REFLECTIONS

Hello!

The 2022-2023 academic year is complete! This is an especially bittersweet time for me, as I am closing out my thirty year career with the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture. Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi and I are both “retiring” from OSU, but really this is a moment of transition and the start of a new adventure for us. We are leaving Stillwater, where we have raised our son and dedicated decades of our lives to students and to the School. We will miss many things, but are grateful for the people we’ve met and the connections we’ve made along the way.

It is my pleasure to bring this edition of the Reflections newsletter to you. Our theme for this issue of the Newsletter is “Faculty in Focus.” We hope to communicate information about several of our current faculty and some of their teaching, scholarly work, and other activities that are a part of the life of the School of Architecture today. I’d like you to get to know them!

Enjoy the articles and information within this newsletter, and please do keep in touch with us here at the School. We are proud of our current students and of the accomplishments of our alumni!

Suzanne Bilbeisi, AIA

Centennial

Professor

and Head of the School of Architecture (until July 5, 2023) suzanne.bilbeisi@okstate.edu

Website: https://ceat.okstate.edu/arch/

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► The faculty and staff of the School of Architecture, Spring 2023: Row 1: Admin Associate Chelsea Wooldridge, Advisor Lori Carroll, Suzanne Bilbeisi, Moh’d Bilbeisi, and Christina McCoy. Row 2: Admin Assistant Michelle Hughes, Arch Librarian Sara Mautino, Awilda Rodriguez, Sarah Ra, Bailey Brown, and Michael Rabens. Row 3: John Phillips, Keith Peiffer, Shop Manager Daniel Ochoa, Blake Mitchell, Jared Macken, Seung Ra, Nathan Richardson, and Khaled Mansy. (not pictured are Jerry Stivers, Jay Yowell, Alex Campbell, and Paolo Sanza)

Alumni Jerry Conduff (B Arch ‘90) and Renee (Kolar) Conduff (B ArchE ‘90) provided travel support for the student competition team to the national Solar Decathlon in Denver. He notes: ”We are both excited for the opportunity to support the SoA, this year towards student travel and competitionsand thrilled that this years team received a “Director’s Award” in the National Solar Decathlon’s Education Building Division while networking with other teams around the globe.”