Fay Jones School Students Recognized at 2018 Honors Ceremony with Scholarships, Awards

Shawnya Meyers

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design held its 2018 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony on April 13 in Vol Walker Hall. Attending the evening's events were Fay Jones School students, from left, Mary Beth Barden, Hunter Crager, James Hull, Rachel Rubis, Mackenzie Wade and Lauren Davis.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design honored 78 students at the 2018 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony, held April 13 in Vol Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. More than $142,000 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:

• Callie Fleetwood, an architecture 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' third time to receive this scholarship.
• Isai Castaneda (architecture), Elizabeth Willis (interior design) and Max Frank (landscape architecture), who received the Pryor Award for Leadership in Architecture and Design, a new award this year. This is awarded to rising second-year students who display superior commitment, thoughtfulness and leadership vision in the school and university. Castaneda and Frank are also Honors College students.
• Sarah Peil Winstead, an architecture and Honors College 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.
• Hunter McDaniel, 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. McDaniel and Bertels are also Honors College students. This was Bertels' second time to receive this scholarship.
• Kara Koenig, an interior design student who received the John R. and Judy W. Fletcher Endowed Scholarship. This is awarded to students who have high academic standards and demonstrate academic promise.
• Benjamin Magee, a landscape architecture student, and Joseph Auguilar, an architecture student, who both received the Michael J. Buono Sustainability Medal. This is awarded to fifth-year students who have demonstrated the greatest concern in design studios, cognate courses and the community for environmental, ecological and energy conservation issues.
• Abigail Redmon (interior design), Isaac Stanton (architecture) and Benjamin Magee (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.

Notable recognition for architecture students included:

• Callie Fleetwood, 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.
• Callie Fleetwood, 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 Peil Winstead, 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.
• Julia C. Gairhan, 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.
• Hunter Crager and Rachel Rubis, who both received the Cyrus Sutherland Historic Preservation Alliance Scholarship Award. This is awarded to students who have demonstrated interest in historic preservation. Rubis is also an Honors College student.
• Colt Malloy, Daniel Barker and Mackenzie Wade, who received the Northwest Section, Arkansas Chapter, AIA Scholarship. This is awarded to members of AIAS who have performed willing service to the school and its students. Malloy, Barker and Wade are also Honors College students.

Notable recognition for landscape architecture students included:

• Addison Warren, also an Honors College student, who 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. This was Pitts' second time to receive this award.
• 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 third time to receive this scholarship.

Notable recognition for interior design students included:

• Jumin Kim, 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.
• Allison Preston, also an Honors College student, 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.
• Elizabeth Willis and Madison Brown, who both received the Interior Design Foundation Scholarship. This is awarded to students who demonstrate academic achievement and show promise in the discipline.
• 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. This was Aulgur's second time to receive the scholarship.

Also at the ceremony, Alison Turner, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and the school's director of community education, received the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. Amanda Collen, an interior design 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.