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Deadline March 15, 2021
2021 Structural Engineering Fellowship Application Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2021 SOM Foundation Structural Engineering Fellowship. The $20,000 fellowship is awarded annually to a graduating student who specializes in structural engineering to conduct independent travel and research that contributes to the SOM Foundation’s current topic and has the potential to influence the practice and teaching of how structures can positively impact our built environment.

January 3, 2021
Robert L. Wesley, Convocation Speaker of the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture

Robert L. Wesley, retired SOM Partner and eponym of the SOM Foundation's newest award, was the convocation speaker for the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture on Friday, December 18, 2020.

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December 8, 2020
Robert L. Wesley Award Featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine

The SOM Foundation's Robert L. Wesley Award is featured in the December 2020 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. The article, “Copycats Wanted” by Timothy A. Schuler, highlights “several new or recent scholarships aimed at supporting design students of color.”

Deadline November 16, 2020
2020 Research Prize Application Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the third annual SOM Foundation Research Prize. The awards program, which comprises two $40,000 grants, is designed to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.

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September 21, 2020
Lecture by SOM Foundation Fellow Seth Denizen at Harvard GSD

SOM Foundation Fellow Seth Denizen, winner of the 2019 Research Prize, will deliver the Kiley Fellow Lecture at Harvard GSD on Monday, September 21 at noon EST. During the lecture, titled “Thinking Through Soil: Case Study from the Mezquital Valley,” Denizen will discuss the project supported by the SOM Foundation and developed with Montserrat Bonhevi Rosich and David Moreno Mateos.

September 15, 2020
SOM Foundation Announces New Robert L. Wesley Award

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the Robert L. Wesley Award. The new award will support BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or structural engineering programs across the US. The $10,000 award is an unrestricted scholarship that aims to support the academic development of the student. In addition to the economic support, recipients of the award will be paired with one of the jurors who will act as their mentor for the year. The award honors Robert L. Wesley, the first Black partner at SOM. For more information about the award, visit the award page.

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September 2, 2020
The Right to Sewage Project, Recipient of the 2019 SOM Foundation Research Prize, Featured on Harvard GSD

The “Right to Sewage“ project, recipient of the 2019 SOM Foundation Research Prize, has been featured on Harvard GSD. The article by Alex Anderson, titled “The Right to Sewage: Agriculture, climate change, and the growing need for cities to embrace wastewater reuse,” explains that the ”work will be a call to action to think about ‘the future of the cycle of water‘ and to envision ‘new human/biological relationships‘ in Mexico City.”

March 24, 2020
SOM Foundation Postpones the Call for Two Awards due to COVID-19

The SOM Foundation and its Board of Officers have been closely monitoring the unprecedented situation created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This spring, we had planned to launch the call for our 2020 SOM Foundation Structural Engineering Research Fellowship and our 2020 SOM Foundation China Prize. After evaluating the current situation, we have decided to postpone the call until 2021.

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February 3, 2020
SOM Foundation Announces Winners of 2019 Research Prize

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 SOM Foundation Research Prize. Two teams—one led by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and one led by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Architecture—will each receive a grant of $40,000 to conduct original research. The SOM Foundation Research Prize was created in 2018 to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research with the goal of addressing critical issues of our time. This year’s topic, “Shrinking our Agricultural Footprint,” seeks to define new spatial conditions that reduce our agricultural footprint and advance approaches to sustainability and resiliency in the short- and long-term future.

December 19, 2019
SOM Foundation Announces the Recipients of the 2019 UK Awards

On December 3, 2019, the SOM Foundation awarded its annual UK Award to students Sun Yen Yee and Annabelle Tan. Sun Yen Yee, a student at the University of Westminster, London, won for his submission titled “SEED of Havana: Dissolving Condensers.” Annabelle Tan, a student at the University College London Bartlett School of Architecture, won for her entry, “Wetland Frontier.”

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