Three College of Architecture faculty recently received awards to help fund their research through the 2006 Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities, offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University.

The program supports scholarly and creative activities in disciplines such as the humanities and arts where external funding is typically unavailable.

The College of Architecture faculty who received funding from this initiative are:

Jorge Vanegas, architecture professor and director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development, for “The Colonias of Texas through the Eyes and the Voices of their People: A Human Baseline;”

Carol LaFayette, associate professor in the Department of Architecture’s visualization science program, for “Inside a Living Ant Colony: A View Underground;” and

Wei Yan, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture’s visualization science program, for “Integrating Video Tracking and Virtual Reality in Environmental Behavior Study: An Interdisciplinary Approach.”