NEWS

Mason Gross faculty awarded grants in collaboration with the School of Public Health
In the spring, faculty from Mason Gross and the School of Public Health were brought together to share research ideas as part of a "speed networking" session. Through funding provided by both schools, $10,000 MGSA-SPH Collaborative Seed Grants were awarded to to each...

Two Art & Design professors named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
Marc Handelman was recognized in the Fine Arts category, Miranda Lichtenstein in the Photography category. They are among 198 fellows selected this year from a pool of nearly 3,500 across 53 disciplines.

Art & Design alum’s rooftop installation at The Met features “acoustic sculptures”
Jennie C. Jones’s (MFA’96) sculptural installation “Ensemble” is on view in New York City as this year’s Roof Garden Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Every day is Earth Day in Theater faculty’s upcycling class
Costume Director Denise Wagner’s class on fast fashion helps students understand the work that goes into making their clothes.

Art & Design alum fuses art and STEM in data visualization career
Lia Petronio (BFA’14) has combined her experience in fine art, research, and coding to become a data visualization engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Jazz student named 2025 Quilting Water Undergraduate Prize winner
Undergrad Brandon Mejia will be part of Quilting Water, an international public art initiative that seeks to prompt artists and scholars to consider the relationship between ecological justice and racial justice.