K-State achievements--2006 Human Ecology

Kansas State University achievements

2006 Human Ecology

* Five students from the College of Human Ecology were recently recognized with notable awards in their fields. Gayathri Pidatala, graduate student in apparel and textiles, won the Oris Glisson Graduate Student Fellowship award, which is given annually to outstanding graduate students by the International Textile and Apparel Association. Four students also received top awards at the Fashion Group International of Kansas City Career Day 2006. Students had the opportunity to participate in competitions for both original garment designs and for illustration merchandising boards. Awards received included: Juan Carlos Garcia, sophomore in apparel and textiles, top 15, original garment design; Kolia Souza, senior in apparel marketing and design, third place, personal shopper board; Mik-Young Whang, graduate student in human ecology, second place, original garment design; and Katharine Langer, senior in apparel marketing and design, first place, personal shopper board. November 2006

* An apparel design and production student from K-State recently received an award for her exemplary fashion design using alpaca fibers. Leeann Armstrong was awarded a $500 scholarship for her third-place submission in the Fiber to Fashion design competition. The scholarship will be funded by Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association and includes a sponsored trip with other winners in November for the national association conference in Reno, Nev. October 2006

* Deborah Meyer-Brosdahl, associate professor in the department of apparel, textiles and interior design at K-State, has been selected a 2006 Apparel magazine All-Star Award winner. The award recognizes those who make outstanding contributions through teaching, research or service activities in the textile and apparel field. Meyer-Brosdahl will receive the award at a ceremony Nov. 8 in New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also will be featured in the December issue of the magazine. Meyer-Brosdahl was the only educator among the 10 national winners selected. October 2006

* Barbara Anderson, assistant professor of interior design, has been selected to participate in Future Vision, the effort by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation to define new accreditation standards for interior design education programs. She is one of 15 outstanding leaders in interior design selected to participate. Future Vision participants must demonstrate a well-informed view of interior design education, knowledge of the industry, leadership, the ability to identify future issues and professionalism. September 2006

* A gown designed by K-State's Sherry Haar to draw attention to heart disease in women has been selected for the International Textile and Apparel Association's 2006 Design Exhibition. Haar's "Faces of Heart Disease" will be on display Nov. 2-Dec. 2 at the Southwest School of Art and Craft in San Antonio, Texas. The exhibition opening coincides with the annual conference of the International Textile and Apparel Association, which is Nov. 1-4, also in San Antonio. The gown's theme was inspired by the American Heart Association's campaign, "Go Red for Women," to raise awareness about heart disease in women. The campaign's logo is a red dress and its slogan is, "The Dress to Die For. The Cause to Live For." Haar's red silk gown features the hand-painted images of Manhattan area women who have heart disease. August 2006

* Elissa Bartel, senior in interior design, has been named a 2006-07 Kansas City International Facility Management Scholar, She is receiving a $1,000 scholarship from the Kansas City chapter of the International Facility Management Association, which awards scholarships annually to college students who demonstrate understanding and professional potential in the area of facilities management. June 2006

* Natalie Trudeau, a May 2006 bachelor's graduate in interior design, won third place in the recent Metropolitan Interiors Student Competition. The competition, for students in Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Colorado, is sponsored by Metropolitan Interiors, a residential and commercial design firm based in Minneapolis, Minn. In the competition, students were asked to provide input and design creativity for a professional interior design store/studio and were judged on creative ability of design layout, color and material combinations, ability to convey ideas through drawings, and craftsmanship of board presentations. For her entry, Trudeau designed the new store/studio to serve as a retail space, meeting space and work space for interior designers. June 2006

* For the fourth time in seven years, K-State's financial planning team has won the Ameriprise Planning Invitational. The competition was April 19-22 in Minneapolis, Minn. The win means the personal financial planning program will receive a $10,000 scholarship. Team members were Julie Fletcher, Audrea Youngers and Jamie Mager, all seniors in family studies and human services with an emphasis on personal financial planning. K-State also won the national championship in 2005, 2003 and 2000. May 2006

* Both K-State's bachelor of interior architecture and interior design programs rank fourth, its bachelor of architecture and bachelor of landscape architecture programs rank fifth, and its master of landscape architecture program ranks sixth in a 2006 nationwide survey of leading firms across the United States by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design. Six schools in the Big 12 Conference have top-ranked programs in the areas that were surveyed, but only K-State has five that ranked in the top 10. January 2006

* For the second consecutive year, K-State's graduate program in hotel, restaurant, institution management and dietetics won one of two Best Paper Awards at the 11th Annual Graduate Research Conference in Hospitality Jan. 4-6 in Seattle. Eunju (Julie) Yoon and Carol Shanklin, professor and associate dean of K-State's Graduate School, won for their paper, "Implementation of Food Biosecurity Management Plan Against Terrorism in On-Site Foodservice Operations." The Yoon and Shanklin paper won out over 236 other papers submitted at the conference. Of the nine papers nominated for Best Paper awards, two were from K-State. Li-Tzang (Jane) Hsu's paper, written with former K-State faculty member Shawn Jang, "Post-Merger Financial Performance of the Lodging Industry" was also nominated. This conference is considered to be the premier research conference in hospitality management. January 2006