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2018 Summer Internship at SOM

The application process for 2018 Summer Internship Program is now open. Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP (SOM) is seeking the best emerging talent to join them this summer in their Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and London offices. Selected candidates will get hands-on project experience in architecture, …


Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) is a finalist for the North American James Dyson Award and presents at Dutch Design Week

Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) was invited to present her Product Design Capstone Project, Thomy, as part of the Design Indaba  presentations at Dutch Design Week 2017. Thomy provides a fun and self-sufficient methods for insulin injection in children with Type 1 diabetes. Following her presentation, Souza was awarded the …


Congrats Dwayne Riley on receiving the annual BASF scholarship!

Dwayne Riley, a BFA senior student, won the 2017 Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation (BASF) . The Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation incorporated in 1951 has given over $250,000 in scholarships to qualified students of architecture in accredited New York Schools. This year, the BASF will be awarding five scholarships on Dec. …


Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton – Full time faculty

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates for participatory planning and design processes in disenfranchised communities. Over a 42-year period, Dr. Sutton has served on …


ARTA YAZDANSETA New Assistant Professor in SCE

Dr. Arta Yazdanseta will begin her assistant professor role with the School of Constructed Environments in the Spring of 2018. She will be teaching courses in architectural environmental design and technology. Dr. Yazdanseta earned her Doctor of Design (DDes) and Master of Design (MDes) in Energy and Environments from the …


Product Design Alumna’s Create SoaPen To Make Hygiene Fun For Kids

Product Design Alumna’s Create SoaPen To Make Hygiene Fun For Kids. These women created an innovative ‘soap’ pen that encourages kids to wash their hands which consumers hope to see in stores in 2018. Congratulations to Yogita Agrawal, Amanat Anand and Shubham Issar. To read more, please click HERE! and full story in …


Product Design Seniors takes 3rd place in 2017 Collab Competition

BFA Product Design Senior Doyoon Kim was awarded the 3rd place prize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Collab Student Design Competition. Kim’s Design for the “Ouvrir” clothing rack was awarded the prize based on it’s simplicity of concept, sensitivity of material choice, and efficiency of manufacture. To read more, …


Empowering Wellbeing Through Design with Rosalyn Cama

‘By practicing a seamless weave of research, team leadership, consulting, prototyping, and interior design, CAMA imagines and creates environments and experiences that empower wellbeing.’ Invited by Part-time professor of interior design, Victor Dadras, to support the elective, “Reimagining Care,”  Rosalyn Cama FASID, EDAC, a distinguished designer in the healthcare field, has convincingly showed …


Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design program – well represented at the IES Conference

For the second year in a row, Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design program was well represented at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Annual Conference in August 2017.  Dr. Craig Bernecker, presented a paper, The Influence of Chromaticity on Subjective Impressions in Lighted Environments, based upon research conducted within the Lighting Thesis Studio …


Next Generation Lighting Systems Project

Parsons MFA Lighting Design Program has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy through Pacific Northwest National Laboratories to undertake an evaluation of connected lighting systems through the Next Generation Lighting Systems program.  Seven different connected lighting systems were installed in seven classrooms on the New School campus in Manhattan, …