people’s