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April 17, 2025		The MSU Exponent interviews Ezgi Balkanay: collaborative research project Ezgi Balkanay, assistant professor at the School of Architecture, presents a snapshot of a collaborative research project in the exhibit "Where Are You Really From: A quest on Domesticity, Migration and Otherness”
April 1, 2025		Community Design Center in the News Montana state grad students are working with Manhattan residents on community center plans.
December 10, 2024		Big Idea Challenge Showcases Student Entrepreneurs Montana State University students presented their entrepreneurial ideas and earned prize money totaling $10,000 at the annual Big Idea Challenge, held Nov. 7 on campus. Three SoA graduate students took first and second place in the Product and Services category.
November 14, 2024		MSU SoA Graduate Student Lee Feist Presents Research Paper at SIGradDi2024 Lee Feist, a graduate student at the Montana State University School of Architecture, presented a research paper “Glazing Bamboo: A Case Study of Bamboo Design and Construction in the Northwestern United States” at the Twenty-Eighth International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2024) in Barcelona, Spain.
December 14, 2023		AIAS Chapter receives 2023 Honorable Mention This is the highest chapter award from The American Institute of Architecture Students for consistent growth and stability while providing outstanding education and professional programs. Students (left to right): Alex Tupper, Chris Kearns, Reese Sjostrom, Rebecca Hennings, Grant Epple, and Lamar Rhodes.
December 8, 2023		School of Architecture receives full 8-yearNAAB Accreditationfor M.Arch Degree Program.
May 23, 2023		Architecture student wins international prize The MSU graduate’s compassion and empathy guide his work, which recently earned him the Berkeley Prize, a prestigious award given to the winner of an international architecture essay competition hosted by the University of California, Berkeley.
May 20, 2022		Sean Clearwater helps transform students' ideas into polished products As the manager of the craft shops in MSU’s College of Arts and Architecture, Clearwater’s world is one of table saws, CNC routers, plasma torches, laser cutters, sanders — tools that shape wood, metal and other materials into almost any form imaginable.
March 2, 2022		Ralph Johnson to deliver Provost's Distinguished Lecture Johnson will talk about architecture’s link to community and how that applies to a booming Bozeman in his 2022 Provost’s Distinguished Lecturer Series talk, “Creativity and Community,” set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies.
December 18, 2021		Shelters in place: Architecture graduates leave legacy for campus bicyclists Six graduate students in MSU's School of Architecturecreated a bike shelter design that will soon be replicated across the MSU campus. Students were enrolled in a fabrication class led by teaching professor Bill Clinton.
August 31, 2021		MSU students honored at international design competition A team of Montana State University engineering and architecture undergraduates has earned a top award at an international competition which tested their ability to analyze energy-saving building systems.
August 10, 2021		MSU architecture students design obstacles to remove barriers for local homeless youth Sixteen Montana State University architecture students have worked to remove barriers for homeless youth in Bozeman by helping design an obstacle course that will be used in a local fundraiser this month.
July 22, 2021		MSU American Indian Hall to feature furniture crafted from trees harvested from site Trees harvested to make room for Montana State University’s new American Indian Hall have been transformed by architecture students into furniture that soon will be housed in the new building slated to open this fall.
May 21, 2021		Freshman writing assignment earns MSU student top architecture prize A freshman writing assignment launched a Montana State University student into a top finish for one of the world’s most prestigious student architecture awards.
March 31, 2021		Chere LeClair receives top honor from American Institute of Architects A Montana State University architecture professor has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for her work on a national level promoting equity, diversity and inclusion within the profession of architecture and within the communities that architects serve.
June17, 2020		MSU Grad Student Wins National Architecture Design Competition Nicole Andersson, a graduate student, won the COTE Top 10 national student design competition for her project, Library of play.
March 10, 2020		Andrew Vernooy named AIA fellow for lifetime of service to architectural education A MSU professor who has dedicated his career to architectural education and enhancing diversity and access in the profession has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
January 28, 2020		Billings architects to speak about green and sustainable architecture Based in Billings, Hafer said that High Plains Architects is dedicated to sustainable architecture in the region.
September 5, 2019		MSU students are honored in international design competition A team of recent MSU graduates in engineering and architecture has earned a top award at an international competition testing their ability to cooperate and push the envelope of energy-efficient design.
August 28, 2019		MSU programs collaborate to solve housing shortage A collaboration between students in MSU’s School of Architecture and Department of Education could help solve a housing crisis for teachers in small rural districts in Montana and perhaps nationwide.
June 6, 2019		Three win College of Arts and Architecture imagination awards A Montana State University professor and two graduate students have received grants from the MSU College of Arts and Architecture to help fund summer research projects.
May 1, 2019		MSU Architecture Grad Student wins top prize in national design contest Torre Annunziata has won her a place among the top finishers in a national student design competition.
January 18, 2019		MSU Architecture Professor Maire O'Neill To Receive State Historic Preservation Award For decades, Maire O’Neill Conrad has dedicated herself to her craft and to the historic preservation of agricultural buildings in the Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley area, and the volume and impact of the Montana State University architecture professor’s work have not gone unnoticed, particularly by the Montana Historical Society.
December 21, 2018		SoA students work with nonprofits to build tiny shelter project to house homeless Partnering with the Human Resource Development Council and the local faith community, MSU students designed and built the first tiny house prototype as part of professor Ralph Johnson’s “Design for the Community” class.
