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Mohammad Yaghan, a visiting scholar from Jordan, lectured on muqarnas, a type of corbel that is one of the most distinctive elements of Islamic architecture, March 29 at the Langford Architecture Center as part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for the Humanities Notable Lecture Series.

June 4 was an evening of celebration as former students, colleagues and friends toasted retiring architecture professor John Only Greer '55. Greer, a former department head, interim dean, executive associate dean and mentor to generations of Aggie architects, retired in May after 49 years on the Aggie faculty.

Mohammad Yaghan, a visiting scholar from Jordan, lectured on muqarnas, a type of corbel that is one of the most distinctive elements of Islamic architecture, March 29 at the Langford Architecture Center as part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for the Humanities Notable Lecture Series.

Rodney Hill, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, added another award to his lengthy list of teaching honors May 2 when he was named a Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Hill was one of ten academicians receiving the 2011 award honoring superior educators, which includes a $5,000 honorarium.

Some of the architecture world’s leading lights shared their knowledge and experiences in the Spring 2011 Department of Architecture Lecture Series. The six public lectures took place in Preston Geren Auditorium.

Members of the Texas A&M student chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association conducted an energy audit of Neeley Hall, a campus dormitory, as part of their competition entry in the NECA's annual 2011 Green Energy Challenge. Finalists will present their work at the Oct. 22–25 NECA Convention in San Diego.

A photo of senior visualization major Jill Bragdon sporting a “Texas Aggies Go Far” T-shirt in Rome earned first place in a photo contest sponsored by The Texas A&M Foundation, which asked students studying abroad to submit photos of themselves wearing the contest T-shirt at international locales.

Texas A&M Architecture Ph.D. student Simge Andolsun is investigating how a modified air-conditioning system can produce energy savings for low-income households in hot, humid climates. Her study is funded by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

“Legacy of a Seer,” an exhibition of portraits of the late Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and Texas A&M professor Charles Gordone, painted by Robert Schiffhauer, associate professor of architecture, was featured this summer at the College of Architecture's Wright Gallery.

As part of an international design experiment in social media, students in a design studio joined architecture students from around the globe for a collaboration with top Italian designers that culminated in an April 15 exhibit at the renowned Milan Design Fair in Milan, Italy.

For a class exercise, third year Texas A&M construction science students grappled with industry ethics issues then faced a panel of industry professionals and a nationally renowned business ethics expert who peppered them with questions about their responses to ethical quandaries.

Students developed housing prototypes with designers from two acclaimed firms — Wonnie Ickx and Carlos Bedoya, founding members of Mexico City-based PRODUCTORA, and Tom Wiscombe, principal of the L. A. firm EMERGENT — in the inaugural Mitchell Lab Visiting Designer Program.

Friends, colleagues and former students of three retiring architecture professors, John Only Greer, Roger S. Ulrich and David G. Woodcock, gathered May 10 at the University Club to celebrate the trio's combined 110 years of teaching, research and service at Texas A&M University.

Students in a Texas A&M architecture-for-health design studio collaborated with the university's Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture to develop design concepts for Rehab Nova, a new multipurpose health training and agriculture facility to be located in Africa's newest country, South Sudan.

Landscape architecture students could begin work with professional landscape designers as early as Fall 2011 in the construction phase of Circuit of the Americas, a $400 million, 1,100 acre motor sports race track, concert venue and conference center in Austin.