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Wanna get ahead this summer? Take a Gen Ed course in the arts!
We've got topics like intro to art, contemporary dance, and theatre arts, as well as urban sustainability and the history of rock music 🎶🎸

Check out more course info ➡️ link in bio!

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🎉 Huge congratulations to Professor Akima Brackeen from the Illinois School of Architecture, recipient of the 2025–26 Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize in Architecture! 🏛️

Awarded by the American Academy in Rome, this prestigious fellowship supports visionary artists and scholars through an immersive residency in the heart of Rome. Professor Brackeen is one of 35 recipients selected from nearly 1,000 applicants worldwide.

This fall, she will join an interdisciplinary community on the Academy’s campus in Rome to continue her transformative work in architecture. @amacademyrome 

Congrats, Professor Brackeen! @helloakima  @archatillinois 
Read more with the link in bio 🔗

#RomePrize #AmericanAcademyInRome #IllinoisArchitecture #WeDesign

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🎭“Let yourself be the beginner again.” — Gianna Casanova, Lyric Theatre major

Why Gianna chose @lyrictheatreillinois?
✔️ Classical and contemporary training
✔️ Opportunities to perform in operas and musicals
✔️ A tight-knit, supportive cohort and faculty
✔️ World-class practice and performance spaces

Her days are packed with rehearsals, dance classes, studio sessions, and learning from peers and professors who truly care.
Advice to future majors: Come ready to learn, be curious, and soak it all in 🧡 
@illinoismusic @krannertcenter

Video by @ad1tik

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Today is the last day of our I ❤️ the Arts student philanthropy month of giving. Join us INSIDE the Architecture Building from 11am-1pm for food and FAA swag to celebrate the close of our initiative. Together, we can make a difference and help support a student in need. Show your love for the arts now by making a gift at go.illinois.edu/heart-the-arts!

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Happy International Dance Day 🎉

Today we honor the universal language of movement alongside @danceatillinois. 
On International Dance Day, we celebrate the power of dance to connect cultures, express emotion, and inspire change. 

To our dancers, teachers, alumni, and friends:
Thank you for making our community vibrant, creative, and fearless. Today, we celebrate YOU!

#InternationalDanceDay #danceunitesus 

Photo by Natalie Fiol
From "Khazan (Autumn)" by Banafsheh Amiri

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🌿 New research led by landscape architecture professors William Sullivan and Bin Jiang reveals a powerful connection between green spaces and public safety. Their study—the first of its kind—shows that communities with more greenery experience significantly fewer fatal police shootings, especially in areas facing social and economic challenges. Read how thoughtful landscape design can shape safer, healthier neighborhoods.
@illinoislandarch 
Learn more at the🔗 link in bio!

#LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanGreening #PublicSafety #CommunityDesign

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Dance at Illinois alumna Leslie Cuyjet (BFA ’03) has been selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow as part of the Foundation's 100th year anniversary. This competitive honor was only presented to 198 exceptional individuals across 53 disciplines—selected from nearly 3,500 applicants. 

Cuyjet, who is based out of Brooklyn, NY, has been choreographing and dancing in New York since 2004, collaborating and performing with other creators “on rooftops, good and bad floors, and alleyways; on stage, in film, art, on tour, and on the fly.” She is also the recipient of two Bessie Awards for her work, a top honor in the world of dance.

The Fellowship provides support for recipients to pursue independent work under what the Foundation calls “the freest possible conditions.” It empowers choreographers to explore bold ideas, push creative boundaries, and make meaningful contributions to the field of dance—something Cuyjet has been doing already for over a decade —without commercial or institutional constraints.

A huge congratulations to Leslie! We can't wait to see what comes of this remarkable opportunity!

Read more in the link in bio! @danceatillinois @guggfellows

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Are you the recipient of a financial need-based scholarship? Over a third of Illinois students are here because they were provided with some form of need-based aid. Your gift can help make the difference between a student attending FAA at Illinois or having to decline enrollment due to financial constraints. Every gift counts. Will you make a gift today? go.illinois.edu/heart-the-arts

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BSSD

Oct 6 - SP 2026 Class Schedule Available on Course Explorer

Oct 10 - Do you have an academic or professional opportunity you’re excited about that requires funding to pursue? For Fall semester 2025, scholarships of $300 or $500 will be awarded to selected students based on the clearly defined benefit to the student’s academic or professional growth. Link in bio. For questions, email sustaindesign@illinois.edu or schedule an advising appointment. 

