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Congratulations to the 2014 award recipients! 2014 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Charlie Hailey Associate Professor School of Architecture 2014 Dean’s Faculty Service Award Guy Peterson Adjunct Professor School of Architecture 2013-14 College of Design, Construction and Planning Teacher/Adviser of the Year Award John Maze Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs Associate Professor School of […]

Four interdisciplinary teams competed March 21-23 for the 2014 Witters Competition. The 48-hour design charrette was led by Tom Smith, SoA senior lecturer, and Ravi Srinivasan, BCN assistant professor. The project challenge was to develop a proposal for a mixed use, housing project in the downtown area of Gainesville. The proposal would provide a viable

BLA 5 student Viviana Castro was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) 2014 National Olmsted Scholar, the premier national award program for landscape architecture students. This program is highly competitive and there is one winner and three finalists for graduate and undergraduate students. The winners are selected from a pool

Dara Huang, BDes 2004, and Carlos Perez, BLA 2004, are recipients of University of Florida’s Outstanding Young Alumni Awards. The Outstanding Young Alumni Award, established by UF’s Alumni Association, recognizes alumni ages 35 or younger who have distinguished themselves in their profession and community. Dara Huang is an architect and the creative director at Design

On March 31, the School of Architecture held it’s end of the year awards ceremony recognizing students, faculty and alumni. Young Architects Design Award William Olmstead Antozzi III, received the 2014 Young Architects Design Award. Antozzi is an architect/designer at Renzo Piano Building Workshop and has had the opoprtunity to work on projects around the

Faculty and students from the Department of Interior Design were honored at this year’s Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC) Conference. The annual conference was held March 6 – 8 in New Orleans, LA. Best Paper: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Candy Carmel-Gilfilen, IND undergraduate coordinator and Meg Portillo, IND chair and professor, and won the

Travis J. Kolbjornsen, BCN 2007, and Matthew Meyer, LAE 2010, have been added to UF’s list of Top Twenty Under 30 alumni. Both Kolbjornsen and Meyer were recognized and featured in the Winter issue of the Florida Gator Alumni Association magazine. Kolbjornsen is a project scheduler at Walt Disney World Co. Facility Asset Management. In

At this year’s Seventh Annual DCP Research Showcase, faculty, students and industry professionals presented and discussed research on this year’s theme, “Collaborative Community Initiatives.” In the afternoon, industry professionals participated in the “Collaboration in the Community” panel discussion and UF faculty from other colleges participated in the “Collaboration in the University Community” panel discussion. The

The Department of Interior Design recognized Marlo Ransdell, Ph.D. 2009, with the 2014 Rising Leader Alumni Award. This is the first year the department is recognizing an alumnus who is working in interior design education. Ransdell received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in interior design at the University of Kentucky. She continued her education

An interdisciplinary team of faculty from the College of DCP and College of Public Health and Health Professions has been selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to be a part of the first AIA Design & Health Research Consortium. The consortium will help fund basic research on how design affects public health through