New & Noteworthy
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10.13.09
Dale McKinney (BA 1975 Architecture), AIA, was installed on the  board of directors for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at its 90th Annual Meeting and Conference in Chicago in June. As the director of Region 4 (Mid-Central Conference), McKinney represents Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
McKinney also serves as the president of the Iowa Architecture Examiners Board. He is the founding partner of M+ Architects in Sioux City.
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10.10.09
Roxane (Olson) Hollosi (BFA 1985 Art and Design - Drawing/Painting/Printmaking) received an  Honorable Mention for her mixed-media artwork titled "Gathered Flowers - Many Windows" in the Paulding Fine Arts Association's 19th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition in Dallas, Ga., in October. She also had work accepted into and featured on the front of the formal invitation for the 22nd National Juried Art Exhibition at the South Cobb Arts Alliance in Mableton, Ga., which ran August-September. Hollosi's work may be seen at www.roxanehollosi.com. She is seen here at work on a new mixed-media piece in her studio.
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10.08.09
Cole Baessler (BArch 2009 Architecture) recently joined The Urban Studio, an architecture and interior design firm in Rochester, Minn., as an intern architect.
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10.08.09
Flora Shinkle (BA 1977 Art and Design - Craft Design) received a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Paramount Arts District in St. Cloud, Minn. Her work can be seen at http://www.florashinkle.com.
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09.15.09
  zzGassman, an interdisciplinary design collaborative founded by Bob (MArch 2009 Architecture) and Shannon (Jones) Gassman (BFA 2008 Interior Design) in 2008, won the Iowa Architect Directory Magazine Cover and Layout Design Competition in early 2009. Their work is featured in the recently published 2009 Iowa Architect Directory Magazine.
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09.12.09
Susy W. Hadikusumo (BFA 1997 Interior Design) founded PT Union Design in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2004. The firm currently is working on corporate projects for local and multinational companies.
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09.10.09
Jayne (Thimmesch) Lowenberg (BFA 2006 Interior Design) earned her National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) certification in spring 2009. She has been with Collaborative Design Group in Minneapolis since October 2006.
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09.10.09
Matthew Nelson (BArch 2005 Architecture) recently became a Registered Architect in North Carolina.
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09.10.09
Leigh Streit (BArch 2006 Architecture), Chitani Ndisale (BArch 2005 Architecture), and three colleagues from Flad Architects, Madison, Wis., won the Wisconsin regional US Green Building Council's Natural Talent Design Competition for an urban renewal site in Milwaukee. Their first-place entry will compete at the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Boston in November.
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09.10.09
Gregory E. Martin (BLA 1983 Landscape Architecture), president of Martin Design Partnership, Batavia, Ill., will make a presentation at the
American Society of
Landscape Architects Annual Meeting in Chicago at the end of September. Martin, a registered landscape architect
and member of the American Society of Golf
Course Architects, will discuss design
solutions for sustainable golf course
development with Todd Schoeder of Design
Workshop and Nancy Richardson of Audubon
International.
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09.10.09
Kevin Lyles (BLA 1997 Landscape Architecture) recently founded his own professional practice, Kevin Lyles Landscape Architect, LLC. His firm is located in the Denver metropolitan area and provides services in the state of Colorado and neighboring states.
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09.03.09
Kate Schwennsen (BA 1978 / MA 1980 Architecture), FAIA, past president of the American Institute of Architects and associate dean of the ISU College of Design, will give the opening keynote address at the AIA Women's Leadership Summit, Friday, Sept. 25, in Chicago.
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09.03.09
Al Buck (BAR 2000 Architecture) recently became a Registered Architect in Iowa.
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08.31.09
Sharon Matt Atkins (BA 1996 Art and Design) became the associate curator of exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum in New York in March.
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08.16.09
Mark Trumbauer (BLA 1989 Landscape Architecture) was promoted to land services supervisor for Florida-based
NextEra Energy, the nation's leader in renewable energy.
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08.13.09
Brad Rodenburg (BAR 2009 Architecture) joined RDG Planning and Design's Ames office full time in March.
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08.13.09
After nine years in western New York, Jan Conradi (MA 1988 Art & Design - Graphic Design) has
left SUNY Fredonia to accept a position as
design educator at Rowan University in
Glassboro, N.J. She will be working with
colleagues there to strengthen the graphic design
program, particularly in typography and design
history.
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08.13.09
Tiffany (Smith) Rupp (BFA 2002 Interior Design) earned National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) certification in spring 2009 and continues to work as an interior designer for Kenny's Tile and Floorcovering in Grandview, Mo.
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07.29.09
 Josh Rechkemmer (BS 1996 Community & Regional Planning) of North Liberty recently became a Registered Architect in Iowa. He received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2002, and has worked at Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City, since then.
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07.29.09
 Kristin (Manderscheid) Mohr (BAR 2004 Architecture) of Ankeny recently became a Registered Architect in Iowa. She has worked with Iowa City-based Neumann Monson Architects since graduating from Iowa State University in 2004.
