2006-2007 Achievements

2007 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: Eric Abeln, Edwardsville, IL. Honorable Mention: Gustavo Ramirez, Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Project Solar House Studio team of Andrew Billing, Wentzville, MO; Mitchell Cook, Independence, MO; Casey Culbertson, Lee Summit, MO; James Evrard, Cleveland, MO; Kevin Grace, Jefferson City, MO; Ryan Haugaard, Manhattan; John Iiams, Topeka; Jessica Miller, Omaha, NE; Kelly Moore, Independence, MO; Morgan Phillips, Jefferson City, MO; Travina Saindon, Florissant, MO; Matthew Teismann, St Louis, MO; Anastasia Wayne, Overland Park; Lynsey Wedd, Tonganoxie; Adam Williams, Abilene. Nominees: Colleen Driver, Parkville, MO; Angela Johnson, Glendora, CA; Abbie Wharton, Garden City. 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: Andrea Nickisch, Parkville, MO. The AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Excellence goes to the student with the second highest grade point average in the Bachelor of Architecture program: Matthew Teismann. 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: Shalece Charles, Kansas City. 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: Julianna Shafer, Independence, MO. The Tau Sigma Delta International Honor Society Bronze Medal goes to the student, as judged by his/her peers, whose work and attitude best exemplify the honor society’s motto, “craftsman, skilled and trained:” Andrea Nickisch. The John Helm Award for Outstanding Graduate Thesis: Mekuria Malede, Ethiopia.

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: Lois Prochaska, Ada, and Ashleigh Rogers, Greenfield, MO. The James Dubois Outstanding Graduating Senior Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers: Michelle Keeven, St. Louis, MO. The Student Leadership Award is presented for outstanding contributions performed for the betterment of the department: Nadia El Tuhami, Omaha, NE. The Outstanding Furniture Design Award: William Yankey, Springfield, IL. The Outstanding Product Design Award: Kara Frets, Overland Park. The Jack C. Durgan Interior Architecture Award:
Je-Woo Lee, Republic of Korea, and Farras Afani Ruzik, Minneapolis.

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 Award, Monica Miller, Burdett. Undergraduate Merit Awards, Celine Andersen, Harrisonville, MO; Ben Noyes, Andover; Mark Ruzicka, Springfield, MO. Graduate Honor Award: Aubrey Hake, Raytown, MO. Graduate Merit Award: Cary Thomsen, Manhattan. The Outstanding Graduating Student Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers: Undergraduate, Celine Andersen and Mark Ruzicka; Graduate, Cary Thomsen. The L. R. Quinlan Award recognizes academic advancement in the study of landscape architecture: Undergraduate, Seth Atwell, Minneapolis; Graduate, Chris Sass, Wamego. The Outstanding MLA Researcher Award recognizes significance, quality and scope of thesis research: Aubrey Hake. The Leland R. Edmonds Outstanding Planning Student Research Award: Bret Martin, Manhattan. The American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award: Sarah Downing, Colby.

Student Accomplishments

Danielle Garrison, Broomfield, CO, was chosen as a KSU Extraordinary Student for overcoming obstacles to succeed in her educational pursuit.

2006-2007 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society initiates were Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Garden City; Rebekah Udall, Colorado Springs, CO; and Megan Warner, Lansing.

Sally Maddock, Lakewood, CO, received an honorable mention Morris K. Udall Scholarship in the 2007 national competition.

The team of Carly Hillman, Overland Park, and Colleen Wittman, Olathe, received first place in the 2007 Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement. The team of Rebecca Bayouth, Lawrence, and Renee Girard, Olathe, was named one of three finalists.

Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Garden City, received a Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.

Receiving awards at the 2007 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Central States Conference were Aaron Ross, 2006 B L Arch graduate, Kansas City (Award of Excellence); Christopher Johnson, 2006 B L Arch graduate, Cocoa Beach, FL (Honor Award); and Brett Tagtmeyer, current M L Arch student, Emporia (Honor Award).

Heather Wise, Bucyrus, received second place and Kathryn Steib, St. Louis, MO, received fourth place in the 2007 Exhibit Designers and Producers Association International Student Design Competition.

