2005-2006 Achievements

2006 Commencement/End-of-Year Scholarships/Awards/Prizes

Department of Architecture - The Heintzelman Prize is given for excellence in design during the final semester of study for the Bachelor of Architecture: Corbin Keech, Kansas City, MO; Honorable Mention: Dalyn Huffman, Grand Island, NE; Nominees: Clint Hibbs, Norwich, KS; the team of Tim Jonas and Don Semple, Overland Park, KS; and the team of Tomas Martinek, the Czech Republic, Alejandra Soto, Manhattan, KS, Judson Webb, Tulsa, OK, and Eric Wittman, Rose Hill, KS. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal goes to the student with the highest grade point average in the Bachelor of Architecture program: Michael Townsend, Manhattan, KS. The AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Excellence goes to the student with the second highest grade point average in the Bachelor of Architecture program: David Burton, Omaha, NE. The Alpha Rho Chi Medal is awarded to a student who has shown ability in leadership, performed willing service, and shows promise of professional merit through attitude and personality: Brittany Williams, St. Peters, MO. The AIA Kansas Student Honor Award goes to the student who possesses an outstanding academic record and has been an active participant in the local student chapter of the AIA: Tanner Pikop, Bellevue, NE. The Tau Sigma Delta International Honor Society Bronze Medal goes to the student judged by his/her peers whose work and attitude best exemplify the honor society’s motto, “craftsman, skilled and trained:” Jeremy Cordell, Blue Springs, MO.

Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design - The Eugene McGraw Scholastic Award is presented to the student with the highest grade point average in the Bachelor of Interior Architecture program: Sarah Sloan, Estes Park, CO, and Jeff Windmeyer, Grand Pass, MO. The James Dubois Outstanding Graduating Senior Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers: Drew Marlow, Council Grove, KS. The Student Leadership Award is presented for outstanding contributions performed for the betterment of the department: Andrea Kubiak, Washington, MO. The Outstanding Furniture Design Award: Shelly Engels, Wichita, KS, and Rene Stremel, Manhattan, KS. The Outstanding Product Design Award: Sarah Sloan. The Jack C. Durgan Interior Architecture Award: Elizabeth Nease, Kansas City, MO.

Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning - The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award is given to students demonstrating the highest level of academic scholarship and accomplishments in skills related to the art and technology of landscape architecture: Undergraduate Honor Awards, Andrew Jordan, Wichita, KS; Kyle Knecht, Kansas City, MO; Katie Martin, Perryville, MO. Undergraduate Merit Awards, Erin Hower, Overland Park, KS; Jodi Reinholdt, Canon City, CO; Michael Rieger, Topeka, KS. Graduate Merit Awards, Peter Agnello, Manahawkin, NJ; Eric Castle, Cedar Hills, UT. The Outstanding Graduating Senior Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers: Katie Martin. The Outstanding Fourth-Year Student Award is given in recognition of academic performance: Mark Ruzicka, Springfield, MO. The Outstanding Graduate Student Award recognizes academic performance and contributions made to the department, program and peers: Peter Agnello. The L. R. Quinlan Award recognizes academic advancement in the study of landscape architecture: Undergraduate, Zachary Borg, Lincoln, NE; Graduate, Jacob Young, Mapleton, UT. The Dr. Robert P. Ealy Award for graduate students: Eric Castle; Aubrey Hake, Raytown, MO. The Leland R. Edmonds Planning Student Research Award: Steven Zeier, Billings, MT. The American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award: Kellie Johnston, Manhattan, KS.

Student Accomplishments

Michael Townsend, Manhattan, KS, received the 2005-2006 Anderson Award for Outstanding Academics from the K-State Alumni Association.

Brittany Williams, St. Peters, MO, received the 2005-2006 Multicultural Senior Leadership Award from the K-State Alumni Association.