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07.21.09
 Nick Lindsley (BAR 2009 Architecture) joined Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City, as an intern architect in February. He graduated from Iowa State University in May with a double major in architecture and environmental studies.
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07.19.09
Mark Tough (BS 1991 Community & Regional Planning) has joined the Neighborhoods of Greater Lauraville Inc. community development corporation in northeast Baltimore as its executive director. In his previous position as acting executive director of Baltimore's Patterson Park CDC, Tough was integral to the development of 19 LEED-Silver Certified rowhome rehabs and other development projects. Lauraville has just been named the Best Place to Buy an Old House in Maryland by This Old House magazine and website.
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07.15.09
 Darlene Gluck (MAR 2005 Architecture), FMA, LEED AP, is now the director of facility services for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, WiSys Technology Foundation,
WiCell Research Institute and Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wis.
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07.13.09
Matthew Edward Getch (BLA 1998 Landscape Architecture) was made associate design director of Martha Schwartz Partners' London office in June 2009.
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07.13.09
R. Todd Ashby (BS 1992 Community & Regional Planning), AICP, recently joined the Ankeny office of MSA Professional Services Inc. as the Iowa transportation program manager.
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07.10.09
Jack Thomas (BS 1952 Architectural Engineering) In our senior year we went to Chicago and to Taliesin East. Frank Lloyd Wright told us that architecture was an old man's profession in that you got better through the years and that you could still do it in your old age. Well it's true. I am still practicing architecture in the Chicago suburbs and having a great time doing it. No great awards, but good architecture.
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07.10.09
Mathew Coen (BAR 2002 Architecture), AIA, LEED AP, has established StudioCOEN Architects, an architecture firm located in Des Moines.
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07.09.09
Phil Cargill (BS 1970 Art and Design - Advertising Design) and his wife, Claudia, are directors of program support for United Marriage Encounter, an international ministry.
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07.09.09
After 39 years working for the Department of the Navy at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Raymond Schreiber (BS 1969 Landscape Architecture) retired as the SUBSAFE records branch manager in January 2009. He has since created Eagle Roost Productions, building unique, handcrafted cedar birdhouses and birdfeeders. Samples of his work can be seen by visiting the "Project Return Home" birdhouse auction website.
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07.09.09
Katie Raymon (BA 2007 Art and Design) joined the Iowa State University College of Business as a graphic designer in July. Among her responsibilities, Raymon will help design the college's alumni magazine, Prospectus, as well as brochures and posters; develop identities for several of the college's leadership programs; and work on materials for the college's 25th anniversary.
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07.09.09
Jade Liska (BLA 1994 Landscape Architecture), RLA, ASLA, was promoted to manager of the Citywide Planning Division in the Kansas City, Mo., City Planning and Development Department in 2008.
He manages the daily activities of long-range planning, GIS and graphics, city data, census and information support, transportation and preservation planning. Liska served as co-project manager for the city's first comprehensive citywide trails plan, Trails KC, which was adopted in November 2008. The plan received an Honor Award at the American Society of Landscape Architects Central States Conference in Omaha in May. The local Prairie Gateway Chapter of the ASLA also awarded the Trails KC Plan with a Merit Award for outstanding planning in April.
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07.07.09
Jonathan T. Miller (BS 1968 Architecture) has received a patent for CitySkyGard  ens, a multifamily concept he developed that incorporates sound neighborhood principles and green design characteristics in medium- to very high-density housing. The concept currently is being adapted to senior housing.
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06.30.09
Paul Hughey (BS 1998 Community & Regional Planning) recently joined Parsons as the senior planner for its Honolulu, Hawaii office, where he works on military planning projects throughout the Pacific, including Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Japan and South Korea. In 2006, while working for the Air Force at Ramstein AB in Germany, Hughey was selected by the Civil Engineer of the Air Force as the Community Planner of the Year for the Air Force.
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06.20.09
Steven E. Koster (BLA 1995 Landscape Architecture), AICP, has been promoted to long-range planning manager for Douglas County, Colorado.
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06.12.09
Alan Johnson (BAR 1993 Architecture) has created his own firm, Alan Johnson Design, llc, an architecture, interiors, planning and consulting firm in Kansas City, Mo.
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06.11.09
Jeremy Wingerter (BA 1996 Art & Design - Art History) recently moved to Los Angeles and is now the associate director of alumni relations at the University of Southern California, University Park Campus.
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05.24.09
Jason Hardy (BLA 2004 Landscape Architecture) graduated on May 17 with a Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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05.19.09
Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City, recently received three International Interior Design  Association awards at the Great Plains Chapter annual expo in Des Moines. Dave Zahradnik (BAR 1994 Architecture), Tim Schroeder (BAR 1994 Architecture) and Jesse Bulman (BAR 2004 Architecture) were members of the team that earned a Gold Award for sustainability for the Neumann Monson offices in downtown Iowa City. Schroeder and Bulman were on the team that earned a Gold Award for hospitality and retail for Formosa Asian Cuisine, also in downtown Iowa City. Zahradnik, Bulman, and Kristin (Manderscheid) Mohr (BAR 2004 Architecture) were on the team that earned a Silver Award for government work for the Coralville Public Library in Coralville.
