2009-2010 In Review

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2010 Commencement/End-of-Year Scholarships/Awards/Prizes

Department of Architecture - The Heintzelman Prize, named after long-time professor J. Cranson Heintzelman, is given for excellence in design during the final semester of study:  Joshua Perez, Ashton, IL; Heintzelman Honorable Mention:  Mitchell Karr, Newton, KS, and Bradley Price, Blue Springs, MO; Heintzelman nominees:  Andrew Barnes, Overland Park, KS; the team of Rachel Duncan, Dardenne Prairie, MO, Allison Gould, Hutchinson, KS, Janelle Heideman, Topeka, KS, and Shannon Williams, Olathe, KS; Amanda Garbach, Overland Park, KS; Thomas Haller, Leavenworth, KS; and Samuel McGlone, San Antonio, TX. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal goes to the student with the highest grade point average: Paul Folger, Derby, KS. The AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Excellence goes to the student with the second highest grade point average:  Joshua Perez.  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:  Joshua Perez. 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:  Jared Sang, House Springs, MO.  The John Helm Award, honoring this long-time K-State artist and educator, is given to the Master of Science in Architecture degree recipient who demonstrated outstanding performance in course work, leadership and service, and has completed an outstanding thesis or final project:  Jose Abraham, India.

Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design - The Eugene McGraw Scholastic Award is presented to the student with the highest grade point average:  Sara Ege, Kingwood, TX. The James Dubois Outstanding Graduating Student Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers:  Matthew Johnson, Newton, KS.  The Student Leadership Award is presented for outstanding contributions performed for the betterment of the department:  Matthew Johnson.  The Outstanding Furniture Design Award is presented for the outstanding project and overall performance in furniture design: Andrea Nelson, Smithville, MO.  The Outstanding Product Design Award is presented for the outstanding project and overall performance in product design: Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO. The Jack C. Durgan Interior Architecture Award is presented to the outstanding overall designer who best demonstrates understanding of the synthesis of specializations within the design curriculum by his/her standard of excellence and innovation in design solutions:  Allison Seyler, Omaha, NE.

Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning - The Master of Landscape Architecture Outstanding Graduate Award is given for academic performance and contributions to the college, program and peers:  Michael Weber, Meriden, ID. The Master of Landscape Architecture Quinlan Award is given in recognition of academic advancement in the study of landscape architecture:  Amanda White, Topeka, KS (non-baccalaureate); Andrew Schaap, Abilene, KS (post-baccalaureate). The Outstanding Graduate Research Award for significance, quality and scope of research efforts:  Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE. The Dr. Robert P. Ealy Award, honoring the first department head of landscape architecture at K-State, recognizes academic excellence based upon scholarly endeavors:  Christie Murman. The Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar, named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, recognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are willing to engage current and critical issues through the use of ideas, influence, communication, service and leadership, thus advancing sustainable planning and design and fostering human and societal benefits:  Elise Hubbard, Dexter, MO. The American Society of Landscape Architects Competition 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:  Certificates of Honor, Elise Hubbard, Christie Murman; Certificates of Merit, Michael Weber and Jane Winslow, Manhattan, KS. The American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award in regional and community planning is given at each National American Planning Association accredited program to recognize academic performance, contribution of leadership, participation in planning activities and professional promise:  Philip Zevenbergen, Arvada, CO. The Leland R. Edmonds Outstanding Research Award honors this long-time planning faculty member and is awarded to a graduate student in planning based on a student’s proposal for his/her master’s report or thesis:  Shannon Williams, Olathe, KS.

More News

Academic programs in the K-State College of Architecture, Planning and Design were ranked as follows in the 2010 nation-wide survey of leading firms across the United States:
    * bachelor of interior architecture/design programs – third;
    * master of interior architecture/design program – seventh;
    * bachelor of landscape architecture program – third;
    * master of landscape architecture program – fourth;
    * bachelor of architecture program – sixth; and
    * master of architecture program – sixteenth
The survey is conducted by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council, with the Almanac of Architecture and Design, and asks firms to name the accredited schools that have produced graduates most prepared for professional practice. K-State’s programs in landscape architecture and interior architecture/design have continually ranked in the top eight of the survey. This is the ninth time the K-State architecture program has been in the ranking. The study has been conducted during the past 11 years for architecture and interior architecture/design, and the past six years for landscape architecture.

Our Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design degree was accredited for five years by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

Our Master of Landscape Architecture degree was successfully reaccredited through 2015 by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board.

Christopher Sass, St. Marys, KS, is the first student to receive a PhD from the College of Architecture, Planning and Design. Major professor was Tim Keane.

Students seeking careers in the design disciplines get the chance to meet with prospective employers at DesignExpo, the college’s career fair. Participating employers offer full-time employment as well as summer and other internship opportunities, and also visit with students who wish to learn more about the design disciplines. This was the tenth consecutive year of this highly successful event. Our students can also prepare for employment through participation in a series of portfolio and resume workshops and information sessions, as well as mock interviews.

Students in our degree-granting programs can participate for course credit in paid internships with professional offices across the U.S. and around the world, as well as in study abroad opportunities in a number of countries. An academic internship exhibit and a study abroad exhibit that showcase projects done by participating students during their time away from campus are held in Seaton Hall every fall semester.

