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The departure of U.S. synagogue designs from historicism to Modernism in the 1950s and their expressions of American values will be investigated by Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M.

Houston ranks as the sixth-worst U.S. city for traffic congestion in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s 2012 Urban Mobility Report, which includes a comprehensive database of traffic congestion, its effects on air quality and its costs to drivers in all 101 U.S. urban areas with populations above 500,000.

Treatment centers that can be quickly constructed to treat veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder were designed last fall in a multidisciplinary studio at the Texas A&M College of Architecture.

The National Science Foundation presented visualization professor Ann McNamara with its prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award to fund her research to enhance mobile augmented reality technology, which is used to combine real and virtual worlds.

In the first large-scale study of its kind, Texas A&M researchers are investigating how storm forecast graphics, such as those depicting potential storm paths with cone-shaped regions of uncertainty, influence public decision making during hazard events.

Stephen Byrne '75, a popular Texas A&M construction science educator and construction industry leader who helped shaped the top rated construction science program at Texas A&M, passed away Feb. 11 from complications due to back surgery.

The College of Architecture will host prospective students and their parents as part of Texas A&M's Feb. 16, 2013 Aggieland Saturday festivities. The event runs 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at venues across the Texas A&M campus.

A world-class system aimed at modernizing the delivery of health care in the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibon was developed with leadership from the Ustawi Research Institute, headed by Macharia Waruingi, a faculty fellow at the Center for Health Systems & Design.

For as little as $1, anyone can help finance the development of Simple Bracket, a March Madness app that its developers, two former Texas A&M environmental design students, say will make it easy and fun to fill out brackets and compete with friends and family for the title of best bracket in the land.

Landscape architecture students from across Texas teamed with practitioners for the 38th annual Aggie Workshop, a series of design charrettes and lectures hosted Feb. 22-23 by the Texas A&M student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Adrian Smith, designer of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and a champion of sustainable design, will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree from Texas A&M at spring commencement.

Capitalizing on the aspirations of kids who dream of becoming architects or digital artists, the College of Architecture offers weeklong summer camps exposing college-bound students to an array of career opportunities in the built and virtual environments.

Peckerwood Garden, a 19-acre trove of rare plants from the southern U.S. and Mexico has earned its founder/curator, Texas A&M Regents Professor John Fairey, recognition from the Scott Arboretum in Swarthmore, Pa.

The national Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Design, headed by Carol LaFayette, associate professor of visualization, is advancing the STEM to STEAM movement: adding art and design components, the "A," to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

The “Texas Grow! Eat! Go!” family gardening initiative is part of an obesity study headed by Judy Warren, a faculty fellow at the College of Architecture's Center for Health Systems & Design.