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05.14.09
Connie Jean Kelley (BA 1978 Applied Art - Advertising Design) received her MBA from Webster University in fall
2008. She is now working as the art communications manager in the marketing/creative department at Sam's Club Home Office, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in Bentonville, Ark.
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04.30.09
S. Norton Pease's (BFA 1995 Art and Design) firm, We Smell, received a Silver
ADDY® Award in District 11 (Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska) in the area of self-promotion/interactive for
wesmell.com.
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04.10.09
Dean Apostol (BS 1977 Landscape Architecture), is a senior landscape architect with MIG Portland and an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and Portland State University. He recently co-authored two books: Restoring the Pacific Northwest: The Art and Science of Ecological Restoration in Cascadia (Island Press, 2006), with Marcia Sinclair and Eric Higgs, and Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes (Taylor & Francis Press, 2008) with Simon Bell. A Kindle edition of the latter book became available in January 2009.
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04.09.09
 Mark C. Engelbrecht (BAR 1963 Architecture), FAIA, professor of architecture and dean of the Iowa State University College of Design, will receive the Order of the Knoll Faculty-Staff Award from the university at the 2009 Distinguished Awards Ceremony on April 17. The award is presented to an ISU employee who has brought distinction to the university through his/her professional and personal activities and achievements.
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04.09.09
A project designed by Mike Neswick (BA 1982 Architecture), a partner in RML Architects LLC, Sioux City, and installed by Keith Heiser of Todd Rose Decorative Concrete, won first place in the Stencil Division (Greater than 1,500 Square Feet Category) of the 2008 American Society of Concrete Contractors' Decorative Concrete Council Awards. The project appeared on the cover of the February 2009 issue of Concrete Decor Magazine.
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03.20.09
 Alese (DeSchepper) Van Holland (BFA 2008 Interior Design), LEED AP, joined Neumann Monson Architects in Iowa City as an interior designer in February 2009.
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03.13.09
Sheena (Green) Lara (BFA 2005 Graphic Design) is a graphic designer for the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences at Iowa State University. She was married in 2007 and
has a son who will be 1 year old on March 29.
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03.12.09
CPT Marcus Smoot (BLA 1993 Landscape Architecture) was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service while deployed to Iraq with the 1/133 Infantry Battalion. The unit was deployed nearly 22 months and located in the Anbar Province for the entire mission.
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03.05.09
Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City, announces that Jesse Bulman (BAR 2004 Architecture) and Brian Warthen (BAR 2002 Architecture) became registered architects in Iowa in February. Parker Dobberstein (BAR 2005 Architecture), Nathan Griffith (BAR 2008 Architecture) and Brad Nowasell (BAR 2008 Architecture) achieved LEED accreditation, also in February.
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02.23.09
 John Den Boer (MAR 2003 Architecture) of HBA Architecture and Interior Design, Inc., recently passed the LEED Professional Accreditation exam. Since joining HBA in 2004, he has been involved in a variety of projects, including renovations to the award-winning Oceanfront Dentistry practice in Virginia Beach, Va., and the Children's Museum of Virginia, the new Churchland Library and the YMCA, all in Portsmouth, Va.
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02.18.09
Dana Wilkinson (BA 1978 Interior Design), IIDA, of Bettendorf, is one of five recipients of the 2009 Athena Business Women's Awards, which will be presented by Missman Stanley & Associates on March 24 at a luncheon in Moline. She is the founder and CEO of Paragon Commercial Interiors, which was named one of the "Best Places to Work" by Quad City Magazine and was honored for its "Excellence in Commerce" by the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce.
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02.16.09
Aarik Evanson (BFA 2000 Art and Design) is a full-time freelance web designer based in Chicago.
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02.02.09
 Kevin Nordmeyer (BA 1987 / MAR 1990 Architecture), an architect who is currently a partner at RDG Planning and Design in Des Moines, will be the new director of the Iowa Energy Center. He begins his new job March 1. Nordmeyer designed the Iowa State University College of Design's King Pavilion to meet LEED standards and has taught sustainable design for the ISU architecture department.
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01.19.09
Michael Donovan (BS 1967 Applied Art) and Graham Hanson (BFA 1989 Graphic Design) served on the panel of judges for EXHIBITOR
Magazine's 23rd Annual Exhibit Design Awards, honoring
the world's best trade show exhibit designs.
The competition draws domestic
and international entrants from countries as diverse as Turkey, Switzerland, Israel, Australia
and the Netherlands.
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01.16.09
Bryce D. Pearsall (BAR 1971 Architecture), FAIA, LEED-AP, managing principal with DLR Group, has been selected chair of the American Institute of Architects Large Firm Roundtable. An active member of AIA LFRT since 1997, Pearsall has served as vice chair and executive committee member since 2002. Comprising chief executives from more than 60 large architectural and engineering firms, the mission of the AIA LFRT is to further the special and unique interests, both national and international, of large firms by working with and through the AIA.