2005-2006 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society initiates were Troy Carlson, Topeka, KS; Lois Prochaska, Ada, KS; Jodi Reinholdt, Canon City, CO; Ashleigh Rogers, Greenfield, MO; Adrienne Stolwyk, Liberty, MO; Janelle Thon, Overland Park, KS; and Michael Verseman, Perryville, MO.

Adrienne Stolwyk, Liberty, MO, received a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. Mark Ruzicka, Springfield, MO, and Sally Maddock, Lakewood, CO, received honorable mention Morris K. Udall Scholarships. This means that three of the five
K-State students to receive an award in the national competition were majors in our college.

Derrick Slocum, Emporia, KS, received the top individual award in the first annual Carole R. Bloom competition of the resort and tourism division of the American Planning Association.

David Eichman, Tyler, TX, was one of two K-State students to receive a Gilman International Scholarship to support study abroad.

An article entitled “The Nature of Making” by Mark Bacon, Manhattan, KS, was published in Crit, the journal of the American Institute of Architecture Students.

Jennifer West, Topeka, KS, was one of four finalists to share a scholarship award from the Kansas City Chapter of the International Facility Management Association.

Corey Schneider, Salina, KS, received an American Institute of Architects Kansas Merit Award for Student Architecture for “American Museum of the Piano.”

National American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation (AIA/AAF) Scholarships - Christy Diecker, Ellisville, MO; Clint Hibbs, Manhattan, KS; Christina McAllister, Kansas City, MO; Matthew Teismann, Springfield, MO.

American Institute of Architects St. Louis Scholarship - Emily Hagy, St. Louis, MO, and Laura Indihar, Kirkwood, MO.

American Institute of Architects Kansas City/Kansas City Architectural Foundation Scholarship - (2005-2006) Betsy Pribula, Kansas City, MO; Fabiola Troncoso, Kansas City, MO; (2006-2007) Cassandra Klausing, Monterey, IN; Mark Long, El Dorado, KS; Michael Meyer, St. Louis, MO.

American Institute of Architects St. Louis/Wischmeyer Scholarship - Gabe McKee, DeSoto, MO.

Carly Hillman, Overland Park, KS, received first prize and Kimberly Kolkovich, St. Louis, MO, received third prize in the 2006 Annual National Student Design Competition of the Institute of Store Planners.

Jennifer West, Topeka, KS; Sarah Sloan, Estes Park, CO; and Danielle Garrison, Broomfield, CO, received two of three honor awards given by the Northern California chapter of the International Interior Design Association.

Andrea Pardo, Kansas City, KS, received the individual student Community First National Bank Inspired by Excellence Community Service Award.

Eric Castle, Cedar Hills, UT, received one of three first-place awards in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s first annual Dangermond Fellowship.

Brent Shelor, Olathe, KS, received the John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship.

Aaron Schump, Raytown, MO, received grand prize, Gabe McKee, DeSoto, MO, received first runner-up, and Tanner Pikop, Bellevue, NE, received honorable mention, sweeping three of the four awards given in the first student design competition sponsored by 360 Architecture, Kansas City, MO.

2006 HTI Student Design Competition - First Place, Kathryn Steib, St. Louis, MO; Second Place, Christopher Sylvester, Louisburg, KS; Third Place, Giannina Zapattini, Manhattan, KS; Honorable Mention, Emily Weber, Olathe, KS, Katie Gall, Independence, MO; Honorable Mention Team Project, Sarah Bartelt, Highland Park, IL, Elizabeth Cordes, Sunset Hills, MO, Amanda Eckes, Olathe, KS, Timothy Sherman, McPherson, KS and Heather Wise, Bucyrus, KS.

2005-2006 Bowman Design Forum Awards - Betsy Pribula, Lee’s Summit, MO; Joseph Vessell, Jefferson City, MO; Whang Jin Suh, Kansas City, MO; Philip Korthanke, St. Joseph, MO; and Ondrej Strejcek, the Czech Republic.

