C omme nc e m e n t 2 0 0 9 Commencement was held on May 16, 2009, with a Unified Commencement Ceremony highlighted by speaker Ellen DeGeneres and the awarding of an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to architect William McDonough. TSA graduated 81 students, including 51 with a Master of Architecture, 12 with a Master of Architecture I and 18 with a Master of Preservation Studies.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATION AWARDS Tulane 34 The Tulane 34 Award is a university-wide honor presented to 34 graduates from Tulane’s 10 schools and colleges who have distinguished themselves through their exemplary leadership, service and academic achievement. The award, named for the year in which the university was founded, 1834, is considered to be one of the most coveted university-wide honors bestowed upon students. This years award is presented to: > Mihnea Catalin Dobre
Newcomb Scholars Newcomb Scholars are students from Tulane’s 10 schools and colleges who have gone above and beyond normal expectations academic achievement. Senior and fifth-year undergraduate women are nominated by their professors during the spring semester and are chosen by a committee of Newcomb Fellows for this prestigious honor from the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute. This years awards are presented to: > Adriana Sophia Camacho > Allison Nicole Popper > Casey Ann Roccanova
Latin High Honors Mihnea Catalin Dobre \\ Michael Peter Keller \\ Jana Marie Masset \\ Nicholas Alexander Vann
Cum Laude Erin Michelle Brush \\ Adriana Sophia Camacho \\ Amarit Dulyapaibul \\ Phillip Scott Goldberg \\ Julia Catherine Guy \\ Matthew William Lee \\ Jamie Lynn Lookabaugh \\ Marcos Salcedo Moore \\ Culum Roy William Osborne \\ Alison Nicole Popper \\ Carter Robinson Scott \\ Gianne Sultana
Graduation Placement James (Jimmy) Stamp, TSA ’04 \\ Yale University, Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D.) Sarah Cloonan, TSA ’09 \\ Columbia University, M.S. Critical, Curatorial, & Conceptual Practices in Architecture Nick Gervase, TSA ‘01 \\ Columbia University Jakob Rosenberg, TSA ‘06 \\ Princeton University Jamie Lookabaugh, TSA ‘09 \\ Columbia University Robert Bracken, TSA ‘08 \\ Harvard University GSD, Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD)
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William mcdonough Awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Architect and sustainable design leader William McDonough, FAIA, Int. FRIBA was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Tulane University at the Unified Commencement Ceremony on May 16, 2009. McDonough was joined by an impressive group of Honorary Doctors which included Harry Connick Jr., co-discoverer and Nobel Prize winner Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and healthcare advocate Jessie Gruman. President Cowan’s acceptance of Dean Schwartz’s nomination represents a University-level promotion of issues of civic responsibility and sustainability. McDonough is one of the three leading partners in creating and supporting the Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans, providing all of his work pro bono. He is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-author with Michael Braungart of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, the trademarked principles of which he aspires to follow in his work from product development to individual buildings to the design of sustainable cities. McDonough served for five years as dean and Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and holds faculty appointments at UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Stanford University and Cornell College. He serves as U.S. Chairman and member of the Board of Councilors of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. His awards include the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development given by President Clinton, the U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and was recognized by Time magazine as a ‘Hero for the Planet’ in 1999 and, with Braungart, ‘Heroes of the Environment’ in 2003. McDonough is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
visiting critics [final reviews + thesis reviews - spring 2009] Brian Andrews University of Nevada Las Vegas, Los Angeles, TSA ‘85 Craig Barton University of Virginia Kristi M. Dykema Louisiana State University Deborah Gans Pratt Institute Margaret Griffin SCI-ARC and Griffin-Enright Architects, Los Angeles Patricia Heyda Washington University in St. Louis, TSA ‘95 Patricia Kucker University of Cincinnati Ben Ledbetter Architect, New Haven Wendy Redfield North Carolina State University Mark Robbins Syracuse University Peter Waldman University of Virginia Mabel Wilson Columbia University Adrienne Yancone University of Pennsylvania Adam Yarinsky ARO Architects, NYC