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01.13.09
Robyn Vettraino (BAR 2000 Architecture), LEED AP, senior associate with Studio SA, was the architect and sustainability consultant for Vista Dunes Courtyard Homes, an 80-unit affordable housing project in La Quinta, Calif., that received a LEED-H Platinum rating. This was the largest affordable housing project in the nation to receive such a rating.
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01.08.09
Daryl Metzger (BA 1976 Architecture), AIA, LEED AP, announces that all professional staff at Architects Smith Metzger, Des Moines, have achieved LEED accreditation.
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01.08.09
In June 2008, Larry M. Hatfield (BS 1966 Applied Art), of El Sobrante, Calif., retired from teaching three-dimensional animation and computer graphics at De Anza High School in Richmond, Calif. Since 2004, he has created original digital prints, watercolors and drawings that may be viewed at
www.LarryHatfieldArt.com.
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12.26.08
Allers Associates Architects, PC, of Fort Dodge, will observe its 30th anniversary in 2009. Founded in 1979 by Terry L. Allers (BAR 1970 Architecture), AIA, NCARB, the firm has a staff of nine people providing general architectural services for medical, educational, commercial and worship facilities primarily in northwest and central Iowa.
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12.11.08
Noel J. Raufaste (BAR 1967 Architecture) of Avondale, Pa., has served for seven years as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he has been involved in a wide range of recent activities, including: helping to plan the 41st Joint Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UNJR) Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, scheduled for May 2009; creating a NIST program with the government of China in building and fire research; leading the development of a strategic planning process for NIST’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory; and serving as co-chair of the Grand Challenges Task Group for the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction, which produced the Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction, a 10-year agenda for a disaster-resilient America, published in February 2008.
Raufaste also is a volunteer docent for the conservatories and water garden at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa. He and his wife, Lynn, have a 300-year-old house in southwest France that is nearing final restoration. They plan to spend several months there annually.
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12.06.08
Ashley Gries (BFA 2007 Interior Design & Environmental Studies) and her husband are serving as environmental conservation volunteers with the Peace Corps in Panama until June 2010.
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11.14.08
Michael Wagler (MCRP 2006 Community & Regional Planning) was recently elected vice president of the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocacy for and education about historic preservation throughout the state.
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11.13.08
Roberta Prasciunas (BFA 2003 Art and Design), of Chicago, is producing painting and collage pieces for HoyPoloi, an art gallery located in the Chinatown district of Chicago.
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10.28.08
Rachelle Schoessler Lynn (BFA 1990 Interior Design), ASID, LEED AP, a partner in Studio 2030, Minneapolis, has been named to the 2009 board of directors of the American Society of Interior Designers. Schoessler Lynn also serves on the College of Design's Interior Design Advisory Board.
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10.06.08
 Renita Van Dusen (BFA 1995 Graphic Design), who founded Nita B. Creative in 2002, recently set out to rebrand the firm, implementing a company-wide focus on positioning, publicity, and new business development within the female market. The end-result, Affina, was launched on Oct. 1 as one of few brand identity firms in the United States that specializes in marketing to women and girls.
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09.19.08
Since graduating from ISU, Philip Galiga (BA 1980 Advertising Design) received his MA in art education from Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., and married Ann Janda on Aug. 1, 2008. He is now teaching graphic design, advertising, electronic arts, digital photography, and yearbook/newspaper classes at South Burlington High School in South Burlington, Vt.
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09.16.08
Linda Truckenmiller (BA 1975 Interior Design), ASID, of Hinsdale, Ill., received a Chapter Medalist Award from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) National Examiners Committee in September 2008. This is the highest award presented by ASID to professional members at the chapter level in recognition of outstanding service and significant contributions to their chapter, the society and the profession as a whole.
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09.11.08
Alan Wilson (BA 1971 Architecture) was one of several principals that helped to establish the Chicago office of RTKL. He is now the director of the office and co-director of RTKL's healthcare studio. In 2007, Wilson co-authored a new medical district plan for the city of Springfield, Ill. The plan incorporated one square mile in the heart of Springfield and won the Burnam Prize for planning from the Illinois AIA.
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09.09.08
North Dakota's park and recreation director, Doug Prchal (MLA 1977 Landscape Architecture) received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of State Park Directors at the group's national conference in Boise, Id., on Sept. 4. The award is presented annually to recognize a state park director who has demonstrated a long-term record of professional accomplishment in the field of parks and recreation management.
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08.14.08
Lisa Peck (BFA 1987 Interior Design), ASID, recently launched a new boutique interior design firm in Minneapolis. Lilu Interiors specializes in residential interior design.
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07.12.08
When Someone Very Special Dies and When Mom and Dad Separate, two books by Marge Slorby Eaton Heegaard (BS 1951 Applied Art), LICSW, are among the National Book Network's top 200 sellers. Heegaard is an art therapist and grief counselor. She has written 11 books in the Drawing Out Feelings series for children, which uses the art process to help children understand and express feeling of loss and change, and five books in the Drawing Together series to help adults communicate with children. Heegaard also has written and donated books to be used with child survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks, Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and AIDS orphans.