Lynda Armstrong, Manhattan; Hilary Kemper, Lawrence; and Aarthi Padmanabhan, Manhattan, received first place in the All-America Rose Selections 2006 Designing with Roses competition. Timothy Merklein, Prairie View, received second prize.

Carly Hillman, Overland Park, and Kim Kolkovich, St. Louis, MO, received first and third places, respectively, in the 2006 Institute of Store Planners Annual Student Design Competition.

American Institute of Architects St. Louis Scholarship - Christy Diecker, Ellisville, MO; Christina Fronick, St. Louis, MO; Emily Hagy, St. Louis, MO; Laura Indihar, Kirkwood, MO; Christopher Schneider, St. Louis, MO; Sarah Schwartz,
St. Louis, MO; and Ashley Williams, St. Charles, MO.

National American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation (AIA/AAF) Scholarship - Cassandra Klausing, Monterey, IN; Mark Long, El Dorado; and Michael Meyer, St. Louis, MO.

American Institute of Architects Kansas City Scholarship - Betsy Pribula, Lee Summit, MO; Philip Korthanke, St. Joseph, MO.

American Institute of Architects Wichita Scholarship - Mark Long, El Dorado.

Kimberly Kolkovich, St. Louis, MO, and Leah Sand, Leawood, received two of three honor awards given by the Northern California chapter of the International Interior Design Association in their 2007 student design competition.

Julianne Rader, Leawood, received both state and national Garden Clubs Association scholarships.

Rachel Allen, Overland Park, was a published finalist in the 27th annual College Photography Contest sponsored by Serbin Communications and Nikon in conjunction with Photographer’s Forum Magazine. She also had a photo published by the International Library of Photography.

Nibedita Das, India, received the 2006 John Helm Award for Outstanding Graduate Thesis in the Department of Architecture.

Anastasia Wayne, Overland Park, received the John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship.

Abbie Wharton, Garden City, was coxswain on the KSU women’s rowing team.

Daryn Soldan, Manhattan, received the 2006-2007 Golf Course Builders Association of America scholarship.

Jessica Miller, Omaha, NE, received second- and fifth-place awards for her photographs in the 2007 K-State Student Union Program Council Photography Competition.

Michael Pickett, Liberty, MO, received honorable mention as one of the top 100 out of 28,000 applicants in the 2007 Nikon College Photography Competition.

2006-2007 Bayer Stone Competition - First Place, Joshua Perez, Franklin Grove, IL; Second Place, Aaron Dyck, North Newton, KS; Third Place, Nicholas Whitney, Peabody, KS.

2006-2007 Bowman Design Forum - Honor Award, Daniel Gensch, Wichita; Merit Awards, Austin Marsh, Lenexa; T. J. Siemons, Creighton, MO; and Adam Wagoner, McPherson.

2007 Kansas City Architects, Designers, Dealers and Representatives (KCADDR) Regional Furniture Design Competition - Large Furniture, First Place, David Eichman, Anchorage, AK; Second Place, Michelle Keeven, St. Louis, MO; Third Place, Will Yankey, Springfield, IL; Fourth Place, Michael Slater, Olathe; Fifth Place, Will Yankey. Small Furniture, First Place, Kara Raasch, Lincoln, NE; Second Place, Heather Wise, Bucyrus; Third Place, Jill Nichols, Blair, NE.

2006-2007 CAPD Photography Competition - Black and White, First Place, Sarah Karlan, Topeka; Second Place, Troy Carlson, Topeka; Third Place, Eric Vossman, Lake Quivira. Exterior Architecture, First Place, Beth Naumann, Chesterfield, MO; Second Place, Andrew Barnes, Overland Park; Third Place, David Stauth, Wichita. Interiors and Architectural Details, First Place, Michael Slater, Olathe; Second Place, David Vogel, Manhattan; Third Place, Andrew Barnes. Landscape, Best in Show, Michael Pickett, Liberty, MO; Second Place, Andrew Billing, Wentzville, MO; Third Place, Subhojit Sinha, India. Creative and Other Subjects, First Place, Patrick Kost, Blue Springs, MO; Second Place, Katie Gall, Independence, MO; Third Place, Adam Hutschreider, Holts Summit, MO.

2006-2007 CAPD Rendering Competition - Freehand/Black and White, First Place, Carrie Bly, Waconia, MN; Second Place, Andrea Nelson, Smithville, MO; Honorable Mention, Aaron Baumgarden, UMKC; David Stauth, Wichita; Adam Teefey, Shawnee. Freehand/Color, First Place Christopher Schneider, St. Louis, MO; Second Place, Klara Ferdova, Czech Republic; Third Place, Andrea Nickisch, Parkville, MO; Honorable Mention, Katie Harms, Weatherby, MO. Mixed Media, First Place, Corey Schneider, Salina; Second Place, Nathaniel Smith, Lake St. Louis, MO; Third Place, Corey Schneider. Juror’s Choice, Michelle Keeven, St. Louis, MO; Corey Schneider; Dwain South, Stillwell; David Stauth; Rob Wiedemann, St. Louis, MO.

Tau Sigma Delta International Honor Society Initiates - Jeremy Anterola, Liberty, MO; Margaret Blair, Lenexa; Nadia El Tuhami, Omaha, NE; Trent Gareis, Sterling, CO; Peter Hystead, Duluth, MN; Jerald Kohrs, Kansas City; Abby Mann, Ellisville, MO; Lindsey Miller, Eden Prairie, MN; Julianne Rader, Leawood; Christie Samples, Kansas City, MO; Joseph Schlag, Bridgeton, MO; Kyle Sherwood, Tulsa, OK; Kathryn Steib, St. Louis, MO; Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO; Rebekah Udall, Colorado Springs, CO; Kevin Wade, Independence, MO; Heather Wise, Bucyrus; Mariann Wright, Kennett, MO; Philip Zevenberger, Manhattan.

D. Jonathon Seward has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in architecture at the University of Kansas.

Volunteer students and faculty participating in Freedom by Design, the community service initiative of the American Institute of Architecture Students, spent a spring weekend widening a doorway for an elderly Manhattan resident so she could enter her bathroom with her walker. They also replaced the bathroom subfloor, wall surface and flooring, and installed a new toilet and grab bars. This is the group’s fifth project since Freedom by Design was founded in 2004.

Editors of the 2006-2007 edition of OZ are Kyle Leiker, Andover, and Corey Schneider, Salina. Faculty advisors are Professors Todd Gabbard and Ray Streeter.

Their classmates selected Eric Abeln, Edwardsville, IL; Michelle Keeven, St. Louis, MO; and Monica Miller, Burdett, as student speakers at the May 2007 commencement ceremony. Lois Prochaska, Ada, along with her three siblings sang the national anthem at the ceremony.

Our National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) chapter was named chapter of the year and received fourth place in the student design competition at the 2006 NOMAS conference in San Francisco. Members also designed the Coretta Scott King Garden of Engagement to be built outside the southeast corner of K-State’s Ahearn Field House. Participating students in the garden project were John Anderson, St. Louis, MO; Jeremy Anterola, Liberty, MO; Andrew Bryant, Haysville; Shalece Charles, Kansas City; Jonathan Corbett, Valley Park, MO; Colette Hamilton, Kansas City, MO; Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Garden City; David Hildebrandt, Kansas City; LaQuita Jackson, Grandview, MO; LeCretia Morrison, Kansas City, MO; Clarence Oxendine, Springfield, MO; Karina Perez-Fajardo, Manhattan; John Schnure, Kirkwood, MO; Carmen Simon, Wichita; and Dwain South, Stillwell. Organization advisors are Professors Shani Chambers, Fayez Husseini and La Barbara Wigfall. Faculty assisting with the project were Professors Tony Barnes, Dick Hoag, Lee Skabelund, Sheri Smith, and Chip Winslow.

Students in the Product 2 class of interior architecture and product design explored the design of future executive aircraft in a project for Hawker Beechcraft Corporation of Wichita. Professors Allan Hastings and Steve Davidson directed the project.

One studio of fifth-year architecture students, led by Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates, generated urban design interventions as part of SLIM DOWNtown, a project to promote healthier lifesyles for citizens by making changes in an automobile-dominated, car-dependent culture. The ideas can be used in the downtown Manhattan redevelopment project, as well as redevelopment efforts in other Kansas towns.

