Douglas Cardinal, AIA, was one of seven artists awarded Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts on March 21.

Former AIA President S. Scott Ferebee, FAIA, received North Carolina State University's Watauga Medal on March 7, to honor his distinguished service to the university. The Watauga Medal is the highest nonacademic honor bestowed by N.C. State.

Bob Findlay, PhD, FAIA, professor of architecture at Iowa State University, will receive the 2001 Faculty Achievement Award at the Phi Beta Delta honorary society for international scholars' April meeting in Montreal.

Malcolm Holtzman, FAIA, founding partner of Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer, New York City, received the 2001 Gold Medal from Tau Sigma Delta, the honor society of architecture and the allied arts, March 16.

Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee, FAIA, received the "Use Your Life" Award from Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network February 19. Mockbee, an architecture professor at Auburn University, received $100,000 to continue his work with the Rural Studio, a studio program in which students live, design, and build in impoverished Hale County. "What we are trying to create is the citizen architect," Mockbee said during the presentation. "Part of being an architect is to improve civic life. And that's what we try to do for the citizens of Alabama and the Deep South."

Raymond Plumey, AIA, New York City, has been selected as the 2001 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow for the study of historic preservation in France by the American Architectural Foundation and the Friends of Vieilles Maisons Françaises Inc.

Arthur Rosenblatt, FAIA, (with Clintons) author of Building Type Basics for Museums (published by John Wiley and Sons), presented copies of his book to President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House just before Bill Clinton left office and Hillary Clinton took office.

Jeffrey Shneider, AIA, was elected president; Kent Hanway, AIA, vice president; and Craig Slocum, AIA, new board member, of CSHQA, Boise.

William B. Tracy, AIA, has founded a new firm, Building Area Measurement LLC, focusing on the application of building measurement standards. He also has been appointed to the BOMA International Standard Method of Floor Measurement Committee.

Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA, principal of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, was
honored with an Award of Excellence at the Women in Design's "Innovative
Collaborations" conference at the Boston Society of Architects' Build Boston conference in November 2000.

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