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  • CyberArts Showcase features artistic exploration of CAVE technology, live web cast
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-04-08)
    Experience a 21st-century exploration of the place where art and science/technology meet, where reality and cyber worlds collide. The CyberArts Showcase, an innovative, virtual art museum of student works that uses technology to create inventive, interactive worlds of digital art, will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 15, at Torgersen Hall on Virginia Tech's campus. Roberto Bocci, multimedia artist and professor of digital art at Georgetown University will open the event.
  • Frank Weiner wins first place in the competition for EAAE Prize 2003 - 2005
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-03-16)
    Frank H. Weiner, associate professor in the School of Architecture + Design has won the European Association for Architectural Education Prize 2003 -- 2005. A biennial international competition on the subject of architectural education, the EAAE Prize was first awarded in 1991, "with the aim to stimulate original writings on the subject of architectural education in order to improve the quality of architectural education in Europe."
  • Gary Wamsley honored with emeritus status
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-03-14)
    Gary L. Wamsley, of Blacksburg, professor of public administration in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, was conferred with the title "Professor Emeritus" by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board's quarterly meeting Monday, March 14.
  • Industrial Design Program students complete Interdesign workshop in South Africa
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-05-26)
    Students from Virginia Tech's Industrial Design Program, in the School of Architecture + Design completed a two week workshop in South Africa, taking part in Interdesign 2005. The students were one of only three student groups selected to participate in an international program for mid-career design professionals, that this year explored the design of sustainable transportation in rural South Africa.
  • Industrial Design Program to present work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-05-10)
    Virginia Tech's Industrial Design Program, part of the School of Architecture + Design has been selected to present their work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center in New York May 14-17. Virginia Tech and five other schools were winners of the ICFF Design School competition and the winning work will be exhibited at the fair.
  • Institute for Policy Outreach works to ensure safe and reliable sources of water
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-05-09)
    Virginia Tech's Institute for Policy Outreach (IPO) is continuing a partnership with the New River Valley Development Corporation to develop a New River Valley Regional Water Authority. The Regional Water Authority will help meet the region's ongoing water supply needs in case of drought and shortages brought on by the contamination of traditional water sources. The project is currently evaluating the combination of eight separate local water systems into one comprehensive authority.
  • Interior design students are finalists in the Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-05-26)
    Students from Virginia Tech's Interior Design Program in the School of Architecture + Design are finalists in Hospitality Design Magazine's annual Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement. Four finalists were selected in the Student Project category and two of those winners were Virginia Tech interior design students.
  • Interior design students win two IDEC Student Design Competition awards
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-04-06)
    Interior Design students in the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech won two of the four awards presented in the 2004-2005 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Student Design Competition. Winners were selected at the International IDEC Conference in Savannah, Ga. with Virginia Tech Interior Design students winning second place and honorable mention.
  • National Geographic photographer to speak at Landscape Architecture Symposium
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-04-07)
    The Virginia Tech Landscape Architecture Symposium, held April 14-16 on Virginia Tech's campus, features a keynote speech by renowned National Geographic photographer and motivational speaker Steve Uzzell. Symposium events also include a two-day Rain Garden Workshop, lectures from landscape architecture professionals, a career fair, and workshops that include portfolio reviews.
  • Students win honorable mention in the ACSA/Steel Tube Institute Charrette
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-03-23)
    Three students in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech received an honorable mention award in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)/Steel Tube Institute Charrette at the ACSA 2005 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ill.
  • Virginia Tech's architecture program ranked in the top 10
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-03-11)
    The architecture program in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design has once again been ranked among the very best in America.
  • Wilma Dunaway wins the Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography
    Watson-Bloch, Cathy (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-05-02)
    Wilma Dunaway, of Blacksburg, associate professor of government and international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, has won the Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography.