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Sep 20th, 2018
ENVD Alum's Research Aids Hurricane Relief
Cameron Westbrook
At Auburn University, we talk about the impact that research can have on our communities. Stephen Cummings, a recent graduate of the Environmental Design program, embraces this principle, and today his research project (completed in ENVD 4010 and ENVD (...)
Sep 19th, 2018
Finkel Named Educator to Watch
Stephanie Bond
Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) named Robert Finkel, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, “An Educator to Watch 2018.” GDUSA, a professional resource for news about graphic design, initiated its “Educators to Watch” list in 2017, r (...)
Aug 23rd, 2018
Graphic Design Students Recognized
Stephanie Bond
Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) recognized several students in Auburn’s School of Industrial + Graphic Design with its 2018 American Web Design Awards and American Package Design Awards. GDUSA is a professional resource for news about graphic design, and eac (...)
Jul 12th, 2018
Auburn Industrial Design Students win Bright Spark Design Competition
Stephanie Bond
The future of transportation design is walking. A team of Auburn industrial design students presented that seemingly simple conclusion at the 2017-2018 Bright Spark Design Competition in Chattanooga, TN and won Best Overall Design (college level).
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Jun 14th, 2018
INDD Exhibit Wins Award
The traveling exhibit, “Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One,” created by industrial design professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and her fall 2016 third-year Exhibiting and Packaging Design studio for the Draughon Center for the Arts and (...)
Jun 4th, 2018
CADC Students Renovate the Auburn Girl Scout Hut
Stephanie Bond
Spring is a time of renewal and renovation, so it is fitting that the Auburn Girl Scout community has seen its primary meeting space transformed this spring. In March and April of 2018, students and faculty from the College of Architecture, Design and (...)
Jun 4th, 2018
Visual Memoranda Exhibit
Stephanie Bond
Auburn Faculty Curate “Visual Memoranda: The IBM Poster Program, 1969-1979”
“Visual Memoranda: The IBM Poster Program, 1969-1979,” a selection of posters that were IBM internal communications, are curr (...)
May 9th, 2018
Landscape Architecture Foundation Honors AU Case Studies
The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) selected two case studies designed by Charlene LeBleu and students in the News Details
May 8th, 2018
AGC elects Eddie Stewart President
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA), the nation's largest and oldest construction trade association, held its annual convention in New Orleans recently. Students and faculty from the McWhorter School of Building Science at the conventi (...)
May 4th, 2018
Spotlight on Hannah Grimes, CADC's Spring 2018 Graduation Marshal
Hannah Grimes, a graphic design major with a near perfect GPA, will represent the College of Architecture, Design and Construction as its Graduation Marshal at this spring’s commencement. She served as a CADC Ambassador this past year and is acti (...)
Apr 30th, 2018
LeBleu Becomes CELA President
Stephanie Bond
After serving as First Vice-President and President-Elect for the past year, Charlene LeBleu, FASLA and associate professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA), assumed the presidency of the News Details
Mar 30th, 2018
Willkens Wins Teaching Award
Nicole Truitt
Danielle Willkens, an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was recently honored with a 2017-2018 New Faculty Teaching Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The award (...)
Mar 14th, 2018
Students Experience Virtual Reality at McWhorter School of Building Science
Latha Bhavnani
After spending many years in the realm of ideas, Virtual Reality (VR) has now come of age. In addition to being a tool for visual exploration, it also addresses safety concerns for personnel on project sites.
Site visits for stud (...)
Mar 14th, 2018
McWhorter School of Building Science team wins Roofing Competition
Latha Bhavnani
The Roofing Industry Alliance for Progress recently hosted four teams to compete in the finals of the fourth annual Construction Management Student Competition at the 2018 International Roofing Expo® (IRE) in New Orleans. The finalist teams were ch (...)
Feb 28th, 2018
Auburn Graphic Designers to Watch
Stephanie Bond
Graphic Design USA’s (GDUSA) Students to Watch™ feature has an established tradition of recognizing future leaders in the industry and those who train them. As a business-to-business information source, GDUSA keeps graphic design profession (...)
Feb 21st, 2018
Bringing Civil Rights History to Life
On March 7, 1965, 600 peaceful civil rights demonstrators prepared to march from Selma to Montgomery, championing the Selma Voting Rights Movement. As they moved south across the Alabama River and reached the apex of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the demon (...)
Feb 21st, 2018
Providing Livable Homes for Veterans with Disabilities
As of 2016, the number of veterans with service-connected disabilities was over 4 million, and of those, more than 1 million had significantly debilitating disabilities (US Census Bureau). This large population presents an urgent need for smart home co (...)
Feb 21st, 2018
Better Homes Build Better Lives
A research team from Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) has been awarded a major HUD grant for the development of housing solutions for people with disabilities and those seeking to age in place. CADC facu (...)
Feb 6th, 2018
More Top Rankings for Architecture and Industrial Design
CADC’s architecture and industrial design programs are included among the top in the nation according to The Art Career Project website. The Art Career Project, a nationally recognized resource for (...)
Feb 6th, 2018
Auburn INDD Alum Named IDSA Interim Executive Director
Stephanie Bond
Congratulations to Chris Livaudais, 2002 industrial design graduate and good friend and supporter of the program, on his appointment as the new interim executive director of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Livaudais has been an active memb (...)