This year’s The Christopher E. and Deborah J. Buck Award for MFA Design student advancement is divided into two parts:

Part 1. Funding (airfare, hotel and conference fee) for one first-year and one second-year student to the Interaction12 Conference in Dublin.

Part 2. $15,000 award to eligible graduating students to aid in the further development of their thesis projects.

The first recipients were announced today:
Albert Pereta ’12
Lizzy Showman ’13

They will be joined at the conference by faculty member Andy Pratt and Director of MFAD Operations Esther Ro-Schofield.