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Faculty Accolades

Travis Hicks has been named the new Department Head of UNCG’s Department of Interior Architecture beginning in Spring 2025.

Under the leadership of Travis Hicks, the Main Street Fellows won four awards at the Annual NC Mainstreet Conference. Awards included Best Façade Rehabilitation for Less Than $15,000; Best Façade Rehabilitation for More Than $15,000; Best Historic Rehabilitation Project; and Best Upper Story Redevelopment.

Dr. Asha Kutty received the 2024 International Interior Design Association Educator Diversity Award during the 2024 IDEC conference.

Dr. Amanda Gale received the Special Projects Grant Award during the 2024 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) conference.

Travis Hicks, Director of the Main Street Fellows Program published his second book, Community-Engaged Interior Design, with Routledge/Taylor & Francis in September 2023.

Dr. Amanda Gale received the Interior Design Educators Council’s 2023 Award of Excellence for Best in Category: Scholarship of Design and Research, “Students’ Perceptions of Wellbeing in Campus Buildings: A study of university classrooms and lounges”

Derek Toomes installed his exhibition Lost + Found at Alexander/Heath Contemporary. The exhibition is open March 3 – March 31, 2023.

Dr. Asha Kutty, in connection with Dr. Regis Kopper from the Department of Computer Science, and Dr. Deborah Barnes, Research Associate with The International Civil Rights Center & Museum, was awarded a grant for their project that will raise social justice awareness through Interior Design and VR Walkthroughs. (more)

Dr. Asha Kutty, in partnership with Dr. Kimber Thomas, was accepted to participate in the prestigious 2022-2023 Sawyer Seminar at the University of Virginia on the topic of “Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History.”

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