Congratulations to the ID Graduating Class of 2009

Kelsey Baker, Lauren Black, Laura Booth, Amy Feekin, Amanda Fietz, Lydia Frost, Marissa Gomez, Kristen Hanks, Devereaux Hines, Khoi Hoang, Casey Jarma,

Rebecca McElfresh, Julie Mitzner, Hayley O’Donnell, Tiffany Owens, Amber Pickett, Jenna Quiqq and Laura Stone.

Spring 2009 Interior Design seniors

Take a look at what we’ve been doing so far this year….

Interior Design 2009 Student Awards and Scholarships

Interior Design sophomores participated in the 2009 NeoCon Chicago, GreenLife Student National Competition. Two teams from University of Oklahoma were selected to participate. Kristen Cole, Elizabeth Oestmann and Aileen Yang made up the first team and Harold Barns, Sara Huff and Kelci Fitch made up the second. The faculty sponsors were Assistant Professors Christina Hoehn and Scott Wil-liams.

Jessica Sline, Interior Design junior, won the 2009 Phi Kappa Phi Award for distinguished undergraduate research for her light fixture presentation at the Student Research and Performance Day. The faculty sponsor was Associate Professor Abimbola O. Asojo.

Eliane Santos BSED major presented “Experience Design: The Strategic Design Approach” at the 2009 Student Research and Performance Day. The faculty sponsor was Associate Professor Abimbola O. Asojo.

Congratulations to Jessica Whitson and Emily Kirk, two University of Oklahoma Interior Design seniors who passed the LEED exam in summer 2009.

Lighting designs by Emily Kirk, Megan Mar-tin, Alison Hensal, and Stephanie Troop were featured in the April 2009 Design Display Ideas Magazine article titled “Branding with Lighting: Interior design stu-dents at the University of Oklahoma propose distinctive illuminated store plans” by Vilma Barr, New York editor. The faculty sponsor was Associate Professor Abim-bola O. Asojo.

Julie Mitzner and Beth McElfresh placed first and third in the International Inte-rior Design Association (IIDA) Student Conference 2009 Houston.

Emily Kirk was the first-place winner of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Design Competition in Norman. Faculty sponsors were Assistant Professors Janet Biddick and Elizabeth Pober.

Interior Design freshmen in ID 1133 designed "ODE" 3D multimedia partition integrating 20th-century mas-ters' of design conceptual theories, exhibited at Nor-man Gallery Association's Annual Winter Art Walk 2008. The faculty sponsors were Assistant Professors Christina Hoehn and Scott Williams.

2009 OU Interior Design Senior Portfolio awards: First place - Kristen Hanks, Khoi Hoang and Beth McElfresh, second place - Amber Pickett, third place - Kelsey Baker and Laura Booth. The faculty planner for the event was Assistant Pro-fessor Christina Hoehn.

Patricia L. Edison Scholarship Emily Kirk, Interior Design senior and Luisa Aurrecoehea, Architecture graduate student

Board of Visitors Scholarship Beth Rubin, Interior Design junior

Joe and Jayne Buskuhl Scholarship Lois Nicole Eubanks, Interior Design senior

Interior Design Sophomore Portfolio Review Award First place-Kristen Cole, second place-Marissa Forester, third place-John D. Sleeper

2009 ASID/IIDA Student Day University of Oklahoma Interior Design Student Portfolio Awards: First place – Marissa Gomez, second place - Lydia Frost and third place - Khoi Hoang.

2009 Interior Design Faculty

Abimbola Asojo, Associate Professor/Director

Hans-Peter Wachter, Associate Professor

Elizabeth Pober, Associate Professor

Janet Biddick, Assistant Professor

Christina Hoehn, Assistant Professor

Scott Williams, Assistant Professor

Outstanding Interior Design Alumni Award

Rick Skaggs, A&E Services, University of Oklahoma was honored for his out-standing contribution to Interior Design education at OU and recruitment and monitoring of OU Interior Design students.

Erin Moody was nominated for her outstanding contribution to the field of lighting design and architectural lighting education.

Faculty Recognitions, Awards and Service

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Pober was one of the University of Oklahoma President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentors in fall 2008 and fall 2009. Assistant Professor Scott Williams also was selected to be a mentor in 2010.

Associate Professor Abimbola Asojo and Glenn Josey received the fall 2009 $20,000 OU Presidential Dream Course Grant for a course titled “Women, Minorities and Design.”

Associate Professor Abimbola Asojo received the 2008 $20,000 Nuckolls Fund Grant for integrating computation techniques in lighting design.

Associate Professor Hepi Wachter, Associate Professor Dave Boeck and Assistant Professor Tammy McCuen received the fall 2008 $20,000 OU Presidential Dream Course Grant.

Associate Professor Hepi Wachter received the $ 2,500 OU Faculty Senate Faculty Development Grant in 2008.

Assistant Professor Scott Williams is the faculty representative for the CoA to the Norman Gallery Association in 2008/2009.

Congratulations to professors Asojo, Wachter and Williams who passed the LEED exams in 2009.

Interior Design faculty and Dean Graham at May 2009 graduation

at OU 2009 Annual Spring Art Walk 2009

Freshmen in ID1145 exhibited design work at the Norman Gallery Association’s Annual Spring Art Walk, in May 2009. The faculty sponsors were Assistant Profes-sors Hoehn and Williams.

Thank you! Thank you to Paul Steelman, an architect in Las Vegas and father of Suzanne Steelman, BID 2008, who donated computers for the College of Architecture Render Farm.

