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Ethics Committee Chair Dominic Armendariz University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Legacy Liaison Amy Rosen 2019-2020 National Past-President Armando Martinez Anne Arundel Community College Austin Peterson University of Minnesota Haley Rogers Bowling Green State University Sam Doherty Savannah College of Art & Design Danielle Mitchell Pennsylvania State University, Legacy Terry Ona AIA Legal Counsel The Ethics Committee worked as a Task Force to explore, consider, and update an AIAS Code of Ethics that was to be of best use to the organization. Equity and Diversity Task Force Chair JayathiRenuka Varadheeswaran Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Liaison Sarah Curry 2019-2020 National President Elizabeth Caccavano Temple University Logan Heffelman Kent State University Rachel Wiesbrock Illinois Institute of Technology Raphael Pido New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury Terrinique Bullard University of Arkansas Warda Zaisi Bowling Green State University The Equity and Diversity Task force discusses issues of equity and diversity as they relate to architectural education, and communicate with the membership ways to increase and promote equitable and diverse AIAS Chapters, studio/work environments, buildings, individuals, teams, communities, and cities. Health and Wellness Task Force Chair Austin Hurrell Lawrence Technological University Liaison Sara Taketatsu 2019-2020 West Quadrant Director Claire La Fontaine University of North Carolina at Charlotte Danielle Pinette Keene State College Isabelle Dabrowski University of Buffalo Jerry Schmidt Montana State University Julia Barksdale Northeastern University Kaila Andino Georgia Institute of Technology Wesley McGlory Texas Tech University The Health and Wellness Task Force discusses issues of health and wellness as they relate to architectural education, and communicate with the membership ways to increase and promote healthy AIAS Chapters, studio/work environments, buildings, individuals, teams, and communities.

Finance Chair Brigid Callaghan 2018-2019 National Vice President Liaison Mike Chiappa 2018-2019 Northeast Quadrant Director Keith Mills Drury University Amanda Cohen Drexel University David Rosa Rivera Savannah College of Art and Design Garrett Kenny Washington State University Sonata Carie University of Kentucky Christina Brown Carnegie Mellon University Nick Serfass AMS Executive Director The Finance Committee audits the National Office and explores ways the AIAS can be more fiscally transparent. Resiliency Task Force Co-Chair Noor Ul Ain City College of New York Co-Chair Chitika Vasudeva Carnegie Mellon University Liaison Amy Rosen 2018-2019 National President Shannon DeFranza Roger Williams University Melissa Russell Oklahoma State University Aryn Phillips Montana State University Scott Cornelius Oklahoma State University Katie Aiello-Coppola University of Idaho The Resiliency Task Force discusses issues of resiliency as they relate to architectural education, and communicate with the membership ways to increase and promote resilient AIAS chapters, studio/work environments, buildings, individuals, teams, communities, and/or cities. Health and Wellness Task Force Chair Jesse Martin University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Liaison Mike Chiappa 2018-2019 Northeast Quadrant Director Austin Hurrell Lawrence Technological University Danielle Pinette Keene State College Charles Dilcher Georgia Institute of Technology Justin Milburn University of New Mexico Mariah Tobin University of Nebraska-Lincoln Destanee Cook University of Nevada, Las Vegas Tim Anzalone Drury University The Health and Wellness Task Force discusses issues of health and wellness as they relate to architetural education, and communicate with the membership ways to increase and promote healthy AIAS Chapters, studio/work environments, buildings, individuals, teams, and communities.

A women's dormitory required a plan that facilitated genteel surveillance. The Martha Cook Building (York & Sawyer, 1911–15) at the University of Michigan manifested early twentieth-century ideas about gender, race, class, and higher education. The residence hall, named in honor of donor William W. Cook's mother, had one main entry on its narrow end, with a door facing the street and a matron's office adjacent to it. When the University of Michigan built a men's dormitory soon after, paid for by the same patron and designed by the same architects, it used a staircase plan, which afforded less control over the students. One might think that a donor who funded a lavish dorm would have as his motive the promotion of woman-centered education. Instead, Cook employed architecture in the service of social exclusion; he objected to the presence of Asians and poor women in the dorm and imagined that the elegant semipublic rooms would civilize brutish young men. As had been the case at Oberlin College, the women's residence hall served as the social hub for the entire campus.

Anyone who struggles with ill health through their school years, is largely self-taught as a result, yet creates a career for themselves in industry and then transitions to the top flight of academia deserves our respect. When this person works alongside far more famous colleagues, but has his career cut short by ill health and dies at the age of 52, it seems likely they would fade into obscurity. Not so for Professor William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer, scientist, educator, communicator, and much more. Here, Pearson profiles Rankine and discusses what he achieved during his lifetime.

The spatial dynamics surrounding the murder of Trayvon Martin are rarely discussed in architecture schools. Yet, the racial biases in our landscape are key to the agenda of the Black Lives Matter movement. This article tells the story of how these issues found their way into a course on the architecture of American slavery. As the semester progressed, students discovered how the remnants of slave spaces, along with the racial biases they embodied, have contributed to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[...]I had a chance to speak with many Mississippi heroes, including former Governor William Winter and several authors.

During the period between 1870 and 1920, the gross national product of the United States increased more than sixfold, as revolutions in transportation, communications, and manufacturing sparked growth in the economy. Large industrial corporations emerged, and their growing power presented grave challenges for social policy, while their wealth enriched an unprecedented number of millionaires and multi-millionaires, whose contributions prompted an enormous increase in philanthropy across the nation. In particular, Andrew Carnegie sold his steel companies for $480,000,000 in 1901 and founded the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1902, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1905, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911. Even more prominent, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, “the most famous American of his day,” devoted $447,000,000 to endowing the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in 1901, the General Education Board in 1903, the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913, and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1918.

Sheppard said that institutions have incorporated a number of strategies, including glass replacements with colors or patterns, decals, and other methods to make windows more opaque. Later that semester, when plans for the Danielle N. Ripich Commons Building — named for the university president — were made public, Perlut said his students were immediately concerned by the three stories of glass windows facing a lake frequented by birds. Durrance worked with facilities employees to apply a film to the glass walls of the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Penn medical school’s Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion. Since the effort picked up in 2015, Cerwinka said Penn is planning to retrofit two more buildings on campus and incorporating bird-friendly designs into new constructions.