ENDS Matriarch

Not content with doing volunteer work, Shirley Ankenmann is getting her architecture degree at Texas A&M University — and at 72, she’s the oldest student on campus and proud of it. The senior Aggie also is a proud grandmother — all the more so because her grandson, Michael Wilson, is a fellow architecture student.
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• College of Architecture defining
  vanguard of emerging technology
• Building Information Modeling moving
  to forefront of architectural education
• Prof's research expected to prove
  merits of using BIM in construction
• Student incorporates BIM technology
  into fun, instructional video game

• College of Architecture focuses
  on Interdiciplinary Initiatives
• Interdisciplinary graduate studio tackles
  ACSA preservation design competition

• New bachelor program in Urban and Regional Science
  focuses on broad-based multidisciplinary curriculum
• Sustainable urbanism conference eyes
  new paradigms in urban change
• Architecture students ready
  for 2007 Solar Decathlon
• Internationally acclaimed 'green' architect,
  Ken Yeang, visits, gives lecture
• Houston, Austin seminars teach
  energy managers how to cut costs
• Historic Preservation Symposium
  eyes Texas' World War II heritage
• Professor assists Texas religious
  heritage conservation initiative
• Students assist Beaumont
  with urban renewal project
• Jon Rodiek advancing research and
  education in landscape architecture
• Charles Culp to participate
  in 'Green Building Initiative'
• Conference explores murders of
  young women in Ciudad Juárez

• Roger Ulrich earns 2007 Bush
  Excellence Award for Research
• Professors' inventiveness recognized
  with patent and innovation award
• Attractiveness study shows
  something in the way we move
• Symposium showcases College
  of Architecture faculty research
• Faculty research symposium concept
  gains popularity at other universities
• Professor getting couch
  potatoes up and walking
• Lang, Avatar create plastic tube
  home for temporary housing
• Student's research links health
  disparities to community design
• NSF grant to fund analysis of
  city management performance
• Culp, Ugursal earn BSA grant to
  study thermal comfort variables
• TRC gains college-wide access to
  ACADIA's CumInCAD Database

• HKS chairman, Skaggs, discusses
  specialized healthcare facilities
• George Mann: Pioneering
  health care facilities design
• ASHE honors professor Mann’s 40-year
  contribution to healthcare architecture
• College celebrates 40-year focus on
  healthcare architecture, planning
• Noted British architect, Paul Hyett, to lecture
  at Texas A&M College of Architecture
• Professor Mann speaks in London on Texas
  A&M's Architecture For Health program
• Texas A&M Architecture students to unveil
  designs for Boca Raton, Fla. medical center
• Students launch hospital design
  collaboration with trip to Boca Raton
• Architecture students unveil designs
  for new Health Science Center campus
• Students present design concepts
  for new Twin City Mission facility
• Scholarships awarded to healthcare
  architecture students at CHSD event
• Architecture students design
  Hempstead Women's Shelter

• Grandmother heads back to college to
  become oldest student at Texas A&M
• Texas A&M architecture students design facility,
  master plan for Museum of the American G.I.
• Architecture students get structures
  lesson while deconstructing couch
• Landscape students assist with
  design of new Buffalo Bayou Park

• College hosts four visiting artists as part of
  Spring 2007 Artists in Residence program
• Hill's Qatar sculpture honors Arab
  contributions to arts and sciences
• Professor exploring robust, low-cost,
  spatially immersive display systems
• Visualization program featured on
  PBS "State of Tomorrow" program
• Viz-a-GoGo 14 heads
  back to drawing board
• Aggie filmmaker's club presents
  SWAMPFEST April 27 at Langford
• He installation to provide architectural
  interpretation of John Hejduck poem
• DreamWorks and plays at
  College of Architecture
• DreamWorks chief Katzenberg reviews
  architecture visualization student work
• ENDS student's final project includes
  avant-garde performances in Langford

• Bame, Randle honored for contributions
  to local United Way, 2-1-1 referral service
• HRRC faculty feted as top
  Texas A&M newsmakers
• Clayton elected to ACADIA post
• Hill earns yet another honors program honor:
  2007 Wells Fargo Honors Faculty Mentor Award
• Hill honored as educator, receives a Segway
• Hill's career highlighted in
  Texas A&M's 'Faculty Focus'
• Rodney Hill tells Battalion:
  Creativity is key to learning
• Spanish prof's firm wins
  interior design award
• Anat Geva re-elected to National
  Council for Preservation Education
• Geva elected to Association of
  Preservation Technology Board
• Prof Roger Ulrich named
  ASLA Honorary Member
• Rodiek accepts Seniors Housing Care
  Journal Award from NIC in Chicago
• Professor receives Award of Recognition from
  Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture

• Design Process students dominate
  annual ideas competition - again!"
• ENDS 101 student team wins National
  Entrepreneurship Week USA Challenge
• Texas A&M senior Faye Hays
  selected as Marshall Scholar
• URS Ph.D. student earns $25K
  Robert Wood Johnson grant
• Architecture Ph.D student
  receives ARCC/King Medal
• BED major, Farr, nominated for
  Morris K. Udall Scholarship
• Ph.D. student's essay on Chinese land reform
  earns 2nd place in international competition
• Construction science team places
  4th in NAHB residential competition
• Student lensman exhibits work
  at juried show in Colorado
• Perserverance pays off for Fall
  2006 Gene Murphree scholar

• Texas A&M College of Architecture
  honors seven Outstanding Alumni
• Former student offers exclusive preview
  of the new Dallas Cowboy Stadium
• Class of '57 reunites, endows college's
  first class-sponsored sholarship
• Donor launches David Pugh Scholarship
• Geren named 2007 Distinguished
  Alumni of Texas A&M University
• Shepley dines with group
  of Ph.D. alumi in Korea
• College of Architecture honors
  8 outstanding former students
• Architecture professor emeritus
  Teb Maffitt succumbs to illness
• College's oldest alum, Wilfred
  A. Fischer, dies at 101
• LAUP former students receive Merit Awards
  at April 2007 ASLA Texas State Conference
• Dallas Morning News article focuses on
  Burnett's transformation of fern industry

• Academic summit eyes collaboration
  in the built environment disciplines
• Distinguished architecture firm focuses on
  design's ability to empower and transform
• College posts banner mourning
  shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech
• College of Architecture hosts
  Spring Lecture Series speakers

• Mexican academicians, students
  tour college, visit Houston firms
• New study abroad fund benefits
  construction science students