Oct 10 - Application deadline for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). URAP provides students with little or no research experience the opportunity to work with graduate students and post-doctoral scholars on their research projects, explore the culture and process of research, and build on existing abilities within a community of scholars. Learn more: https://undergradresearch.illinois.edu/programs/urap.html 

Oct 15 - BSSD Intercollegiate Transfer Deadline - Link in Bio

Oct 17 - BSSD Virtual Info Session https://enroll.illinois.edu/portal/prospect_susdesign 

Oct 17 - Deadline to apply for this spring break course that engages multidisciplinary and mixed-level students from the FAA in dialogues on participatory methods to bridge the campus community divides, frustrating productive collaborations for sustainable design in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students travel to directly engage with local academics, artists, activists, and communities working with Casa Pueblo in the municipality of Adjuntas, PR. Visit https://go.illinois.edu/CasaPuebloSpringBreak for more info and to apply. 

Oct 17 - Halfway Point of Class Deadlines: Drop a course via self-service with no “w” grade; withdraw from semester without w grades; submit Cr/NC request; submit grade replacement; and last day to withdraw for minimum 40% refund

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✨Reminder ✨ Due one week from today! Get your applications in by Friday, October 10 at 11:59 pm

Do you have an academic or professional opportunity you would like to pursue but need additional funding to do so? The Opportunity Scholarship provides $300 or $500 awards to selected students. Funds are awarded based on clearly articulated benefits to the student’s professional or academic growth.

Link in bio and QR Code
Have questions?: email sustaindesign@illinois.edu or schedule an advising appointment 🍂

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Rick Collins with Firmitas Timber is helping the students in Prof. Hodgin Jones’ FAA 230 Sustainable Design of the Built Environment course learn to raise a sustainable timber frame peg barn!

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Sept 22 - TODAY! Sustainable Timber Lecture with Rick Collins at 6:00pm in Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall. Link in bio to more details! Learn about alternatives to unsustainable timber extraction; the scope and scale of technical and social change required to transition to sustainable practices; the potential of local timber use; and the process of working with heavy timber to create buildings that last hundreds of years.

Sept 22 - Do you have an academic or professional opportunity you’re excited about but require funding? The BSSD Opportunity Scholarship provides financial support to students in the program to pursue these projects. For Fall 2025, $300 or $500 will be awarded to selected students based on the clearly defined benefit to the student’s academic or professional growth. Watch for the BSSD newsletter for details and application link.

Sept 24 - Green Quad Day, 12-4 pm at Anniversary Plaza. A mini quad day focused on environmental and sustainable RSOs and organizations hosted by the Student Sustainability Leadership Council.

Sept 25 & 26 - iSEE Congress at Illini Union Rooms B & C. Join BSSD Staff and Faculty in attending! The topic for the 2025 iSEE Congress is “A Circular Bioeconomy as a Path to Net-Zero.” https://sustainability.illinois.edu/outreach/isee-congress/isee-congress-2025/

Sept 30 -  APA SCD JEDI Scholar Program Deadline - $1,500 to assist students from underrepresented groups who are pursuing a degree in planning with an interest in sustainability. https://www.apascd.com/scholarships

Oct 1 - Reimagine Our Future | Undergraduate Sustainability Competition Registration Deadline. Develop an innovative plan or solution that promotes one or more of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Check out the BSSD newsletter to see previous Sustainable Design winners! More info: https://www.herox.com/reimagine2025

Oct 3 - Gilman Scholarship Deadline - for Pell grant recipients who want to study abroad or do an international internship. https://topscholars.illinois.edu/gilman-scholarship/

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Finishing up the battery-powered sawmill demo with @fabrication_shops @illinoisnres @sustainillinois @roottoroof_ @ssc_illinois @ilextension

Thank you to all of the faculty, students and community members who turned out to learn about sustainable milling of locally sourced timber!

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