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UO students top finalists in building-products design competition
Two of the four finalists in an international design competition to foster nontoxic building products are University of Oregon students. The competition was open to both professional and student designers. The Red List Design Challenge carries $15,000 in cash prizes. The UO finalists are Zander Eckblad and Yin Yu.
Award-winning architect dies
The connection between Oregon and the United Kingdom just lost a champion. Architect Rick Mather, 75, who sponsored six UO students as interns in his award-winning firm, Rick Mather Architects (RMA), passed away April 20 after a short illness. Classmates, former faculty members, and colleagues were stunned as news spread.
Old Town serves as mixed-use lab
Think Nike in Beaverton. Google in Palo Alto. Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia. Corporate campuses aren’t unique, but having one downtown is. Helping design such a campus in a dynamic city like Portland is an even rarer opportunity, but that’s precisely what a cadre of University of Oregon graduate students are doing.
Kerns awarded grant examining architecture of women’s health centers
Architecture Adjunct Instructor Jolie Kerns has been awarded a $6,000 research grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society for her project "Interrogating Public Space: Architecture of Women's Health Centers."
Architecture professor ready to help produce green buildings with FIT
The new Facade Integrated Technologies (FIT) Testing Facility celebrated its completion April 15 with a “soft opening” that showcased the laboratory’s presence on the entire south face of Onyx Bridge.

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2013-14 Campus Planning and Real Estate GTF Position — .4 FTE
Campus Planning and Real Estate, in a strategic alliance with the Department of Architecture, is soliciting Architecture graduate student applications for a 2013-­14 GTF position as a Graduate Planning Assistant.
Spring 2013 Final Review Schedule
June 3-7, 2013 Final studio reviews for Architecture, Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecure.

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