Honors

  1. Rodiek’s students sweep national nursing home design competition
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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.
  2. Newly endowed MLA scholarship honors prof Jon Rodiek's parents
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    Scholarship awards honor prof's parents

    posted April 30, 2012
    A scholarship endowment gradually funded over the last 18 years by 27 community outreach projects undertaken by students in professor Jon Rodiek's Master of Architecture studios at Texas A&M University reached fruition last fall, for the first time providing scholarships totaling $14,000 for eight new MLA students.
  3. New York Times story features Fairey’s Peckerwood Garden
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    Fairey’s garden featured in April 18 New York Times

    posted April 30, 2012
    The New York Times featured Texas A&M architecture professor John Fairey's beloved Peckerwood Garden, a 39-acre living repository of rare and unusual plants from the southern United States and Mexico, in its April 18 issue.
  4. Students thank scholarship benefactors, college patrons
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    Students pen thank you notes to donors

    posted April 30, 2012
    Earlier this month, the Maroon Coats, student ambassadors of the Texas A&M Foundation, organized an impromptu “thank you” note-writing session for students to share their gratitude with scholarship benefactors and gift givers who support College of Architecture programs.
  5. Former student helps design kinetic installation for MSC
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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.
  6. Former student group honors Smith for teaching excellence
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    Smith earns FSA teaching award

    posted April 24, 2012
    James Smith ’70, professor and former head of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&M University, was among 24 university faculty and staff members to receive a 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Former Students at a April 25 ceremony at Rudder Theatre.
  7. Department of Architecture holds best of the best competition to celebrate culture of excellence
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    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.
  8. Alumna Toffer ’04 to receive AIA diversity honor at D.C. conference
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    Alumna to receive AIA diversity award

    posted April 20, 2012
    Lorena Téllez Toffer AIA, a 2004 Master of Architecture graduate, will be recognized May 19 at the American Institute of Architect’s National Convention in Washington, D.C. for her leadership as co-chair of AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture (LiA) Committee, this year’s AIA Diversity Recognition Program honoree.
  9. MLA students' downtown core concept wins Texas ASLA award
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    MLA project wins Texas ASLA award

    posted April 20, 2012
    A College Station area consisting of strip malls and parking lots would become a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, downtown core in an award-winning master plan proposed by Master of Landscape Architecture students at Texas A&M.
  10. Duffy named president-elect of Society of Counseling Psychology
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    CHSD fellow to head U.S. APA division

    posted April 18, 2012
    The Society of Counseling Psychology’s efforts to support psychologists, students and international and professional affiliates will be augmented by president-elect Michael Duffy, a Center for Health Systems and Design Faculty Fellow and professor emeritus of counseling psychology at Texas A&M.
  11. Former student wins forestry association award for design
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    Morris wins forestry group design award

    posted April 13, 2012
    For his creative use of several types of wood in the renovation of Houston Holy Ghost Catholic Church, architect David Morris ‘57 recently earned an Excellence in Wood Design Award from the Texas Forestry Association.
  12. Solar-powered umbrella design places 3rd in national contest
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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.
  13. Master of Architecture student named WHR Tradewell fellow
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    M.Arch student earns Tradewell Fellowship

    posted April 10, 2012
    As the 2012-13 WHR Architects Tradewell Fellow, Akshay Sangolli, a graduate Texas A&M architecture student, will work on some of the firm’s upcoming projects alongside some of the nation’s leading healthcare facility design professionals.
  14. Doctoral student eying daylight’s effects on healthcare providers
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    Study eying how daylight impacts healthcare workers

    posted April 6, 2012
    The effects of daylight on healthcare workers and the care they provide, and how that impacts operating costs at health facilities, are the focus of an award-winning investigation by Rana Zadeh, a Ph.D. architecture student at Texas A&M.
  15. Mann elected director of global health care architecture group
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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.