University of Florida
In This Issue
Published and presented
Upcoming events
ER Bartley Lecture
Capece steps down
Students win design award
Design Field Experience in second year
Provost visits Fab Lab
Published and Presented

 

This month, Charlie Hailey, associate professor of architecture, travels to Macedonia on a Fulbright Scholarship at State University in Tetovo, where he will present lectures, lead design workshops, and participate in studio reviews. His essay "Burn after Building" appears in the December 2011 issue of the design journal ICON. Earlier this year, he was an invited speaker at University of California - Irvine Design Alliance's "Narrating Objects and Environments" Symposium with Geoff Manaugh and Sean Adams.

Doctoral student Everett Henderson presented a paper at the ACSA conference "Local Identities Global Challenges" in Houston on Oct. 8. The paper titled "The Culture of a Machine-Crafted Architecture: The First Tournalaid Communities" was presented in the paper session Legacies and People and will be published.

 

BCN students win carving contest

 

Two BCN students took home first-place prizes during the 29th Annual Pumpkin Carve-Off on Oct. 27, hosted by Shands of the University of Florida. BCN senior 1 Ian Nichols won first place in the student-carved pumpkin category, and BCN senior 1 Robert Erickson took first in the children's-themed pumpkin category.

 

 

New look for

UF's website 

 

The University of Florida's homepage will have an updated look beginning today. This facelift is an intermediate step as part of long-term efforts to maintain a contemporary and frequently refreshed web presence for the university. The new "skin" for www.ufl.edu maintains all links previously found on the UF homepage.

 

Templates for the intermediate UF homepage design will be available in both a WordPress and an HTML format in January 2012, for those university colleges, academic and administrative units that would like to use them. 

 

University of Florida 

Open Enrollment period under way
  
Each year, the annual benefits Open Enrollment period gives employees an opportunity to look at their existing benefit plans to evaluate any anticipated needs and to make adjustments for the upcoming plan year. This year, two distinct open enrollment periods will be held based on state- and university-sponsored plans. Changes to your benefits can be made only during the following enrollment periods:
  
- State-sponsored plans: Nov. 7-18
- UF-sponsored plans: Oct. 7-Nov. 18
 
Both state and UF Open Enrollment periods will end on Nov. 18, 2011, by 6 p.m.
 
For more information, click here.  
 
 

 

Upcoming Events 

 

Veteran's Day 

Nov. 11 

Holiday - no classes 

 

Gathering for Barbara Cleveland's retirement

Nov. 14

3:30 - 5 p.m.

Dean's Conference Room

Light hors d'oeuvres and punch provided

 

DCP Gallery - International Education Week 2011

Nov. 14-18

Nov. 14, 5 p.m. - Reception (in the gallery)

 

 

Teaching help site for faculty

 

UF has developed a site, at teach.ufl.edu that is intended to provide support in attaining and maintaining teaching excellence. 

The site offers faculty a place to go for teaching resources involving technology, including help for grad/teaching assistants. Also, be sure to check out the interactive "How do I?" link on the right-hand side of the page.

 

     

Free online

computer training

 

Have you ever wanted to learn more about PowerPoint? Or Photoshop? InDesign? SharePoint?

 

These and more than 1,000 other courses are now available free of cost for UF faculty, staff, and students through Lynda.com.

 

You can access it by going to www.it.ufl.edu/training and clicking on the Lynda.com link.

 

 

 

  

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DCP News                   Nov. 7, 2011

 Congratulations, Interior Design! 

 

The Department of Interior Design's undergraduate program was ranked 3rd across the nation by DesignIntelligence in the 2012 rankings. In addition, the interior design graduate program ranked 7th in the nation. For more info, click here.
 

 E.R. Bartley lecturers discuss growth management in Florida

Dean Christopher Silver (from left), Charles Pattison of 1000 Friends of Florida, David Tillis of WilsonMiller Stantec, Inc., Kristin Larsen, chair and associate professor of the urban and regional planning department, and Richard Schneider, professor and graduate coordinator of the urban and regional planning department.

 

Florida's growth management: Where are we, and where are we going? That was the topic of this year's E.R. Bartley Memorial Lecture Series, presented by the University of Florida and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

 

Charles Pattison of 1000 Friends of Florida and David Tillis of WilsonMiller Stantec, Inc., were the lecturers at the standing-room only event held on Oct. 27 at the UF Hilton Hotel and Conference Center.