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07.10.08
Jason Beske (BS Community and Regional Planning 2002; MCRP 2007) was recently elected chair-elect for the Urban Design and Preservation Division of the American Planning Association. Jason is a senior planner and urban designer for the city of Overland Park, Kan.
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07.09.08
Brian Clark & Associates has a new name: Confluence. The collaborative regional design firm, with offices in Des Moines, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Kansas City, Mo., focuses on landscape architecture, land planning and urban design. Senior principal and president is Brian Clark (BLA 1987 Landscape Architecture).
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07.07.08
Thomas R. Dunbar (BS 1969 Landscape Architecture), FASLA, is the new executive director of the Center for Resilient Cities (formerly Urban Open Space Foundation) in Madison, Wis. Dunbar previously served as principal, landscape architect and planner for Dunbar/Jones PLC in Des Moines.
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07.03.08
Terry Brown (BA 1977 Architecture), an adjunct professor in the department of family and consumer sciences at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, died June 28 from injuries he received in an automobile accident. Terry was 53 and living in Rosebud, Texas, with his wife, Jean. Full obituary
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06.21.08
Ben Champ (BLA 1998 Landscape Architecture) is now the director of community development for the city of Pleasant Hill, Iowa. For the past eight years, Ben has been the point man on various tasks for the city of Fort Dodge, including housing subdivisions and the Gypsum City Off-Highway Vehicle Park.
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06.15.08
After leaving ISU, Muhammad Shatar Sabran (BS 1990 Community and Regional Planning; MCRP 1992) pursued his PhD at the University of Missouri. He is now the director of the Co-Curriculum Center at Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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06.15.08
Nathan Wright (BFA 1999 Art and Design) opened his own business in 2007. Lava Row specializes in social media strategy and consulting.
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06.14.08
After 31 years, Janelle (BS 1971 Art Education) and George McClain (BS 1971 Animal Science) have sold their fine art gallery and framing studio, Cornerhouse Gallery & Frame, Inc. The gallery/studio cultivated the market of regional fine artists, both established and emerging, and offered truly custom and innovative framing since 1976. Janelle continues her active dealership in fine art including the works of Grant Wood, Marvin Cone and other Midwestern Regionalists.
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06.13.08
Jennessa Durrani (BFA 1994 Interior Design), owner and creative director of Celebrate, was included in the Boston Business Journal's 25 Largest Meeting and Event Planners in the Boston area for the fourth year. Celebrate is a marketing promotions firm specializing in putting the "fizz" back in companies' marketing plans.
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05.20.08
Edward Mickelson (BS 1977 Landscape Architecture) is one of 20 members of the American Society of Landscape Architects selected for induction into its distinguished Council of Fellows. Edward is a principal and design leader with NBBJ in Columbus, Ohio.
Edward was nominated by the Ohio ASLA Chapter for his lifetime achievements in design across a breadth of markets and geographies. He has led many award-winning projects including university medical centers, campus master planning, and historic landmarks, as well as a variety of projects in Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and China, including the recent Changfeng District Master Plan in Shanghai.
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05.08.08
Jason Bailer Losh (BA 1999 Art and Design) is a recipient of the 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculptures Park in New York City. After graduating from ISU, Jason continued his education at The School of Visual Art in New York City, where he received his MFA in 2007.
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05.08.08
Norton Pease (BFA 1995 Art and Design) has been rewarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of art and graphic design at Montana State University - Northern.
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05.06.08
 Gary D. Taylor (MCRP 1996 Community and Regional Planning), assistant professor and extension specialist in community and regional planning at Iowa State University, received the Chapter Presidents Council 2008 Leadership Award for Chapter Professional Development Officer Recognition from the American Planning Association at its national conference in Las Vegas. He was honored for his leadership and dedication to training the professional and citizen planners of Iowa.
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04.18.08
 The American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) will induct Dean P. Brennan (BS 1970 Urban Planning) of Phoenix, Ariz., into its College of Fellows on April 27 in conjunction with the American Planning Association's 100th National Planning Conference in Las Vegas. Brennan is a principal planner with the City of Phoenix Planning Department.
Election to fellowship may be granted to planners who have been longtime members of AICP and have demonstrated excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, community service, leadership, and communication. Forty-nine planners from 22 states will be inducted this year.
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04.12.08
Kim (Nelson) Gehling (BFA 2002 Graphic Design) recently opened Websites to Impress. She and her associates design and develop websites, building them from scratch and fine-tuning existing ones. The new web design business, located in Carroll, takes advantage of low, small-town overhead but still has global reach.
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04.11.08
Mark Koegler (BS 1975 Landscape Architecture), ASLA, has been appointed by the Minnesota Commerce Commissioner to the Minnesota State Designer Selection Board. Mark is a landscape architect and president of Hoisington Koegler Group, a Minneapolis landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm. He is a board member of the Sensible Land Use Coalition.
