Carrier Johnson, announces the opening of the firm's San Francisco office to serve public, mixed-use, retail, residential, and corporate clients. Sanjiv Bhandari, AIA, joins the firm as director and will lead the San Francisco design team.

Leo A. Daly III, FAIA, RIBA, RAIA, Leo A. Daly, Washington D.C., was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement, founded to "inspire you with new dreams of achievement in a world of boundless opportunities." Joining Daly in the Class of 2001 were Dan Rather, CBS News; author Tracy Kidder; and J. Carter Brown, director emeritus of the National Gallery of Art.

William H. Fain Jr., FAIA, partner in charge of urban planning for Johnson Fain Partners, Los Angeles; and Ellen Phillips Soroka, Assoc. AIA, assistant professor of architecture, Arizona State university, Phoenix, have received Rome Prize Fellowships from the American Academy in Rome.

James Follett, FAIA, Gensler, Chicago, and Neil Frankel, FAIA, Frankel + Coleman, Chicago, received senior fellowships from the Design Futures Council.

D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, principal, Watkins Hamilton Ross, Houston, will teach "Introduction to Planning and Design for Health Care" and "Design for Critical Care" this summer for the Harvard Graduate School of Design professional development program.

Curtis J. Moody, FAIA, Moody/Nolan Ltd., Columbus, Ohio, has been designated as one of the "Fifty Influential Minorities in Business" by the Minority Business Network Inc.

Morris Architects, was the only U.S. architecture team (and one of 100 firms worldwide) selected to participated in an international design competition for a 21-mile-long tourist and vacation area in the City of Belhai, Guanxi Province, China.

Kevin Sneed, AIA, BBGM, Washington, D.C., was appointed to his second one-year term on the AIA 2001 Diversity Task Force.

Ian G. Thompson, AIA, and Jay P. Dufour, AIA, Sizeler Architects, New Orleans, donated design services to build "A Child's Dream House" for Art in Bloom 2001, a fundraiser to benefit the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca received a Los Angeles Business Council 2001 Design Award for the Santa Monica Master Plan. The project also received a 2001 AIA Honor Award for Urban Design.

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