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From Learning Commons to Learning Communities

Dr. Bosch research writeup in ICON with ASID.

DCP Department of Interior Design And The Agency Win A Competitive $70k Grant From ASID

The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) and The Agency, housed within the UF College of Journalism and Communications, were awarded $70,000 from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) to investigate an emerging typology of educational space, the mixed-use learning zone that engages millennial generations of students outside the standard classroom model.

UF Law School Cafeteria Construction due to be completed August of 2017

UF Interior Design students were involved in the design from start-to-finish of the cafeteria now under construction,

Uzbekistan: Oriental Fairytale Exhibition

Our own, Albina Hartner, is the organizer of this exhibit and will give two lectures at the Grinter Gallery. Check our calendar.

Jae Hwa Lee receives the JID Graduate Scholar Award

Jae Hwa Lee, under direction of Meg Portillo, receives the prestigious JID Graduate Scholar Award for Developing Creative Minds: Lessons from First Year University Students at the 2017 Interior Designer Educators Council annual conference held in Chicago.

Cirino Scholarship Awardees Spring 2017

Our Cirino Scholarship Awardees for 2017 pose with Dr. Portillo in front of the Barbara Cirino Plaque.

Photo of Margaret Portillo Named Fellow By The Interior Educators Council

Margaret Portillo Named Fellow By IDEC

Margaret Portillo, professor and chair of the Department of Interior Design, was named to the Council of Fellows by the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) at the organization’s annual national conference on March 14.

According to John Turpin, current president of IDEC, “Dr. Portillo is an exemplar of our interior design community.”