 

>To read the full story, visit DCP's blog, Columns.

>To view the entire lecture on video, please click here

 

 

 Director of development steps down

Lynne Capece stepped down at the end of October after more than three years as DCP's director of development.

"Lynne has done an outstanding job raising funding and establishing and nurturing donor and alumni relationships for DCP since she came on board in 2008," said Dean Christopher Silver. "Her hard work and success have not gone unappreciated by us - or by others."

Lynne has since joined the College of Medicine as a director of development in the Department of Surgery. In her career, she served first as a physician's assistant, and then in various health care administrative roles for 20 years prior to switching to development. 

 

While the search for Lynne's replacement is under way, any questions regarding development issues should be referred to Debbie Herman at [email protected].

 ARC students win design competition

 

Award-winning "Connecting Living" design by architecture master's students Andrew Hazen-Hamilton, Songchai Asawaprecha, Joo Seung Lee, and Jourdona La Fate.

Four architecture master's students won first place in the AARP /American Institute of Architecture Students 2011 Livable Communities Phase 2: Building Student Design Competition.

The students, Andrew Hazen-Hamilton, Songchai Asawaprecha, Joo Seung Lee, and Jourdona LaFate, designed a project titled "Connected Living" that centered on a pedestrian-friendly design bridging Orlando's urban core and new train and bus stations with the adjacent residential area across the interstate.

 

Students were asked to use the features present in the community master plans submitted to last year's AARP competition and to further investigate the designs for ways to improve on and grow the ideas of the livable community. The AARP and the AIAS were looking for "attractive, flexible and user-friendly housing designs that utilize the basic ideas of sustainability, accessibility, livability and visitability." 

Design Field Experience now in second year  

The above image is from a charrette exercise completed by DCP students in Germany as part of the 2011 Design Field Experience program. Charged with addressing the issue of needing more greenery as well as places of rest, the group designed this bench comprised of thousands of small honeycombs, each with three levels of flex. 

 

The Department of Interior Design's Design Field Experience program is now in its second year at DCP. All students who have completed their junior year in the program are required to gain field experience in order to enrich their learning and provide valuable real-world experience. While most students opt for the internship track, other options currently exist, including study abroad, service learning and research experience.

 

"The way we have structured the field experience for our students was lauded in the department's recent CIDA reaccreditation review [Feb. 2011]," said Margaret Portillo, professor and department chair. "The team was pleased that we not only gave students the opportunity to do internships but also encouraged undergraduate research, study abroad programs having unique opportunities for product, interior design and construction as well as those that offered hands-on service learning for low-income populations. The DFE is an exciting program that is only gaining momentum."

 

For more information, click here. 

University's provost visits Fab Lab 

Provost Joseph Glover and Peggy Carr, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students and Academic Affairs, discuss the use of equipment in the A2 Fabrication Laboratory for construction of sophisticated models exploring architectural design alternatives.

 

Joseph Glover, UF provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, recently visited the Art and Architecture Fabrication Laboratory, or A� Fab Lab, during an award ceremony.

 

The open-door event, held on Oct. 21, allowed visitors to view the lab's technologies as well as student work completed in the Fab Lab.

Located in the Architecture Building, the lab currently houses three primary technologies - laser cutters, 3D printing and 3D scanning, each of which provides different ways of bridging between physical and digital realm.

The Fab Lab was founded as a joint venture between the College of Design, Construction and Planning and the College of Fine Arts, started largely from grant work conducted by Mark McGlothlin, associate professor of architecture, and Jack Stenner, assistant professor of art and art history.

The majority of the funding came from a grant from UF's Division of Sponsored Research, which was supplemented with funding from the college to help renovate the facilities.

 

The Rinker School held its fall Career Fair on Oct. 18 at the O'Connell Center. The career fair was attended by more than 40 companies and roughly 200 students and visi­tors.

 

Two graduate courses, Cultural Resource Management and Historic Preservation Practices, visit the Parades-Dodge House during an Oct. 16 field trip to St. Augustine with Herschel Shepard, FAIA, authority on St. Augustine architecture (retired). Photo courtesy of Ruoniu Wang.

 

 

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- Ginny Lawrimore, Editor
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