news since May 25, 2012
Former Delft School of Design director named new ISU architecture department chair
May 21, 2013
Deborah Hauptmann, associate professor of architecture and former director of the Delft School of Design at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, has been named the new chair of the Iowa State University Department of Architecture. Hauptmann's appointment will begin Aug. 1. [More...]
Iowa State graphic design professor leads team in autism research and outreach
May 20, 2013
What started as a school project for her cognitively disabled son has turned into a career focus for one Iowa State University graphic design associate professor. Debra Satterfield's teenage son, John, has epilepsy and an autism spectrum disorder. A few years ago, she discovered his talents as a painter. Since then Satterfield has led a team of faculty and students on the design of educational, social inclusion and play experiences for children with cognitive disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders. [Link...]
Iowa State graduating senior embarks on new journey to inspire others
May 06, 2013
Since someone first believed in her, Ebony Jones has been determined to graduate from college so that she might inspire at-risk youth like she once was. After overcoming learning disabilities and culture shock, Jones--a St. Louis native who transferred to Iowa State University from Alabama A&M--will march into Hilton Coliseum on Saturday for Iowa State's commencement, adorned in a celebratory trail of glitter that marks her journey. She will receive a Bachelor of Science degree in community and regional planning. [Link...]
Graphic design senior Elizabeth Jacobs is ISU College of Design's student marshal
May 06, 2013
Elizabeth Jacobs, Cedar Rapids, will represent the Iowa State University College of Design as its student marshal at the university's public commencement exercises Saturday, May 11, at Hilton Coliseum. Jacobs will graduate summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design with a focus in digital media. Her faculty escort will be Anson Call, associate professor of graphic design. [More...]
Five College of Design faculty members awarded promotion
May 03, 2013
At its April 25 meeting in Cedar Falls, the state Board of Regents approved promotions for five College of Design faculty members for the 2013-14 academic year. Those promoted to associate professor with tenure are April Eisman, integrated studio arts; Ulrike Passe, architecture, and Lori Brunner Stone, interior design. Those promoted to full professor (already tenured) are Sunghyun Kang, graphic design, and April Katz, integrated studio arts. These promotions take effect Aug. 16. [More...]
SSLA-designed project beautifies Greek neighborhood
May 02, 2013
A cooperative town-gown effort culminated in the transformation of a traffic island into a beautiful park space for students and community members. The Greek Triangle project improved green space at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Pearson Avenue (east of Ash Avenue), right in the heart of ISU's Greek neighborhood. The site--designed by the Student Society of Landscape Architects--now features crushed red brick pathways, perennial landscaping and a central patio area ringed by limestone seating and shaded by rich red and gold canvas tarps. [Link...]
Student technology fees fund GIS Lab upgrades, sound recorders and iPads
May 02, 2013
The Computation Advisory Committee, a group made up of faculty, staff and students across the university, recently awarded more than $336,000 from FY14 student technology fee funds to 10 projects, including three for technological improvements in the College of Design. [Link...]
Nine senior students honored in ISU College of Design's annual BFA exhibition
April 23, 2013
Nine Iowa State University students majoring in integrated studio arts took top honors in "Extra Crispy," the 2013 BFA Juried Senior Student Exhibition on view through April 25 in Gallery 181, College of Design. The show features 85 artworks by 31 students who will receive Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in integrated studio arts in May, August or December this year. [More...]
Architecture Professor Thomas Leslie wins esteemed Rome Prize
April 22, 2013
Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture, has won a prestigious 2013 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Leslie won the Booth Family Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation. During his six-month fellowship in Rome, he will document, analyze and advocate for the preservation of buildings by Pier Luigi Nervi, a postwar Italian engineer and architect. [Link...]
Architecture Research Office principal Adam Yarinsky to speak April 17 at ISU College of Design
April 12, 2013
Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, a principal with the Architecture Research Office in New York City, will speak about his firm's holistic approach to architecture in a lecture at Iowa State University. Yarinsky will present "Almost Nothing?" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in the College of Design's Kocimski Auditorium. His talk, part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, is free and open to the public. [More...]
Top horror and fantasy illustrator will share his work in talk at ISU April 18
April 10, 2013
Jeremy Caniglia, an alumnus who has won the International Horror Guild Award for best artist in dark fantasy and horror, will speak at Iowa State University next week. Caniglia's illustrations have graced the covers of more than 50 CDs, and books by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Clegg and Max Brooks. He will present "Graphic Storytellers: Illustrating Horror and Fantasy Books" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the College of Design's Kocimski Auditorium. His lecture is free and open to the public. [Link...]
