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  1. Students' design to help firm envision new children's hospital
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    Grad student designs children’s hospital

    posted April 30, 2012
    A family-centered environment, healing gardens and lots of visual exposure to natural environments are features of a preliminary design for a new children’s hospital in Richmond, Va. created as a final study project for a Dallas-based architecture firm by Suyong Jin, a Master of Architecture student at Texas A&M University.
  2. 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.
  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. Studio showcases concepts for healthcare design, research center
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    Students imagine healthcare design, research center

    posted April 24, 2012
    Student-designed concepts imagining the future of health facility design education and research at Texas A&M University and the facilities to house those initiatives were showcased at the Langford Architecture Center in an April 25 public review.
  5. 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.
  6. Research finds evidence-based & 'green' design mostly compatible
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    Study: 'green' and evidence-based design compatible

    posted April 19, 2012
    Evidence-based design and eco-effective, or sustainable, design are fundamentally compatible despite some conflicts, concluded Mardelle Shepley, professor of architecture of Texas A&M, in a research paper she’s presenting this May at a conference in Beijing, China.
  7. 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.
  8. CHSD 'boot camp' schools pros on evidence-based design principles
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    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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Students design healing center concept in marathon charrette
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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.”
  13. Students design health, wellness center serving under-, uninsured
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    Feb. 25 unveiling set for students' health facility designs

    posted February 22, 2012
    Architectural concepts developed by Texas A&M BED students for a health clinic catering to the under and underinsured will be unveiled to the public 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio.
  14. Panel to eye shifting perceptions of black culture, politics, ethnicity
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    Panelist to spotlight shifting preceptions of black culture

    posted January 26, 2012
    At a Feb. 15 town hall-style meeting a distinguished panel will focus on how shifting perceptions of black culture, politics and ethnicity has affected the ways blacks are perceived and discussed in today’s culture.
  15. Lectures eye health care design solutions for under, uninsured
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    Lecture series eyes design solutions for under & uninsured

    posted January 12, 2012
    Relationships between architectural design and health care for the under and uninsured are the focus of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Spring 2012 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.