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Dr. Nawari Nawari, SOA associate professor, has received a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for teaching and research in Kuwait. Nawari will be conducting research and teaching in Kuwait for ten months during Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. The project has an 80% teaching part and a 20% research component. Nawari will focus his teaching […]

David Brandon, BCN 1981, founder of Brandon Construction Company in Palm Harbor, has been selected by the State University System’s Board of Governors as UF’s newest trustee. Brandon has expressed continued commitment to the university as a fundraiser and charter member of the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management Advisory Council. Brandon is a

Laura Snider, BLA 2014, was one of 18 students selected across the U.S. who were part of the 180 Landscape Architects participating in the annual ASLA Advocacy Day. Snider along with other Florida Chapter ASLA members went to the offices of Senators Nelson and Rubio. Each advocate also went to their individual congressional members’ offices.

Bradley Walters, SOA Assistant Professor, has been recognized with a UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. Walters was selected as one of ten recipients by members of the Award Selection Committee which are appointed annually from UF’s Distinguished Professors and Eminent Scholars. This award is focused on junior faculty and recognizes excellence in research. Each

Founding father of Sarasota School of Architecture, Gene Leedy, was selected by the University of Florida School of Architecture as the recipient of the school’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Leedy pioneered innovative work with pre-stressed concrete and the development of long-span “double-tee” beams, the sliding glass door in both wood and aluminum, and introduced the traditional

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