Iowa State industrial design professor leads team to improve nation's engineering education
April 08, 2013
Seda Yilmaz, assistant professor of industrial design, will collaborate with researchers from the University of Michigan and Penn State University in a project to improve engineering students' ability to generate ideas. The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year, $703,000 grant for the project, which will provide instructional methods and materials that will help guide the teaching and learning of deliberate approaches to creative problem solving in the design process. [Link...]
Architect and artist Rod Henmi to speak at Iowa State April 10
April 03, 2013
Architect and artist Rod Henmi, FAIA, director of design at HKIT Architects in Oakland, Calif., will explore the impact of hand and digital processes on design in a lecture Wednesday, April 10, at Iowa State University. Henmi will present "Drawing on the Edge: Hand to Mouse" at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, his talk is free and open to the public. [More...]
Art historian, ISU professor emeritus to speak on Dalit art April 9 at Iowa State
April 02, 2013
Gary Tartakov, Iowa State University professor emeritus of art and design, will discuss his new book on Dalit art in a lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the South Ballroom of the Iowa State Memorial Union. His talk, "Dalit Art: Visual Imagery and Caste Identity in India," is free and open to the public. [More...]
Urban design and planning expert to speak about public housing, neighborhood renewal and the poor April 3 at ISU
March 27, 2013
Lawrence J. Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak about "Public Housing in the United States: Neighborhood Renewal and the Poor" on Wednesday, April 3, at the Iowa State University College of Design. The final presentation of the 2012-2013 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series, Vale's talk will be from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in room 130. It is free and open to the public. [Link...]
National association honors ISU architecture professor for creative achievement
March 26, 2013
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture recognized Assistant Professor of Architecture Rob Whitehead with a 2012-13 Creative Achievement Award for creating and teaching "STP: Structural Technology in Practice." The five semester-long structural design courses in the architecture department’s integrated undergraduate building technology sequence use Whitehead's "Think, Make, Break + Evaluate" methodology. [Link...]
Designing Relationships: Internationally award-winning architect Jon Pickard to speak at ISU College of Design March 13
February 27, 2013
Internationally acclaimed projects by Pickard Chilton—a prominent New Haven, Conn.-based architectural and design practice founded by Iowa State University alumni Jon Pickard, FAIA, RIBA, and William Chilton, FAIA, RIBA—will be on display March 12 through April 7 at the ISU College of Design. In conjunction with the "Designing Relationships" exhibition, Pickard, a 1976 ISU architecture graduate and principal of Pickard Chilton, will speak on how the relationships the firm builds are translated into the design of its buildings and will offer insights gleaned from working with a global and culturally diverse clientele. His lecture is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in the College of Design's Kocimski Auditorium. [More...]
Iowa State industrial design class tackles tractor rollover safety products and outreach
February 22, 2013
A research and outreach collaboration led by Iowa State's Department of Industrial Design has designed an amazingly simple product that could save hundreds of farmers lives in Iowa alone. They have developed a prototype of a device that addresses one aspect of tractor rollover fatalities: response time. The tractor-mounted communications device alerts family and emergency personnel of a rollover when it happens. [Link...]
3D printer 'invaluable' piece of technology for students
February 19, 2013
The College of Design and College of Engineering share a state-of-the-art 3D printer that is revolutionizing the way students design products. Located in Howe Hall, the $170,000 printer uses an additive process--"printing" successive layers of material in different shapes--to make three-dimensional solid objects from digital models. [Link...]
New School professor Erica Kohl-Arenas will address the role of philanthropy in poverty alleviation Feb. 22 at Iowa State
February 13, 2013
Erica Kohl-Arenas, an assistant professor in the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School, New York City, will address the shortcomings of consensus-based "creative capitalism" for resolving inequality and poverty in a lecture at Iowa State University. Kohl-Arenas will present "The Other California: An Anatomy of Consensus and Consent" from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in room 130 of the College of Design. Part of the Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series, her talk is free and open to the public. [More...]
UPenn architecture professor David Leatherbarrow to present 2013 Hansen Lecture Feb. 13 at Iowa State
February 04, 2013
David Leatherbarrow, professor and interim chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, will present the 2013 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Iowa State University. In "The Architect’s Shadow," Leatherbarrow will address the subject of "presence" by considering the work of a single figure—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn (1924-2009), winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal for architectural excellence. Leatherbarrow's talk will be at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, the event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Iowa State landscape architecture professor receives national planning award
January 29, 2013
Christopher J. Seeger, an associate professor of landscape architecture and extension specialist, will receive a 2013 National Planning Achievement Award for Transportation Planning from the American Planning Association in April. Seeger won for his development of the geospatial planning tools and processes that help communities identify and collect information to create a Safe Routes to School program. [Link...]
