December 3, 2025
Unity Hall 420
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Landscape fieldwork combines landscape architects’ projective skills and tools for site analysis (drawing, measuring, photographing, remote sensing) with the ethnographic methods of anthropologists (participant observation, unstructured interviews, and writing reflexive fieldnotes), all as an integral part of a design process. When we do thick description, it leads us to thick prescription.
Please join us as author Gareth Doherty discusses his new book: Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design.
Project-Based Learning in the Age of AI: An Interactive Discussion
November 17, 2025
Unity Hall 500
11 - 12:30 pm
Join us for this lively interactive event!
Launch of the White Paper on PBL in the Age of AI
Student project presentations utilizing AI (IQP, HUA, MQP, GQP)
Faculty Lightning Talks on AI-related Projects from each school
Guided discussion soliciting feedback from participants
light refreshments provided
October 2025
How Corruption Undermines Sustainable Development, Human Rights, and Social Stability
October 23, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Unity Hall 520
In an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world, integrity has become a cornerstone of sustainable development. Corruption, governance weaknesses, and lack of transparency not only hinder economic growth, but also erode public trust, exacerbate inequalities, and limit opportunities for future generations.
As the Vice President of Integrity at the World Bank Group, Mouhamadou Diagne oversees investigations of alleged fraud and corruption involving World Bank Group-financed projects and activities, staff, and corporate vendors. The Integrity Vice Presidency also pursues and litigates sanctions for credible allegations, introduces best practices to prevent fraud and corruption in World Bank Group operations, and helps to raise compliance standards among private sector entities.
Diagne has more than 25 years of experience managing teams in the fight against fraud and corruption. Most recently, he served as the Inspector General of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, one of the world’s largest international health financing organizations. In this capacity, Diagne led the investigations and the audit functions of the organization and oversaw investigations of alleged fraud, corruption, misappropriation, and other forms of abuse in Global Fund-financed programs and in corporate operations. Before joining the Global Fund, he was the Director of Strategy and Operations for Internal Audit at the World Bank Group, where he led the strategic shift from compliance-audits to more strategic risk-based audits. Diagne also served as the Director of Internal Audit at Fannie Mae, one of the largest financial institutions in the US and the largest provider of mortgage financing in North America, and he has held various managerial positions in international public accounting firms.