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April 3, 2026

New Dialogues, A New School Podcast

New Dialogues brings you inside The New School’s most compelling conversations, where leading faculty and world-renowned speakers from design, arts, and research challenge conventional thinking and reimagine our future. For...

August 9, 2024

Angeline Gragasin, Faculty Member at Parsons, Awarded Yaddo Residency

Since 1900, Yaddo has been providing artists and creatives with a quiet retreat in upstate New York, where they are given the time and space to develop new projects in...

July 15, 2024

Ruth Westheimer, MA Sociology ’59, Noted Sex Therapist and Author, Dies at 96

New School alumna Dr. Ruth Westheimer, best known as the sexpert Dr. Ruth, brought sex therapy into the mainstream through her radio and television shows that achieved success throughout the...

July 11, 2024

The New School’s Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab Launches Teen Mental Health Program with the NYC Mayor’s Office

Youth mental health problems are skyrocketing, and there remain major gaps in access to care. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF developed a new psychological intervention, Early Adolescent Skills...

July 11, 2024

Nina Freedman, Faculty Member in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, Exhibits at the Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale has been presented since 1895, and is the original art festival that all other biennales are modeled after. The world’s most prestigious arts organizations and forward-thinking artists...

July 11, 2024

Shannon Hughes, Eugene Lang ’26, Creates Dorm Donation Project, Recycling Program for Home Goods

The end of the school year is always a busy time for students, faculty, and staff at The New School. Students are showcasing their capstone and thesis projects, while also...

June 13, 2024

An Interview with Mary Watson, Executive Dean of the Schools of Public Engagement

On June 30, Mary Watson will step down from her decade-long tenure as Executive Dean of the Schools of Public Engagement. Watson, who joined The New School in July 2001,...

June 13, 2024

Marcos Varela, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty Member, Wins Creative Capital Grant to Support New Music Project

Since 1999, the Creative Capital Awards have been supporting artists and creatives with monetary grants up to $50,000, which are also supplemented by career development and networking services to foster...

June 13, 2024

Bob McKinnon, Parsons Faculty Member, Debuts New Children’s Book

At the age of eleven, Bob McKinnon moved from Chelsea, Massachusetts to York, Pennsylvania with his family, as his mother attempted to escape poverty, and seek a better life for...

May 17, 2024

The New School’s 88th Commencement Celebrates the Creativity, Perseverance, and Ingenuity of the Class of 2024

Nearly 3,000 graduates of the Class of 2024, festively clad in their gowns and mortarboards, attended The New School’s 88th Commencement in the Louis Armstrong Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean...

May 17, 2024

Parsons Industrial Design Alumni Launch Souper Studio

Souper Connect is a human-shaped building block that can’t stand up by itself, reminding users that people need to rely on each other for support. Originally designed and developed by...

May 17, 2024

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Associate Professor of History, Joins the 2024 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, an associate professor of history, was selected as one of this year’s Andrew Carnegie Fellows by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The 28 fellows will each...

May 2, 2024

College of Performing Arts Alumni and Faculty Earn 2024 Tony Nominations

Every year, a variety of new shows come to Broadway representing a range of genres, and featuring some of the industry’s most exciting performers, writers, and more. Recently, eligible shows...

May 2, 2024

NSSR Student Ramon Louis Constan de Haan Receives Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

The process of applying for research funding can become almost a job in itself, especially for a project that involves non-traditional research practices. A Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship award has...

May 2, 2024

Parsons Interior Design Program Featured in Exhibition at New York Port Authority

For the past two months, the halls of the New York Port Authority have been filled with tourists and commuters hustling to reach their destinations via the many transportation options...

April 18, 2024

Eugene Lang Dean’s Honor Symposium Celebrates Undergraduate Research in the Liberal Arts

Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to grasp a concept is to explain it to someone else. Putting that idea into practice, the Lang Dean’s Honor Symposium gave 25...

April 18, 2024

MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Capstone Projects Highlight Interdisciplinary, Innovative, and Creative Productions

To be an artist in the 21st century means you have to be, on some level, an entrepreneur. Working actors, writers, directors, and other creatives are responsible for ever evolving...

April 18, 2024

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The New School’s Spring 2024 Semester in Books

Mohammad Valizadeh Alvan, Parsons MFA Lighting Design and Architectural Design ’25, Wins Scholarship from Illuminating Engineers Society of New York City

Faculty and Alumni from the College of Performing Arts Earn Wide Variety of Wins and Nominations from the Annual Downbeat Critic’s Poll

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New Dialogues, A New School Podcast

Angeline Gragasin, Faculty Member at Parsons, Awarded Yaddo Residency

Ruth Westheimer, MA Sociology ’59, Noted Sex Therapist and Author, Dies at 96

The New School’s Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab Launches Teen Mental Health Program with the NYC Mayor’s Office

Nina Freedman, Faculty Member in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, Exhibits at the Venice Biennale

Shannon Hughes, Eugene Lang ’26, Creates Dorm Donation Project, Recycling Program for Home Goods

An Interview with Mary Watson, Executive Dean of the Schools of Public Engagement

Marcos Varela, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty Member, Wins Creative Capital Grant to Support New Music Project

Bob McKinnon, Parsons Faculty Member, Debuts New Children’s Book

The New School’s 88th Commencement Celebrates the Creativity, Perseverance, and Ingenuity of the Class of 2024

Parsons Industrial Design Alumni Launch Souper Studio

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Associate Professor of History, Joins the 2024 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows

College of Performing Arts Alumni and Faculty Earn 2024 Tony Nominations

NSSR Student Ramon Louis Constan de Haan Receives Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Parsons Interior Design Program Featured in Exhibition at New York Port Authority

Eugene Lang Dean’s Honor Symposium Celebrates Undergraduate Research in the Liberal Arts

MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Capstone Projects Highlight Interdisciplinary, Innovative, and Creative Productions

New School Professors and Faculty Member Win Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships

Media Studies Alumni Earn Webby Nominations for Their Documentary Saturday in the Park

New School Alums Talk Inclusive and Data Driven Design at SXSW

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