2006 Kansas City Architects, Designers, Dealers and Representatives (KCADDR) Regional Furniture Design Competition - Large Furniture, First Place, Drew Marlow, Council Grove, KS; Second Place, Shelly Engels, Wichita, KS; Third Place, Michael Slater, Olathe, KS; Fourth Place, Steven Huff, Preston, KS; Fifth Place, Kate Menke, Downers Grove, IL. Small Furniture, First Place, Fabiola Troncoso, Kansas City, MO; Second Place, Heather Manning, Plattsmouth, NE; Third Place, Daniel Mease, Leavenworth, KS; Fourth Place, Daniel Epperson, Blue Springs, MO.

Tau Sigma Delta International Honor Society Graduates - Nicole Bentley, Leavenworth, KS; Bradley Buser, Manhattan, KS; Jeremy Cordell, Blue Springs, MO; Clint Hibbs, Manhattan, KS; Melody Honnen, Aurora, CO; Bradley Hus, El Dorado, KS; Ashley Jensen, Manhattan, KS; Karen Klein, Derby, KS; Kyle Knecht, Kansas City, MO; Andrea Kubiak, Washington, MO; Megan Kunce, Grandview, MO; Katie Martin, Perryville, MO; Christina McAllister, Kansas City, MO; Katherine McGuire, Prairie Village, KS; Gabe McKee, Desoto, MO; Katherine Menke, Downers Grove, IL; Elizabeth Nease, Kansas City, MO; Tanner Pikop, Bellevue, NE; Jodi Reinholdt, Canon City, CO; Donald Semple, Overland Park, KS; Brent Shelor, Manhattan, KS; Rene Stremel, Manhattan, KS; Michael Townsend, Manhattan, KS; Michael Verseman, Chester, IL; Kyle Wedel, Lawrence, KS; Jeff Windmeyer, Grand Pass, MO.

Tau Sigma Delta International Honor Society Initiates - Jeremy Clagett, Colorado Springs, CO; Daniel Epperson, Blue Springs, MO; Philip Korthanke, St. Joseph, MO; Carrie Kyser, Oshkosh, NE; Kyle Leiker, Andover, KS; Sally Maddock, Lakewood, CO; Heather Manning, Plattsmouth, NE; Timothy Merklein, Prairie View, KS; Elizabeth Nease, Kansas City, MO; Molly Page, Rose Hill, KS; David Rubash, Dwight, KS; Stacey Schmitt, Fairview Heights, IL; Jennifer Scruggs, Overland Park, KS; Brent Shelor, Manhattan, KS; Adrienne Stolwyk, Liberty, MO; Janelle Thon, Overland Park, KS; Megan Warner, Lansing, KS; Abbie Wharton, Garden City, KS; Robert Wiedemann, St. Louis, MO; Laura Wilke, Columbus, NE.

Sigma Lambda Alpha International Honor Society Initiates - Peter Agnello, Manahawkin, NJ; Amy Asher, Manhattan, KS; John Lorg, Manhattan, KS; Jacob Young, Mapleton, UT.

2005-2006 Delineation Competition - Rendering/Free-Hand/Black and White - Best in Show, Kathy McGuire, Prairie Village, KS; Jury Choice, Michael Townsend, Manhattan, KS. Rendering/Free-Hand/Color - First Place, Jennifer West, Topeka, KS; Second Place, Danton Rezos, Colorado Springs, CO, Tiffany Rowell, Bellevue, NE; Honorable Mention, David Beckley, Topeka, KS, Melody Jacobson, Gardiner, MT, Sam Loring, Leawood, KS. Rendering/Computer - Second Place, Evan Weir, Topeka, KS. Rendering/Mixed Media - First Place, Jennifer West; Second Place, Ryan Welch, Lakewood, CO; Honorable Mention, Jeremy Cordell, Blue Springs, MO. Photography/Film - First Place, Michael Baskett, Shawnee Mission, KS; Second Place, Nicholas Robinson, Hanover, MN. Photography/Digital - First Place, Wesley Morgan, Haven, KS; Second Place, Rachel Salvay, Prairie Village, KS; Honorable Mention, Kristin Finley, Parsons, KS, Wesley Morgan. Photography/Mixed Media - First Place, Grant McGill, Raymore, MO; Second Place, Robert Glinn, Kansas City, MO.

