Academics

Teams of third-year construction science students grappled with an ethical scenario in a competition for an Ethics in the Construction Industry class. A panel of industry pros evaluated their work and chose a winner.

Students will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally renowned, contemporary artists in specialized workshops during the Spring 2012 Artist in Residence program at A&M’s College of Architecture. The workshops are open to anyone in the college, and no previous art experience is required.

As higher education leaders across the nation wrangle with budget constraints and consider reforms aimed at doing more with less, Texas A&M College of Architecture educators continue to embrace the studio, the time-tested cornerstone of design education, as the most critical component of modern design pedagogy.

As a semifinalist in a national solar power design competition, a student team from the Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Design Process class is building a portable solar-powered umbrella capable of powering portable electronic devices.

Ryan Wilhelm ’12, a Texas A&M undergraduate construction science student, talks about his internship at the company's New Orleans office in a video. Wilhelm, from Dumas, Texas, was put in charge of a group working on a portion of a half-mile long floodwall.

Five students pursuing graduate certificates in facility management attended an International Facility Management Association conference in Phoenix with five IFMA scholarships totaling $15,000, part of which paid for their trip to the conference.

The Department of Visualization at the Texas A&M College of Architecture is offering a new, technology-infused Master of Fine Arts degree program that in fall 2011 will begin preparing students for careers in digital art education, fine arts, entertainment and media industries, as well as art as a vocation.

Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, joined curators, designers, artists and architects from across the globe to discuss experimental curating for design and architecture exhibitions at “Curating and Counter Curating,” a September 2011 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

The first comprehensive study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sacred architecture is in a new book by Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Geva is also the first to introduce a theoretical framework illustrating the relationship between faith, form and building technology in sacred architecture.

Michael Lindell, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, was quoted a New York Times’ Oct. 3, 2011 article examining scientists’ role in warning the public of possible hazards.

The collaboration between design programs at Texas A&M University, top schools in China and at the University of Oklahoma continued during the week of Oct. 10, 2011 during a trip to China by George J. Mann, Texas A&M professor of architecture, and colleagues from OU.

Texas A&M construction science students who spent the spring 2011 semester studying abroad in London praised their academic and social experiences in a story and video posted on TAMU Times, the university’s news website.

Photographs, newspaper clippings and many other items from the college archives were on display Aug. 26, 2011 at an open house in the Technical Reference Center's extension on the fifth floor of Langford A.

Texas A&M graduate visualization student Sarah Beth Eisinger’s work earned a $10,000 scholarship from Sony Pictures Imageworks, an Academy Award-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company. She has previous experience at Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Google.

A rare work in Texas A&M’s Forsyth Center Galleries by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), a preeminent figure in U.S. art history, is receiving its first-ever scholarly attention from Stephen Caffey, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Caffey said it's an important yet little-known painting.