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  • ISU integrated studio arts seniors to showcase work in BFA exhibition April 10-22

    03/27/17 AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University seniors majoring in integrated studio arts will share their work in the annual Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition April 10-22 in the ISU College of Design’s Gallery 181. “In•ten•tion•al” will feature work by 33 students who will graduate with a BFA in integrated studio arts from Iowa State in May, August or December 2017. Each graduating senior selected a collection of his/her own…

  • Three finalists named in search for ISU landscape architecture department chair

    03/24/17 AMES, Iowa — Three finalists have been named in the search for the next chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. They are: Nnamdi Elleh, professor of architecture, history and theory in the School of Architecture and Interior Design in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati Carl Rogers, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture…

  • Industrial design junior Kellie Walters to present work at Research in the Capitol March 28

    03/23/17 AMES, Iowa — Kellie Walters, a junior in industrial design from Mt. Vernon, is one of 24 students selected to represent Iowa State University at the "Research in the Capitol" event from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in the Rotunda of the State Capitol building in Des Moines. More than 60 undergraduate students from Iowa's three Regent universities (Iowa State, the University of Iowa and…

  • Case studies by Canniffe, Clifford published

    Case studies by Bernard Canniffe, professor and chair of the Iowa State University Department of Graphic Design, and Ryan Clifford, ISU assistant professor of graphic design, have been published in Developing Citizen Designers by Elizabeth Resnick (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). Canniffe's "Designing Police" appears in Section 2: Design Activism, and Clifford's "Project Baltimore" appears in Part 2, Section 1: Collaborative Learning. Canniffe also wrote the Foreword.

  • McNeely receives P&S CYtation Award

    03/22/17 AMES, Iowa — Robin McNeely, GIS analyst and manager of the Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility, is the recipient of a 2017 P&S CYtation Award presented by the university’s Professional and Scientific Council. The award recognizes P&S employees who perform above and beyond the call of duty, do something extraordinarily well and act to make a very real difference in the institution. McNeely will…

  • Kane receives P&S Woodin CYtation Award

    03/22/17 AMES, Iowa — Kevin Kane, associate dean for research and outreach in the Iowa State University College of Design, is the recipient of the 2017 P&S Woodin CYtation Award from the university’s Professional and Scientific Council. Named in honor and memory of Dan Woodin — a 36-year ISU P&S employee and four-term P&S Council president who died in September 2013 after a year-long battle with cancer — the award…

  • Expert on sustainable design and human values to speak at ISU April 3

    03/22/17 AMES, Iowa — Stuart Walker, a professor of design for sustainability and co-director of the ImaginationLancaster research center at Lancaster University, England, will explore the relationship between creative practice, human values and the importance of tradition and localization in a lecture at Iowa State University. Walker will present “Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College…

  • New transfer agreement between ISU College of Design, Western Iowa Tech allows students to take courses at ISU Design West in Sioux City

    03/22/17 AMES, Iowa — A new agreement between the Iowa State University College of Design and Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC), Sioux City, will make it easier for students to complete a bachelor’s degree at Iowa State. Through the articulation agreement, students can take classes in the College of Design’s first-year Core Design Program at the ISU Design West facility, 1014½ Design Place, Sioux City, and complete general education requirements…

  • Spatial planning professor to speak about advances in geodesign April 11 at ISU

    03/21/17 AMES, Iowa — Michele Campagna, associate professor of spatial planning at the University of Cagliari, Italy, will speak at Iowa State University about how geodesign can impact communities and the fields of architecture and engineering. His presentation, “Geodesign: A New Approach to Sustainable Planning and Design,” will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in room 0130 College of Design. Sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning,…

  • Stevens presents invited lecture at North Carolina State University

    Julie Stevens, Iowa State University assistant professor of landscape architecture, presented the 10th Annual Charles H. Burger Memorial Lecture March 1 as part of the 2016-2017 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series at the North Carolina State University College of Design. In her lecture, "Dos and Don'ts: Lessons Learned (while building gardens) in Prison," Stevens candidly shared the ups and downs of the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture's partnership with the…