The fall 2006 LAR Community Planning and Design Studio project received a Merit Award in the Prairie Gateway Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) design competition as well as an Honor Award in the Central States ASLA Awards Program. The project, “Eight Visions for One Community,” was a proposal for redevelopment of the Bannister Mall area in Kansas City, MO. Studio faculty were Professor Stephanie Rolley and visiting instructor Stephen Rhoades.

Deanna Victor, Shawnee, KS, became LEED accredited during the 2005-2006 academic year.

Rachel Salvay, Prairie Village, KS, won second place for the design she submitted to the Resopal-Dekor competition during her semester abroad at Fachhochschule Coburg, Coburg, Germany.

Michelle Goetz, Valley Center, KS; Kathy McGuire, Prairie Village, KS; Rita Radley, Manhattan, KS; and Jenny Walter, Manhattan, KS, organized VERVE, an organization working to educate K-State students and administrators about the importance of energy efficiency and sustainability in campus buildings.

Among the honors received by Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Lakin, KS, was the Mortar Board National Honor Society Outstanding Junior Scholarship, the Silver Key Leadership Award and the Joey Lee Garman Scholarship.

A Chair-ity Competition was held during KSU Open House whereby students designed and constructed remarkably varied chairs using identical metal frames. Proceeds from the competition will be used for the completion of a new school in Chahuaytire, Peru, for which a group of CAPD students will be doing a design-build project.

Receiving Parents Telefund Scholarships were Elvis Achelpohl, Kansas City, MO, and Megan Warner, Lansing, KS.

Todd Satter, Manhattan, KS, was chosen through a competitive process to receive a scholarship and co-op experience by Callison Architecture Inc. of Seattle, WA.

Jessica Miller, Omaha, NE; Matt Teismann, Springfield, MO; and Katie Gall, Independence, MO, received three of seven awards in the Union Program Council Photography Contest.

Light Weight was the name of an exhibit in Kansas City that explored different meanings of the word light and focused on seating elements designed and built exclusively out of paper mache by interior architecture and product design students.

Rachel Allen, Overland Park, KS, was a finalist in the 26th Annual Student Photography contest sponsored by Serbin Communications, publisher of Photographer’s Forum magazine.

Laura Herron, Hesston, KS, received one of 25 Young Women of Distinction Honors for her work with the Girl Scouts.

Five teams of students from the College of Architecture, Planning and Design participated in Relay for Life, a fund-raising activity for the American Cancer Society. Food donations were also collected and given to a local food pantry.

Furniture designed by Sarah Puchosic and April Jefferies, BIAR 2005, was included in Fresh Wood Volume 2, published by the Association of Woodworking and Furnishings Suppliers.

Jill Sornson, BArch 2005, was one of 25 essay writers chosen to participate in the national architecture conference entitled “Designing Tomorrow’s Architect.” The conference was sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Architecture Students, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the National Architectural Accrediting Board and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Two of seven awards in the first annual Award of Excellence in Landscape Design Student Competition went to K-Staters. Entries by one team composed of Stacy Rickert and Jennifer Chadd and a second team composed of Jeffrey Stoecklein and Kimberly Olson received honorable mention. All four are 2005 BLAR recipients.

Students in the K-State interior architecture and product design program have won 62 awards in the biennial International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair student design competition since its inception in 1970. Finalists in the 2006 competition are 2006 BIAR graduates Shelly Engels, Wichita, KS, and Shannon Ritchie, Perry, KS.

K-State landscape architecture students have won 48 awards, twice as many as any other school, in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) national student design competition.

