Transferring schools is no easy feat, a challenge Claire Cameron (ENVD’26) knows too well after joining ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ as a sophomore. When she received the Douglas Darden Memorial Scholarship, however, her sense of belonging within the Program in Environmental Design solidified.  

“I found such a home for myself in ENVD and I feel like it’s a recognition of that,” Cameron shared. “It’s kind of an appreciation of the work that I’m doing and that it’s heading in the right direction.”  

Each year, ENVD awards more than $50,000 in scholarships and awards to support financial need, honor academic merit and celebrate contributions to the field of environmental design. This year, Cameron was one of 13 ENVD undergraduates to receive ENVD scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year.  

Cogan Nguyen (ENVD’25), who won the Hideo Sasaki Scholarship in Interdisciplinary Design, felt that this award has especially helped him to stay motivated. “I've always had a big procrastination issue. I always waited until the last minute and that led to my projects being piled up on each other,” he explained. “So, with this scholarship, I feel like I made that adjustment over time to get better at it. And this is just living proof that it helped in the long run.”   

On Thursday, September 12, award recipients were honored and recognized for their achievements during a scholarship luncheon held in the University Memorial Center’s Aspen Room. Along with their families and friends, the students were joined by ENVD staff, faculty and members of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The AIA members attended on behalf of AIA’s Architectural Education Foundation (AEF), which has developed a special fund that awards scholarships, grants and prizes to students advancing the profession of architecture and design. 

Adam Harding (ENVD’04), partner at Roth Sheppard Architects and a past president of AIA ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ, currently manages this fund with AIA leadership. As an ENVD alum himself, Harding recognizes how the design profession’s financial requirements can often be a burden to students.  

“I hope that [the scholarships] give students a bit of hope and a notion of community,” he acknowledged. “We are a small community in ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ and we all fiercely support one another and want people to succeed. So, hopefully it does some good in a way.” 

For Cameron and Nguyen, these scholarships have provided financial support and a sense of belonging and recognition within ENVD’s tight-knit community. 

“ENVD is such a rich community with so many passionate people who really deserve to be recognized,” Cameron explained. “Putting energy back into that and putting funding into that really helps the community grow, and just gives students of different backgrounds a space where they can really be creative.”

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 scholarship and award recipients!

Jose Banuelos &�Բ�����;
AIA ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ North Scholarship (ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ AIA)

Mia Winstead &�Բ�����;
Oscar R. Sanchez Scholarship (ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ AIA)

Nathan Quintero
Gary G. Landin Scholarship (ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ AIA)

Tyler Boyce &�Բ�����;
Lynn M. Lickteig Photography Award

Nicole Tschan 
Jessie Moyar  
ENVD Research Award

Ava Pelster
AJ Jelonnek  
Dana Giffin Soper Memorial Scholarship

Azzaya Avaadorj  
D.J. Hynek Memorial Scholarship

Claire Cameron &�Բ�����;
Douglas Darden Memorial Scholarship

Cogan Nguyen &�Բ�����;
Hideo Sasaki Scholarship in Interdisciplinary Design

Austin Villarreal &�Բ�����;
Viola and Charles Haertling Scholarship in Environmental Design

Liam Malloy  
Martin Luther King, Jr. Housing Prize Scholarship 

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Each spring, a group of environmental design honors students defend their theses to their dedicated thesis committee. Afterward, the Honors Council meets and awards Latin honors at the levels of cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude. 

Projects worthy of the honors designation will be works of creative expression, including design, research, and theoretical work that demonstrates a high level of intellectual and creative ability and analytical skills. Completing an honors project allows students to investigate topics of interest, provides the opportunity to work closely with a faculty thesis chair and creates a culminating intellectual experience that produces both a meaningful project and an invaluable learning experience. The Honors project represents the climax of their college careers.

Congratulations to the following students graduating with Latin honors!

Balancing Global Building Standards and Contextual Design: A Critical Regionalist Analysis of the WELL V2 Building Standards Impact on Design and Wellbeing

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Grassland Restoration: Exploring best practices and interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of grassland restoration

Reinforcing Appalachia

Briki: Re-Brick Your Dorm

The Green Paradox: Gentrification & Greenness in the Mile High City

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In spring 2023, four students submitted work to the Milan Affordable Housing Challenge, a design competition part of the . The series is aimed at addressing the global housing crisis and redefining urban living.  

This year’s challenge received 38 international submissions, with only five submitted from the United States. The Program in Environmental Design accounted for two of those submissions. Both submissions received a shortlist recognition in the 2023 competition. Learn more and view each design below.

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Bryan Martino, a winter 2023 graduate who earned double degrees in environmental design and ecology and evolutionary biology, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his master's degree in integrative technologies and architectural design research at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The program's mission is to re-examine theories of design surrounding engineering, robotics, digital maufacuring, matereial science and biology. 

 "I feel incredibly honored to represent the United States, and our ENVD community, across such a global scale," Martino said. 

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Each spring, a group of environmental design honors students defend their theses to their dedicated thesis committee. Afterward, the Honors Council meets and awards Latin honors at the levels of cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude. 

Congratulations to the following students graduating with Latin honors.

