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The University Design Research Fellowship (UDRF) recognizes full-time university professors whose work is deeply rooted in design research. For this cycle, Exhibit Columbus launched a national open call for UDRFellows. From sixty application submissions, the Curatorial Partners selected six UDRF teams. Each team is partnered with a Columbus-based organization and assigned a site where they create an installation rooted in their research.

2024–25 Exhibit Columbus Yes And UDRFellows

• Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale, and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy
  Washington University in St. Louis, College of Architecture Sam Fox School 

• Sarah Aziz
  University of New Mexico, School of Architecture and Planning

• Akima Brackeen
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture

• Andrew Fu, Aaron Goldstein, and Aleksandr Mergold
  New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hillier College of Architecture and Design

• Michael Jefferson and Suzanne Lettieri 
  Cornell University, School of Architecture

• César Lopez, Jess Myers, Amelyn Ng, and Germán Pallares-Avitia
  University of Virginia, School of Architecture; Syracuse University, School of Architecture; Columbia University, GSAPP; Rhode Island School of Design