Editors of the 2005-2006 edition of OZ are Nicole Ellis, Topeka, KS; Jason Fedak, Arnold, MO; Gabe McKee, DeSoto, MO; and Corey Schneider, Salina, KS. Faculty advisors are Professors Todd Gabbard and Ray Streeter.

A redevelopment design by a group of landscape architecture students helped Marysville, KS, receive a Governor’s Award for Excellence at the annual Kansas Main Street and PRIDE conference. Participating students were Matt Dugan, Wichita, KS; Gabe Hogan, Columbia, MO; Terry Kinsler, Salina, KS; Ben Noyes, Rose Hill, KS; Russell Palmer, Centralia, MO; Larry Reynolds, Ogden; and Mark Ruzicka, Springfield, MO. Studio faculty were Professors Chip Winslow and Katie Kingery-Page.

Their classmates selected Eric Wittman, Rose Hill, KS; Carolyn Boos, Kansas City, MO; and Dennis Tonsor, Monroe City, MO, as student speakers at the May 2006 commencement ceremony.

Faculty Achievements and Awards

Professors Lorn Clement and Stephanie Rolley were named inaugural Jarvis Chairs of Landscape Architecture.

Professor Neal Hubbell was named associate head of the Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design.

Professor David Seamon received the 2006 Service Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. He was commended for his work bringing qualitative methods into environmental design research and for his many editing efforts that examine environmental design as place making. His review of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-volume The Nature of Order appeared in the monthly design magazine, Traditional Building. Seamon presented conference papers at the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the International Association of Environmental Philosophy. He has been named as a member of the organizing committee for the international conference, “Architecture and Phenomenology,” to be held in Haifa, Israel, during summer 2007.

Professor Stephanie Rolley was named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Professor Vicky Borchers traveled 8,500 miles and used 42 rolls of film as she took pictures of the word “Kansas” in the 105 county seats in the state as part of the national “State Art” project. Her work was displayed in “Looking for Kansas,” an exhibit located at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, KS, where a talk and reception were also held.

Paintings by Professor Jim Jones and Emeritus Professor Gene Ernst were part of “A Quartet of Artists,” an exhibit representing the Columbian Artists. The exhibit was shown in the Unitarian Gallery in Kansas City, MO.

Professors Melanie Klein and Katrina Lewis presented “An Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum for Beginning Landscape Architecture Students,” at the First International Landscape Studies Education Symposium at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. They presented “A Beginning Curriculum for Environmental Design Students” at the 37th annual meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association in Atlanta, GA, and “A Beginning Design Studio Curriculum and a Comparative Literature Review” at the 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Ames, IA.

Professor Robert Condia wrote an article published in the May/June 2006 issue of “Kansas Wildlife and Parks.”

Professor Sherri Smith was a panelist at a symposium entitled “The Sublimated City: Secret Places, Hidden Desires and the Public Realm.” The symposium was sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Creative Studies and the Urban Culture Project.

Professor Eric Bernard earned tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor.

Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates contributed a chapter entitled “Social Spaces at the Vidar Clinic in Järna, Sweden, and Their Role in the Healing Process” to the book, The Architecture of Hospitals. The book explores the ways in which architecture can contribute to promoting the health and well-being of hospital patients.

Professor Dennis Day was named the K-State Landscape Architecture Teacher of the Year.

Professor David Sachs was re-elected as secretary of the Society of Southeastern Architectural Historians, re-appointed to the Kansas State Historic Sites Board of Review and appointed to the Kansas State Building Advisory Commission. He also had the following reviews published in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, which is published by the Association of Collegiate and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association: “Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age,” “Catalogue: Norman Foster and Partners,” “Front to Back: A Design Agenda for Urban Housing” and “The Home House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing.”

Once again, Professor Anthony Chelz has been listed in “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” He accompanied the initial group of faculty and students to our new Italian Studies venue in Orvieto, Italy, in January. And, after 31 years on the faculty, he will begin transitioning via phased retirement in 2006-2007.