Internationally renowned Scottish architect and educator Alan Dunlop was the Victor L. Regnier Visiting Chair in the
Department of Architecture during the 2009-2010 academic year. Past Chairs are Alfred Jacoby (Germany), Hiroshi Hara (Japan), Alberto Campo Baeza (Spain), Mikko Heikkinen (Finland) and Miguel Angel Roca (Argentina).

The College of Architecture, Planning and Design maintains membership in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).  The USGBC promotes buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.

The college purchases memberships to the K-State Alumni Association for our graduates.

Jody Fronce was selected as our college’s Classified Employee of the Year.

Two 2009 landscape architecture alumni received awards for their master’s projects and reports at the April 2010 Central States American Society of Landscape Architects meeting. Ian Scherling, Goodland, KS, received an Honor Award for “Dynamism at Palestra Green.” Major professor was Chip Winslow. Robin Banks Fordyce, Liberty, MO, received a Merit Award for “Native Reverberation:  Artistic Acoustics for the Outdoor Stage on the Castle Creek Campus.” Major professor was Katie Kingery-Page.

Our first ever on-line Master of Science in Community Development was awarded to Cheryl Fisher, Topeka, KS. Major professors were Al Keithley and Sheri Smith.

The final Master of Arts in Environmental Planning and Management was awarded to Arnold Weir, Alma, KS. Major professor was Lee Skabelund.

Returning students enrolled in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design give of their time to serve as ambassadors for our college as well as mentors to newly enrolled students. On the Sunday evening prior to the first day of the fall semester, approximately 150 current students attend an annual ambassador and mentor training session. They are then paired and meet with groups of new students to help the new students understand what to expect and the time commitment required to be successful in the very demanding curricula of architecture, interior architecture and product design, landscape architecture, and regional and community planning. The CAPD ambassador and mentor program is organized by CAPD Student Services and directed by Susan Lannou, Director of Student Recruitment.

A PechaKucha for graduating students to exhibit their work was hosted by the American Institute of Architecture Students and the American Institute of Architects Flint Hills. Graduating interior architecture and product design students showed their thesis furniture projects in downtown Manhattan as well as in Seaton Courtyard.

Landscape architecture and regional and community planning faculty and students hosted Design Week, a five-day charrette, last fall. Over 170 people worked with principals of Design Workshop, an internationally recognized planning and design firm, to develop proposals for the future of Manhattan, KS. Inspired by anticipated growth due to Ft. Riley expansion and the construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, students conceptualized future plans for our community.

The K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) has an active group of participants in Freedom by Design, a community service initiative. Activities include designing and constructing wheelchair ramps and widening doorways in residences occupied by disabled, low-income individuals.

Emeritus Professor Vernon Deines passed away. He served as department head of planning for nearly 20 years and taught here for more than 30 years.

Student Accomplishments

Matt Johnson, Shawnee, KS, received first place in the student category of the 2010 Cooper Lighting SOURCE Awards National Lighting Design Competition.  Major professor was Neal Hubbell.

Seven CAPD graduate students submitted abstracts that were accepted for poster presentations at this year’s K-State Research Forum. Submissions by two of the students, Kala Ade, Bennington, KS, and Christopher Sass, St. Marys, KS, were competitively selected to join other graduate students from K-State, Wichita State University and the University of Kansas to present the poster about their research at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka. Timed to coincide with the Board of Regents’ March meeting, the presenters had the opportunity to meet with state legislators, the governor and members of the Board of Regents. The submission of Joshua Winter, Westbrook, MN, received third place in the K-State Research Forum. Other students submitting posters for the K-State Research Forum were Andrew Barnes, Overland Park, KS; Laura Herron, Hesston, KS; Sean Rigdon, Nixa, MO; and Zachary Wester, St. Louis, MO. Major professors were Tim Keane (for Sass) and Susanne Siepl-Coates.

Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE, received K-State’s 2010 Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Student Medal for Excellence in Architecture. Other nominees included Joshua Winter, Westbrook, MN; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; and Amy Dvorak, Baileyville, KS. There was one nominee from each of our four disciplines.

Ross McCoy (M IAPD 2009); Matthew Ovel, Mission Hills, KS; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; and Colin Carlson, O’Fallon, MO, have been selected as finalists for the upcoming 2010 International Woodworker’s Fair Design Emphasis competition. The finals of the competition will be held in August in Atlanta. Major professors are David Brown, Steve Davidson and Rod Troyer.

Jared Sang, House Springs, MO, was elected to a one-year term as Midwest Quad Director of the American Institute of Architecture Students. In that role, he sits on the Board of Directors of one of the five governing bodies of architecture.

Lauren Sanderson, Leavenworth, KS, received the National American Institute of Architects Scholarship.

Alex Callow, Graham, MO; Lauren Sanderson, Leavenworth, KS; and Kelsey Vusich, Overland Park, KS, each received a Kansas City Architectural Foundation Scholarship.

Jeffrey Snyder, Valley Center, KS, received an American Institute of Architects Kansas Scholarship.

Jason Ragan, Wichita, KS, received an American Institute of Architects Wichita Scholarship.