ISU GIS Support and Research Facility joins College of Design
January 28, 2013
The Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility, a public computing facility that provides high-level GIS research, education and outreach to the university community and the state of Iowa, is now a part of the ISU College of Design. Formerly a unit of Iowa State's information technology services department, the facility includes a research laboratory in room 218 Durham Hall and a teaching lab in 248 Durham. Both labs will remain in those locations. The facility will continue its longstanding support of the university's GIS research and teaching missions as well as outreach to the state of Iowa. GIS Analyst and Lab Manager Robin McNeely will manage the facility's daily operations in Durham. GIS Facility Director Kevin Kane also has been appointed interim director of research for the College of Design and associate director of the Institute for Design Research and Outreach. [More...]
Two ISA faculty win top awards in national juried craft exhibition
January 28, 2013
Chris Martin and Joe Muench, associate professors of integrated studio arts, have won juror's awards at the 34th Annual Mesa Contemporary Crafts exhibition, one of the most highly selective shows of American traditional craft forms. From 275 entries, only 47 were chosen. Of those, three won juror's awards. The show runs through March 31 in Mesa, Ariz. [Link...]
ISU College of Design hosts 'underground' comic book exhibition Jan. 24-Feb. 10
January 22, 2013
Outrageous, demented, off the wall, over the top, offensive and bizarre— these are just a few of the adjectives applied to the underground comic books that flourished in the late 1960s and early 70s, expressing the values of the rebellious counterculture of that era. From Jan. 24 through Feb. 10, the Iowa State University College of Design will host an exhibition of more than 100 of these vintage "comix"—note the "x," indicating X-rated material not suitable for younger viewers, said John Cunnally, associate professor of integrated studio arts/art history, who curated the exhibition. "Legion of Indecency: The Golden Age of Underground Comix, 1968-1975" will be on display 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the college's Gallery 181, first floor of the Design Building on the west side of the Iowa State campus. Admission is free. [More...]
Egg shells are focus of ‘Small Pleasures’ exhibition in Iowa State’s Kildee Hall
January 18, 2013
Artwork by Professor Ingrid Lilligren, interim chair of the Iowa State University Department of Integrated Studio Arts, is on view through May 10 in the Kildee Hall atrium on the Iowa State campus. The exhibition includes 60 of Lilligren's "Small Pleasures," created one per day over the course of a year from dry pastels and eggshells. It is open to the public during normal Kildee Hall hours, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. An artist's talk and reception will be from 4:10 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Ensminger Room, 1204 Kildee Hall, adjacent to the display. [More...]
Architecture professor is one of 13 People to Watch in 2013
January 04, 2013
Architecture associate professor and artist Mitchell Squire is one of the Des Moines Register's "13 People to Watch in 2013." His art, which contends with issues of culture, race and history, is turning heads from New York to London. [Link...]
Interior design students win People's Choice Award in international competition
December 18, 2012
Two interior design seniors received the People's Choice Award for their entry in the International Interior Design Association's 2012 Student Sustainable Design Competition. Erica Riha and Ashley Olson created their project, "Vitality Assisted Living Facility," last spring in the department's healthcare design studio for juniors. [Link...]
Interior design senior Davalyn Stepzinksi named ISU College of Design student marshal for fall commencement
December 04, 2012
Davalyn Stepzinski, Lindenhurst, Ill., will represent the Iowa State University College of Design as its student marshal at the university's public commencement exercises Dec. 15 in Hilton Coliseum. Her faculty escort will be Fred Malven, associate professor of interior design. Stepzinski will graduate cum laude with a bachelor of fine arts in interior design and a minor in performing arts. [More...]
Iowa State's community and regional planning faculty study access to affordable housing in Polk County
November 29, 2012
Community and regional planning faculty are studying Polk County's supply of affordable, low-income housing to determine if it matches existing need. The team is developing a tool to create a comprehensive, accurate inventory of low-income housing. And they're looking at barriers that prevent low-income households from accessing existing housing they can afford. Assistant Professor Jane Rongerude leads the research, which is funded by a grant from the Polk County Housing Trust Fund. [Link...]
ISU's architecture and landscape architecture programs rank in top 11 nationally
November 16, 2012
Iowa State University's undergraduate programs in architecture and landscape architecture received high rankings in a new survey of practitioners by DesignIntelligence. The undergraduate architecture program ranked ninth and landscape architecture program ranked 11th in the United States. In addition, Heidi Hohmann, associate professor of landscape architecture, was named one of the 30 most admired design educators in the nation for 2013. [Link...]
