In a press release, the Brookyln-based Pratt Institute bragged it has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a new project to increase “climate literacy” and promote “climate justice.”
Pratt Institute, known for training students in art, graphic design, and architecture, is home to approximately 5,300 students in the tree-line streets of Clinton Hill.
The climate-related project is called “Co-Design for Climate Justice: Youth Expression through Science-rich Public Art.” The project is led by Mark Rosin, a controversial math and science professor at Pratt.
The $2 million grant got noticed by Campus Reform, the education watchdog that monitors left-wing activity on college and university campuses.
In its story about the grant, CR points out that Professor Rosin previously started a “Queer Attraction Lab” through Pratt Institute and his own group, Guerilla Science. As the name implies, the so-called “lab” involves a homosexual-themed “intimate exploration” of the senses, such as taste and touch, in the name of science and research.
According to Pratt, the $2 million grant “builds on” Rosin’s previous work through Guerilla Science. With the new funding, Rosin plans to “create opportunities” for youths, and conduct surveys with them, to establish “best practices” for talking about climate change.
Matt Lamb, who writes about left-wing activism at The College Fix, says taxpayers “deserve better” for their tax dollars. Those federal funds could be going to real studies, such as cancer research, he says.
"So why the National Science Foundation is funding climate art,” Lamb says, “is beyond my understanding.”
Over at the Fix, Lamb himself recently wrote about another government grant to study climate change. The $3.8 million grant, from the National Institute of Aging, was awarded to Brown University to build a campus center called the Climate, Health and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities.