Ian Orlando, St. Louis, MO, received an American Institute of Architects St. Louis Scholarship.

Maria Deters, Topeka, KS, received an American Institute of Architects Topeka Scholarship.

Stephanie Pile, Centennial, CO, received the 2009 John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship.

Savanna Nightengale, Copeland, KS, was a finalist in the College Photography Contest sponsored by Photographer’s Forum magazine. Her entry was included in the book, Best of College Photography 2010.

CAPD students placed as follows in the 35th Annual Student Photography Competition sponsored by the K-State Union Program Council:  First Place, Ashley Johnson, Lawrence, KS; Honorable Mention, Nicholas Whitney, Peabody, KS; Honorable Mention, Harrison Staab, Papillion, NE; Honorable Mention, John Vesel, Olathe, KS. CAPD students took 5 of the 13 awards; there were 127 entries by 51 artists.

Lindsay Whitehead, Katy, TX, passed the LEED Green Associate test.

A photograph by Amanda Prosser, Topeka, KS, was chosen for the cover of the spring 2010 cover of Touchstone, K-State’s literary arts journal.

Their classmates selected Aaron Dyck, North Newton, KS; Mary Burgess, Arcadia, MO; Jesse Benedick, Beloit, KS; and Phillip Zevenbergen, Arvada, CO, as student speakers at the May 2010 commencement ceremony. 

May 2010 Degree Candidates and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Members - Paul Folger, Derby, KS; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE; Jane Winslow, Manhattan, KS. Phi Kappa Phi Initiates and Members - Kirby Barrett, Winona, KS; Annamarie Bliss, Warrensburg, MO; Kirk Chonis, Parkville, MO; Scott Davis, El Dorado, KS; Elise Fagan, Aurora, CO; Mark Holton, St. Louis, MO; Heidi Hyland, Saginaw, MI; Thomas Jones, Wichita, KS; Natalie Martell, Lee’s Summit, MO; Victoria McKennan, Ft. Collins, CO; Elizabeth Musoke, Nairobi, Kenya; Alyssa Parsons, Manhattan, KS; Adriana Perrone, St. Charles, MO; Dylan Powell, Ashland, MO; Jeremy Sautter, Tucson, AZ; Brooke Swercinski, Overland Park, KS; Erin Switzer, Alpharetta, GA. Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society dedicated to the unity and democracy of education; membership is open to students from all disciplines who are in the top 10 percent of their class.

May 2010 Degree Candidates and Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and the Allied Arts Members - Andrew Barnes, Overland Park, KS; Mary Burgess, Arcadia, MO; Maria Deters, Topeka, KS; Rachel Duncan, Dardenne, MO; Amy Dvorak, Baileyville, KS; Sara Ege, Kingwood, TX; Allison Gould, Hutchinson, KS; Stacy Griffin, Stilwell, KS; Eric Heany, Shawnee, KS; Laura Herron, Hesston, KS; Stephen Lachky, Leawood, KS; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE; Molly Page, Wichita, KS; Stephanie Pile, Centennial, CO; Meghan Wilson, Swansea, IL; Amanda White, Osawatomie, KS; Shannon Williams, Olathe, KS; Philip Zevenbergen, Arvada, CO. Tau Sigma Delta Initiates and Members - Cody Bird, Auburn, KS; Annamarie Bliss, Warrensburg, MO; Tiffany Cartwright, Nevada, MO; Kirk Chonis, Parkville, MO; Christopher Curtis, Great Bend, KS; Kaitlin Holle, Lebanon, IL; Heidi Hyland, Saginaw, MI; Paul Jarvis, Manchester, MO; Megan McFarland, Paola, KS; Victoria McKennan, Ft. Collins, CO; Amanda Phelps, Sandy, UT; Dylan Powell, Ashland, MO; Jason Ragan, Wichita, KS; Kyle Rogler, Olathe, KS; Kyle Ward, Hutchinson, KS.

May 2010 Degree Candidates and Sigma Lambda Alpha International Landscape Architecture Honor Society Members - Elise Hubbard, Dexter, MO; Christie Murman, Glenvil, NE; Christopher Sass, St. Marys, KS; Andrew Schaap, Abilene, KS; Michael Weber, Meriden, ID; Amanda White, Osawatomie, KS; Jane Winslow, Manhattan, KS.

2010 Kansas City Architects, Designers, Dealers and Representatives Regional Student Design Competition - Large Furniture, First Place, Sally Ebright, Lyons, KS; Second Place, Andrea Nelson, Smithville, MO; Third Place, Paul Jarvis, Manchester, MO. Small Furnishings, First Place, Cara Cotter, Wichita, KS; Second Place, Jordan Kuhlmann, St. Louis, MO; Third Place, Sara Norman, Lenexa, KS; Fourth Place, Megan Pfau, Shawnee Mission, KS. Architecture, First Place, Rachel Lehr, Harlan, IA.

