Design Students Recognized with Scholarships, Awards at Fay Jones School's 2016 Honors Ceremony

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The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design held the 2016 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony on April 18 in Vol Walker Hall. Here, Sierra Peterson, an interior design student, poses with Dean Peter MacKeith and Chancellor Joe Steinmetz. Peterson was named the Senior Scholar, as the graduating senior with the highest grade point average.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design honored 78 students at the 2016 Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony, held April 18 in Vol Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. More than $102,450 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:

• Sierra Peterson, an interior design 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.
• Ethan Werkmeister, an architecture 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 John Collamore, 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.
• Tristan Lewis, a landscape architecture student who received the John R. and Judy W. Fletcher Endowed Scholarship. This is awarded to a student who has high academic standards and demonstrates academic promise.
• Cameron Bayles, 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.
• Haley Walton, an architecture and Honors College student who received the Student Essay Award for "Ecclesiastical Cloning: Replicas of St. Peter's Basilica in Pre-, Early-, and All-Too-Modern Germany." This is awarded to the student who submits the best scholarly research essay, and this was Walton's second time to receive this award.
• Jessica Baker (interior design), Sarah Tappe (architecture) and Hannah Moll (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. Tappe and Moll are also Honors College students.

Notable recognition for architecture students included:

• Katherine Dombek, also an Honors College student, who 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.
• Caitlyn Juarez, 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.
• Caitlyn Juarez, 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.
• Ethan Werkmeister, who also 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.
• Katherine Dombek and Ethan Werkmeister, who received the C. Murray Smart Medal. This is awarded to the final-year architecture student(s) with the highest scholastic record in the study of history and theory of architecture.
• Chelsea Garrison, who received the Cyrus Sutherland Historic Preservation Alliance Scholarship. This is awarded to the student who has demonstrated interest in historic preservation.

Notable recognition for landscape architecture students included:

• Adel Vaughn, who received the American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award, and Mary Nell Miskin, who received the ASLA Merit Award. These are awarded to landscape architecture students in the final two years of study with high academic performance, design ability, self-motivation and personal responsibility. Vaughn and Miskin, who both graduated in December, were also Honors College students.
• Adel Vaughn, 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.
• Addison Warren, also an Honors College student, 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 Warren's second time to receive this award.
• Benjamin Magee, who received the Phillips Family Scholarship, a new award this year. This is awarded to a well-rounded student within the applications of landscape architecture.

Notable recognition for interior design students included:

• Sierra Peterson, 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.
• Mollie Robinson, 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.
• Jessica Baker, 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. This was Baker's second time to receive this scholarship.
• Heather Bly and Hunter McDaniel, who both received the Interior Design Foundation Scholarship. This is awarded to students who demonstrate academic achievement and show promise in the discipline.
• Natalie Banister, who also received the University of Arkansas ASID 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.
•  Josephine Chavez, 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 Chavez's second time to receive this scholarship.

Also at the ceremony, David Buege, professor of architecture, received the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. Ethan Werkmeister, an 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.