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   FEATURE HONORS STUDIO PROJECTS

   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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   HONORS

   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.
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   HONORS

   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.
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   HONORS STUDIO PROJECTS

   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.
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   RESEARCH

   LAUP professors’ book addresses mobility issues

   posted April 19, 2012

   Transportation planners will find answers to key questions on road project prioritization in a new book co-authored by two members of the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning faculty.
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   EVENTS RESEARCH

   CHSD hosts ‘boot camp’ for architects

   posted April 18, 2012

   Professional architects learned how to incorporate evidence-based design into healthcare projects at an April 12-14 “boot camp” sponsored by Texas A&M’s Center for Health Systems and Design.
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   RESEARCH

   Vanegas moderates sustainability panel at Qatar urban forum

   posted March 24, 2012

   Four of the world’s leading “green” experts discussed sustainability, energy and “green” development in a March 6 forum moderated by Jorge Vanegas, dean of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, at a global real estate convention in Cannes, France.
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   ACADEMICS

   Student's book offers college funding tips

   posted March 23, 2012

   Expense-cutting strategies and financing advice to help students and parents better afford a college education are outlined in a new book written by first-generation college graduate Ethan Brisby, who is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Land Development degree at Texas A&M.
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   ACADEMICS

   Landscape pros study at Costa Rica center

   posted February 14, 2012

   Nestled amid the Costa Rican rain forest, Texas A&M's Soltis Center for Research and Education provides a perfect venue for landscape architecture studies, according to members of the Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Board who visited there last January for continuing education coursework.
10. 
    EVENTS HONORS

    Trisha Gottschalk earns merit award

    posted February 14, 2012

    For cordially providing superlative service to students and faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Trisha Gottschalk, assistant to the department head, will receive a President’s Meritorious Service Award in a special honors ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 21 in Rudder Theatre.
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    CLASS ACTS HONORS VIDEO

    Brinsden guides CityCentre to institute award

    posted February 6, 2012

    Texas A&M land development graduate Jonathan Brinsden '92 helped his firm, Midway Companies, earn a 2012 Development of Distinction Award from the Urban Land Institute for its CityCentre project.
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    ACADEMICS EVENTS

    Aggie Workshop took holistic approach

    posted February 6, 2012

    Professional landscape architects shared their knowledge with students Feb. 10-11 at the Langford Architecture Center in a series of presentations, discussion panels and charrettes at the 2012 Aggie Workshop, which this year took a holistic approach to design.
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    FEATURE HONORS

    Colonias Program marks 20th year

    posted January 25, 2012

    After two decades focused on improving the quality of life for residents of the impoverished, relatively undeveloped villages, or “colonias,” clumped near population centers on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border, the Texas A&M University Colonias Program is celebrating its achievements.
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    EVENTS FEATURE RESEARCH

    Preservation experts focus on ‘Disaster’ at 13th CHC symposium

    posted January 19, 2012

    Historic preservation efforts undertaken after natural and manmade disasters were the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at the Langford Architecture Center.
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    CLASS ACTS EVENTS

    Berke '81 lectures on sustainable urbanism

    posted January 18, 2012

    Philip Berke ‘81, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and one of the nation’s top land use planning scholars, presented “Sustainable Cities: Demographic Trends, Impacts and Future Plans” on Jan. 20 in the Wright Gallery.