2009-2010 Answers Inc. and Thomas A. Tyler CAPD Student Architectural and Environmental Photography Competition:  Black and White, First Place, Darcy McDonough, Lee’s Summit, MO; Second Place, Nicholas Whitney, Peabody, KS; Third Place (two given), Eric Polt, St. Louis, MO; Matt Shepard, Plattsburg, MO. Creative and Other Subject Matter, First Place (two given), Kirk Chonis, Parkville, MO; Harrison Staab, Papillion, NE. Exterior Architecture,  First Place, Matt Shepard; Second Place, Jordan Lohfink, Holcomb, KS; Third Place, Andrea Nelson, Smithville, MO; Honorable Mention, Ryan Collier, Wichita, KS. Interiors and Architectural Details:  First Place - Darcy McDonough, Lee’s Summit, MO; Second Place - Lindsay Whitehead, Katy, TX; Third Place, Lindsay Whitehead. Landscape, First Place, Jane Winslow, Manhattan, KS; Second Place, Rachel Lehr, Harlan, IA; Third Place, Ashley Johnson, Lawrence, KS.

2009-2010 Annual CAPD Student Rendering Competition:  Freehand Black and White, First Place (two given), Brian Ide, Barnhart, MO; Kyle Tinsmon, Wichita, KS; Second Place, Lana Keltner, Overland Park, KS; Third Place, Tanya Jana, Lee’s Summit, MO; Honorable Mention, Samantha McCloud, Prairie Village, KS. Freehand Color:  First Place, Brad Price, Kansas City, MO; Second Place, Maria Deters, Topeka, KS; Honorable Mention (three given), Osamah Alhamdan, Saudi Arabia; Brad Price; Lindsay Whitehead, Katy, TX. Computer:  First Place, Stephanie Pile, Centennial, CO; Second Place,  Jeff Schober, Overland Park, KS; Third Place, Jacob Campbell, Derby, KS. Mixed Media:  First Place, Andrea Nelson, Smithville, MO; Honorable Mention, Jordan Lohfink, Holcomb, KS.

The following students were inducted into Golden Key academic honor society:  Annamarie Bliss, Warrensburg, MO; Scott Davis, El Dorado, KS; Anne Hundley, Leawood, KS; Samuel Nitcher, Lawrence, KS; Kyle Rogler, Olathe, KS; and Erin Switzer; Alpharetta, GA.

Jennifer Engelke, Verona, WI, was inducted in Mortar Board Senior Honor Society.

Editors of the 2009-2010 edition of OZ, the award-winning journal produced by CAPD students, are Sam Bowling, Cockeysville, MD, and Joshua Jewett, Derby, KS. Faculty advisors are Associate Professor Ray Streeter and Assistant Professor R. Todd Gabbard.

2009-2010 Bowman Design Forum Awards - First Place (two given), Jacob Campbell, Derby, KS; Kevin Stiegler, Kansas City, MO. Finalists, Scott Gibson, Englewood, CO; Adam Reilly, Topeka, KS; Nick Young, Belton, MO. Sponsored by alumnus Brent Bowman, the annual Bowman Design Forum brings internationally acclaimed architects to campus to discuss third-year work by our architecture students.

The following nontraditional students were inducted into K-State’s chapter of the Pinnacle Honor Society:  Lisa Campbell, Manhattan, KS; Allen Eckhart, Torrington, CT; and Stephan Uffman, St. Ann, MO. Student members must have achieved a GPA of 3.0 or higher, be of junior standing and have demonstrated leadership, persistence and future promise.

Student participants during the 2009-2010 academic year in the Kansas City Design Center (KCDC) were Erica Besler, Evergreen, CO; Rachel Duncan, Dardenne Prairie, MO; Paul Folger, Derby, KS; Allison Gould, Hutchinson, KS; Janelle Heideman, Topeka, KS; Steven Holt, Highland, KS; Amy Kinderknecht, Sheldon, IA; and Shannon Williams, Olathe, KS. The KCDC is an interdisciplinary, inter-university urban design/research studio whose mission is to be the agent of public discourse in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Architecture students from the University of Kansas also participate. Professor Vladimir Krstic was the studio instructor.

Subhojit Sinha, India, received a Rotary International Student Scholarship from the Konza Rotary.

Erin Switzer, Alpharetta, GA, received a 2010 Telefund grand prize scholarship.

Sara Ege, Kingwood, TX, was selected as a Study Abroad Student of the Month by the K-State Study Abroad Office.

Christa Bowman, Plymouth, MN, competed in the eight-person varsity boat of the K-State rowing team.

Wendy Wert, Pacific, MO, was a member of the K-State equestrian team.

Student members of our National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) chapter have played an important role in the development of the Coretta Scott King Gardens of Engagement to be located on the K-State campus.

Joshua Perez, Ashton, IL, is the creator of Unite By Design, a non-profit student organization, whose purpose is to unite students and professionals not just from the architectural field but from many areas of study in order to find innovative ideas to assist those in need. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti during January 2010 was the impetus for the group.

Sally Ebright, Lyons, KS, designed and built “Henny” and “Penny,” chicken-shaped ottomans, as her fifth-year interior architecture and product design project. Her creations were accepted in this summer’s New York International Gift Fair and also exhibited in the Hutchinson (KS) Art Fair where they received the Marvel Senti Student Award.

