Congratulations to Professor of Architecture, Ihab Elzeyadi, for being elected to the ARCC Board of Directors as their new Vice President and President-Elect. Elzeyadi is an architect, building scientist, and professor of architecture who has been engaged in the design, construction, and research of high-performance buildings for over 30 years.

The White House awarded both Mass Timber and Semiconductor industries $500,000. The award will help tech hubs, like the Pacific Northwest Mass Timber Tech Hub, expand their impact in the state.

The School of Architecture & Environment is helping to tackle housing insecurity alongside community partners. In early April, Habitat for Humanity of Central Lane (HFHCL) was building five tandem homes in Cottage Grove in collaboration with University of Oregon architecture students, and six tandem homes at Springfield’s Fisher Village development, the HFHCL's largest housing project.

Melanie Guyer, MArch, and Allyssa Corpuz, BArch, were awarded scholarships by the Architecture Foundation of Oregon. Guyer received the 2024 Hatfield Scholarship and Corpuz received the 2024 Hart Scholarship. Congratulations to both students!

Thanks to the Hart Howerton Fellowship, Rigel Wakil earned an opportunity to explore and research traditional Japanese inns, Ryokans, on a planned research trip later that summer. Close to a year later, Wakil returned to the College of Design and presented his findings to the School of Architecture & Environment (SAE).

"The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook", the latest publication from Professor of Architecture Nico Larco and Kaarin Knudson, AIA, MArch '07, builds on the university's storied reputation as a leading sustainable design school with a substantive, yet approachable handbook that gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from numerous fields to flesh out the ideas of sustainable urban design.

Timberlab, collaborator with leading academic research programs at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and the Tall Wood Design Institute and a leading national provider of holistic mass timber systems, announced its plans to construct and operate a state-of-the-art cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing facility in Oregon's mid-Willamette region.

Professor Emeritus Kevin Nute and SAE have reason to celebrate. Nute's latest book, "Embodied Time: Temporal Cues in Built Spaces", was shortlisted for a 2024 Architectural Book Award. The book explores how architectural and spatial cues can shape our perception and experience of time within constructed spaces.