This Week in the College of Design

May 07, 2012

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In The News

Four Design Faculty Earn Promotions
At its April 26 meeting in Cedar Falls, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved promotions for three Iowa State University College of Design faculty members for the 2012-2013 academic year. Those promoted to associate professor with tenure are Emily Godbey, art and design, and Jihyun Song, interior design. Francis Owusu, already a tenured associate professor of community and regional planning, was promoted to full professor. In addition, Steven Herrnstadt, a tenured professor of graphic design, was awarded the title of University Professor by Iowa State. Herrnstadt will be recognized at the university's annual fall convocation in September. All promotions take effect at the beginning of the fall semester. A full news release will be online later this week.

Looking Forward: Anderson Plans Plentiful Retirement Pursuits
Genealogy. Photography. Music. Children and grandchildren. Any one of these is enough to keep someone busy, full time. But it's just part of the list that Professor Paul Anderson plans to devote himself to after retirement from the Iowa State University Departments of Landscape Architecture and Agronomy. That's not to say that Anderson hasn't kept busy over nearly four decades, enriching the departments with innovative leadership as well as distinguished teaching. It's just that he's focused on his next act.
> See http://home.design.iastate.edu/news.php?ARTICLEID=508

Hightshoe Turns Attention From Teaching to Family, Travel and Publishing Projects
Gary Hightshoe spent a good part of his childhood tromping around the woods: His father, a general contractor and home builder, has a degree in botany and his mother is an artist, so both parents found creative and professional inspiration in the plants, animals, bugs and fungi in Iowa's woodland areas. Looking back, it's not surprising that Hightshoe--who was always growing, making, building, collecting, drawing and designing something outdoors as a kid--would find himself attracted to landscape architecture when he entered college. Forty-seven years later, this professor of landscape architecture is retiring from Iowa State University, where he has made his mark with a nationally recognized book and innovative contributions to curriculum development that’s touched the lives of hundreds of students.
> See http://home.design.iastate.edu/news.php?ARTICLEID=509

Coming Full Circle: Mahayni Wraps Up Distinguished Career of Teaching and Professional Service
Thirty-three years ago, Riad G. Mahayni joined the fledgling Department of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University. At the time there were six faculty members and "a few handfuls of students." Though the planning program could trace its roots to courses taught in the early 1920s and had been a department since 1973, it was only with the move to the new College of Design in 1978 and Mahayni's appointment as chair that CRP really came into its own at Iowa State. Mahayni left for a few years to travel halfway around the globe for a career-defining planning project, but returned to Ames again to continue to make an impact on the university and the city. And now, he's ready for the next step--retirement.
> See http://home.design.iastate.edu/news.php?ARTICLEID=510

Two Iowa State Architecture Students Offer Waverly an Outdoor Amphitheater Design
What started out as a favor turned into an award-winning design project and volumes of life experience for two Iowa State architecture students. Ann Cashman, Waverly, and Darian Lu, Shanghai, are graduating this weekend with Bachelor of Architecture degrees. The two volunteered their time to design an outdoor amphitheater for the City of Waverly that even the neighbors like. And, not only did it win second place in a national community design competition, it's likely to be built.
> See http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2012/may/Architecture-Waverly

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Did You Know?

Summer Building Hours
The College of Design building will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily (seven days/week) from today, May 7, through Sunday, Aug. 19. We will resume normal building hours beginning with the first day of fall-semester classes, Monday, Aug. 20.

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Announcements

Catalog Changes, AAC Chair Approved
The catalog changes for 2013-14 and Cameron Campbell's nomination as chair of the Academic Affairs Council were approved by faculty via electronic ballot, with results announced at the April 30 faculty-staff meeting. Thanks to everyone who participated in the voting.

Register by May 11 for Student Assistance 2012 Higher Education Case Management Roundtable
Faculty and staff are invited to attend all or part of the 2012 Higher Education Case Management Roundtable, May 29-31 at Iowa State. Learn more about ISU's student assistance model and how to establish broad institutional support and appreciation for the emerging student affairs specialization in student assistance--an interdisciplinary student-development model that supports retention by prioritizing students' academic and personal success. Student assistance integrates case management concepts from the areas of student development, social work, threat assessment and counseling psychology. More information on the roundtable is at http://new.dso.iastate.edu/sa/2012-roundtable/schedule

There are two options for your participation. By registering at https://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/isuroundtable/quickregister.html, you can attend the conference keynote by Gene Deisinger, student assistance panel discussion, luncheon and afternoon breakout sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at no cost. You can also choose to opt in to additional meals and networking opportunities for additional costs. If you wish to register for the entire program, including the pre-conference "Case Management 101" workshop, you can do so via the Registration link at http://new.dso.iastate.edu/sa/2012-roundtable (note that this requires a registration fee). Please register for either the free May 30 events or the entire program by 5 p.m. Friday, May 11.

