Associate Professor Mark Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. He will be leading the division’s 2011-2012 conferences in Denver and Los Angeles. His Urban Design Lab has received a grant from Camp Lutherwood in western Oregon to develop a master plan for the site through a participatory process.

Professor Kevin Nute presented an exhibition of the work of  his ‘Healing Healthcare Spaces’ design studio to the Northwest  Architecture for Health Panel in August, and has also contributed a chapter on ‘Japanese Art as a Means to Organic Architecture’ for the forthcoming book Reception et diffusion en Occident de l’espace architectural et de l’art des jardins du Japon (Paris: French School of Far Eastern Studies, 2011).