Meg Wilson, Swansea, IL, meshed her love of dance with her equally strong feelings for design in the capstone project required to complete her Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design. She invented a freestanding piece of equipment called a tap barre that helps tap dancers hold themselves up long enough to slow down advanced movements, something that makes teaching complicated dance moves to students easier.

Faculty Achievements and Awards

Assistant Professor R. Todd Gabbard was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor with reappointment for 2010-2011.

Associate Professor La Barbara Wigfall received a 2010 Commerce Bank Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Professor Wendy Ornelas is serving a one-year term as president of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). She also attended the annual conferences of the American Institute of Architecture Students in Minneapolis, MN, and the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture in New Orleans, LA. She was invited by the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, to speak about “Envisioning A Path to the Future Through the Lens of the Academy” for the 100th anniversary of their architecture program. She chaired a panel discussion at the American Institute of Architects Central States conference Diversity Committee’s roundtable discussion.

Professor Ray Weisenburger received the 2010 Muriel Golobay Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kansas Preservation Alliance.

Associate Professor Larry Bowne was 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.

Assistant Professors R. Todd Gabbard, Jessica Canfield, Blake Belanger, Jon Hunt, Katie Kingery-Page and Melanie Klein received USRG or FDA grants from KSU.

Assistant Professor Ulf Meyer was a master speaker and presented “Sustainable Architecture” at Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix, AZ. He presented “Why Should We Care?  The Bauhaus Legacy of the Gesamtkunstwerk” at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was an invited symposium panelist at SEAM2009 sponsored by Critical Path, a choreographic research and development center in Sydney, Australia. He was invited to deliver “Cities of the Pacific Century,” a lecture on Asian mega-cities, at the Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO. He was invited by the BMW Foundation to join their Young Leaders Forum during the World Exposition in Shanghai, China. Professor Meyer will be on leave during the fall 2010 semester as he accepted an invitation to become the Hyde Chair of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Associate Professor Mick Charney presented “Every Book Should Contain Its Own Counterbook:  Using Texts and Countertexts to Help Students Meet the Goals of General Education,” at the ninth annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, Traverse City, MI. He presented “The Day Frank Lloyd Wright Came to Town” at the Community Christian Church (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) in Kansas City, MO. He presented “Decoding Disney:  How to Translate Imagineering Tricks into Teaching Strategies” and chaired the session “Visual Arts” at the 8th annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, HI. He has been named coordinator of the K-State Faculty Exchange for Teaching Excellence for a two-year term.

Assistant Professor Donna Fullmer is authoring a series of four books geared to the first year of study in design. To be published by Fairchild Books as part of the VITAL series, the books will be entitled Design Basics, Drafting Basics, 3D Design Basics and Presentation Basics.

Assistant Professor Jon Hunt and PhD student Jeremy Merrill were selected to present “Tying Down Making Real:  Land Art and Foundational Graphics Course” at the American Institute of Graphic Artists in Toledo, OH.

Professor Peter Magyar has been elected as a full member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). His latest book, THINKINK, is being published by Kendall Hunt Publishers. Magyar has been appointed as an advisor to the graduate program of the Dessau Institute of Architecture at the Bauhaus, Germany.

Assistant Professor Lee Skabelund and Associate Professor La Barbara Wigfall were awarded funding to complete the West Meadows Long-Range Planting/Landscape Plan.

Professor David Sachs presented “Hays Town’s Mississippi” at the annual conference of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians in Jackson, MS, and a lecture entitled “Remembering Mr. Town” sponsored by the Texas Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture at the University of Houston. He wrote four book reviews for Choice, the American Library Association’s scholarship journal. Sachs served as secretary for the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, architectural historian for the Kansas State Historic Sites Board of Review, and chair of the Kansas Historic Trust Fund Grants Review Committee.

Assistant Professor Steve Davidson was invited to be a juror at the 2009 BraunPrize Forum, an internationally renowned design competition for young industrial designers, in Kronberg, Germany.

Professor Robert Condia exhibited “Not Simply Every Sunset Over Eden” in Seaton Hall’s Chang Gallery. He also published a book by the same name.

Professor Chip Winslow serves as the Trustee of the Prairie Gateway Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He was also selected to present “Water Conservation Policy:  An Evaluation of Landscape Water Regulations” with Joseph Schneider (M LAR 2009) at the WaterSmart Innovations conference in Las Vegas, NV.

Professor Dick Hoag (with Professor David Smit, Department of English) presented “Genre and Transfer in the Writing of Designers” at the 26th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Charlotte, NC.

Professor and dean Tim de Noble was part of the panel discussion “Schumacher’s Influence on Teaching Architectural History/Theory and the Design Studio,” at a symposium honoring the life and career of Thomas L. Schumacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Residences de Noble designed as part of deMx Architecture have been published in the April issues of AY Magazine and Northwest Arkansas CitiScapes.

Assistant Professor Richard Gnat presented a peer reviewed paper, “Being Bold:  Rethinking Mid-Rise Apartment Building Design by Combining Apartment Planning Strategies from 1909 and Elevator Technology from 2009,” at the American Institute of Architects Illinois annual meeting and academic symposium. He presented a blind peer reviewed paper entitled “The Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building:  A Sustainable Model Type” at the 98th ACSA Annual Meeting:  RE building held in New Orleans, LA. He led a student field trip to Chicago to visit a studio project site and firm offices, as well as to Kansas City for a working drawing critique attended by 10 architects from the sponsoring firm.