Professor Vicky Borchers received a 2006 Commerce Bank Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Professor James Jones was invited to be a peer reviewer for the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program, which brings nationally selected outside critics to participate in the review of designs for GSA projects. This particular review was of a new federal building located in Des Moines, IA. He also had an exhibit of watercolors in the college’s Chang Gallery and will have one next fall in the WSKF Architecture gallery in Kansas City, MO.

Professor John Selfridge presented about sick building syndrome and other building-related health issues at the annual Healthy Indoor Environments Conference in Kansas City, KS.

Professor Robert Arens has been teaching at California State Polytechnic University for the 2005-2006 academic year. He received a $6000 grant from the Center for Teaching and Learning to develop a materials library while developing the construction technology side of the curriculum and teaching second-year design.

Professors Todd Gabbard and Gary Coates, and Nibedita Das (MArch 2005), had “Using Computer Simulation to Demonstrate the Relation Between Aspect Ratio and Cross Ventilation for Residential Buildings in Calcutta, India,” a blind, reviewed paper, included in the proceedings of the Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference in Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Gabbard presented “Kolkata: Comfort in Courtyard Houses in India,” a paper the three authored, at an invited session on “Real Stories of Real Buildings” at the International Solar Energy Society conference held in Orlando, FL.

Professor Gary Coates presented “Bioclimatic Dwelling Design: Teaching Beginning Students with a Sun, Wind and Light Student Workbook,” at the conference on Greener Foundations: Environmental Technology and the Beginning Design Student, sponsored by the Society of Building Science Educators and held at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. He also received special recognition for his lecture/design recitation course, Environmental Systems in Architecture I, at the international competition on “Ecological Literacy in Architectural Education,” sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment and funded by a grant from The Tides Foundation. The course was chosen because of its demonstrated ability “to merge design with technics in a replicable way” and as “a true model of how ecological design can be taught in architecture schools.” Courses from 11 schools that entered the competition will be featured in a special report.

Professor La Barbara Wigfall received a Tilford Grant from K-State for “Enhancing the Regional and Community Planning Curriculum: A New Undergraduate Program.”

The master’s thesis of Professor Christopher Spaw was selected to receive a National Digital Library Award.

Professor Marina Pecar’s conference paper, “Cultural and Social Issues in Housing Theory and Education: Essay on Dwelling Experience,” was presented and published in the Proceedings of the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing: Transforming Housing Environments Through Design, in Pretoria, South Africa. She gave a poster presentation featuring research projects completed by students in her seminar course, Theory of Housing: Cross-Cultural Perspective, at the Third Annual Teaching Renewal Retreat: Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Always in Style, organized by the K-State Division of Continuing Education and held on the K-State campus. Professor Pecar is leaving K-State to teach design studio at the Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Professor Marina Pecar attended the White Hutchinson Early Childhood Design Institute in Kansas City, sponsored by the KSU Child Development Center (CDC). After completing the design proposal for their new facility as a final project in her spring 2006 fifth-year architectural design studio, Professor Pecar will continue to work with the KSU CDC. The KSU CDC design studio project will also be featured in the teaching portfolio for the KSU Peer Review of Teaching program where Professor Pecar and Professor Todd Gabbard were selected as fellows for 2005-2006.

Professor Michael McNamara lectured on “Angiolo Mazzoni: Architecture in Motion,” in Italy. His exhibit on the topic has been shown at several international venues and at K-State’s Beach Museum of Art.

