The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Thérèse F. Tierney was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Illinois Informatics Institute where her research focuses on networked urbanism. In July, Tierney served as an external PhD examiner for Maryam Fazel, University of Sheffield, UK; thesis title: “Locative Media: from transcendental technologies to socio-formative spheres (an examination of the interface between place, agent and locative media).” More recently, Tierney’s invited essay, “Point Clouds, Locative Media, and Digitizing the Image of the City” will be published this December 2015 in Now, There: Scenes from a Post-Geographic City (Mimi Zeiger, Editor).