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  • ISU industrial design students’ emergency response project is topic of Jan. 9 radio program
    ISU industrial design students' emergency response project is topic of Jan. 9 radio program

    01/05/17 AMES, Iowa — An emergency-response project by a team of Iowa State University industrial design students will be featured on KHOI Community Radio’s Local Talk program Monday, Jan. 9. The four students — Zachary Benjamin, Fort Dodge; Ran Duan, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Aaron Evans, St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Rachel Harksen, Camanche — developed a damage-assessment kiosk and a mobile app for use by communities following natural or human-caused disasters. They will be…

    January 5, 2017

  • Photos of New York City featured in Design on Main Gallery exhibition Jan. 6-28
    Photos of New York City featured in Design on Main Gallery exhibition Jan. 6-28

    01/04/17 AMES, Iowa — The fine art photography of Michael Corones will be exhibited Jan. 6-28 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “Gotham” will reflect Corones’ view in images taken during his wanderings around New York City, where he is a photographer, writer and editor. The show will open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6. Gallery…

    January 4, 2017

  • CSI-ISU Design Competition Winners
    CSI-ISU Design Competition Winners

    The team of interior design senior Catherine McClurg and fifth-year architecture student Connor Yocum won first place in the 2016 CSI-ISU Design Competition sponsored by the Central Iowa chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute and juried by CSI members. Their Panama hotel project was developed in the fall 2016 interdisciplinary studio (ART ID 668: Advanced Experimental Interior Design and ARCH 403/603 Integrated Design Studio) taught by Lee Cagley, professor and…

    December 17, 2016

  • Architecture student team wins honorable mention in international ideas competition
    Architecture student team wins honorable mention in international ideas competition

    12/14/16 AMES, Iowa — A team of third-year architecture students from the Iowa State University College of Design received an honorable mention in the ARKxSITE 2016 Site Landmark Portugal international architecture ideas competition. A total of 163 teams composed of both young professionals and architecture students submitted proposals. In addition to three winners, seven teams’ projects were selected as honorable mentions. The Iowa State team included Kevin Kim Larson, Des…

    December 14, 2016

  • A Mirror to the Soul: When Suzanne Verma restores a patient’s outward features, she restores an identity
    A Mirror to the Soul: When Suzanne Verma restores a patient's outward features, she restores an identity

    December 14, 2016

  • April Eisman receives NEH Fellowship for book research
    April Eisman receives NEH Fellowship for book research

    April Eisman, Iowa State University associate professor of art and visual culture (art history), has received a prestigious one-year National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to conduct research in Germany between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. Her project, "Angela Hampel: A Contemporary Artist in East Germany," will result in her third book. Read more

    December 12, 2016

  • Art and visual culture faculty member brings mother’s Holocaust story to school stages
    Art and visual culture faculty member brings mother's Holocaust story to school stages

    "My Broken Doll: A Memoir of Survival of the Vichy Regime," a book co-written by Deborah Pappenheimer, senior lecturer in art and visual culture, and her mother, Bea Karp, has been translated into a stage production that premiered in Omaha in August and will tour Nebraska schools throughout 2016-17. The book and the play share Karp's experiences as a Jewish child in France before, during and after World War II.…

    December 6, 2016

  • Student team participates in healthcare design charrette and conference
    Student team participates in healthcare design charrette and conference

    An interdisciplinary team of Iowa State University College of Design students under the guidance of faculty members Cameron Campell, associate professor of architecture, and Jihyn Song, associate professor of interior design, participated in the 2016 AIA-AAH STERIS Student Design Charrette on "Transportation Health: Bridging the Gap Between Urban Health and the Texas Medical Center" Nov. 11-12 and presented their work from the charrette at the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference…

    December 5, 2016

  • Kimberly Zarecor begins term as Czechoslovak Studies Association president
    Kimberly Zarecor begins term as Czechoslovak Studies Association president

    Kimberly Zarecor, associate professor of architecture and director of the interdisciplinary design program, is the new president of the Czechoslovak Studies Association. She is serving a three-year term from November 2016 through November 2019. She had been vice president for the past three years and was a member of the organization's Book Prize Committee in 2015. She also has worked on its website and social media efforts.

    November 29, 2016

  • Project H founder Emily Pilloton to speak about design and social action Dec. 2 at ISU
    Project H founder Emily Pilloton to speak about design and social action Dec. 2 at ISU

    11/15/16 AMES, Iowa — Project H founder and executive director Emily Pilloton will speak about social action, empowerment and the power of making in a lecture Friday, Dec. 2, at Iowa State University. Pilloton’s presentation, “Fear Less. Build More,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. Part of the Underrepresented Women in Industrial Design and Architecture Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Departments of Industrial…

    November 15, 2016