Sam Fox School faculty, student win Newman Exploration Travel Fund Awards

Senior Lecturer John Early and undergraduate architecture student Viktoriia Knyaz have been selected as winners of this year’s Newman Exploration Travel Fund Award. The program supports WashU students, faculty, and staff travel as a means of expanding one’s horizons and inspiring growth, excellence, and innovation while pursuing both personal and professional goals.

Early will travel to France to attend an artist residency and conduct cross-cultural research to further Whereas Hoops, an ongoing community-based project addressing issues of race and equity in the recreational basketball landscape of St. Louis.

Knyaz will travel to major cities in the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland to examine postwar reconstruction and long-term housing systems in these countries, with the goal of identifying strategies for ongoing recovery in her native Ukraine.