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SAAHP Graduate Assistantships extended among Master of Architecture, MA in Art + Architectural History, MS in Historic Preservation programs

September 24th, 2012 by dalexander

With support from President Donald Farish, the SAAHP Graduate Assistantships Program has been extended beginning in Fall 2012 to now include all SAAHP graduate programs including the Master of Architecture, MA in Art + Architectural History, and MS in Historic Preservation programs, with more than 50 Graduate Assistantships available to students across the programs. The School offers one of the broadest based Graduate Assistantships programs in the country, with assistantships being a key feature advancing graduate student culture, supporting faculty/student research, and developing career opportunities for students.

The Master of Architecture program has featured Graduate Assistantships since its inception in 2001, with 20 assistantships per entering year and up to 40 overall. The Master of Architecture includes partial tuition credit as well as a paid assistantship component. The MA and MS programs include a paid assistantship component. Graduate Assistantships include on-campus opportunities to work with faculty research activities and initiatives such as the Community Partnerships Center, and off-campus opportunities with leading practitioners and organizations.

Posted by: dalexander September 24th, 2012
Tags: Graduate Assistantships  SAAHP  

SAAHP Associate Professor Patrick Charles and Spiegel Center offer Winter 2013 Architecture Study Abroad in Germany

September 21st, 2012 by dalexander

Professor Patrick Charles leads a 3-credit Study Abroad program to Germany in Wintersession 2013, in Arch 430/530 Special Topics: München BAU2013: Sustainable Insights. ARCH530 München BAU2013- Sustainable Insights provides students with a unique opportunity to get a sense of where the future in sustainability is headed. Students will travel to München, Germany, to discover the city, its contemporary and historical architecture and urban design. Students will also visit BAU2013, München’s world-class biennial trade fair exhibit on construction materials and technologies, which exhibits occupy the equivalent of 15 football fields and which offer numerous public conference on subjects of innovative architecture as well as recent and future “Team Germany” Solar Decathlon submissions. Students will visit many recently completed ground-breaking buildings, and meet with the innovative architecture firms and engineering practices who designed them.

Posted by: dalexander September 21st, 2012
Tags: Germany  Patrick Charles  Spiegel Center  Study Abroad  

Jo Ruoff from Aachen University, Germany joins SAAHP teaching Arch 331 Construction Materials + Assemblies II

September 21st, 2012 by dalexander

Jo Ruoff from Aachen University, Germany joins SAAHP Associate Professor Patrick Charles teaching Arch 331 Construction Materials and Assemblies II, as a Fall 2012 SAAHP Global Fellow. Ruoff’s appointment combines teaching remotely from Aachen, with two weeklong visits to the school for intensive interaction with students and colleagues. Ruoff is part of the “Counter Entropy Team” at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, who have completed a European Solar Decathlon entry. The interdisciplinary team from RWTH Aachen consists of almost 50 diploma and master students of architecture, structural -, mechanical-, technical and business engineering, as well as computer science, text-linguistics and disposal management.

Posted by: dalexander September 21st, 2012
Tags: Jo Ruoff  

designLAB, Boston led by Robert Miklos, FAIA back as Fall 2012 Architecture Teaching Firm in Residence

September 21st, 2012 by dalexander

designLAB, Boston returns to the SAAHP in Fall 2012 as a Teaching Firm in Residence, teaching Arch 515 Graduate Architectural Design Studio offered in conjunction with the Roger Williams University Community Partnerships Center (CPC). Principals Robert Miklos, FAIA and Sam Batchelor and Kelly Ard are the teaching group from designLAB, who will spend the semester focusing on community related projects for Meeting Street, Providence and the Adams Memorial Children’s Library in Central Falls, RI. designLAB’s work will be coordinated with HP 681 Graduate Rehabilitation Workshop, and School of Education coursework related to educational programming.

Posted by: dalexander September 21st, 2012
Tags: Architecture Teaching Firm in Residence  designLAB  Robert Miklos  

SAAHP Launches Womens Leadership Network at 2012 Alumni Weekend

September 21st, 2012 by dalexander

Supported by a 2012 RWU Presidents Inclusive Excellence Fund Grant to Dean Stephen White, SAAHP launched its Womens Leadership Network (WLN) at Alumni Weekend on June 9, 2012, in a session attended by 20+ graduates who returned to RWU, along with SAAHP deans and university leaders. The session focused on issues and potentials achievable through establishing womens’ leadership connections from K-12 through undergraduate and graduate school, alumni in the early part of their careers as well as senior professionals. Women students in SAAHP disciplines across the country are highly successful as students, yet are less represented in number and professional achievements than their early academic success would indicate.

Posted by: dalexander September 21st, 2012
Tags: Alumni Weekend  Womens Leadership Network  
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