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20th Viz-a-GoGo exhibition takes 'Viz to the Future'

Viz-a-GoGo 20 takes 'Viz to the Future'

posted February 27, 2013
Celebrating its 20th year, Viz-a-GoGo, the annual showcase of student work from the visualization programs at Texas A&M University, took its audience on a time-traveling adventure — in a DeLorean, no less — with a series of interstitial stories paying tribute to the program's heritage.
Study yields tool for optimizing nursing workflow in hospitals

Study provides tool to help optimize nursing workflow

posted February 25, 2013
An design efficiency checklist for medical facilities developed by researchers provides solutions for flawed floor plans that can contribute to medical staff fatigue, cause distractions that hinder patient-care and potentially result in higher medical costs.
Former student helps design  kinetic installation for MSC

Former student’s installation debuts Feb. 22 at MSC

posted February 22, 2013
A high-tech, permanent installation in the Memorial Student Center portraying Texas A&M students past and present, designed in part by a former environmental design student, was activated by university president R. Bowen Loftin during a ceremony Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.
Construction science intern assumes BIM responsibilities

Student assumes BIM responsibilities during internship

posted February 21, 2013
It’s unusual for an intern to head meetings between mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractors at a construction jobsite, but Tanner Trimm, a fourth-year construction science student at Texas A&M, did just that.
TAMU grant funds investigation of postwar synagogue design

Study eyes postwar move to modernism in synagogue design

posted February 21, 2013
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.
Multidisciplinary effort produces veteran treatment center designs

Treatment center designs aid PTSD, head-injured vets

posted February 20, 2013
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.
Prestigious NSF award funds augmented reality research

NSF award funds mobile augmented reality research

posted February 19, 2013
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.
HRRC study finding uncertainty’s effects on public hazard decisions

HRRC investigating uncertainty’s role in hazard decisions

posted February 15, 2013
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.
Faculty, students mourns passing of popular CoSci professor, Byrne

College mourns passing of popular CoSci teacher Byrne

posted February 14, 2013
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.
CHSD faculty fellow leads effort to modernize Nigerian health care

Effort eyes upgrade for Nigerian state's health care service

posted February 12, 2013
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.
Alums using crowd funding to develop March Madness app

Alums seek March Madness app funds

posted February 12, 2013
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, design pros tackle projects, hear lectures at Aggie Workshop 2013

Aggie Workshop featured lectures, charrettes with pros

posted February 11, 2013
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.
Alumnus who designed world’s tallest building to receive honorary doctorate degree

Outstanding alum chosen to receive honorary Ph.D.

posted February 11, 2013
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.
Summer campers to explore built and virtual environment careers

Camps offer kids intro to disciplines taught at college

posted February 8, 2013
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's founder John Fairey to receive prestigious  Scott Arboretum Medal & Award

Arboretum to present Scott Medal, Award to architecture prof

posted February 8, 2013
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.