Welcome and welcome back! We have such a promising year ahead, and I encourage each of you to be involved in some way – through student chapters of professional organizations, through the student advisory board, as an ambassador or mentor – each time you step out to be a part of something bigger than yourself, you grow and everyone benefits. Join me for the Dean’s Welcome and Ice Cream Social in the Link on Wednesday, and you will learn what we have to celebrate and more about the exciting year ahead.
Kathy
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New Advisor Jaime DeTour
Take a minute to stop into the Student Success Center to welcome Jaime DeTour to our College! DeTour’s role will be to serve as the primary academic advisor to our undergraduate architecture and interior design students. DeTour comes to us from the UNL Admissions office where she was an Admissions
Counselor/Recruitment Specialist. She received her undergraduate degree from UNL with a BA in English and Minor in Education and graduated from Kansas State with her MA in English (where she co-authored a textbook on student success and resources for a freshman university experience course.)
Husker Email
Students – a quick reminder that your @huskers.unl.edu is the way we will officially communicate with you beginning this fall. All communications from the college will go to your @huskers.unl.edu email account.
Using this email account will ensure that you never miss important College of Architecture communications and will be connected to your MyRED and Canvas accounts. Additionally, you’ll use it to access university library services and software — like Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk products, Office 365 and more.
Helpful resources for setting up your @huskers.unl.edu email on your devices are at go.unl.edu/husker-email OR stop in the Student Success Office and we’ll help you get it set up!
Drop/Add Reminder
As you finalize your fall schedule this week, please keep in mind that the last day to Drop/Add courses freely is Tuesday, September 3
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. The tuition refund schedule is listed below:
The last day to drop and receive a
100%
refund is Tuesday, September 3
rd
The last day to drop and received a
75%
refund is Friday, September 6
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The last day to drop and received a
50%
refund is Friday, September 13
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The last day to drop and receive a
25%
refund is Friday, September 20
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Keep in mind that dropping/adding courses can impact your graduation or full-time status. If you have a question about dropping/adding courses PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR ADVISOR!
- Stephanie Kuenning
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Welcome back returning students and welcome new students! I hope you are as excited as I am to start a new academic year.
Over the summer, we had several UCARE students working with faculty members on design-research projects and creative activities. UCARE is a wonderful opportunity for our undergraduate students to work one-on-one with a faculty advisor while being paid. Professor Craig Babe and I were lucky to work with two amazing undergraduate students, Logan Altricher and Paige Haskett, on our co-authored book project on design-studio teaching pedagogy in architecture. We analyzed two major architectural precedents through drawing: Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and OMA’s Milstein Hall.
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Welcome back to the 2019-2020 school year! I hope that each of you had a fulfilling summer break and are looking forward to a semester of growth and achievement. We are welcoming a class of 32 first-year, pre-interior design students, 26 second-year students, 18 third-year students and 26 fourth-year students. In addition, we are welcoming a new faculty member, Kendra Locklear Ordia.
Ordia comes to us with successful practice and teaching experience and will have immediate positive impact on our program. She is a registered interior designer in the state of Texas and NCIDQ certified. Ordia’s professional experience includes working at Perkins + Will, Gensler and CallisonRTKL. Ordia’s academic experiences have included teaching positions at Kansas State and Texas State, and she earned her Master’s in Interior Design at University of Texas-Austin.
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COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
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The faculty in Community and Regional Planning welcomes all new and returning students to the campus and wishes everyone a successful and rewarding 2019-2020 academic year!
The Community and Regional Planning program offers undergraduate and graduate courses that are open to all majors, and the Master of Community and Regional Planning degree is open to students who have undergraduate degrees in virtually all fields. Think about supplementing your undergraduate degree with CRP courses, an undergraduate minor in CRP, as well as the MCRP degree! - Gordon Scholz
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The summer is ending, and it is time for everyone to migrate their way back to Architecture Hall for the start of a new academic year. Some things will be comfortably familiar, the stacks, the Link, the vending machines. Continuity is a good thing because it is something we build on. Nothing, however is ever really the same. For instance your favorite variety of Mountain Dew is now a dollar seventy five! Change is inevitable and somethings we have to deal with. With change comes new opportunities. For instance we will be welcoming new faculty in the Landscape Architecture Program. Yujia Wang will be joining our faculty as a professor of practice. He received his B Eng. in Landscape Architecture from Chongqing University, studied for one year at Cardiff University and graduated from Harvard University where he earned his MLA, graduating with distinction.