Assistant Professors Miriam Neet and Richard Gnat were among a group of KSU faculty who traveled to India to explore joint ventures with Indian universities. Neet received funding for the travel from a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Assistant Professor Miriam Neet presented “Course Development - Merging of Old and New:  Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century” at the American Institute of Architects Illinois annual meeting and academic symposium. She also led student field trips to Kansas City to visit Zahner Metal and to Endicott, NE, to tour Endicott Clay Products’ brick-making facility.

Assistant Professor Katie Kingery-Page led a special landscape and art studio. Students worked with Vermont artist-in-residence Dan Snow to design and construct a dry stack stone sculpture on the grounds of the Beach Museum of Art on the K-State campus. The work was supported by a $4,000 matching funds grant. Kingery-Page has been invited to present, “A Grassroots Effort to Renew the Schoolyard:  the Learning Garden” at the International Making Cities Livable Congress.

Assistant Professors Katie Kingery-Page, Howard Hahn, Lee Skabelund and Professor Chip Winslow have obtained $12,000 in sponsored research funds to support work by their students for Green Infrastructure at Forbes Field, Topeka, KS.

Assistant Professor Lee Skabelund received the 2009 Community Service Award from the K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students. He was chosen for this award because of his recent work in moving Manhattan in a “sustainable” direction. Skabelund was the project coordinator, co-designer and photographer for the K-State International Student Center Rain-Garden; project coordinator for a new rain-garden at Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo; and collaborator (with Assistant Professor Todd Gabbard) of a 15 foot by 20 foot experimental “green” roof installed over a third-floor breezeway in the west wing of K-State’s Seaton Hall.

Assistant Professor Lee Skabelund presented “Interweaving Ecosystem Restoration and Ecological Design” at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Chicago, IL. He also was selected to present “Erasing Boundaries, Supporting Communities Protecting Ecosystems: The Kansas State University Stormwater Management Project” at the US-IALE 2009 in Snowbird, UT, and “Creating Sustainable Landscapes by Interweaving Ecosystem Restoration and Ecological Design” at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annual meeting in Chicago, IL. Professor Skabelund shared his expertise on rain-gardens through “Urban Water Quality Issues:  Recommendations for Creating and Planting Rain-Gardens in North Central Kansas,” Clay County Conservation District Rain-Garden Workshop; “Maintaining Rain-Gardens:  Lessons Learned from Kansas State University,” KSU Engineering Extension Webinar; and “Lessons Learned from Rain-Garden Design, Implementation and Maintenance Efforts by Kansas State University Faculty and Students” at an EPA/Mid-America Regional Council conference.

Assistant Professor Lance Klein had “A Phenomenological Interpretation of Biomimicry in Sustainable Design” published in the conference proceedings for the 43rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, University of Tasmania. The conference theme was Performative Ecologies in the Built Environment:  Sustainability Research Across Disciplines.

Professors Carol and Don Watts created a blog while teaching the CAPD Study Abroad semester in Orvieto, Italy. The blogsite is http://ksuorvieto2010.wordpress.com/

Presenting posters at the 2010 Kansas State University Sustainability Conference were Associate Professor La Barbara Wigfall, “Environmental Ethics for Upward Bound Math-Science Program;” Assistant Professor Lee Skabelund, “Kansas State University Seaton Hall Green Roof Demonstration and Research Project;” and Assistant Professor Michael McGlynn, “Reading and Writing Sustainable Architecture:  Outcomes of a Graduate Seminar.”

These faculty presented papers at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)/ISOMUL Conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands:  Assistant Professor Melanie Klein, “Recovering with Green Infrastructure:  Greensburg, Kansas as Global Example;” Assistant Professor Blake Belanger, “Habits of Thought:  Approaching Landscape Architectural Practice in a Complex Nonlinear World” and “Visualizing Complexity:  Nonlinear Relations and Photo Montage;” Assistant Professor Katie Kingery-Page, “Landscape and Contemporary Art;” Assistant Professor Jessica Canfield, “Down to the Last Drop:  Rainwater-Harvesting Practices in India.” Their travel was supported with Kansas State University President’s Faculty Development Awards of $1,500 each.

Associate Professor Eric Bernard published “Data Model for System Conceptualization in Groundwater Studies” with Yang, X., Steward, D. R., de Lange, W. J., Lauwo, S. Y., and Chubb, R. M. in the International Journal of Geographic Information Science. He received National Science Foundation funding for development of a Unified Map Service and USDA ARS-OAP Collaborative Research:  Geographic Information Science.

Professor Dennis Law took a sabbatical leave during fall 2009 to research enduring urban forms.

Retiring at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year were Professor Al Keithley, landscape architecture/regional and community planning, and staff member Maureen Herspring. Retiring during the summer of 2009 was Associate Professor Vicky Borchers, interior architecture and product design.

