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The approximately 40 students and faculty at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture who earned introductory accreditation in an internationally recognized “green” certification system earlier this year can credit part of their success to classes led by Patrick Daniels, a graduate student pursuing three masters’ degrees at Texas A&M.

As head of Ellis Custom Homes, the fourth fastest-growing small business in the Brazos Valley, Keith Ellis ’88, a construction science former student, received a Bryan Rotary/Newman 10 Award. The honor was presented to the region's 10-fastest-growing businesses.

Hans Schneider, a doctoral student studying urban and regional science at Texas A&M, has received a Fulbright grant funding a 10-month project aimed at developing a comprehensive regional plan for preserving eight historically significant wooden churches and other historic sites in western Ukraine.

Native Land Design, a landscape service company owned by former student Ben Collinsworth, has experienced explosive growth since 2005 when its' focus switched from residential construction to commercial maintenance.

John Murphy ‘82, dean of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s College of Architecture, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Architecture + Construction Alliance, a national organization that aims to foster education and research efforts between the fields of architecture and construction. Murphy earned three degrees at the Texas A&M College of Architecture.

Debra Dockery, a former student at Texas A&M’s College of Architecure, has been tapped by Texas governor Rick Perry to serve on the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners, which regulates the practice of architecture, landscape architecture and interior design throughout the state.

Serenbe, an environmentally friendly residential development an hour’s drive from Atlanta designed by Phillip Tabb, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, was lauded by Architectural Record magazine as a masterfully planned, sustainable residential community.

Two Master of Science in Land Development students traveled to Chicago in July 2011 to research and document how Millennium Park, a $475 million project completed in 2004, praised as a “showcase of art and urban design” by the San Francisco Chronicle, has affected the vicinity’s real estate value.

As a “student evangelist” for Autodesk, designer of 3-D architecture, building construction and engineering software, Ph.D. architecture student Francisco Farias will be networking with Autodesk’s top clients, receive intensive training and certification, and supervise Autodesk’s top student "experts."

Environmental design students worked alongside residents of Las Lomas, a South Texas colonia, on projects aimed at improving the quality of life in the border community. Colonias leaders asked students to create after-school activities and identify ways to raise funds for community center staffing.

Landscape architecture students’ designs of educational butterfly gardens and a master plan-level analysis of “green,” low-impact development techniques for a portion of the university campus earned awards from the Texas chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Jayme Elterman ‘03, a former environmental design student, led a group of fellow students at a graduate design school in New York built Splash House, a new locker and changing room at a city pool, after designing and holding a successful fundraising campaign.

Graduate visualization students won scholarships for their makers funded by major animation studios and former student animators. Former students at Pixar, DreamWorks Animation and Industrial Light and Magic made lists of the videos they deemed the best.

Texas A&M Vizzers worked their digital mastery in the animated martial arts flick “Kung Fu Panda 2”. Po, Master Shifu, and the Furious Five return to defend the Valley of Peace and Kung Fu itself against a new and formidable enemy in DreamWorks Animation’s 3-D sequel.

First-year environmental design students at Texas A&M designed a high-density, mixed-use housing cluster with “green” elements for a theoretical site in College Station during a spring 2011 studio led by Phillip Tabb, professor of architecture.