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04.11.08
Fred Chabot (BS 1975 Landscape Architecture & BS 1967 Horticulture) was appointed commissioner on the newly created Historic Preservation Commission in Newton. He will serve an initial term of two years. The commission's missions are to identify and protect properties of historic significance and to enhance economic development by attracting tourists to view and study historic properties in Newton.
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04.10.08
After working 13 years as a production manager and supervisor for marketing agencies, Laura (Bishop) Cottril (BA 1985 Graphic Design) decided to leave the industry. She did an apprenticeship for a year and started her own portrait photography business, Laura Cottril Photography, in 2003. She is certified by the Professional Photographers of America and served as president of her regional affiliate in 2007. Cottril was published twice in trade journals (ProPhoto and Rangefinder) in 2007. She resides in Walnut Creek, Calif., with her husband, Tim, and two sons.
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04.10.08
Graham Hanson Design has been named one of 50 select design firms nationwide to be featured in the recent Graphis hardcover publication DesignersUSA. The company is owned by Graham Hanson (BFA 1989 Graphic Design) of Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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04.10.08
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson recently re-appointed Barbara Templeman (BFA 1970 Interior Design), ASID, to serve a three year term on the New Mexico Interior Design Board.
After 23 years of professional practice in Minneapolis as founder of Whitney-Bayber Interiors, Inc., Barbara moved to Santa Fe, N.M. In 1993 she founded Barbara Templeman Interior Design. She is currently president of the Interior Design Board and has chaired
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03.31.08
Paul G. May (BA 1983 Architecture) and C. John Uban (BS 1972 Landscape Architecture), both of Minneapolis, have been named to the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design. Appointed by the governorn, the board consists of 21 members.
May is an architect with Miller Dunwiddie Architecture in Minneapolis and has nearly 25 years of experience in the profession. He is a member of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, serving on its Minnesota Convention Programs Committee; he also was involved with the Minnesota Design Team, and was a 1996 Young Architect Award winner. He will serve a four-year term on the board as the representative for architects.
Uban is a principal landscape architect with Bonestroo, Inc. in St. Paul. He is a registered landscape architect in Minnesota and Iowa, and is a member and past president of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He also chaired the Minneapolis Convention on Urban Environment, and the Minneapolis Tree Advisory Commission. Uban has been a board member since 2004 and was reappointed for his second term as the representative for landscape architects.
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03.22.08
Patricia (Buckley) Hibbs (BS 1971 Art Education) retired from the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Public Schools after teaching K-6 art for 35 years. During this time, she also served with the Gifted and Talented programs throughout the district. Patricia will continue to work for La Crosse as a consultant and substitute teacher. Patricia and her husband, Paul, have two children, Andrea and Andrew. She places a great value on Iowa State and its global influence on the future of education.
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03.16.08
John Burright (BA 1984 Art Education) was named director of bookstore operations at Kansas City Kansas Community College in January 2008. He previously was the art and supplies buyer for the KU Bookstore at the University of Kansas. John and his wife, Diann, live in Lawrence, Kan.
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03.15.08
Patricia (Coulter) Ray (BA 1975 Interior Design) is the manufacturer's representative for Constantine Commercial in Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lexington, Ky. She has been in this position for nearly two years.
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03.14.08
African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945, edited by Dreck Wilson (BS 1971 Urban Planning), has gone into a second printing. The book is published by Routledge.
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03.13.08
Debra Arter (BA 1978 Art Education) recently completed her MFA in visual arts at Vermont College. Her piece 'The Book of Bacon” will be included in the Maine Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Art in August 2008. She credits her time in Ames for the idea of combining printmaking with cured meat.
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03.13.08
Thomas Groth (BS 1969 Applied Art) is currently a professor of advertising at the University of West Florida. Before taking this position, he spent 13 years as a professor at ISU. His students have won the National Student Advertising Championship a record four times. Thomas has also received many creative advertising awards and honors, including three solo shows.
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02.29.08
 Jack E. Leaman (BS 1954 Landscape Architecture & MCRP 1982 Community and Regional Planning), FASLA, AICP, Mason City, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the highest honor given by the organization. He was nominated by the Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association will be inducted during the APA's national conference in Las Vegas in April. An article on Leaman appeared in the Feb. 18 edition of the Mason City Globe Gazette, available online.
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02.23.08
Katie Harms (BAR 2003 Architecture), Cedar Rapids, has been very active in the American Institute of Architects since her graduation from Iowa State. She served as associate director on the AIA Iowa board of directors and last year was appointed associate director on the Central States Region board of directors. She also leads the Central States Region's Emerging Professionals Committee. For the next two years, Katie will also be on the AIA National Associates Committee advocating for all associate members in Iowa. She is employed at OPN Architects.
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02.18.08
 Steve Davis, NCARB (BAR 1983 Architecture), has been promoted to principal at HMN Architects, where he will head the Justice Division. HMN Architects recently was named one of the top 10 Best Places to Work in Kansas City by the Kansas City Business Journal and consistently places in the top 10 architectural firms in Kansas City as ranked by Ingram's Magazine.