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ASLA News
Welcome back fellow peers! I hope you had a good summer. There is some exciting news for the American Society of Landscape Architects this year. We have a new office cabinet, and we’re planning some fun, new activities to pursue this year. One of those things is biweekly meetings starting Thursday, September 5
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at 5 PM in room 115. Some others to start getting excited about are professional mixers, new programming to encourage leadership, more fundraising for activities like kayaking and bowling, and potential trips to ASLA conferences like the student organized LA Bash. If you want more information about the club, stop by our stand at the Ice Cream Social that the College of Architecture holding this week.
-Darby Buckley
ASID/IIDA News
Welcome interior design students! ASID/IIDA is excited to kick off the semester with our first meeting on September 4
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at 5:00 pm in the Gallery, food will be provided. Whether you’ve been in college a few days or a few years, we would love for you to join us! We look forward to connecting with you at the Dean’s Ice Cream Social as well as on social media, and stay tuned for more exciting events!
-Lindsay Meyer
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Over the summer Daniel Piatkowski presented at the
Congress for the New Urbanism
conference and at that AARP Livable Communities: Rural Livability conference.
Rumiko Handa presented a paper at the Architecture Culture Spirituality Forum in Scottsdale, AZ, and spent four weeks participating in a faculty exchange program in Hannover, Germany.
Jeffrey L. Day gave two lectures in June as part of AIA Cincinnati's VISION program.
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STUDENT & FACULTY COMPETITIONS
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C
heck out the College of Architecture website for new internship and job
Plus, University of Nebraska Career Services encourages you to view a few of their new Full-Time job postings a
t
Handshake.
Check them out!
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Welcome Back Social
Date:
Aug 28
Time:
4:50-6 pm
Place:
Starts in Link & proceeds to East Lawn
Date:
Aug 29
Time:
6:30pm
Place:
Joslyn Art Museum
ASID/IIDA
Meeting
Date:
Sept. 04
Time:
5 pm
Place
: Gallery
ASLA Meeting
Date:
Sept. 05
Time:
5 pm
Place
: Arch Hall, Rm 115
Hyde Lecture:
PEGGY DEAMER
Date:
Sept. 06
Time:
4 pm
Place
: Richards Hall 15
Date:
Sept 19
Time:
8:15 am-4:15pm EDT
Date:
Sept. 25
Time:
1:30-2:30 pm
Place: Gaughan Multicultural Center Unity Room
150 Homecoming Week Festivities
Date:
Sept. 29 - Oct. 5
Time:
Varies
Place:
City and East campus
Click
here
for more details!
Hyde Lecture:
CLAIRE LATANE
Date:
Oct 7
Time:
4 pm
Place:
Richards Hall 15
London 50th Anniversary
Date:
Oct 11
Time:
5:30 pm
Place:
Wick Alumni Ctr
Date:
October 15
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Time
: 1-2pm
Place:
Nebraska Union City Campus Platte River Room
Date:
Oct 25
Time:
8 am
Place:
Architecture Hall
Hyde Lecture:
CARRIE STRICKLAND
Date:
Nov 08
Time:
4 pm
Place:
Richards Hall 15
Date:
Nov. 14
Time:
8 am
Place
: Architecture Hall
Hyde Lecture:
DANIEL PAROLEK
Date:
Nov 15
Time:
4 pm
Place:
Union Auditorium
Hyde Lecture:
GRAEME BROOKER
Date:
Nov 22
Time:
4 pm
Place:
Union Auditorium
Final Reviews
Date:
Dec 9-13
Final Exams
Date:
Dec 16-20
Grad & Prof
Commencement
Date:
Dec 20
Undergrad
Commencement
Date:
Dec 20
Date:
Feb. 20, 21, 2020
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