VRC Closed May 14 through Mid-August
The Visual Resources Collection will be closed from Monday, May 14, until the week of Aug. 13 (exact date to be determined) to accommodate Curator Susan Poague's phased retirement schedule. As always, she will be checking email daily through the summer and will post occasionally to the VRC Facebook page. You can reach her at sapaogue@iastate.edu.

Register by May 17 for Conference on Assessing Expertise in Policy Controversies
We are increasingly dependent on advice from experts in making decisions in our personal, professional and civic lives. But as our dependence on experts has grown, new media have broken down the institutional barriers between the technical, personal and civic realms, and we are inundated with purported science from all sides. Many share a sense that science has lost its "rightful place" in our deliberations.

"Between Scientists and Citizens: Assessing Expertise in Policy Controversies," a conference scheduled June 1 and 2 at Iowa State, will gather scholars from the humanities and social sciences to help deepen our understanding of effective and appropriate science communication in policy controversies. Register by May 17 online at https://sites.google.com/site/gpssarg/isu-registration. For more information, contact Jean Goodwin, goodwin@iastate.edu. The conference is cosponsored by the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Strengthening the Professorate @ISU, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Departments of English and Philosophy, and the Speech Communication Program.

ISA Lecturer Michael Stanley's Commissioned Artwork to be Unveiled May 23 at Jester Park
A formed-steel elk sculpture by Michael Stanley, lecturer in integrated studio arts, will be unveiled at the grand opening reception for the Elk and Bison Educational Plaza at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 23, at Shelter #6 in Polk County's Jester Park. The sculpture, which is 6'4" tall, 6' long and 2'6" deep, is an abstract representation of a recumbent elk based on its original lines as well as the lines of the prairie that is the animal's home, Stanley said. "It is made out of metal to refer to the industrial age that made them leave their natural habitat here in Iowa," he said. Jester Park can be reached by taking exit 127 off Interstate 35 and traveling 6.5 miles west on Highway 141.

ISA Professor Ingrid Lilligren's Work in Two Summer Invitationals
Work by Ingrid Lilligren, professor and director of integrated studio arts, has been selected for two exhibitions this summer. Lilligren created "Sam's Rocks" (9" x 15" x 7", porcelain with crystalline and high-fired glazes) in honor of renowned woodworker Sam Maloof for the Sculpture in the Garden invitational exhibition, April 26 through June 21 at the Maloof Discovery Garden in Alta Loma, Calif. Two of her artworks, "Foreign Aid, Part A" (pit-fired stoneware) and "Foreign Aid, Part 4" (wood and salt-fired porcelain), will be on view in the "TOUCH: The World at Your Fingertips" invitational exhibition from July 4 to Oct. 28 at the Claude Verdan Foundation/Museum of the Hand – MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Faculty Senate Presents Memorial Resolutions for Howard Heemstra and John Stephens Rice
Memorial resolutions for Howard Heemstra (1928-2011), professor emeritus of architecture, and John Stephens Rice (1924-2011), retired adjunct associate professor of architecture, were presented by the Faculty Senate at its meeting last Tuesday, May 1. The resolution for Heemstra may be downloaded at http://www.design.iastate.edu/ANNOUNCEMENTS/FILEDIR/HowardHeemstra_MemorialResolution.pdf. The resolution for Rice is available at http://www.design.iastate.edu/ANNOUNCEMENTS/FILEDIR/JohnRice_MemorialResolution.pdf.

Register by June 1 for Sukkahville 2012 Design Competition
Architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals are invited to submit design proposals for the second annual Sukkahville Design Competition. Design a temporary, freestanding Sukkah to be built in Toronto's Mel Lastman Square on the eve of the Jewish festival of Sukkot in September. More information is available at http://www.sukkahville.com/design-competition. Register by June 1 if you plan to participate.  

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Events, Lectures & Exhibitions

Alumni Days Open House
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 11, in Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
> See http://home.design.iastate.edu/events.php?CID=2335