Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University

Freshmen experience Costa Rica

A field trip to the active Arenal volcano and a zip-line tour of the nearby Monteverde Cloud Forest were just a few highlights of the May 2009 minimester studio offered to 21 top College of Architecture freshmen at Texas A&M’s new Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica.

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McLaughlin delivers keynote address

Tim McLaughlin (right), head of the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University, discussed how entertainment technology development is driven by the need for creative expression as keynote speaker for an international conference of the electronic display industry held June 3 in San Antonio.

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fall 2009

Pictured above: Texas A&M architecture students pause near the active Arenal volcano on a field trip during a May minimester class held at the university’s new Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica.