Kudos to the Following CAPD Faculty and Students

To Cliff Shin, assistant professor of interior architecture and product design, who presented a paper at the Industrial Design Society of America International Conference in September in Miami. “Marrying Off Industrial Design” focused on how industries have been looking for a way to add more value and distinctive design to their products through collaboration.

To Miriam Neet, assistant professor of architecture, for being selected as one of 15 other KSU faculty to travel to India in January 2010 to help develop a secondary major in South Asian Studies for undergraduate students.

To Larry Bowne, associate professor of architecture, who was recently honored by Mortar Board senior academic honor society as CAPD’s outstanding faculty for 2009. The award goes to someone who Mortar Board believes exemplifies scholarship, leadership and service.

To Todd Gabbard, assistant professor of architecture; Jessica Canfield, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning; Blake Belanger, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning; Katie Kingery-Page, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning; and Melanie Klein, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning. Their applications were recently selected to receive USRG or FDA grants from KSU.

To the following students who placed in the recently concluded 35th Annual Student Photography Competition sponsored by the Union Program Council: Ashley Johnson, landscape architecture, first place for “Venice, California;” Nicholas Whitney, architecture, honorable mention for “Tears of Joy;” Harrison Staab, architecture, honorable mention for “Friendship’s Touch;” and John Vesel, architecture, honorable mentions for “Flag of Greece” and “The Spire of Dublin.” CAPD students took five of the 13 awards; there were 127 entries by 51 artists.