Honors

For most Texas A&M students, navigating campus is an unremarkable part of their daily routine, but there’s nothing ordinary about any trip that construction science major Ian Moss takes when he’s accompanied by Reveille, the collie who serves as Texas A&M’s mascot.

Outstanding student and faculty achievements in the Texas A&M Department of Architecture were showcased at “The Celebration of Excellence,” the department’s year-culminating awards presentation and juried competition, Thursday, May 14, 2015 at the Hilton College Station & Conference Center.

Within weeks of gaining prominence among the world’s best game design schools, Texas A&M was ranked as one of the nation’s best animation schools, placing third among public institutions in a 2015 analysis conducted by Animation Career Review, an online career resource for aspiring animators, game designers and digital artists.

Nancy Klein and Donna Hajash, two faculty members at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, were recently honored for excellence, leadership and selfless service with Distinguished Achievement Awards from The Association of Former Students.

Second-year environmental design students at Texas A&M swept a national residential design competition sponsored by the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association, placing first and second.

In recognition of their outstanding service, three College of Architecture staff members were recently chosen their peers to receive the Star Performance Awards.

Naomi Sachs, a Ph.D. architecture student at Texas A&M who is developing methods to design and assess healing gardens in healthcare settings, was honored for her work with a New Investigator Research Award from a national healthcare design group.

An award-winning, 3-D short film created by two former Texas A&M visualization students has been selected for screening in a prestigious German film festival.

Six former Texas A&M College of Architecture students and a former faculty member recently elevated to the prestigious American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows will be recognized at the June AIA conference in Atlanta.

William Peña ’42, whose legendary architectural career followed a harrowing tour of duty in World War II, is the recipient of a 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University.

Dialogo on the Border, a 2013 conference about urban Texas-Mexico border issues sponsored in part by the diversity council at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, has been recognized with an achievement award from the American Planning Association.

A Texas A&M College of Architecture professor and former student were honored by Healthcare Design magazine editors in their annual list of iindividuals and organizations who made the most significant mark in healthcare design in the past year.

Texas A&M graduate students’ vision for the future of outpatient healthcare delivery earned first place in a Feb. 19 American Institute of Architecture design contest in Houston.

For outstanding achievements in service and teaching architecture professor Charles Culp received the E.K. Campbell Award of Merit from the Life Members Club of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

For providing excellent staff support and adeptly coordinating the myriad activities overseen by the Texas A&M College of Architecture business office, Faith Stringer, business coordinator III, will receive a 2014-15 President’s Meritorious Service Award.