Associate Professor Eric Bernard presented “Climate Change and Water Resource Systems in Kansas:  Desired Feature?,” Water Issues Forum:  Water and Climate, Kansas Water Office, Sedgwick County Extension Education Center, Wichita, KS; and “Research and Information Needs in Addressing Sedimentation and Eutrophication of Reservoirs in the Context of Climate Change, From Dust Bowl to Mud Bowl:  Sedimentation, Conservation Measures and the Future of Reservoirs.” He co-authored “Data Model for System Conceptualization in Groundwater Studies,” International Journal of GIS. He was a co-principal investigator on $1,585,366 of research projects at K-State funded by the National Science Foundation and the USDA studying landscape changes in the High Plains Ogallala Aquifer Region. The team’s work is highlighted on the National Science Foundation website. Students in Bernard’s LAR 704 Environmental Landscape Planning and Design studio researched and developed land use plans and designs for alternative futures for Port au Prince, Haiti.

The USDA CREES-KCARE fall 2009 conference featured the work of Associate Professor Eric Bernard, “Research and Information Needs in Addressing Sedimentation and Eutrophication of Reservoirs in the Context of Climate Change” and Professor Tim Keane, “Quantification of In-Channel Sediment Contributions, Central and Eastern Kansas.”

Assistant Professor Nathan Howe presented “Digital Fabrication - Works of Art,” a poster at the 2009 Southeast ACSA Conference:  SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design. Howe has also been invited to jury the international competition d3 Natural Systems 2010 competition, which invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

Associate Professor Larry Lawhon published “The Neighborhood Unit:  Physical Design or Physical Determinism” in the Journal of Planning History. He will be presenting “Loveland, Colorado, Case Study:  A Twenty-Five Year Experiment in Development Impact Fees” at the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Minneapolis, MN.

Assistant Professor Huston Gibson will be presenting “Foreclosure Resale Market and the Implications on Affordable Housing Provision,” at the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Minneapolis, MN.

Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates presented “Fighting Obesity with Patterns of Place-Making:  The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the 47th International Making Cities Livable Conference in Portland, OR. She presented “Pattern Language Re-Visited:  The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 40 Conference in Kansas City, MO. She was an invited panelist on the topic “Planning for Healthy Communities” at the conference of the Kansas Chapter of the American Planning Association, Wichita, KS. During summer 2009, she conducted a ten-day study at the Palliative Care Center at the Georg-August University Hospital in Göttingen, Germany to investigate user perceptions on the role of the unit’s architecture. She presented “The Palliative Care Unit at the University Hospital in Göttingen, Germany: A Place of Healing” at Healthcare Design 09 Conference, Orlando, FL. She also published articles about the Göttingen Palliative Care Center in Healthcare Design Magazine and in a special issue on “Architecture, Culture and Spirituality” of the Dubai-based  2A - Architecture & Art magazine.

Associate Professor Lorn Clement and Assistant Professor Ellen Urton, Hale Library, were selected to present “The Space Between:  A Wiki for Landscape Architecture History and Theory” at the 26th Annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Charlotte, NC.

Associate Professor Lorn Clement received a K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development grant to assist Rawlins County (KS) Elementary School with site design.

The Planning Methods class of Professor Al Keithley completed Socio Economic Profiles of four Kansas communities:  Dodge City, Great Bend, Liberal and Ottawa. The Community Plan Preparation Class taught by Professor John Keller completed a comprehensive plan for Junction City, KS.

Professor David Seamon published, with geography doctoral student Jacob Sowers, “Existentialism/Existential Geography,” in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He organized sessions and presented papers at the annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) conference held in Washington, DC, and the annual conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy held in Arlington, VA. He presented “Entwining People and Place: Merleau-Ponty’s ‘Body-Subject’ Extended in Space and Time” at the international conference, “Flesh and Space: Intertwining Merleau-Ponty and Architecture,” held at the School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. Seamon is editor of the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, which celebrated its twentieth year of publication in 2009.

Assistant Professors Blake Belanger and Jason Brody were selected to present “Critical Mapping:  Agency and Structure in Landscape Architecture Studio” at the Fourth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Chicago, IL.

Assistant Professor Blake Belanger was selected to present “Deciphering, Framing, Scripting, Stewardship:  Landscape Architectural Practice in a Complex Nonlinear World” at X-Larch III Landscape-Great Ideal Conference in Vienna, Austria.

Assistant Professor Jason Brody was selected to present “Anatomy of a Fad:  Diffusion of Innovation in Urban Planning, Design and Development” to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and “Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit Concept” to the American Association of Geographers.

Professor Lorraine Cutler was an invited participant in the Oxford University Round Table on women in academia in Oxford, England. She presented a paper entitled “Yin and Yang:  Can’t Be.”

Assistant Professor Melanie Klein received an honorable mention from the 2009 U.S. Green Building Council’s Excellence in Green Building Education Awards Program in recognition of the work her class completed for Greensburg, KS, in 2007.

Assistant Professors Michael McGlynn, Blake Belanger and Jon Hunt exhibited photography in a juried exhibition at the Manhattan Arts Center. McGlynn was awarded a third-place prize.

Associate Professor Neal Hubbell is representing CAPD in a consortium of major universities receiving a 20th Anniversary Grant from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education entitled “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum.”