Solar Decathlon

Students and faculty from K-State have teamed up with students and faculty from KU to build a house that runs entirely on solar energy, all in hopes of winning the 2007 Solar Decathlon. Professor Todd Gabbard is one of several faculty leading students from our college, the College of Engineering and disciplines such as business and interior design to represent K-State at the interdisciplinary, intercollegiate Project Solar House competition. The K-State/KU group, one of 20 chosen for this third ever event, will compete against such schools as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as international teams from Canada, Spain and Germany. The Solar Decathlon challenges each team to design and construct a small demonstration house that runs entirely on solar energy. The homes, which must be less than 800 square feet, will be taken to Washington, D.C., in fall 2007, where they will be judged on 10 criteria including the sufficiency of the house’s solar panels to power its systems, the house’s ability to maintain comfortable interior conditions, and the appropriateness of the home’s design. The highly technical project required students and faculty to start on the project this year and continue through next fall. Construction begins in spring 2007.

Extreme Makeover

Our college played a big part in the design of a project featured on the January 8, 2006, episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Students and faculty volunteered to help build and landscape a new home for the Nutsch family of Rose Hill, KS, whose house was destroyed by a propane gas explosion last August. Six students and four faculty members had a special role by designing and building an unusual outbuilding as part of the project: a chicken house with a chicken run.

Employment

Nearly 130 students got the chance to hone their interviewing skills with the help of prospective employers. Representatives of 15 national architectural and industrial design firms took part in the most recent Mock Interview activity. The interviews allow fourth- and fifth-year, as well as graduate, students in the college the chance to practice their interviewing skills in a professional setting, interact with professionals in their field and receive early job offers.

Students seeking careers in the design disciplines also got the chance to meet with prospective employers at the college’s career fair. A record-setting 113 employers registered to participate in DesignExpo and DesignExpo2 during the spring 2006 semester. The previous high was in 2005 with 62 participating firms. Employers attending this event offer full-time employment as well as summer and other internship opportunities in the private sector. They also visit with students who wish to learn more about the design disciplines.

More News

Our existing bachelors’ degrees will change to masters’ degrees, and a new interdisciplinary Ph.D. will be offered, as determined by our faculty. Visit our website for more information.

Our bachelor of interior architecture/interior design ranked fourth, our bachelor of architecture and bachelor of landscape architecture programs ranked fifth, and our master of landscape architecture program ranked sixth in the 2006 version of an annual survey of leading firms in the United States. The survey is conducted by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council, in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design. The study asks firms to name the accredited schools that have produced graduates most prepared for professional practice.

Our bachelor of architecture program received the maximum re-accreditation of six years from the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Faculty and students co-hosted the national conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning held last fall in Kansas City, MO.

A group of faculty and students spent time this past year in New Orleans helping to rebuild facilities and housing.

The college purchased memberships to the K-State Alumni Association for our 2005 and 2006 graduates.

Students in all three of the college’s degree-granting programs are given the option of participating in study abroad opportunities. During 2005-2006, 79 students participated in eight different programs located in Germany, the Czech Republic, Australia, Denmark, Japan and Italy. Their work will be exhibited in Seaton Hall this fall.

Students in all three of the college’s degree-granting programs have the option of participating for course credit in 30-week paid internships with professional offices across the United States and around the world. During spring of 2006, 28 students participated in this program in firms located in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington, Arizona, North Carolina, California and Montana. Even more are participating during summer of 2006. Their work will be exhibited in Seaton Hall this fall.

Members of the Dean’s Student Advisory Council (DSAC) sponsor college-wide recycling. Recycling collection containers for aluminum cans, paper, newspaper and plastic bottles are placed in every studio in the college.

Internationally renowned Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza was the Victor L. Regnier Endowed Chair of the Department of Architecture during the 2005-2006 academic year.

The College of Architecture, Planning and Design has established membership in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from the building industry, the USGBC works to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.

Rolf Doell, Fachhochschule Coburg, Coburg, Germany, was a visiting professor in the Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design during the first part of the spring 2006 semester.

Professor Gwen Owens-Wilson retired after 23 years of service to our college. Administrative assistant Mary Rakowsky retired after 26 years of service to K-State and 12 years to our college.

Crystal Lara was selected as our college’s Classified Employee of the Year.

Bruce Broce was named as our college’s Director of Development.