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02.16.08
Steve Jensen (BS 1974 Landscape Architecture), director of planning for the city of Omaha, received Omaha by Design's 2007 Laurels Award. The award, Omaha by Design's highest honor, is presented to an individual, organization or business that has made significant contributions to the creation of great public spaces in the Omaha metropolitan region. Steve was presented the award by Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey on Jan. 28 at Omaha by Design's inaugural awards luncheon.
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02.15.08
Schwartz/Silver Architects is one of 13 recipients of the 2008 AIA Institute Honor Award for its work on the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, La. Principal in charge of the project was Christopher Ingersoll (BA 1981 Architecture). The award is the profession's highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design. All recipients will be honored in May at the 2008 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Boston.
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02.15.08
Norton Pease (BFA 1995 Art and Design) received a Montana Gold Addy Award for designing a consumer Flash site for the project helphillcounty.org. Norton's work will next be forwarded to the regional competition.
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02.14.08
Teri (Massengale) Kallem, IIDA (BFA 1989 Interior Design), has started a new full-service residential and commercial design business in central Iowa called Kallem Interior Design.
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02.14.08
Betsy Kenaston (BS 1999 Interdisciplinary Studies & MCRP 2003 Community and Regional Planning) is now an account manager in the Denver regional office of ESRI, where she works with state and local government users of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping software.
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01.28.08
Michael J. Meehan, AIA, LEED AP, and Tim Schroeder, AIA, LEED AP (both BAR 1994 Architecture), are among 10 architects nationwide to receive the American Institute of Architects' 2008 Young Architects Awards.
 Michael is the professional development manager at BWBR Architects in St. Paul, Minn., where he manages employee education, development and evaluation processes. In the past 10 years, he has taught ARE review seminars for AIA Minnesota and guided more than 400 interns through the graphic sections of the exam. As the 2007 chair of the Young Architects Forum Advisory Committee, Michael helped coordinate the YAF 15 Summit (recognizing the committee's 15th anniversary) and oversaw creation of a 10-year strategic plan. He sits on the board of directors of a civic group formed in 2006 within his historic neighborhood of Northfield and is a member of the Northfield Zoning Code Advisory Group.
 Tim, in 2000 at age 30, became a vice president of Neumann Monson Architects in Iowa City and has led many of the firm's sustainability endeavors. He created Iowa's first green-roof project, first LEED-certified school and first LEED-certified public building, and was the recipient of AIA Iowa's first Sustainability Award. Tim also served on the Iowa Architectural Foundation Board and the editorial board for the award-winning Iowa Architect magazine, for which he recently became editor-in-chief.
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01.25.08
  Gary Adams, AIA (BAR 1972 Architecture), left, and Kevin Scott, AIA (BAR 1979 Architecture), right, are two of the eight partners at Davis Partnership Architects, which received the American Institute of Architects' Colorado and Denver chapters' 2007 Firm of the Year awards. The awards recognize the Colorado architectural firm that has contributed the most to the profession and set a noteworthy example in both design and leadership within the state over a period of at least 10 years. Davis Partnership Architects is Colorado's oldest architecture, land planning, interior design and landscape architecture firm, and employs more than 140 people.
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01.08.08
 Nancy Thompson (BFA 2001 Integrated Studio Arts) will earn her MFA in Integrated Visual Arts from Iowa State this year. A collection of 19 oil paintings and pastel drawings, the culmination of her graduate study, is on display now through Feb. 10 in the Pioneer Room of the Iowa State Memorial Union, 2229 Lincoln Way, Ames. The work in this exhibition reflects scenes from the Whiterock Conservancy, a 5,000-acre reserve in the Middle Coon River Valley near Coon Rapids, which has been protected and preserved by the Garst family. Meet Nancy and view her work at a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Pioneer Room.
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12.14.07
 Jan Svec (BA 1972 Architecture), Des Moines, editor and project designer for Wood Magazine, and his brother, Ben Svec, of Falls Millwork, Kelley, received an Honorable Mention Award in Custom Woodworking Business (CWB) magazine's 2008 Design Portfolio Awards competition. This recognition was for the pair's custom-designed sanctuary furnishings for the new St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Norwalk. The furnishings include the altar, processional cross, ambo, chairs and tabernacle. Details and photographs of the project will be featured in the December 2007 issue of CWB.
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12.14.07
Paul McKean Architecture was awarded the Built Honor Award from AIA Portland for its work on the Neal Creek Residence, a modest, green weekend home in Hood River, Ore. Paul McKean (BAR 1992 Architecture), Portland, is co-owner of the firm.
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12.14.07
Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein (BA 2004 Art and Design) attended the University of Chicago Law School after graduating from ISU and is working as an intellectual property associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She works on trademark, trade dress, design patent and false advertising work.
