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College of Architecture’s Fab Lab installations defined Texas A&M’s looming presence at the 2017 Texas Earth Day expo in Dallas. The college booth featured student-designed interlocking building modules for creating reusable, easily deployed structures.

For championing study abroad programs that transform students’ academic and cultural perspectives, Jorge Vanegas, dean of the Texas A&M College of Architecture, received the Dr. Kenneth L. “Rock” Clinton International Study Abroad Education Programs Award.

Second year Texas A&M environmental design students showcased master plan concepts for a future Aggieland Humane Society campus at an April 27 Brazos County Expo Center unveiling attended by the organization’s staff and volunteers.

A decontamination unit built by environmental design and engineering student workers at the Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Automated Fabrication and Design Lab was a big help to small animals tainted by recent toxic floodwaters in Texas.

Mixed into four multidisciplinary teams composed of students from different schools and disciplines, Texas A&M construction science students engaged in an intense, 48-hour competition to design and schedule a 13,000 sq. ft. rehabilitation hospital.

Master plans by Texas A&M landscape architecture students, one envisioning inviting outdoor areas on the university’s West Campus, and another for a sustainable Texas Gulf Coast development, earned top honors at the 2017 Texas ASLA Conference in Austin.

As study by Ben Bigelow, Texas A&M assistant professor of construction science, is seeking best practices for attracting and retaining members of traditionally underrepresented groups, namely women and minorities, to the electrical construction industry.

A multidisciplinary group of Texas A&M students installed a temporary garden, transforming an otherwise mundane campus space as part of an April 26, 2017 tactical urbanism experiment staged outside of the Langford Architecture Center.

Pleasant spaces envisioned to create outdoor respite for inhabitants of two buildings at The Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus, are major elements in design concepts created by 14 second-year Texas A&M landscape architecture students.

Former Texas A&M architecture students reminisced and rekindled friendships during a 2017 campus reunion marking the 50th anniversary of their graduation.

An experimental photo project focused on exploring the sun has earned Krista Steinke, an instructional assistant professor for the Department of Visualization, a coveted fellowship from The Howard Foundation at Brown University.

Transportation planning faculty and students gathered on the Texas A&M campus March 27 to promote study in their discipline as part of a March 27 symposium at the College of Architecture.

For encouraging women’s achievement in the workplace and striving to improve female work environments, Laura Trevino, regional director of the Texas A&M Colonias Program’s Lower Rio Grande Region, earned a Women’s Progress Award from the Division of Student Affairs.

Four mobile medical clinics now serving patients in remote, impoverished areas in different nations were built by a small army of more than 1,500 Texas A&M students and volunteers led by a command team including 24 students from the College of Architecture.

Fourth year environmental design students unveiled design concepts for a new Frisco, Texas medical campus uniquely designed to advance preventative health at Texas A&M on April 28.