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   Students dominate national healthcare design competition

   posted April 30, 2012

   Environmental design student teams from Texas A&M swept a national design contest, winning first-, second-, and third-place awards, as well as honorable mention with plans for renovating a skilled nursing facility in Jacksonville, Florida.
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   ACADEMICS CLASS ACTS FEATURE

   Aggie-founded arch program flourishing in Bangladesh

   posted April 30, 2012

   More than 50 year's ago two adventurous members of the architecture faculty at Texas A&M University traveled with their families and an associate to South Asia to establish the first architectural education program in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
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   ACADEMICS FEATURE RESEARCH

   New interdisciplinary classes to begin at Texas A&M this fall

   posted April 27, 2012

   Visualization and landscape architecture students will be working with counterparts from numerous other disciplines working on groundbreaking projects made possible by a new interdisciplinary initiative at Texas A&M.
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   Art and technology merge in students' design exploration

   posted April 27, 2012

   Working under the tutelage of an algorithmic design expert and an aerospace engineer, students in an experimental design studio at Texas A&M recently created prototypes for two unconventional home exteriors fabricated from innovative composite building materials.
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   Former student’s MSC installation debuts in late 2012

   posted April 25, 2012

   A high-tech, permanent installation for the newly renovated Memorial Student Center portraying Texas A&M students past and present, designed in part by a former environmental design student, will debut in December.
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   ACADEMICS FEATURE

   LAUP offering online courses this summer

   posted April 25, 2012

   This summer, for the first time, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Plannning is offering five undergraduate classes online. Two of the course, URSC 325, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, and URSC 330, Land Development I, are available only to students pursuing degrees offered by the department.
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   ACADEMICS EVENTS FEATURE HONORS STUDIO PROJECTS

   Department event to celebrate excellence

   posted April 24, 2012

   “The Celebration of Excellence,” a new Department of Architecture event recognizing outstanding student and faculty achievements, will include a juried evaluation of the year’s top five graduate final study projects, culminating with the presentation of a “Best of the Best Award” for the winning work.
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   Students' solar-powered umbrella wins 3rd in contest

   posted April 12, 2012

   A solar-powered beach umbrella capable of powering portable electronic devices, built by a team of Texas A&M Design Process students, earned third place in the nationwide Innovative Design Competition sponsored by Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.
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   ACADEMICS FEATURE

   Beloved Italian prof succumbs to cancer

   posted April 10, 2012

   The world just got a little less interesting, concluded a Monday, April 9 email from Rome announcing the passing of Paolo Barucchieri, longtime director of Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Italy and beloved figure to the hundreds of Aggies who studied there over the last three decades.
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    FEATURE RESEARCH

    Campus green roof initiative to involve multiple disciplines

    posted April 4, 2012

    Next fall, students from a variety of academic programs will collaborate to install and monitor a green roof atop a campus building; an initiative preparing students as leaders in energy conservation, said Bruce Dvorak, an assistant professor of landscape architecture.
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    Mann heads world health design group

    posted April 3, 2012

    As the new director of the International Union of Architects Public Health Group, George J. Mann, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, said he will advocate heightened patient care, improved health care access and availability, and quality, affordable health facilities worldwide.
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    Grad architecture students’ design wows conference

    posted April 3, 2012

    Texas A&M graduate architecture students impressed a design jury at a 2011 Nashville healthcare design conference with their concept to convert an antiquated public health facility to a holistic healing center for “everyday athletes.”
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    Solar light pipe testing to begin

    posted April 3, 2012

    An award-winning solar light device developed at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture that can significantly reduce electric bills by delivering a bounty of natural sunlight deep into the interior of a building, will soon enter a new phase of development at the College of Architecture’s Digital Fabrication Facility.
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    CLASS ACTS EVENTS FEATURE

    Aggie Reception set for AIA conference in Washington, D.C.

    posted March 24, 2012

    Former students and friends are invited to join their former classmates and professors May 18 at the annual Aggie AIA Reception at the American Institute of Architects' 2012 national convention in Washington, D.C.
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    ACADEMICS EVENTS FEATURE

    Construction Dept. launches campaign for new building

    posted February 13, 2012

    The Department of Construction Science has launched a $5 million campaign to adapt and renovate historic Francis Hall as the state’s first facility dedicated to construction teaching, research and industry service.