Students in Professor James Middlebrook’s fourth-year architecture studio designed and built a structure to augment K-State’s entry in the 2007 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. this fall. The structure includes informational displays, seating, shade and lighting.

Work by students in Professor La Barbara Wigfall’s Community Planning and Design course were displayed in the Manhattan Public Library. The models were ideas for Manhattan’s downtown redevelopment project.

Fifth-year interior architecture students in Professor Fayez Husseini’s studio completed a project which involved creating designs for the new office building being planned by the KSU Foundation.

First-year students participated in field trips to Wichita as well as in Kansas City, where they joined in the annual pumpkin carving contest in Epperson House on the UMKC campus. Professors Lorn Clement and Chip Winslow led the annual landscape architecture field trip; this year’s destination was Boston. Professor Katrina Lewis led the annual interior architecture and product design field trip, with Chicago as the destination.

Students from our interior architecture and product design program designed and entered a tree in Manhattan’s 2006 Festival of Trees, a fund-raising project for local charity RSVP.

The K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students presented its 2006 Community Design Award to Rod Harms, B L Arch, 1982.

Students spent two Saturdays in April of 2007 participating in “Tulips on Troost” in Kansas City, MO. Helping Troost Avenue area residents plant tulip bulbs to beautiful their community were Celine Andersen, Harrisonville, MO; Scott Capps, Liberty, MO; Jonathan Corbett, Valley Park, MO; Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE; Mark Ruzicka, Springfield, MO; and Elise Young, Dexter, MO.

Faculty Achievements and Awards

Professor Lorraine Cutler has been named head of the Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design. She succeeds Professor Stephen Murphy, who is retiring after 39 years of service. Cutler’s appointment begins in July of 2007.

Professor Peter Magyar has been named head of the Department of Architecture; his appointment begins in August of 2007. He succeeds Professor David Sachs who served as interim head for nearly three years; Sachs is returning to full-time teaching.

Professor Sheri Smith received the 2007 McElwee Faculty Teaching Award.

Professor Carol Watts was named acting associate head of architecture. Her appointment runs through the 2007-2008 academic year.

Newly appointed tenure-track faculty beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year are Professors Donna Fullmer and Katrina Lewis, interior architecture and product design, and John Eck and Michael McGlynn, architecture.

Professor Tim Keane earned promotion to the rank of professor. He is currently involved in five funded research efforts. Two projects are in the greater Kansas City area and deal with flood reduction and water quality improvements. Three grants study sediment-nutrient dynamics and stream geomorphology in the watersheds of the Little Arkansas and the Black Vermillion rivers of Kansas. Funding for this work comes from municipal, county, state and federal sources.

Professors Dennis Day and Tim Keane were named Jarvis Chairs of Landscape Architecture.

Professor Gary Coates was named the inaugural Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair of Architecture. He presented the “Ecological and Sustainable Community: A Study of Kronsberg, Germany” at the International Conference on Sustainable Urbanism and “Structures of Wholeness: A Study of Carl Nyren’s Brahe School Library, Visingso, Sweden,” at EDRA 38: Building Sustainable Communities. The bioclimatic screened porch he designed for the Coates/Siepl-Coates residence was included in the book, On The Porch: Creating Your Place to Watch the World Go By, published by Taunton Press. He published the chapter, “Biotechnology and Regional Integration,” in Architecture and Regions by the Princeton Architectural Press. Finally, a description of Coates’ award-winning course, Environmental Systems in Architecture I, was included in Ecology and Design, published by the AIA Committee on the Environment.

Professor Wendy Ornelas, associate dean, received the Henry W. Schirmer Distinguished Service Award from the American Institute of Architects Kansas. She was also honored by Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society at the outstanding faculty member for 2006 in our college.

Professor Dan Donelin has been selected to become a Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Professor Neal Hubbell was named one of five exceptional interior design educators in the fall 2006 issue of Perspective, the journal of the International Interior Design Association.

Professor David Seamon published an article in Particip@tions, a British on-line communications journal. He presented papers at the International Human Science Research conference and at the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference. He organized a special session and presented a paper on architect Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order for the annual meetings of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy in Philadelphia.

