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Milwaukee Monday 

9:30am – 3:00pm | Chalmers 350

Milwaukee Tool is coming to campus to share info about their company & internship, hosting lunch, and reviewing portfolios. See more detailed event schedule below: 

9:30am: Milwaukee arrival & portfolio reviews (this time is for SENIORS ONLY) 
 
11:00am: Presentation and provided lunch (everyone is welcome) 
 
1:00pm-3:00pm Portfolio reviews for sophomores and juniors in the room connected to the junior studio. 

📲 Follow IDSA on Instagram for more information & event updates

AIAS Movie Night  

6:00pm | The Forum 

Join AIAS for a screening of Stardust in the Marvin Forum.

📲 Follow AIAS on Instagram for more information & event updates

Pause 4 Pups 

7:00 PM | Crawford Community Center

Come by and take a break with our furry friends from Loving Paws Animal Therapy! Through stress management outreach programs, we aim to provide KU students with tools for coping, healthy new habits, and a strong academic semester. We encourage selfies with your favorite pup! Use #Pause4Pups when sharing on social media and tag @kuhero_ on Instagram. 

KU DBIA Field Day 

5:00-6:30pm | LEEP 2 lawn

Please join the Design Build Institute of America KU Chapter to network with architecture, engineering & construction management students & professionals.  They will provide hot dogs, chips, and sodas as well as yard games and activities. Parking available right across the street!

Please RSVP if interested

📲 Follow KU DBIA on Instagram

Christian Thompson: Future Ancestor | Spencer Museum of Art

On view until January 10, 2027

In Future Ancestor, Thompson creates a multimedia installation that weaves together history, language, and imagined futures. Blurring the boundaries between storytelling and visual culture, voice and gesture, Thompson’s artistic practice becomes a method of language preservation and cultural survival, allowing Bidjara to resonate across generations.

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Alien Forms / Future Worlds | Spencer Museum of Art

On view until January 10, 2027

Alien Forms / Future Worlds brings together artists across time, media, and geography who imagine bodies, environments, and worlds that feel unfamiliar but strangely recognizable. From early visions of space travel to contemporary explorations of ecological crisis, these works reflect a persistent desire to picture what lies beyond the known.

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👀 View all current exhibitions at the Spencer

Call for Models & Designers

CWC × GEMS × MM present this year’s annual fashion show: Essence of Us: Diasporic Dandyism. A Fashion Show and Art Experience.

This year’s show celebrates KU’s designers, models, and artists while exploring diasporic dandyism: tailoring, self-presentation, and style across the Black and Brown diaspora.

They are currently looking for: Models, Makeup artists & hairstylists

Application deadline: October 10

📲 For More information & application details, Follow Culture Works Collective, KU GEMS & Melinin Media on Instagram

Techstars Startup Weekend

November 13-15 | Capitol Federal Hall, KU Campus

Startup Weekends are a high-energy three-day experience designed to help participants transform ideas into real startup ventures and step directly into the startup world — no prior experience required.

Over the course of the weekend, participants will move through an accelerated startup-building process and gain direct exposure to the realities of entrepreneurship while building meaningful relationships with collaborators, mentors, and future founders.

Whether participants arrive with a startup idea, a side project, or simply curiosity about entrepreneurship, the Startup Weekend will offer an accessible and collaborative environment to explore, experiment, and connect with the next generation of innovators.

Participants interested in applying are encouraged to do so before the 4th of November, as spots are limited.

Apply & Learn More

ArcD Student Organizations: Get involved! 

Get involved with student organizations to improve your educational experience! Learn more about ArcD Student Organizations here & keep in touch with them via social media! 

2026 Design Kids Awards

The The Design Kids Awards celebrate the next generation of creative talent, spotlighting exceptional work from students, graduates, and emerging designers with less than three years of industry experience.

Open across categories including graphic design, branding, illustration, packaging, typography, web design, and multidisciplinary work, the awards offer an opportunity to gain international recognition from a panel of leading design professionals. Submit your best work, share your creative voice, and connect with a global community of designers.

Deadline: October 9

More info & Submit

Rural Kansas Photography Contest 

Through the Rural Kansas Photography Contest, amateur and professional photographers alike share compelling images that celebrate the beauty, character, and spirit of Kansas communities while helping promote rural Kansas to future healthcare professionals.

