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Three Texas A&M urban planning researchers have garnered a two-year, $313,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the effectiveness of using 100-year floodplains in predicting property damages from floods, and to develop improved criteria for assessing the risk of inundation in low-lying coastal areas.

Susan D. Clayton, a social psychologist whose work examines how people think about and make personal connections to the environment, delivered the keynote address at the college research symposium Oct. 24, 2011.

Children enjoying birthday parties in the Houston area could find themselves underneath an H-E-B sponsored-tent with illustrations designed by former Texas A&M environmental design student Giancarlo Perossa ’01.

Two faculty members from the College of Architecture were among researchers presenting their National Science Foundation-funded projects to U.S. senators Sept. 6, 2011 at an NSF expo in Washington DC.

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.

College of Architecture faculty and staff members were recognized for exemplary achievements at the college's Aug. 26 administrative meeting kicking off the fall 2011 semester. Three faculty and three staff members were honored at the meeting, which took place in Geren Auditorium.

Former Texas A&M environmental design student Dan Darr ’93 explores untold stories, dreams and the difference between the ways we remember things and the way they really were in a series of paintings at the Arlington Museum of Art at an exhibit on display through Sept. 30.

Some of Texas’ top land developers will discuss their experiences at this fall’s Real Estate Development Association Speaker Series. The lectures will take place 7 p.m. in the Wright Gallery, building A of the Langford Architecture Center.

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 graduate visualization student’s self-portraits, tributes to iconic masterworks from the art world, have captured the attention and praise of art blogger Michelle H. Harrell, coordinator of teen/college programs for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

A graduate visualization student’s self-portraits, tributes to iconic masterworks from the art world, have captured the attention and praise of art blogger Michelle H. Harrell, coordinator of teen/college programs for the North Carolina Museum of Art, in Raleigh.

Last summer undergraduate visualization students in a graphic design class led by Donna Hajash, a senior visualization lecturer, integrated color, texture and typography to create revealing biographical self portraits.

When the British metal band Tesseract was looking for a director to make a video of a song called “Eden,” bassist Amos Williams knew he wanted Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald, Master of Visualization students at Texas A&M, whose talent he had spotted in their earlier work, “Empyrean.”

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.

Robert Riggs, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, blogged about students’ portrayals of their experiences with social media in “From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg,” a video project he assigned as a guest lecturer in the college’s summer 2011 Design Process class.