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Somf 2025 robert l wesley award
Deadline November 13, 2025
2025 Robert L. Wesley Award Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Robert L. Wesley Award. The award supports BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, or engineering programs in the United States. This year, three students will receive a $10,000 award in addition to a yearlong mentorship program that connects the students with leading BIPOC practitioners and educators. The award is named in honor of Robert L. Wesley, the first Black partner at SOM.

Deadline November 10, 2025
2025 Research Prize Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Research Prize. Two $30,000 prizes will be awarded to faculty-led interdisciplinary teams based in the United States to conduct original research that contributes to this year’s topic, “Exploring the Potential of Mobility Corridors.” The Research Prize was created in 2018 to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.

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Somf 2025 european research prize
Deadline November 10, 2025
2025 European Research Prize Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 European Research Prize. The €20,000 prize will be awarded to a faculty-led interdisciplinary team based in Europe to conduct original research that contributes to this year’s topic, “Exploring the Potential of Mobility Corridors.” The European Research Prize was created in 2021 to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.

October 6, 2025
SOM Foundation and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid Announce the Third William F. Baker International Research and Design Forum

The SOM Foundation, in partnership with the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), is pleased to announce the third William F. Baker International Research and Design Forum. This year’s edition will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025, and will be organized in partnership with the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) on the campus of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The full-day event will include presentations by academics and industry leaders whose body of work, creativity, and expertise inspire the future of materiality, assembly, and technology in the built world.

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October 1, 2025
A Conversation with Edward M. Segal, 2008 Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship

Edward M. (Ted) Segal, associate professor of engineering at Hofstra University, works at the intersection of art, design, technology, and teaching. In a recent conversation, Segal shares how his design/research team at Hofstra approaches material exploration in novel ways, discusses the importance of fostering curiosity and collaborative exploration with his students, and describes how the research he conducted on modeling during his 2008 Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship remains relevant to his work today. This interview, conducted by Molly Hanse, is part of a series of conversations that explores how SOM Foundation fellows are shaping the future of their fields.

September 5, 2025
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2025 Robert L. Wesley Award

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2025 Robert L. Wesley Award. This year’s jury will be led by Robert L. Wesley (Retired Partner, SOM, Chicago) and will include Teri Canada (Principal and Cofounder, EVOKE Studio, Durham), Lisa C. Henry (Associate Professor and Associate Dean, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah, Salt Lake City), Camille Martin-Thomsen (Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs and professor of architecture and interior architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago), and Amber N. Wiley (Wick Cary Director of the Institute for Quality Communities, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman).

September 4, 2025
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2025 European Research Prize

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2025 Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by SOM Foundation Executive Director Iker Gil and will include Pedro Gadanho (Architect, author and independent curator, Lisbon), Meredith Glaser (Chief Executive Officer, Urban Cycling Institute, Amsterdam; Professor of Cycling, Ghent University, Ghent), and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (Chief Curator, ArkDes - the Swedish National Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm).

September 3, 2025
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2025 Research Prize

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2025 Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by SOM Foundation Executive Director Iker Gil and will include Gia Biagi (Secretary of Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation, Chicago), Julia Day (Partner and Project Director, Gehl, New York City), Kit Krankel McCullough (Teaching Professor, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor; SOM Foundation fellow), and Jeffrey Sriver (Director of Transportation Planning, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago).

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August 21, 2025
Emily McGlohn is a recipient of Architectural Record’s 2025 Women in Architecture Award

Emily McGlohn (2024 Research Prize) is a recipient of Architectural Record’s 2025 Women in Architecture Award. She and the four other 2025 laureates will be honored at a ceremony held on September 9 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

August 11, 2025
A Conversation With Daniella Slowik, 2020 Robert L. Wesley Award Fellow

In the five years since Daniella Slowik was an inaugural recipient of the SOM Foundation’s Robert L. Wesley Award, Slowik’s climate-focused work in landscape architecture have taken her across the country and the world: from Harvard Graduate School to a rural community in Portugal, from a biosphere reserve in Mexico to her new home in the Netherlands. Along the way, Slowik has deepened her conviction to use her design skills to support the most under-resourced landscapes and communities. This interview, conducted by Molly Hanse, is part of a series of conversations that explores how SOM Foundation fellows are shaping the future of their field.

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