ISU architecture student exhibition emphasizes light, space and comfort in international urban design project
October 29, 2012
The work of eight Iowa State University architecture students who studied in Germany this past June will be on display Nov. 5-12 in the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum of the ISU College of Design. The "Adaptive Interface: Light, Space and Comfort" exhibition will highlight projects the students developed during the five-week Berlin Summer Academy, a joint program offered by the College of Design and ars Berlin, a study-abroad program at Beuth University Berlin, in conjunction with the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy; University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Buro Happold international engineering consultants. The show will open with a reception and refreshments at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in the Lightfoot Forum. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. [More...]
Three ISU College of Design faculty, student projects win Iowa ASLA awards
October 19, 2012
Three Iowa State University College of Design faculty and student projects were honored by the Iowa Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects at its fall conference Oct. 18 in Des Moines. Christopher Seeger, associate professor of landscape architecture and ISU Extension landscape architect, received a Planning and Analysis Honor Award. Graduate students Colby Fangman, interdisciplinary graduate studies, and Ben Bercher, architecture, received a Student Research Merit Award. Eleven architecture, interior design and landscape architecture students who participated in the spring 2012 Bridge Studio received a Community Stewardship Merit Award. [More...]
'Edible landscape' pioneer to speak at ISU College of Design Oct. 17
October 10, 2012
Landscape designer and garden writer Rosalind Creasy, a pioneer in the edible landscape movement for more than 25 years, will share her insight and passion for growing edibles in a presentation Wednesday, Oct. 17, at Iowa State University. Creasy will talk about her award-winning book, Edible Landscaping, and projects including the Adobe Corporate Headquarters in San Jose, Calif., at 6 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 of the College of Design. The lecture is free and open to the public. [More...]
Expert on modern Indian urban development to speak at ISU Oct. 15
October 03, 2012
Sanjeev Vidyarthi, assistant professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will kick off the 2012-2013 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series at the Iowa State University College of Design. Vidyarthi will present "One Idea, Many Plans: American 'Neighborhood Unit' Concept in Independent India" at 12 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, in room 130 of the college. His lecture is free and open to the public. [More...]
Directors of novel international landscape design firm to present P.H. Elwood Lecture Oct. 10 at ISU
October 02, 2012
William E. Roberts and Laura Santin, principals and design directors of Nomad Studio in New York, will present this year's P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. Their presentation, "Landscape Chronicles," will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. A reception will follow in the college's Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Iowa State, Augustana College students to make woodcut prints with a steamroller Oct. 12
October 01, 2012
Students from Iowa State University and Augustana College will team up to create large-format woodcut prints with a steamroller from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, at Rueter's, a construction and equipment dealer at 5815 Lincoln Way, Ames. The public is invited to watch the printing process. [More...]
ISU architecture professor pursues groundbreaking work on energy and buildings
September 13, 2012
Architecture Assistant Professor Ulrike Passe hopes her work with a five- year, $20 million National Science Foundation project leads to better understanding of building energy-performance data to determine whether systems perform as expected, and which strategies work best in Iowa's climate. She leads a group of ISU researchers who are measuring energy use in existing buildings and looking at the relationship between building science, design and human behavior. [Link...]
Armory upgrades mean better studio access, more space
September 13, 2012
College of Design students in the spring 2012 design-build option studio tackled a tricky challenge: turn space for six Armory studios into seven and expand the center review space while not making any of the studios smaller! In the process, they improved circulation and security. The reconfigured space was ready to go for fall classes. [Link...]
ISU landscape architecture professor named ASLA Fellow
September 11, 2012
Julia Badenhope, associate professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University and director of the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is one of 33 landscape architects--including two Iowa State alumni--who will be invested in the ASLA College of Fellows Sept. 30 at the organization’s annual meeting in Phoenix. [More...]
Design on Main connects College of Design with Ames community
September 10, 2012
The College of Design is joining Main Street with a satellite facility for classes, exhibitions and community outreach. The college's newest venture--Design on Main--occupies about 7,000 square feet of the former Antique Ames antiques mall in the Main Street Cultural District. The space encompasses the east side of the lower level (203 Main) and both sides of the upper level (205 Main) of the more than 130-year-old brick building. The college will host an open house at this new location during the Octagon Art Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. [Link...]