Cash prizes are awarded in each category, with first-place winners receiving $100 and second-place winners receiving $50. In addition, all entries are automatically eligible for the Kansas Country Living Grand Prize. The magazine's editorial team will select one photograph to receive a $100 award and a featured cover spot in the January 2027 issue. Additional photographs may also be selected for publication in the magazine.

Deadline: October 25 

More info & Submission 

👀 See past winners 

ArcD Advisory Board Design Excellence Awards

The Design Excellence Awards recognize ArcD students who demonstrate exceptional design skills and creativity in 3rd- and 4th-year studio projects. Award winners will receive a cash award, and all winners will receive a certificate and digital recognition.

The annual Design Excellence Awards recognize students who demonstrate exceptional design skills and creativity. The program is open to students in both the architecture and design departments.

Eligibility:

• Studio projects produced in the Spring 2026 and Fall 2026 semesters in students’ 3rd and 4th years.
• Students must have received Grade ‘A’ for the studio project.
• Students must have a current cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above.
• Only one submission per student.
• DesignBuild studio projects are not considered for this award.

Deadline: February 15, 2027

More Info & Submission

AES Engineering Scholarship

AES belives that achieving a high grade point average should not be the only criteria for determining who deserves to be helped. For that reason they are offering a scholarship that will be awarded on the basis of character, as determined by an evaluation of the essays that are submitted.

Scholarships are intended for our future leaders across a wide spectrum of fields of study. This award is available to high school seniors and all students attending a post secondary educational facility.

Students are not required to be taking Engineering courses to be eligible.

Deadline: October 8

More Info & Submission Guidelines

SmithGroup Design a Better Future Scholarship program 

The scholarship mission is to create a more inclusive design industry by providing students with opportunities to pursue their academic and professional goals. Students committed to advancing inclusion in the design industry are encouraged to apply.

The scholarship provides a one-time award of $6,000 to five students studying either architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning or engineering, to help offset their tuition. Each recipient will also serve as a paid summer intern at any SmithGroup office in the United States where their discipline is located. 

Deadline: December 6

Learn More & Apply 

St.Louis-area Architecture & Interior Architecture Scholarship 

The M+H Scholarship will annually award one $5,000 scholarship to a student studying architecture or interior design at an NAAB-accredited school of Architecture or a CIDA-accredited Interior Design program.  

Deadline: April, 5, 2027 

More Info & Apply 

Student Outreach & Events Assistant | KU Natural History Museum

The Student O&E Assistant helps deliver themed programs to groups (scouts, after-school science nights, etc.) and helps to plan and facilitate museum public events like Discovery Days and Pop Up Science programs.

Required Qualifications:
🔹Ability to speak with ease in front of large or small groups of people
🔹Ability to interact with people of all ages – especially children
🔹Strong communication and organizational skills
🔹Ability to work up to 10 hours per week

More info & Apply

Populous Co-Op Spring Internship  

Applications for the Populous Spring Co-Op Internship Program are officially open. 

The co-op program will run from January through April and provides students with the opportunity to work alongside other design professionals to create memorable places where people love to be together. 

Positions are available for the following disciplines: Architecture, Interior Design/Interior Architecture, Graphic Design

Deadline: October 16 

Submission Requirements:  Resume, Portfolio, Letter from their university stating they are approved to participate in this co-op full-time and in-person as part of their academic program 

More Info & Apply 

🐌 Animal Architecture

We are all familiar with architecture designed by human beings. Yet architecture by animals for the most part goes unnoticed, although they were building nests, dams, and huts when we still dwelled in caves. From the tiny nest of a hummingbird to the largest structures created by animals, the coral reefs, there are constructions that continue to amaze us even today.

Over a period of two years, the award-winning nature photographer Ingo Arndt traveled around the world in pursuit of his images. He took pictures of the mounds, up to two meters tall, created by tiny wood ants in their indigenous woodlands as well as the colorfully decorated mating arenas of bowerbirds in West Papua; he presents enormous beaver dams in North America or previously unknown termite fields in Australia.

His photography focuses on structures with their extraordinary architecture and captivating aesthetics. Besides their dwellings, the different animal species, the builders, are shown. The motifs from the wild are supplemented by a selection of studio photographs whose detailed views open up a world that otherwise remains hidden the complexity of a wasp’s nest, the winding interior of a nautilus, or the artful grass network of a harvest mouse nest.

The Hatch Reading Room, on the 4th floor of Marvin Hall, is here for you to de-stress, work on projects, take a break to read, and enjoy a quiet view of campus. Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday. 📚 

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