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Don't call him a teacher, says Jorge Vanegas, dean of the college, on the Texas A&M News & Information Services website. “My primary job is to unleash the individual creative potential within every student, no matter what their background or major.”

Construction science students at Texas A&M developed construction plans for an Austin theater to finish second in a field of 11 teams at an Associated Schools of Construction Region V student competition held February 2011 in Dallas. The Aggie competition team was sponsored by Joeris General Contractors, Inc.

A video that played at the 2009 gala opening of Texas A&M’s Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica includes comments by an assistant dean at the College of Architecture, whose students’ design concepts significantly influenced the final appearance of the center’s buildings.

Two former Texas A&M design students that created the hugely successful Glif, a stand and tripod mount for the iPhone 4, are back with a new project: a stylus called The Cosmonaut that works with Apple’s iPad and other touchscreen devices.

Elena Manferdini, principal of Atelier Manferdini, which specializes in computer-aided design of exotic forms, visited the college March 20 – 25 as an artist in residence. In a video interview, she discusses the installation she and students designed and erected in the Azimuth coffee shop.

In a room elaborately adorned with architectural installations created by Meg Jackson's design students, students from Weiling He’s studio donned their own designs, putting on a fashion show for their peers.

A video created by Stephanie Keske, a graduate visualization student, was part of a History Channel program documenting scientists’ and explorers’ installation and use of underground observatories to study the ocean’s crust.