Maria Muñoz Named Winner of 2015 Olmsted Scholars Program
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has announced that fourth-year LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA) student Maria Muñoz was selected as the undergraduate winner of the 2015 Olmsted Scholars Program, the premier national…
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LSU Graphic Design Students Receive Nine 2015 AAF Baton Rouge Student Awards, including Best in Show!
LSU School of Art students received nine 2015 American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge Student Awards—three gold and six silver, including Best in Show. The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, recognize and…
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Greg Watson Named ACSA Distinguished Professor
Greg Watson, undergraduate coordinator and associate professor for the LSU School of Architecture, has been named 2014–15 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor. This award is among the highest honors an…
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Architecture Student Charlston Britton Jr. Named 2015 McNair Scholar
Charlston Britton Jr., a third-year undergraduate student in the LSU School of Architecture, is the second LSU architecture student to be selected as a Ronald E. McNair Research Scholar. The LSU Ronald E. McNair…
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Faculty & Alumni Named Forty Under 40 Honorees
The LSU College of Art & Design is proud to congratulate this year’s Forty Under 40 honorees named by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. The 2014 honorees include Jeff Carney, associate professor of…
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LoPresti Award Winning Publication the Perfect Gift for Graduates of LSU
LSU School of Architecture Professor Michael Desmond’s book, The Architecture of LSU (LSU Press, 2013), has won the 30th Annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Art Publication Award for excellence in art publishing for the copyright…
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LSU Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Program Ranked #1 in Nation
The undergraduate and graduate programs at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA) have once again received top rankings from DesignIntelligence magazine. The November/December 2014 issue of “America’s Best Architecture & Design…
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Graduates Find Rewarding and Fulfilling Positions at Outstanding Design Firms
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we often take time to recognize what we are thankful for in our lives. Two former LSU interior design students—Elena Proskurina and Kristen Fisher—are thankful to have found rewarding…
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LSU Students and Alumni Receive Prestigious, National Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects
LSU and the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture will be well represented at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting and EXPO in Denver on November 21, 2014, when a mix…
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Alumni Honoree Carmon Colangelo to Give Commencement Address at Fall Ceremony
LSU College of Art + Design’s 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Carmon Colangelo will deliver the commencement address at the fall graduation ceremony on December 19. Colangelo received his MFA in printmaking from…
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LSU Professor Bruce Sharky a Member of Winning International Team for Chinese Wetland Restoration Project
Bruce Sharky, Reich Teaching Professor at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, is a member of an international team that won a design competition for a greenbelt and river restoration project…
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Ceramics Professor Andy Shaw Selected for 2015 McKnight Residency
Andy Shaw, associate professor of ceramics at the LSU School of Art, was selected for a $6,000 2014 McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists. Shaw is one of five ceramic artists selected for this national…
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LSU Team Places Second in National Peterson Prize Competition for HABS Documentation of Fort Pike
A student team led by A. Hays Town Professor Ursula Emery McClure placed second in the 2014 Peterson Prize student competition for their HABS documentation of Fort Pike. The project was undertaken in spring…
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Tracy Manuel: Interior Design Student Extraordinaire
LSU interior design student Tracy Manuel is entering her senior year with a $30,000 scholarship from the Angelo Donghia Foundation and a job at Gensler, Houston, already in place. Tracy’s junior year was quite…
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Andy Shaw Wins Lautsch Family Award of Excellence at 2014 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
LSU ceramics professor Andy Shaw received the Lautsch Family Award of Excellence in the 48th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition, held from July 9–13 in State College, Pennsylvania. The…
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Kelli Scott Kelley Awarded the 2014 Michael Crespo Visual Artist Fellowship
Kelli Scott Kelley, professor of painting & drawing at the LSU School of Art, has been awarded the 2014 Michael Crespo Visual Artist Fellowship, administered through the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. The…
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Marsha Cuddeback Appointed to NCIDQ Champion Task Force
Ruth Z. McCoy Professor of Interior Design Marsha Cuddeback has been appointed to the National Council for Interior Design Qualification Champion Task Force. NCIDQ is the global leader in establishing standards of competence for…
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Myrsini Mamoli Receives Faculty Award of Merit for Best Doctoral Dissertation
Myrsini Mamoli, assistant professor of art history at the LSU School of Art, has received the Faculty Award of Merit for Best Doctoral Dissertation at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture. She was presented…
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Landscape Professor Receives Prestigious Grant to Research the American Catfish Industry
Forbes Lipschitz, assistant professor at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, has received a research development grant from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for her project,…
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One Graphic Design Professor, Three Grants
Richard Doubleday, assistant professor of graphic design at the LSU School of Art, has recently received three grants to help fund his research in areas ranging from modern Chinese graphic design to the 1930s…
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