May 29, 2018		Architect student wins top prize in national design contest A Montana State University architecture student has turned Bozeman’s housing crunch into an idea for an innovative design that was a top place finisher in a national student design competition
May 16, 2018		Student wins national award for work in battling student addictions Anderson has been named MSU’s Newman Civic Fellow, a national award given by Campus Compact for students who have found solutions for problems facing their community.
May 4, 2018		CDC students debut tiny house prototype for community's homeless More than 100 people gathered Thursday evening to celebrate the completion of the first tiny home prototype for a planned village to house Bozeman's homeless.
April 25, 2018		Sorenson’s shirt design commemorating Bobcats’ 1984 championship reissued for 125th anniversary Henry Sorenson still recalls vividly the energy he felt on campus when Montana State University unexpectedly won a Division 1-AA national football championship in 1984.
January 18, 2018		Vintage sign from local landmark illuminates MSU architecture studio’s vision The only thing larger than the sign on top of Bozeman’s former Burger Inn diner was the heart of its owner, the late Emanuel “Manny” Voulkos, who was known for his gruff exterior and his belief that no one should go hungry — especially students.
January 16, 2018		Best Architecture Photographs of 2017 Fourteen images were selected out of more than 1,200 submissions for the 2017 AIA Architectural Photography Competition, open to U.S. architects as well as associate AIA and AIAS members.
January 9, 2018		Manny's Burger Inn sign gets new home at MSU More than 60 years later, the sign with a blinking arrow and marching lights shines again, newly installed in the two-story School of Architecture studio space at MSU.
December 15, 2017		Bill Hoy's Next Generation of Sustainable Living In Bozeman, Montana, there’s a home that produces nearly as much energy as it consumes. Shaner Hotel Group’s Bill Hoy designed it, and now he’s working to secure its legacy.
May 22, 2017		Architecture student's design named top 10 in national contest Robin Wilder’s design for an environmentally sustainable manufacturing facility was selected as one of the top 10 student designs in the country by one of the profession’s top professional groups.
April 20, 2017		Tad Bradley: The Glassman of Bozeman Tad Bradley’s studio is in an industrial area across the tracks from Bozeman, Montana’s, hip historic downtown center. Both Bradley’s workspace and his art glass creations embody that old expression “Things are not always what they seem.”
February 21, 2017		MSU students pave way for Belgrade library extension In 2015 the Library Journal named the Belgrade Community Library the Best Small Library in America. Now, after a year of planning in collaboration with Community Design Center, the Belgrade library is on the way to achieving a major expansion.
February 3, 2017		MSU grad student elected to board of directors Elizabeth Seidel, a graduate student in the Montana State University College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Architecture, was recently elected as director of the west quadrant for the American Institute of Architecture Students.
December 16, 2016		MSU School of Architecture designs small solution for temporary housing for homeless Tiny houses are a popular concept on televised home improvement shows, but students in the Montana State University School of Architecture think the small structures could also be a temporary solution to a big problem – housing for the area’s homeless.
November 3, 2016		MSU architecture students and faculty win Design Communication Association award Several faculty and students in the MSU School of Architecture had their award-winning designs and drawings selected for display in the Design Communication Association juried exhibition, held Sept. 7-10, on the MSU campus as part of the 2016 DCA conference.
September 8, 2016		MSU architecture professor leads effort to transform Butte dump to park, BMX racing course Bradford Watson is directing a reclamation project that will one day transform Butte’s Bonanza Mine Dump to a recreation site that will include a BMX racing course.
April 6, 2016		MSU architecture students and faculty assist City of Bozeman by surveying hundreds of downtown homes Architecture students and faculty assisted the City of Bozeman by completing historic building surveys earlier this week on approximately 500 homes and structures near campus. The daylong event was a project of the School of Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture.
April 4, 2016		MSU Professor wins architectural illustration awards Henry Sorenson, a professor in the Montana State University School of Architecture, has been awarded two prizes for excellence in architectural illustration from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators.
December 11, 2015		Students win national prize for historic homestead drawings Graduate students taking professor Maire O’Neill’s course in architecture documentation won second prize in the National Park Service’s Charles E. Peterson Prize for drawings of the Damon Gabriel homestead.
April 2, 2015		MSU student in final round for international essay prize Jennisse Schule’s entry in the 2015 Berkeley Prize essay competition, which made her one of eight international finalists, detailed the case of a 19^thcentury Kalispell structure close to her heart.
March 9, 2015		MSU architecture grads exceed national average on professional exams Graduates from Montana State University’s School of Architecture exceed the national average for passing rates on licensing exams in each area of expertise tested by the Architectural Registration Exam.
August 7, 2014		MSU engineering and architecture students win international competition A group of engineering and architecture students from MSU took first place among an international field with their integrated sustainable building design in a competition sponsored by the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE.
February 9, 2012		Johns named an American Institute of Architects fellow Ferd Johns, professor emeritus in the Montana State University School of Architecture, has been named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects.
May 5, 2011		Practical projects take architecture grad to another level Even though MSU architecture professors rate the talents of the master's graduate from Bozeman along with top students in the country, big buildings are just not his style.
January 7, 2011		MSU School of Architecture featured in Architectural Record MSU was one of just five university architecture programs featured in a section devoted to programs that teach students to design and then build a project.

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