Faculty members in the Division of Interior Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been invited to make presentations at professional conferences throughout the country.

Architect and UWSP Associate Lecturer Thomas Brown presented "Case Study: A Wisconsin High-Performance House" at Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings VIII in December in Clear Water, Fla.

Nisha Fernando, an architect in her home country of Sri Lanka, UW-Milwaukee Ph.D. candidate and associate lecturer at UWSP, will present a paper, "Changing the Way We Look At Change: An Analysis of Open-Ended Spaces," and lead a workshop, "Immigrants and Culture Change," at an international meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) in Philadelphia in May. She will discuss another paper, "Open-Ended Urban Spaces: The Case of Streets," at the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Conference in Corunna, Galicia, Spain in July.

Division Head and Professor Kathe Stumpf and Associate Lecturer Jane Kangas will present a co-authored poster, "Sustainability Through Diversity and Unity of Design Organizations" at the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) national meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March. Also presenting will be assistant professors Donna Zimmerman and Christina Burton, and Associate Professor Mark Nelson.

Nelson, Burton and Professor Patricia Kluetz presented at the International Design Communication Association Conference in South Carolina in January. Kluetz serves as president of the organization.

Professor Patricia Williams will present at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences in June. The title of her presentation is Diversity and Design: An Approach to Cross Disciplinary Teaching."

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