POST-TENURE AND NTL REVIEW 


COLLEGE DATA ANALYTICS

  • Lori Pence will expand her role to be our college liaison to the campus analytics team (IRDS). We are currently searching for a support person to off-load some of her admissions duties.


SPRING GUEST LECTURE SERIES 

All Lectures at 4pm, AB100, free and open to the public

  • Feb. 3, Monday, Josh Vermillion, UNLV School of Architecture. Joshua is an associate professor and graduate coordinator in the School of Architecture at UNLV where he also coordinates the at-LAS Lab—a trans-disciplinary design-research group merging technology, industry-informed R&D, and community engagement. Josh will also lead a workshop for students and staff on generative AI use in the design process.
    If you are interested in your students participating in a workshop (and/or faculty and staff too) – please complete this survey by 5PM, FRIDAY January 24, as we are trying to gauge interest (numbers) for the workshops.
  • March 19, Wednesday, Shannon Nichol, FASLA, co-founder of GGN in Seattle. Ms. Nichol holds degrees from University of Washington and University of Liverpool and has won multiple awards from ASLA. Her designs include San Francisco’s India Basin Shoreline Park, the Lurie Garden in Chicago, and the Gates Foundation Campus. more
  • March 24, Monday, Emily Roush-Elliott, founding partner of Delta Design Build Workshop, a social impact design build organization that “builds equity through the built environment in the Mississippi Delta.” more
  • March 31, Monday, Adrian Scott Fine, president and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy. Mr. Fine, (CAP/BUPD), is a 14-year veteran of the Conservancy, working to protect heritage and historic places in California. more
  • April 14, Monday, The Whitehead Lecture:  Felix Heisel, Director of the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He is a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and graduate field member in architecture, systems engineering, and matter design computation. Heisel is a licensed architect in Germany and partner of 2hs Architekten und Ingenieur PartGmbB, an office specializing in the development of circular prototypologies. more


CERES – INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES LECTURES 

This lecture series is co-sponsored by Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning and the Miller College of Business. Supported by a grant from the Bracken Environmental Fund.

All lectures held in the Student Center Ballroom at 1 pm, free and open to the public

  • January 29, Mark Roseland, Professor of Sustainable Community Solutions, Arizona State University. He is author of the book Towards Sustainable Communities. He will discuss Community Asset Frameworks and their use in creating sustainable communities.
    RSVP here by January 27 to attend
  • February 12, Ron Fry. As a co-creator of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) theory and method, Ronald Fry, PhD, works with groups, organizations and institutions around the world to increase their cooperative capacity in order to engage the whole system in strategic thinking, planning and change. Ron Fry is a Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
  • March 26, Jens Molbak is a social and business entrepreneur, the founder & former CEO of COINSTAR; and the founder & CEO of the nonprofit, New Impact. He will talk about innovative new tools and new business models that support sustainable development.


DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

  • Urban Planning Students under the direction of Lohren Deeg and Teresa Jeter will present their work during a session at the national American Planning Association conference in Denver in March.
  • LA Dept student Alexa Warren was selected to the national ASLA Student Support and Engagement Committee.
  • LA Dept student Ahmaud Carroll Tubbs was selected for the national ASLA Student Advisory Committee
  • LA Dept faculty Taylor Metz was selected for the national ASLA’s Inaugural Committee on K-12 Education and Career Discovery. Read more.
  • The Departments of Interior Design and Landscape Architecture concluded a successful Design Week. The project, which involved every student and included an outside juror in the film industry, was to create a movie trailer and poster that focused on how the disciplines impact motion pictures and media. The results can be seen on our Instagram site, our YouTube channel and on the screens in our buildings. See the projects here.
  • ID Dept faculty Sarah Angne Alfaro was featured in a webcast by the International WELL Building Institute sharing the ID 324 studio/3-year grant and the BSU/WELL collaboration.


PHILANTHROPY NEWS

  • New funds that will help our students:
  • Tower Pinkster firm scholarship – this endowed scholarship ($50,000) will support a student from among several of our professions on an annual rotating basis, starting this spring.
  • CAP Travel Experience Fund – this expendable fund has topped $100,000 in alumni donations, led by Bill Baker, and will focus on sending economically challenged students from the Common First Year on the Chicago Field Trip.


DON’T FORGET OUR HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER WORKSHOPS

DesignWorks

For over 40 years, the ECAP has hosted the DesignWorks Summer Academy, a workshop for high school students. This program helps students explore design disciplines and has been successful in attracting students to our college for enrollment.

Every few years, we evaluate our program and compare it to other institutions to stay competitive and relevant. In that interest, we invite you to share your ideas for new features, provide suggestions on how to structure the program, and let us know if you are interested in teaching this summer.

If you would like to share your thoughts and/or express your interest in teaching this summer, email lpence@bsu.edu by February 14.

Visit all our summer workshops here.