Check out this year’s Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts poster, which was designed by graphic design alumna Saige Sommese:  statecollege.com/articles/centr…

SCDC Director José Pinto Duarte co-authored a paper by former post-doc Fernando Lima titled "A Grammar-Based Optimization Approach for Designing Urban Fabrics and Locating Amenities for 15-Minute Cities” that was won MDPI Buildings 2022 Best Paper Award. mdpi.com/2075-5309/12/8…

Design plans for the restoration of the historic ponds and waterways at the Awbury Arboretum in Philadelphia earned landscape architecture alum + LandConcepts principal Dave Cavanaugh the Stormwater Pioneers Award from the Philadelphia Water Department. 🥳

Architecture profs Lisa Iulo & Ute Poerschke, along with Ph.D. student Jie Li, are investigators on an interdisciplinary project aimed at improving the accuracy of building energy predictions that has received IEE at Penn State funding. More: psu.edu/news/institute…

Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture Ken Tamminga will retire June 30 after 31 years at Penn State. Story: psu.edu/news/arts-and-…

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Peter Stempel is part of an interdisciplinary research team that earned a seed grant from IEE at Penn State to better show communities the dangers of future flooding and failing levees due to climate change. Story: psu.edu/news/institute…

Architecture PhD candidate Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman's research centers on helping robots become more aware of their physical environment so designers can enable new materialization techniques that have not been possible up to this point. Story: bit.ly/45xpcEl

We Are..thrilled to welcome designer, activist + educator Brooke Hull to our Dept. of Graphic Design faculty. Hull focuses their research on fatness + marginalized identity to expand design education + education, in general, for every human body. bit.ly/GD-newhire

Our annual Student Awards Gallery exhibition is now up in the Rouse Gallery! If you are in town this summer, be sure to swing by the Stuckeman Family Building to see some of the award-winning work our students produced during the 2023-24 academic year. Here’s a sneak peek 👀

🌱 This research team is investigating why actual energy use in homes can be much higher or lower than what is predicted by computer models, aiming to improve the accuracy of building energy predictions. buff.ly/3Ry3t9L PSU Stuckeman School Penn State Geography College of EMS

It's just about that time in Happy Valley! The Central PA Arts Festival starts later this week so if you're in town, plan to stop by the Stuckeman Family Building to check out some of our students' award-winning work in the Student Awards Gallery in Rouse!

Work from the late Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Graphic Design Lanny Sommese will be featured in “Hintzpiration: Artistry at the Alumni Center,” an art exhibition running July 12-13 as part of the Central PA Arts Fest. Learn more: bit.ly/3xTCkr8

Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Paul Daniel Marriott + Emeritus Architecture Professor Dan Willis have co-authored a chapter in a new Routledge handbook that focuses on greening high-density cities. Learn more: bit.ly/3L72FF6

We are thrilled to welcome Spanish architect and educator Amadeu Santacana to our Department of Architecture this fall! He comes to Penn State after teaching at the ESTAV-UPC in Spain since 2005. Learn more about his work + career. bit.ly/4bIB7AP

Michael McIntyre, graphic design alum + CEO of MOCEAN, urges young creatives to get to work embracing the new AI tools to become more competitive, more productive, and more employable in this Fast Company piece: bit.ly/3zFlQDC

For those who couldn't make it to the Central Arts Fest or didn't have time to come to the Rouse Gallery in the Stuckeman Family Building, here is a virtual tour of the Student Awards Gallery: bit.ly/4d7OjjJ

Marc Miller, associate professor of landscape architecture, has been named our inaugural associate director for access, wellbeing and equity. He will oversee the three 2024-25 DI Fellows + the first cohort of AWE Ambassadors. Story: bit.ly/4fgsOze

Architecture Professor + Hamer Center for Community Design Director Lisa Iulo was named U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2024 Faculty Award winner! Learn more about her accomplishments in this role as well as the prestigious award: bit.ly/3zYyxt8

Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman, whose doctoral research focused on helping robots become more aware of their physical environment, will graduate this weekend with his Ph.D. in Architecture. Learn more about Özgüc's impressive work: bit.ly/4fjw4df

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