Sharon Carter Matthews, AIA, will become executive director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board October 1. She comes to NAAB from the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston where she was head of the department of architecture, which comprises a five-year professional architecture degree program and an architectural engineering technology bachelor of science program.

A practicing architect, Matthews is active in the AIA, most recently serving as the Boston Society of Architects commissioner for education and research. She worked on the Wentworth NEASC Accreditation Committees on Physical Resources and Mission and Vision and on the board of the Boston Architectural Center.

Before Wentworth, Matthews was head of the division of architecture and art at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. Her BA is from Columbia University and MArch from Yale. Her research has focused on the design of fortifications.

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