ISU art historian April Eisman named AAUW American Fellow for 2012-2013
August 27, 2012
April Eisman, assistant professor of art history in the Iowa State University Department of Integrated Studio Arts, has been named a 2012-2013 American Fellow by the American Association of University Women to study women artists in the former East Germany. She is using her postdoctoral leave research fellowship to spend a year based in Leipzig, Germany, doing research for a book with the working title "Women Artists in East Germany: Angela Hampel and the Contradictions of 'Equality' in a Communist State." [More...]
Design theorist Michael Benedikt to headline Architecture Premiere at Iowa State Sept. 7
August 23, 2012
Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin, will present the Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture in Architecture Friday, Sept. 7, at Iowa State University. His lecture is part of Architecture Premiere 2012, the annual celebration of the new academic year in the ISU Department of Architecture. The event will begin with the student scholarship and awards ceremony at 4:30 p.m., followed by Benedikt's talk in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design. It is free and open to the public. [More...]
Prominent architect Rebecca Greco to receive Christian Petersen Design Award at ISU
August 08, 2012
Iowa State University alumna Rebecca J. Greco, a managing principal at one of the nation's leading architecture and design firms, is the recipient of the 2012 Christian Petersen Design Award presented by the ISU College of Design. Greco, a West Des Moines native who lives in Minneapolis, will be honored at a ceremony Monday, Aug. 20, in the College of Design’s King Pavilion. A reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m., with the award presentation at 6:45 p.m. [Link...]
ISU College of Design goes to Main Street
August 08, 2012
The Iowa State University College of Design recently signed a lease for space in the old Antique Mall in downtown Ames. Renovations should be completed in time for the start of fall semester, and graduate students in the integrated visual arts program will be the first to move in. Read the Aug. 8 Ames Tribune story. [Link...]
Regents give green light to two new ISU College of Design graduate programs
August 06, 2012
At its Aug. 3 meeting in Cedar Falls, the Iowa Board of Regents approved two new graduate degrees to be offered by the Iowa State University College of Design. The Master of Urban Design is a post-professional program of study for students with prior degrees in architecture, landscape architecture or city planning, or the equivalent in professional design experience. The Master of Design in Sustainable Environments is an interdisciplinary program geared toward students with prior degrees in art, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, interior design, industrial design and engineering. [More...]
Art professor helps Mississippi Delta students 'put community back in the blues'
August 02, 2012
How do our faculty spend the summer? Many use their time "off" to engage in research and pursue projects away from campus. Jennifer Drinkwater, lecturer in integrated studio arts, just completed a six-week mural camp for middle-schoolers in Clarksdale, Miss., one of many Mississippi Delta towns with a rich blues music history. [More...]
College of Design appoints permanent, interim department chairs
July 11, 2012
Following approval of the College of Design's reorganization plan by the state Board of Regents in April and subsequent approval of a revised internal governance document by the college faculty in May, the College of Design now encompasses seven academic departments: architecture, community and regional planning, graphic design, industrial design, integrated studio arts, interior design and landscape architecture. Effective July 1, faculty members who served as interim directors of these programs for the past two years are continuing as department chairs—some with permanent appointments, some in interim positions until searches and selection processes can be completed. [More...]
Graphic design student lays out vision for children's museum mural
June 25, 2012
Irene Lopez, an Iowa State University junior in graphic design and a summer "student in residence" with ISU Design West in Sioux City, helped children in her hometown make their mark this weekend on the wall of the future Children's Museum of Siouxland. The young students added aqua, hot pink and lime green hand prints to the exterior mural Lopez designed based on the museum's logo, which incorporates three colorful, stylized gears. Lopez will finish the mural with artwork collected in late spring from local kindergarteners. Her summer residency is funded in part by Sioux City's Downtown Partners. See the KTIV News 4 video. [Link...]
Find ISU students and alumni at the Des Moines Arts Festival, June 22-24
June 21, 2012
The Des Moines Arts Festival this weekend will include the work of several Iowa State students and recent graduates. Six of the 22 Emerging Iowa Artists are from ISU. Hours are 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday in Western Gateway Park, downtown Des Moines. [Link...]
Iowa State's Design in Action exhibit heads to Smithsonian Folklife Festival in D.C.
June 12, 2012
More than 1 million people are expected to visit the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., June 27-July 1 and July 4-8. And Iowa State University will be center stage to show how faculty, staff and students put design in action to transform communities. A dedicated team, led by members of the College of Design, has been hard at work for several months creating the university's exhibit, "Transforming Communities: Design in Action." A campus preview was held today (June 12) before the trusses, computers, LED panels, touchscreen workstations and original artwork are crated and shipped to the nation's capital early next week. [Link...]



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