Assistant Professors Jon Hunt and Katie Kingery-Page presented two papers, “Designers Experience Place” and “Looking at Art:  Observation, Creative Process and Communication” at the 6th Annual Summit of the University and College Designers Association in Lawrence, KS.

Assistant Professor Katie Kingery-Page presented a paper, written with Professor Jon Hunt, entitled “New Role of the Schoolyard:  The Northview School Learning Garden” at the International Federation of Landscape Architects in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also was invited to present “Green Stormwater in a Suburban Landscape” at the conference.

Assistant Professor Cliff Shin presented a paper at the Industrial Design Society of America International Conference. “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. He also judged the National Students Design Competition for Housewares sponsored by the International Housewares Association and presented at the 2010 International Design Principles and Practices Conference.

Faculty presenting at EDRA 40 Re: The Ethical Design of Places, the 40th annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), included Assistant Professor Melanie Klein, “Re-Building Greensburg with Design Ethics” and Assistant Professors Lee Skabelund and R. Todd Gabbard, “Integrating Education and Scholarship:  Collaborative Demonstration Projects as Actionable Place-Based Research at Kansas State University.”

Professor Gary Coates was the recipient of an Award of Excellence in Historic Preservation from the Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance for his design for a screened back porch and an addition of a front porch and side porch to his residence. He presented “Transcendental Realism: An Introduction to the Aperspectival Geometric Art of Adi Da Samraj,” at the international conference, Toward a Science of Consciousness, sponsored by the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, AZ. He co-authored “The Transitions House: Designing a Near Net-Zero House for Special Needs Students in the USD 253 School District, Emporia, KS,” for the KSU Sustainability Conference.  He presented a paper entitled “Evoking a Sense of the Sacred:  Memory, Imagination and Meaning in Carl Nyrén’s Vitlycke Museum” at the Inaugural Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Symposium at Mt. Angel Abbey Retreat House, St. Benedict, OR; it was also published in 2A Architecture and Art, special issue on Architecture, Culture and Spirituality. He published “The Aperspectival Geometric Art of Adi Da Samraj”, in 2A Architecture and Art, special issue on Architecture, Culture and Spirituality. He presented “Kronsberg, Germany: A Study of Sustainable Urbanism” at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) in Kansas City, MO. “The Rebirth of Sacred Art: Reflections on the Aperspectival Geometric Art of Adi Da Samraj” was published in the Cyberproceedings of the 2009 Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) Conference, held in Salt Lake City, UT. “Transcendental Realism: An Introduction to the Nondual, Aperspectival Art of Adi Da Samraj” was a poster presented at the Science and Nonduality Conference, San Rafael, CA, and an abstract published in Program and Research Abstracts, Science and Nonduality Conference.

Professor Gary Coates and Assistant Professor R. Todd Gabbard presented “Greening Greensburg: Affordable and Sustainable Home Designs,” at the 2009 Kansas Housing Conference, Green Building: From Trend to Mainstream, Overland Park, KS.

Professor Stephanie Rolley was elected to the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board and was selected to represent K-State in the Harvard Graduate School of Education Management Development Program at Harvard University. She contributed “Green to Gray:  George Kessler’s Impact on Metropolitan Kansas City” to a chapter in Heartland Green, a forthcoming book from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Professor James Jones received the 2009 James A. Fletcher Memorial Award from the Manhattan Arts Center for his watercolor, “Hopi Ritual Master.” This is the fourth year for the Fletcher Award, a juried two-dimensional art competition open only to Kansas artists. Jones spent a year-long sabbatical designing and constructing a low-impact building in the Honduras.

Newly appointed tenure-track faculty beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year are Assistant Professor Sam Zeller, architecture; Associate Professor Vibhavari Jani, interior architecture and product design; and Assistant Professors Jessica Canfield, Huston Gibson and Jae Hong Kim, landscape architecture/regional and community planning.

Assistant Professor Katrina Lewis taught during the 2009-2010 academic year at a new university in Bangladesh.

Professor Tim Keane was selected as the 2009-2010 Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture, Faculty Member of Distinction. He is also part of the K-State Integrated Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) Team selected to receive the 2009 USDA-CSREES Partnership Award for Mission Integration. This award is presented to a university partner nationwide who best exemplifies integration of research, teaching and extension in a program area supported by USDA-CREES. He also published “Effects of Road Crossing Design on Geomorphology” in Ecohydrology with co-authors Bouska and Paukert.

Professors Robert Condia and Wendy Ornelas did “super juries” for all third-year architecture studios at the California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo with Regnier Visiting Chair of Architecture Alfred Jacoby.

Assistant Professor Howard Hahn and Associate Professor Eric Bernard were invited to participate in the 2010 GeoDesign Summit hosted by the Environmental Systems Research Institute in Redlands, CA.

Team members who conceived, designed and built K-State’s International Student Center Rain-Garden are the most recent recipients of a top award in the annual American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Student Design Competition. The project received an Honor Award in the Community Service category of the 2009 ASLA competition. Key participants in the design-build project were Assistant Professor Lee Skabelund and students Aarthi Padmanabhan and Jeremy Merrill, both of Manhattan, KS. The award was presented at the annual ASLA meeting in Chicago, IL.

*The editor apologizes for any inadvertent errors or omissions in this document.