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Prototype Chipotle Night 

5:00 – 9:00 pm | 1420 W 23rd St, Lawrence, KS

Fundraising event for Prototype at Chipotle. The goal of Prototype is to get KU Design students involved in the local design community, create a community of their own and help them build leadership skills that will be valuable as they move into the professional world.

Show the flyer on Prototype's Instagram or use code 9W4YXJN for online orders to help contribute. 

Lawrence Group Summer Internships

The Lawrence Group’s St. Louis office is currently hiring architecture and interior design interns for summer 2024.

Apply

KU TPE Student Navigator

Are you interested in service learning, helping others, and creating a more inclusive environment for college students with intellectual disabilities? Become a KU TPE Student Navigator.

Interested? Click here to learn more  Questions? Email Lana Seibel, KU TPE Student Life Coordinator

Elizabeth Miller Watkins Memorial Scholarship Fund (first-time applicants)

Deadline: February 15, 2024

The purpose of the Elizabeth Miller Watkins Scholarship is to assist women students of outstanding scholastic achievement and demonstrated financial need in completing their college education at KU. Awards of up to $2,000 per semester will be made to each recipient

Eligibility criteria are as follows: All women enrolled as full-time undergraduate students at the University of Kansas; 3.0 GPA or higher on 4.0 scale; and Demonstrated financial need.

Special consideration will be given to women who are first in their families to attend college and residents of Watkins and Miller Scholarship Halls.

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The start of the new semester is a great time to get involved in student organizations that can help improve your educational experience!

Learn about student organizations 

We would like to inform you that the Participatory Design Graduate Certificate program will not be renewed after Spring 2024.   

For current students who have already applied and started working on coursework related to the Participatory Design Graduate Certificate program, don’t worry, you can continue to take courses to complete the requirements of the program. 

For students who may have not yet applied, but who you know to be pursuing coursework toward the certificate.  Please make sure that you apply in time for admission no later than Summer 2024.  No new students may be admitted after the last admit term of Summer 2024. The deadline for summer 24 is 6/3/24. 

Grad Admissions has created a page for current KU students to apply for the certificate.

If you run into problems or have questions about the application process, please contact Joan Weaver (jweaver@ku.edu) in our office. 

If you have any questions regarding the graduate certificate, please reach out to Professor Shannon Criss at scriss@ku.edu or Professor Hui Cai at huicai@ku.edu. 

Design Competition: Using Artificial Intelligence to Design Healthy Spaces

The KU Institute of Health & Wellness Design is sponsoring a design competition open to all students in the School of Architecture & Design. Cash prizes of $1,000, $500 and $300 will be awarded to the three top entries.

Deadline: January 24, 2024

Learn more & Enter

THE RIFT: Ukrainian Art in Resistance   

January 17 – February 16 | Chalmers Hall, Gallery

Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Exhibition sponsored by the KU Design and Visual Arts departments.

Imagining the City: A Community Conversation 

Thursday, January 25 | 6–7 p.m. | Nelson Aktins Museum of Art, KCMO

$8 Public | $5 Members 

Gallery L13 

Consider different experiences of and aspirations for our urban environments through insights on the exhibition Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City from community members across diverse sectors. This conversation features architect Dominique Davidson, poet and storyteller José Faus, photographer Joe Johnson, and photographer / ArcD professor Elise Kirk. 

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🌱 Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

This fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolors, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.

This beautiful book (& plenty of plants!) can be found up in the Hatch. The Hatch Reading Room is here for you to de-stress, work on projects, take a reading break, and enjoy a quiet view of campus. Plenty of open tables, comfortable chairs, sun-filled windows, and of course, books, are waiting for you up on the 4th floor of Marvin from 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday. 📚 

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