End-of-year cookout

Assistant Professors Pober and Biddick with freshmen at the end-of-year cookout

Khoi Hoang, Marissa Gomez and Lydia Frost receiving 2009 ASID/IIDA award

Capstone by Marissa Gomez, May 2009

Capstone by Laura Booth, May 2009

This publication, printed by the division of Interior Design, is issued by the University of Oklahoma. One hundred copies have been prepared and distributed at a cost of $182.50 to

the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma

OU’s Interior Design Division Gains National Attention

The Interior Design program in the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture was ranked number 6 in the nation by DesignIntelligence in its publication, Amer-ica’s Best Architecture and Design Schools. Associate Professor Abimbola Asojo, director of the division of Interior Design was named as one of DesignIntelligence Most Admired Educators of 2010. The Interior Design division was ranked second in the nation in the computer skills assessment area. Assistant Professor Elizabeth Pober is responsible for teaching the programs computer application courses. DesignIntelligence surveyed 381 private practices in fields related to architecture, landscape architecture, interior design or industrial design when determining which programs would be included in this issue. These organizations determined which schools were best at preparing students for success in their respective fields.

2009 Dream Course

The goal of the 2009 Dream Course is to discuss design history from a more inclusive perspective.

The following three panels bring scholars and practitioners together to discuss the contributions of women, minorities and non-Western cultures to design.

11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, Arc on Main, Room 116

Panel 1: “The Missing Design History”

Panelist: Dr. Nnamdi Elleh, Professor Vibhavari Jani, Prof. Aly Karam

11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, Arc on Main, Room 116

Panel 2: “Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Design”

Panelist: Professor Michaele Pride, Professor Bradford Grant, Professor Jack Travis

11:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Arc on Main, Room 116

Panel 3: “Celebrating Diversity in Design: Voices from Practice”

Panelist: Professor Garrison McNeil, AIA, Bahaar Faquih, AIA, Cheryl McAfee-Mitchell, FAIA

T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f O k l a h o m a i s a n E q u a l O p p o r t u n i t y E m p l o y e r

Service Learning Projects

OU Information Technology Merrick Building Project

The freshman students completed de-signs to remodel some of the support spaces for the OU IT department at the Merrick Building on North Base with Professors Biddick and Pober. Their designs included expanded conference and video conferencing rooms, a new break room with kitchen, and a high-tech gaming lounge. The IT group has selected components and will begin the remodel this fall.

End of year cookout, spring 2009

Rendering by Saxon Turner, Interior Design freshman in Interior Design Rendering Seminars delivered by Craig Ridenour, AIA in spring 2009

Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity Offices

The sophomore students worked in groups to complete designs for a total remodel of the existing office space and an expansion space with Profes-sors Biddick and Pober. The design of the project was centered on a low budget, sustainable design with volun-teer labor. Construction for the selected group’s design will begin this October.

Transcript Press Remodel Project

Interior Design sophomores and Professors Hoehn and Williams submitted designs to remodel the office space.

St. Thomas More Project

Interior Design juniors developed lighting solutions for St. Thomas More rectory with Professor Asojo.

First Baptist Church Norman Family Life

ID sophomores with Professors Hoehn and Williams presented de-sign concepts to revitalize a recreation facility.

Portfolio review

Interior Design spring 2009 graduation

Faculty at graduation in May 2009

Fire Station

ID seniors with Associate Professor Wachter participated in a service learning project for a fire station with a Norman fire department.

Norman Public Library

ID seniors and Associate Professor Wachter participated in a service learning project for the Norman Public Library.

ASID Oklahoma State Convention 2009 in Tulsa

The state convention was held in Tulsa this year. Student officers from the Interior Design Student Association represented our university and spent the morning en-joying a trade show featuring Penny Bonda, FASID, presenting “LEED into De-sign” and celebrated the ASID Excellence in Design Awards.

Associate Professor Wachter and Assistant Associate Professor Asojo and Assistant Professor Hoehn with students Professor Biddick with Interior Design Seniors at cook out

Metrocon 2009

Associate Professor Wachter with OU Alumni at Metrocon Hilton Anatole, Dallas. Wachter had a great opportunity to share the updates concerning the College of Architecture, Gould Hall and the division of Interior Design with alumni and to hear former student stories about their professional lives. Associate Professor Wachter with OU alumni

Interior Design History Course

Assistant Professor Williams offered field trips in spring 2009 to Tulsa/Bartlesville to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, a private residence by Bruce Goff and some of the best Art Deco interiors in the nation.

Bruce Goff's Bavinger House Tulsa’s Art Deco Fire Alarm building

2009 Interior Design Advisory Board Officers

Chair: Debbie Marks Vice Chairman: Bobby Newman Secretary/Treasurer: Bethany Jackson and Bob Smith Fundraising Committee: Chris Ellis and Kara McDonald Education Committee: Dawn Hollingsworth and Jennifer McClain Other Members: Melissa Burgan, Rick Skaggs, Abimbola Asojo, Alison Hensal and Jessie Whitson.

Thanks to our 2008/2009 Alumni Advisory Board

Kara McDonald, Melissa Burgan, Chris Ellis, Kim Paddleford, Ronald Adrianse, Dawn Hollingsworth, Bob Smith, Debbie Marks, Jennifer McClain, Troy Wesnidge, Bobby Newman and Rick Skaggs.

Capstone by Khoi Hoang, May 2009