Over the next four years, the college will offer Engagement Impact Grant opportunities to students and faculty seeking to further develop and deepen our shared understanding of what engagement as a common practice means within, across, and for our disciplines.
Engaged learning is a means not only for addressing global challenges such as climate change and pervasive inequities, or leveraging existing knowledge and resources — but also for creating new knowledge and ways of thinking, making, and doing that drive transformation in cities and communities. Grant funding will be available to all AAP faculty and students (located in Ithaca, NYC, or Rome) in three areas: research and creative work, convenings, and curricular innovation.
Definition of Terms
AAP defines community as a wide range of partners (nonprofit, civic, public sector, entrepreneurial, and corporate) whose work aligns with the college’s commitment to equity, dialogue, and socially responsive production. This includes grassroots groups as well as industry and technology firms when collaborations support shared educational, research, or public-service goals. Engagement is defined as a rigorous, transparent, and sustained partnership with these communities, grounded in mutual benefit, accountability, measurable impact, and ethical, inclusive practice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Previous Grant Recipients
2025
- Research and Creative Work Grant
- Anna Dietzsch, Architecture faculty
- Soojung Han (Ph.D. CRP ’28)
- Michael Jefferson, Architecture faculty
- Pamela Karimi, Architecture faculty
- Yakin Kinger (Ph.D. HAUD ’31)
- Suzanne Lettieri, Architecture faculty
- Jocelyn Poe, CRP faculty
- Shreya Rangaraj (M.R.P. ’26)
- Carla Rangel Garcia (M.F.A. Creative Visual Arts ’26)
- Emma Silverblatt, Architecture faculty
- Keishaun Wade (B.S. URS ’27)
- Curricular Innovation Grant
- Julian Hartman, CRP faculty
- Caroline O’Donnell, Architecture faculty
- Jen de los Reyes, Art faculty
- Emma Silverblatt, Architecture faculty
- Hanna Tulis, Architecture faculty
2024
- Research and Creative Work Grant
- Najeh Abduljalil (B.S. URS ’25)
- Franklin Berry (B.S. URS ’26)
- Emily De Lima (B.Arch. ’25)
- Marcos Escamilla-Guerrero (M.S. AAD ’24)
- Mitch Glass, CRP faculty
- Isabella Hernandez (B.Arch. ’28)
- Suzanne Lettieri, Architecture faculty
- Peter Robinson, Architecture faculty
- Nisarg Shah (M.R.P. ’25)
- Cook Shaw (B.Arch. ’24)
- Hung-Ming Tseng (M.S. AAD ’24)
- Pritika Venkatraman (M.R.P. ’25)
- Marta H. Wisniewska, Architecture faculty
- Convenings Grant
- Stephanie Lee, Architecture faculty
- Suzanne Lettieri, Architecture faculty
- María González Pendás, Architecture faculty
- Pamela Karimi, Architecture faculty