Fay Jones School Recognizes Design Students With Scholarships, Awards at 2017 Honors Ceremony

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The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design held its 2017 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony on April 14 in Vol Walker Hall. Attending the evening's events were Fay Jones School students, from right, Carla Chang, Molly Evans, Sarah Tappe and Chelsea Garrison, along with Matthew Evans, Molly's brother, who is a student in the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design honored 77 students at the 2017 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony, held April 14 in Vol Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. More than $110,300 was handed out through scholarships that recognized various aspects of achievement among architecture, landscape architecture and interior design students.

Many honors were awarded under each of the three departments, while some honors were available to any student within the school. Some students received multiple honors.

Students selected from the entire school for recognition included:

• Molly Evans, an architecture student and Honors College student who was named the Senior Scholar. This designation is for the graduating senior from the school with the highest grade point average.
• Caleb Bertels, an architecture and Honors College student who received the University of Arkansas Presidential Scholarship. This is awarded to the student with a high academic record in the school. This was Bertels' second time to receive this scholarship.
• Natalie Banister, an interior design student who received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. This is awarded to the final-year student who has shown leadership ability, performed willing service for the school and demonstrated promise of professional merit through attitude and personality.
• Jumin Kim, an interior design student, and Caleb Bertels, an architecture student, who both received the HFA Designing with Technology Scholarship. This is awarded to rising third-, fourth- or fifth-year students who demonstrate the use and integration of technology in architectural and interior design through use of illustration, planning and design. This was Kim's second time to receive this scholarship.
• Corinne Burns (interior design), Beau Burris (landscape architecture) and Tamara Stuart (architecture), who received the John R. and Judy W. Fletcher Endowed Scholarship. This is awarded to students who have high academic standards and demonstrates academic promise. Burris is also an Honors College student.
• Alexander Holyfield, a landscape architecture student who received the Michael J. Buono Sustainability Medal. This is awarded to the fifth-year student who has demonstrated the greatest concern in design studios, cognate courses and the community for environmental, ecological and energy conservation issues.
• Ericka Brown (interior design), Callie Fleetwood (architecture) and Addison Warren (landscape architecture), who received Professional Advisory Board Fifth-Year Scholarships. These are awarded to fifth-year students who exhibit hard work, perseverance, dedication and potential for success in the profession. Fleetwood and Warren are also Honors College students.

Notable recognition for architecture students included:

• Molly Evans, who also received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal. This is awarded to the first-ranked, final-year architecture student in recognition of scholastic achievement, character, leadership and promise of high professional ability.
• Zachary Grewe, also an Honors College student, who received the AIA Certificate of Achievement. This is awarded to the second-ranked, final-year architecture student in recognition of scholastic achievement, character, leadership and promise of high professional ability.
• Molly Evans, who also received the Edward Durell Stone Medal. This is awarded to the final-year architecture student with the highest overall grade point average in design studio work.
• Sarah Tappe, also an Honors College student, who received the Barbara C. Crook Medal. This is awarded to the final-year student who has achieved the highest record in coursework in the architectural technology group.
• Haley Walton, also an Honors College student, who received the C. Murray Smart Medal. This is awarded to the final-year architecture student with the highest scholastic record in the study of history and theory of architecture.
• Jacob Evans, who received the Cyrus Sutherland Historic Preservation Alliance Scholarship Award. This is awarded to the student who has demonstrated interest in historic preservation.
• Meagan Leeth, Phoebe Norcross and Sarah Peil, who received the Northwest Section, Arkansas Chapter, AIA Scholarship. This is award to members of AIAS who have performed willing service to the school and its students. Leeth and Peil are also Honors College students.

Notable recognition for landscape architecture students included:

• Hannah Moll, also an Honors College student, who received the Arkansas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award. This is awarded to a landscape architecture student in the final two years of study with high academic performance, design ability, self-motivation and personal responsibility, and it recognizes the body of work the student completed in the program.
• Hannah Moll, who also received the Verna C. Garvan Medal. This is awarded to the senior student of landscape architecture who, through performance in the studio sequence, has demonstrated outstanding design ability.
• Jordan Pitts, who received the Judy Byrd Brittenum Cultural Landscape Award. This is awarded to the student who demonstrates interest in the study of cultural landscapes including cultural sustainability, historic preservation, history and/or cultural landscape documentation.
• Benjamin Magee, who received the Phillips Family Scholarship. This is awarded to a well-rounded student within the applications of landscape architecture. This was Magee's second time to receive this scholarship.

Notable recognition for interior design students included:

• Sarah Moll, who received the Interior Design Medal of Excellence. This is awarded to the first-ranked, final-year interior design student in recognition of scholastic achievement.
• Sydney Davis, who received the Andrew A. Kinslow Interior Design Scholarship. This is awarded to a third- or fourth-year interior design student from Arkansas who is interested in commercial design and has a high grade point average.
• Hunter McDaniel, also an Honors College student, who received the Fairhead-Shipp Family Design Education and Experience Scholarship. This is awarded to a student whose passionate participation has contributed to both the University of Arkansas and the interior design program, and who has a high grade point average.
• Heather Bly and Allison Preston, who both received the Interior Design Foundation Scholarship. This is awarded to students who demonstrate academic achievement and show promise in the discipline. This was Bly's second time to receive this scholarship. Preston is also an Honors College student.
• Amanda Collen, who received the University of Arkansas ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Student Chapter Interior Design Student Leadership Award. This is awarded to a rising third- or fourth-year Interior Design Organization member with an excellent record of service and leadership to the school.
•  Sloan Aulgur, also an Honors College student, who received the William Stephen Lair Design Scholarship. This is awarded to a rising second-, third- or fourth-year student who demonstrates high academic standards and shows academic promise.

Also at the ceremony, Winifred E. Newman, professor and head of the Department of Architecture, received the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. Hannah Moll, a landscape architecture student, received the Tau Sigma Delta Bronze Medal. These are awarded to a professional and a student with records of distinction in design in one of the subject arts.