ACCESSIBILITY RESEARCH CENTER EXCELLENCE AWARD

Adjunct Professor Royce Earnest has been nominated for an Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) Excellence award for his exemplary services to ARC students. Royce ensures all students succeed by using universal design principles within his courses and exercises sensitivity and professionalism with a diverse student population. Professor Earnest teaches across the curriculum including design studios, history courses, and architectural theory.

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Center for Health Design is honoring emeritus faculty Uriel Cohen, PhD and Gerald Weisman, PhD, founders and co-directors of the Institute on Aging & Environment at SARUP, with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Both Uriel and Jerry have had a dramatic impact on the fields of design and design research of health-supportive environments for older adults, particularly those suffering from cognitive impairments. Under their direction, the Institute fostered generations of designers and researchers who have made major advances in this work.

$5.2 MILLION FOR FLEX RIDE MILWAUKEE

Professor Robert Schneider, Visiting Assistnat Professor Yaidi Cancel Martinez , and Professor Ivy Hu’s project FlexRide Milwaukee has received an award of approximately $4.2 million through the Wisconsin Workforce Innovation Grant Program Partnering with MobiliSE, the expansion of the program will include positioning childcare centers as “mobility hubs” to provide a safe, convenient and welcoming spot for working parents. The award demonstrates the significant impact of communityorientated UWM research. FlexRide, funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a technologydriven approach to closing the transportation gap and getting Milwaukee residents to jobs at some of Menomonee Falls’ and Butler’s largest employers.

Artist In Residence

Adjunct Faculty Christopher T. Wood has been named the Pfister Hotel’s Artist in Residence for 2022-2023. By applying unique processes he has developed over time, Wood creates drawings consisting of powdered graphite and exquisite shading that form distinct creations. He plans to draw a new piece each day that will eventually become a set of drawings, each serving as an extension of the other.

During his residency, Wood plans to transform one side of the Artist Studio into a viewable working space so guests can witness his process firsthand. The other side of the studio will be a display and reception area allowing guests to see Wood’s daily drawings and to learn their story. The studio will also include the opportunity for visitors to answer a prompt, share an experience or submit an image to contribute to Wood’s process.

Kahler Slater Design Studio

SARUP is partnering with Kahler Slater and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture to form The Kahler Slater Studio, a new academic graduate studio offered to students at both universities. The Studio will begin courses in Fall 2022 with Kahler Slater staff serving as adjunct professors.

The collective brings the three entities together to increase the collaboration between academia and practice. Students from the universities will work in partnership with Kahler Slater’s design team in their Chicago and Milwaukee offices. The immersive experience was designed to support UWM and UIUC’s enrollment growth in their architecture programs as well as build upon the longstanding relationship both universities have with Kahler Slater.

The syllabus is structured to offer hands-on, interdisciplinary opportunities for students to work on projects focusing on corporate, hospitality, residential, healthcare, cultural, sports, recreation, and higher education. Students in the 2022 Fall semester will begin with a project located in Chicago, following with a 2023 project based in Milwaukee.

“The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning is proud to cultivate a collaborative environment for students in partnership with Kahler Slater and the Illinois School of Architecture. Through this studio, students will explore the significant architectural challenges of our times, led by subject matter experts at Kahler Slater,” said Interim Dean Mo Zell

Aicp College Of Fellows

Carolyn Esswein has achieved the planning profession’s highest honor—being named to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Esswein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Director of Community Design Solutions in the school.

Esswein’s admission to the College of Fellows recognizes her substantial efforts that have resulted in significant and transformational improvements to the field of planning and the communities she serves. Esswein is one of 53 inductees into this year’s College of Fellows; inductions occur biennially. Wisconsin has had only three Fellows inducted since the College of Fellows was inaugurated in 1999.

Esswein’s passion for inclusive and innovative planning has transformed neighborhoods and cities throughout Wisconsin. A creative change-maker, Esswein’s career involves teaching, professional practice, and community service, all intertwined together. She managed Milwaukee’s first Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, planned the first suburban city center in the region, facilitated a process to convert central city vacant parcels into 20 parks, has taught hundreds of students as future leaders, facilitated 400+ student projects, and recently co-developed a Master of Urban Design program.