Yvan Beliveau, left, a professor of building construction, listens to William Morrison, center, explain his hostel design. Kim Thurlow, right, of Virginia Tech’s Catawba Sustainability Center looks on.
BLACKSBURG, Va., Dec. 20, 2010 – William Morrison of Kensington, Md., a fifth-year architecture student in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, joins other Virginia Tech students in coming up with ingenious ideas to guide the evolution of the 377-acre Catawba Sustainability Center. One student even created an alternate reality for the center in the virtual world Second Life.
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