Professor David Brown was interviewed about furniture design for K-State’s SHOW K-STATE, broadcast on Manhattan’s cable TV channel. He was invited to be a judge at the AWFSfair American student furniture design competition and asked by AWFSfair organizers to write a short essay on furniture design to be published in their upcoming book, Fresh Wood. Brown was also quoted in a series of three articles on buying furniture in the home section of the Sunday edition of the Kansas City Star.

Nominated as Professor of the Year by K-State Housing and Dining Services were Katrina Lewis and Brian Pelcak.

Professors Vicky Borchers and Todd Gabbard have achieved LEED certification. Gabbard also teaches a LEED class.

Projects by Professor Larry Bowne were featured in two episodes of HGTV’s “Small Space Big Style.” Bowne’s work was also featured in “The Expressive Line: Twelve Months of Drawing,” an exhibit in the Chang Gallery of Seaton Hall.

Professor James Jones is working on an illustrated book, The Painted Recipe. He also presented a one-person exhibit of watercolors in Wamego and Kansas City, was selected to be part of the master artists of the Kansas Governor’s Show and the Kansas Master Art Exhibition, and was a participant in a group show at the Manhattan Arts Center and the Strecker-Nelson Gallery. He was reappointed to the GSA National Peer Review for Design Excellence and is a grant reviewer for the Graham Foundation. Jones is also a consultant on the Rocky Ford Park and Development, was the designer for the renovation of the Jones and Sager residences, and is designing a new building in St. Helene, Honduras.

Professor La Barbara Wigfall was a faculty consultant for a KSU contingent that travelled to Senegal, Africa.

Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates presented the paper “Patterns of Place-Making: The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the International Conference on Sustainable Urbanism. Additionally, she will present a poster entitled “Reducing Obsecity Through Community Redevelopment” at the Fifth World Congress on Design and Health.

Professor Vladimir Krstic wrote a critical essay/book chapter, “Ryoji Suzuki: The Margines of Architecture or Architecture or Margines” in Experience in Material 49: Ryoji Suzuki Complete Works 1973-2007, by INAX Publishing.

Professor Katie Kingery-Page presented a poster titled, “Combining Human Comfort and Integrated Stormwater Management in the Designed Landscape,” at the Water and the Future of Kansas Conference.

Professor Jeff Head was a participant in a workshop that was part of the 14th annual meeting of the Congress for New Urbanism.

Professor Larry Lawhon surveyed 1,900 local governments in the U.S. on their use of development impact fees as a method of financing local government infrastructure. His research was undertaken with the International City Management Association (ICMA) and was follow-up research to that conducted with the ICMA in 2002. The results of the surveys from 2002 and 2007 were published in the ICMA Municipal Year Book 2007 and will be published in the American Planning Association (APA) Practicing Planner. Lawhon is a board member of the Professional Development Committee of the State of Kansas Chapter of the APA and is actively planning the State APA Chapter Annual Conference to be held in Manhattan in early September of 2007.

Professor Katrina Lewis presented “A Sequential Teaching Curriculum for Beginning Interior Architecture and Product Design Students” at the 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student. She also served as a guest critic at a graduate architecture mid-project thesis review at Savannah College of Arts and Design.

Professor Ray Weisenburger was appointed by Manhattan’s mayor to the City of Manhattan Core Downtown Redevelopment Committee. He also continues to serve as a member of the City of Manhattan Historic Resources Review Board, as a board member of the Kansas Preservation Alliance, and as a member and recent chairperson of the American Institute of Architects Kansas Historic Resources Committee. Lastly, he served as a consultant to Metropolitan Community College in Omaha in selecting design consultants and was a member of the ASLA accreditation team for the University of Connecticut.

Faculty who participated in the college’s annual faculty show were Professors Shani Chambers, Robert Condia, John Eck, Rick Forsyth, Allan Hastings, Fayez Husseini, James Jones, Katie Kingery-Page, Melanie Klein, James Middlebrook and La Barbara Wigfall.

Professor Stephanie Rolley was named student organization advisor of the year for her work with the KSU men’s crew team. Professor Fayez Husseini was also nominated as advisor of the Saudi Club.

