research

  1. CoSci students use plastic bottles to increase concrete's pliability
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    CoSci students use plastic bottles to add pliability to concrete

    posted February 15, 2012
    Construction science students at Texas A&M led by Nancy Holland, associate professor of construction science, are getting a first-hand look at how plastic bottles could someday help save concrete buildings from catastrophic failure in an earthquake.
  2. Five former students head renovation teams for Ags' new Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park
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    Former students head Aggie baseball stadium facelift

    posted February 15, 2012
    The dramatic $24 million facelift to Texas A&M’s baseball stadium, now known as Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park, was made possible, in part, by five Texas A&M College of Architecture former students.
  3. Exhibit co-curated by Lang named one of 2011’s top cultural events
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    Lang helped curate exhibit ranked as a top event of 2011

    posted February 6, 2012
    An exhibition retracing a landmark 1972 New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit of radical Italian design co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, was lauded by a London critic as one of the world’s cultural highlights in 2011.
  4. Study: Durable building materials lessen long-term carbon footprint
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    Durable building materials mitigate carbon emissions

    posted February 2, 2012
    The use of durable construction materials in maintenance and renovation projects can lower a building’s carbon footprint while lengthening its service life, said Manish Dixit, an architecture Ph.D. student at Texas A&M.
  5. Glowacki co-edits book of papers examining ancient Crete housing
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    Prof contributes to ancient Crete book

    posted January 26, 2012
    A new book co-edited by Kevin Glowacki, assistant professor of architecture, is deepening the understanding of ancient houses and household activities in the Greek island of Crete. Glowacki and collaborator Natalla Vogelkoff-Brogan, of Athens, Greece, also penned an introductory chapter.
  6. Campagnol paper explores Brazil’s industrial heritage
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    Prof's research explores Brazil’s industrial past

    posted January 23, 2012
    The Brazilian government’s role in enacting legislation to preserve the South American nation’s industrial heritage was researched in a paper by Gabriela Campagnol, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M, published in a national preservation journal.
  7. Research centers offer disaster- themed preservation symposium
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    Preservation experts focus on ‘Disaster’ at 13th CHC symposium

    posted January 19, 2012
    Historic preservation efforts undertaken in the wake of natural and manmade disasters are the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium, slated Feb. 24-25 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M University campus.
  8. Zhu co-pens paper summarizing active living research findings
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    Zhu co-pens paper about active living

    posted January 11, 2012
    Xuemei Zhu, assistant professor of architecture, co-authored a paper summarizing the research behind active living — a new, comprehensive way of tackling obesity involving the built environment — in the new edition of a journal published by the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.
  9. LAUP alums help shape city of Austin invasive species strategy
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    Alums help Austin manage invasives

    posted January 9, 2012
    Two former Texas A&M landscape architecture students, Elizabeth Chapman ’10 and Trace Unruh ’11, helped develop the city of Austin’s new invasive species management plan while working as interns at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .
  10. Lectures to focus on an ancient shipwreck, map of Roman roads
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    Lectures eye Roman map, shipwreck

    posted January 9, 2012
    An ancient shipwreck off the present day Turkish coast and an important Roman map will be discussed by scholars this spring at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture. The ship’s artifacts offer a glimpse at a ancient transportation practices; the 13th Century map captures a pivotal moment in Western cartography.
  11. Architecture professor named to global solar energy group board
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    Beltrán named to solar energy board

    posted December 19, 2011
    Liliana Beltrán, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, is part of a global effort to lead renewable energy technology education, development and implementation as a new board member of the International Solar Energy Society.
  12. Brody appears in PBS Newshour report eyeing post-Ike Galveston
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    PBS interviews Brody in post-Ike report

    posted November 30, 2011
    Sam Brody, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, was interviewed on PBS Newshour about Galveston’s efforts to build a healthier city after Hurricane Ike. He is also the Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Coasts at TAMU-Galveston and director of the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores.
  13. New center provides researchers access to nonpublic federal data
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    Data center to aid research initiatives

    posted November 22, 2011
    Valuable sociological and economic data collected by the federal government but not available to the general public will soon be available to select researchers from Texas and the surrounding region with the opening this fall of the Texas Census Research Data Center at Texas A&M University.
  14. TTI report ranks congested, unreliable traffic corridors
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    Report IDs congested U.S. traffic corridors

    posted November 22, 2011
    A new report by the Texas Transportation Institute ranks 328 seriously congested highway corridors across the U.S. for the first time by morning and evening drive times, middays and weekends. It also identifies "reliably unreliable corridors with the most day-to-day variations in congestion.
  15. CHUD part of a network eyeing effects of change in South Texas
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    CHUD helps track effects of change in South Texas region

    posted November 16, 2011
    The Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture is part of a new research, educational and engagement network focusing on providing sustainability science to South Texas policymakers and communities.