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12.13.07
Lydia (Sloan) Cline (BA 1982 Architecture) had a textbook published by CENGAGE Delmar titled "Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers." It is the only drafting book on the market that addresses the needs of beginning interior design students. Cline teaches drafting to interior design students at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan.
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12.13.07
Debra A. Varnado, AICP (MCRP 1991 Community and Regional Planning), has been self-employed with her own consulting practice for six years. She serves as the assistant executive of the Ventura Council of Governments and is a sub on other contracts. She has also been writing and publishing poetry and visual art, most recently in So To Speak (George Mason University). Varnado earned a second master's degree from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2004. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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12.11.07
Carey Brendalen (BA 1983 Architecture) was promoted to president of Architectural Alliance, where he directs the firm's corporate, workplace interiors and science and technology markets. He has been with Architectural Alliance since 1988.
Architectural Alliance has contributed to projects such as the Guthrie Theater and the downtown Minneapolis Central Library. The firm provides planning, architecture and interior design services.
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11.19.07
Brian (BLS 1994 Liberal Studies / MCRP 1999 Community and Regional Planning) and Sue Portz, Downers Grove, Ill., announce the birth of Addison Elaine. The couple has been married for 2 1/2 years and Addison is their first child.
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11.07.07
Rich Reace, ASLA (BLA 1994 Landscape Architecture), has been named entitlements manager for BSW International, Tampa, Fla. In this role, he is responsible for site acquisition, due diligence, planning, entitlement process, and the construction of commercial infrastructure. He previously served as senior land entitlement project manager for Centex, Dallas, Texas.
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10.31.07
 A building designed with the help of Dave Leighly, AIA, LEED AP (BA 1985 Architecture), was dedicated by former President Bill Clinton on Oct. 23. Leighly, a project architect and code specialist with BWBR Architects, St. Paul, Minn., was a member of the design team that created the new Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The four-story, 110,000-square-foot facility features unique amenities such as therapy pools, sensory relaxation rooms, women's- and beginners'-only fitness rooms, and a conference center with demonstration kitchen. Leighly has been with BWBR for eight years and is a 20-year veteran in the industry.
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10.01.07
Art Educators of Iowa has named Peggy Bang (BA 1972 Art Education) as Iowa's 2007-2008 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. As such, she is also Iowa's nominee for the Western Region Art Educator of the Year award from the National Art Education Association. She will be recognized at an award ceremony that will be part of the State AEI Conference in Boone on Oct. 13. More information about the conference is available at www.artedia.org.
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09.07.07
Ryan and Amy (Doyle) Savage (both BFA 2000 Art and Design) announce the birth of Jack Ryan. Ryan and Amy met in the drawing studios in the College of Design and say they fell in love while they were supposed to be studying for art history exams at the library. The couple has been married for 6 1/2 years.
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08.01.07
Jerry Riordan (BA 1985 Architecture) has been appointed to Vice President of Project & Development at Jones Lang LaSalle in Chicago, Ill. Riordan currently resides in Arlington Heights, Ill.
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07.25.07
Kristi Nelson (BFA 2004 Graphic Design) is a new account planner/senior graphic designer at J.D. Gordon Advertising, Sioux City. In her role as account planner, Nelson researches data to produce advertising ideas and marketing strategies to resolve business problems in innovative ways. As a senior graphic designer, her duties include the concepting, design and production of print, Web, out-of-home, point-of-sale and other promotional elements. Nelson previously was a senior graphic designer for the Shelter Company in Des Moines and a marketing assistant for Long Lines in Sergeant Bluff. She is working on her MBA degree specializing in marketing at Wayne State College, Nebraska.
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11.10.06
"Almost Home," "The Popcorn Vendor," and "Warm and Cool"--three paintings by Michael Stohlmeyer (BA 1976 Advertising Design) of Ames--were juried into the 2006 PaintAmerica Top100 Art Competition. Stohlmeyer specializes in painting the Iowa landscape.
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10.01.06
Pam (Edler) Swarts (BA 1972 Interior Design & BS 1976 Home Economics Education) opened an art gallery and custom framing studio in Marshalltown. The Perfect Setting features works of art by Iowa artists and monthly events for art lovers. Artists are encouraged to contact the gallery at www.theperfectsetting.org.
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06.26.06
Dean Apostol (BS 1977 Landscape Architecture) received the Merit Award in Research and Communication from the ASLA Oregon Chapter. Apostol was the senior editor for Restoring the Pacific Northwest: The art and science of ecological restoration in Cascadia.
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02.20.06
 Michael R. Broshar (BS Architecture 1978), InVision Architecture, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an honor awarded to members who have made contributions of national significance to the profession. He is chair of the 2006 AIA National Convention in Los Angeles, is AIA national vice president for 2006-2007, served on the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation, chaired the AIA Continuing Education Strategy Work Group, and has participated on the AIA Long-Range Planning Advisory Group and the AIA Component Relations Committee. In Iowa, Broshar has served as president of AIA Iowa and chair of the Iowa Architectural Foundation. He will be invested in the AIA College of Fellows at the national convention in LA on June 9.
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