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For playing a vital, hands-on role, teaching woodcraft to Texas A&M College of Architecture students and motivating them to realize their creative potential, college woodshop supervisor Jim Titus received the 2012 Linda Todd Outstanding Support Staff Achievement Award.

At a Feb. 15 town hall-style meeting a distinguished panel will focus on how shifting perceptions of black culture, politics and ethnicity has affected the ways blacks are perceived and discussed in today’s culture.

A new book co-edited by Kevin Glowacki, assistant professor of architecture, is deepening the understanding of ancient houses and household activities in the Greek island of Crete. Glowacki and collaborator Natalla Vogelkoff-Brogan, of Athens, Greece, also penned an introductory chapter.

After two decades focused on improving the quality of life for residents of the impoverished, relatively undeveloped villages, or “colonias,” clumped near population centers on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border, the Texas A&M University Colonias Program is celebrating its achievements.

A diverse group of architectural design and academic leaders shared their expertise at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s 2012 Spring Lecture Series. The lectures, open to the public, took place in Preston Geren Auditorium.

The Brazilian government’s role in enacting legislation to preserve the South American nation’s industrial heritage was researched in a paper by Gabriela Campagnol, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M, published in a national preservation journal.

Newly minted Aggie constructors received their personalized Texas A&M hard hats at the Department of Construction Science's Nov. 30 honors ceremony. The highly coveted, customized headwear is presented to all department graduates at the end of each semester.

Historic preservation efforts undertaken after natural and manmade disasters were the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at the Langford Architecture Center.

Philip Berke ‘81, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and one of the nation’s top land use planning scholars, presented “Sustainable Cities: Demographic Trends, Impacts and Future Plans” on Jan. 20 in the Wright Gallery.

Brenda Takahashi, an experienced leader in public housing administration, will discuss sustainable community and economic development 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in the Wright Gallery, kicking off Texas A&M’s Real Estate Development Association’s Spring 2012 Speaker Series.

A student’s design for a stationary exercise wheel that fits underneath office desks, turned in as extra credit in the fall 2011 Design Process class at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, was a winning entry in a national invention competition.

Relationships between architectural design and health care for the under and uninsured are the focus of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Spring 2012 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.

Xuemei Zhu, assistant professor of architecture, co-authored a paper summarizing the research behind active living — a new, comprehensive way of tackling obesity involving the built environment — in the new edition of a journal published by the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.

Two former Texas A&M landscape architecture students, Elizabeth Chapman ’10 and Trace Unruh ’11, helped develop the city of Austin’s new invasive species management plan while working as interns at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

Michael Percifield ‘93, a former environmental design student, is leading an effort to put a 19th century steam locomotive back in service in North Texas. He oversees operations for the Grapevine Vintage Railroad, which operates train rides in vintage passenger cars from Grapevine to the Fort Worth Stockyards.