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More than $12,000 was raised for Bryan/College Station’s Habitat for Humanity by Texas A&M construction science students and industry sponsors during an April 11 golf tournament at Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan.

Six former students from Texas A&M’s College of Architecture who have risen to the top of their professional field while making significant public service contributions will be honored this fall as outstanding alumni.

The Texas A&M Department of Architecture is hosting a reception for former students and friends 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1420 Stout St. during the AIA national convention in Denver.

Strategies for incorporating art and design in science and technical education and vice versa will be discussed at a May 16 Washington D.C. conference organized by the network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (SEAD).

Funeral services for Thomas McKittrick ’91, who became an architecture educator at Texas A&M University in 1990 after a stellar 28-year career as a professional architect, is scheduled at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013 at the Rice Chapel in Rice University’s student center.

An afternoon of juried presentations showcasing the Texas A&M Department of Architecture's best graduate student work from the academic year will culminate with the selection of the year’s top project and presentations of student and faculty awards.

Construction science students at Texas A&M learned first-hand about the construction process, material production and manufacturing on visits to several sites throughout the region during the department’s spring semester field day April 5, 2013.

Intricate handkerchief drawings by Karen Hillier, a former visualization faculty member at Texas A&M, will be on display in Houston’s BLUEorange Contemporary Art Gallery from April 13 - May 12, 2013.

Urban issues affecting the Texas-Mexico border will be the focus of Dialogo on the Border, sponsored by the diversity council at the College of Architecture and the Dwight Look College of Engineering April 19-20 in Brownsville, Texas.

A diverse array of artwork including interactive multimedia installations, sculptures, photographs, video, drawings and paintings created by faculty from the Texas A&M College of Architecture will be exhibited March 21 – May 19 at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries.

Steve McDowell, director of design and principal at BNIM, a design and planning firm recognized by the American Institute of Architects as its 2011 firm of the year, spoke at Texas A&M’s Rowlett Lecture Series April 19 at Rudder Theatre on the Texas A&M campus.

Celebrating its 20th year, Viz-a-GoGo, the annual showcase of student work from the visualization programs at Texas A&M University, took its audience on a time-traveling adventure — in a DeLorean, no less — with a series of interstitial stories paying tribute to the program's heritage.

For his tireless efforts supporting and expanding the digital image collection at the college's Technical Reference Center, visual resources coordinator Ian Muise received a President’s Meritorious Service Award.

Stephen Byrne '75, a popular Texas A&M construction science educator and construction industry leader who helped shaped the top rated construction science program at Texas A&M, passed away Feb. 11 from complications due to back surgery.

The College of Architecture will host prospective students and their parents as part of Texas A&M's Feb. 16, 2013 Aggieland Saturday festivities. The event runs 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at venues across the Texas A&M campus.