Employment

Nearly 130 students got the chance to hone their interviewing skills with the help of representatives of 15 national architectural and industrial design firms who took part in our 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 our college’s career fair. A record-setting 135 employers registered to participate in two sessions of DesignExpo during the spring 2007 semester. The previous high was 113 participating firms in 2006. 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.

An astonishing 99 percent of 2005-2006 bachelor’s degree recipients were employed in their fields of study within a few months of graduation. “Not only do these statistics prove that our graduates are in high demand, but this fact is reinforced as I travel around the country and visit professional offices,” said Dennis L. Law, FASLA, dean of the college. “Firms are very excited about hiring our graduates because they possess the work ethic and design skills the firms are seeking,” Law said.

Tom Hollinberger, B Arch 1979, was named assistant director of K-State’s Career and Employment Services.

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 October 2007, where they will be displayed on the national mall and 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 last year; work continues this summer.

Afghanistan

K-State, on behalf of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (CAPD) and the College of Engineering, has signed a three-year, $3.2 million contract with the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education to strengthen the education of the faculty of engineering at Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan. K-State will participate in a variety of ways, including summer teaching at Kabul as well as on-line mentoring of Afghan faculty members. Professor Donald Watts is the architecture coordinator for the project. Among the K-State faculty traveling to Kabul during the summer of 2007 will be Professor Katrina Lewis, who will assist in the teaching of introductory design and sketching as well as advising.

At the end of the 2006-2007 school year, CAPD faculty and students contributed many books, equipment and supplies for use by architecture students at Kabul University. Through the generous help of the U.S. Army at Ft. Riley, over 100 boxes of materials will be shipped to Kabul University during the summer of 2007.

The Department of Architecture at Kabul University has nine faculty and 100 students in a five-year undergraduate program. Kabul University was originally constructed with U.S. assistance in the late 1950’s. During the early 1970’s, Kabul University enjoyed a reputation as one of the leading institutions of higher education in South Central Asia. Recovery from Russian occupation, a decade-long civil war and an impoverished Taliban regime has been an ongoing struggle beginning with a new Afghan government established in 2002. It is the goal of Kabul University to reestablish its world reputation by 2015. Our college is playing an important role in this long-term endeavor.

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Our existing architecture, interior architecture and product design, and landscape architecture bachelors’ degrees have changed to masters’ degrees. A new non-baccalaureate degree in regional and community planning, a new on-line master’s program in community development, as well as an interdisciplinary Ph.D. are being offered. Existing post-baccalaureate degrees in architecture, landscape architecture and regional and community planning continue. Visit our website for more information.

Our master of landscape architecture program ranked second, bachelor of landscape architecture program ranked third, bachelor of interior architecture/design ranked fourth, and bachelor of architecture ranked twelfth in the 2007 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 interior architecture received the maximum six-year reaccreditation from the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. The reaccreditation was extended to the master of interior architecture and product design program being implemented.

Our regional and community planning program will celebrate its 50th anniversary in early September of 2007.

To honor retiring long-time professor and department head Stephen Murphy, an existing workshop has been renamed the Stephen M. Murphy Interior Architecture and Product Design Furniture Design Workshop. Steve and his wife, Sylvia, have pledged $25,000 to establish a fund for the facility.

Our college maintains 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.

Professor Michael McNamara retired after 19 years of service. Professors Tony Chelz, Rick Forsyth, Carolyn Norris-Baker, Bob Page, Carolyn Thompson and Ray Weisenburger are transitioning via phased retirement.

Our college purchased memberships to the K-State Alumni Association for our 2005, 2006 and 2007 graduates.

Students in all three of the college’s degree-granting departments have the option of participating in course credit study abroad opportunities around the world, as well as in course credit/paid internships with professional offices across the U.S. and around the world. Their study abroad and internship projects are displayed in two exhibits in Seaton Hall every fall semester.

Faculty and students in the college participated in a live webcast entitled “The 2010 Imperative,” which discussed issues of global warming and energy conservation.

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 Finnish architect Mikko Heikkinen was the Victor L. Regnier Visiting Chair of the Department of Architecture during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Dereatha Cross was selected as our college’s Classified Employee of the Year.