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Thanks to the generosity of our donors and alumni, the Program in Environmental Design is pleased to award more than $50,000 in scholarships and awards to students in the program. 

All ENVD students are eligible to apply. The application period is open from November 1 through February 15, and the scholarships and awards are announced each spring semester. 

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2020 ENVD scholarships and awards!

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Last week the Sko Together Challenge wrapped up. The 10-week, student-led and student-driven challenge hosted 52 undergraduate students to recreate campus life while having to physically distance in 2020. 

Congratulations to ENVD student Molly Obermeier and her friends Robin Tutchton and Lily-Page Hartwell for their second-place-winning submission More than Ramen. 

The top three placing teams have been awarded $1,500 to seed implementation of their ideas and mentorship to develop their campus connection concepts throughout fall 2020.

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The City of Fort Collins contracts a handful of local artists each year to paint murals on electrical boxes as an effort to mitigate graffiti and to add public art around the city. This year, ENVD student Caleb Schmitz was selected for his mural titled "Moments."

"Moments" is a mural dedicated to solitude and the fragility of man against the fortitude and persistence of the natural world. Schmitz's mural is a window into one of those special moments of being alone with nature. His hope is for everyone to be able to relate to the images and be reminded of the value of solitude, contemplation and taking a moment to be utterly aware of the entire universe that exists outside one's self and the daily chatter of one's own life. 

Schmitz began painting his mural in early August.

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This summer, Assistant Clinical Professor Marianne Holbert and her architecture capstone summer course (ARCH 4100) focused on the international design competition Design For Living. The global contest to rethink our habitat from the body to the city was the  hosted by the (IAAC). 

Among 193 proposals from 80 countries, ENVD student Allison Aber was for her project PRO Pods, (Plan, React, Occupy). PRO Pods is a system of pods that can be used as medical clinics or emergency shelters. PRO utilizes the existing structures of monuments to react. Its versatile form is implemented to reallocate the monuments’ function to assist vulnerable populations in the wake of urbanization and increasing frequency of pandemics. PRO Pods, optimizes the city fabric making non-essential structures essential to the human habitat.

ENVD student Hanaan Llewellyn was selected by the IAAC Academic Committee for a scholarship to attend the Master in Advanced Architecture program at the Institute of Advanced Architecture at Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. Her Design for Living competition submission was ReVeil: Addressing Rights of Minority Cultures and Religious Communities in American Highrise apartments.

Student projects by Allison Aber, Cole Brockoff, Hanaan Llewellyn, Jozef Gach, Katie Kumro, Kylie Bromley, Michael Corvino, Nicholas Esquibel and Taylor Evans were selected to be included in a publication by ACTAR. The selected projects will also go on show in a major exhibition due to open in December 2020.

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Thanks to the generosity of our donors and alumni, the Program in Environmental Design is pleased to award more than $50,000 in scholarships and awards to students in the program. 

All ENVD students are eligible to apply. The application period is open from November 1 through February 15, and the scholarships and awards are announced each spring semester. 

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2020 ENVD scholarships and awards! 

Scholarships

Dana Giffin Soper Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Dana Giffin Sper, a former ENVD student. It is awarded to students that demonstrate excellent academic performance, as well as exemplary personality and character. 

• Elizabeth Sommer

D.J. Hynek Memorial Scholarship is awarded in memory of D.J. Hynek, an ENVD student who graduated from the program in 2000. Hynek found the ENVD program exceptionally meaningful and supportive of his intellectual interests and career ambitions. 

• Erica Hung

Douglas Darden Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Douglas Darden by his parents. It is awarded to students who are ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ residents that demonstrate great professional promise and academic merit. 

• Erika Andrade

Hideo Sasaki Scholarship was established by the University's Board of Regents to honor Hideo Sasaki's exemplary efforts as a teacher and design practitioner to inspire future generations of ENVD students to higher levels of achievement.

• Lauren Oertel, sustainable planning and urban design

Charles Haertling Scholarship was established in memory of Charles A. Haertling, AIA architect, and celebrates Haertling's commitment to humanistic ideals in both the arts and design, as well as the spirit of community service. 

• Nick Berg

Marcia Miller Memorial Scholarship 

• Katie Kumro

Richard L. Crowther Memorial Scholarship was established to support students interested in environmental architecture, sustainable building, solar energy, energy conservation or therapeutic architecture to undertake a related research project or unpaid professional development opportunity. 

• Nick Berg, junior in architecture 
• Logan Shipman

Martin Luther King, Jr. Housing Prize Scholarship was established in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is awarded to students who express interest in affordable housing as part of their essays and supporting application materials. 

• Sofija Andrew

• Victor Gonzalez, senior in architecture

Environmental Design Achievement Scholarship was established to honor esteemed students who have made significant contributions to the program or university.

• Keaton McCargo, architecture

• Kerstin Nyquist

• Carson Tancig
• Nettie Skievaski

• Jennifer Pintar
• Katelyn Warren

Environmental Design Discipline Specific Achievement Scholarship was established to honor esteemed students who have made significant contributions to the program or university and show great promise for their chosen major. 

• Angus MacInnis | Architecture
• Will Currell | Environmental Product Design

• Jeffrey Barnett | Landscape Architecture
• Lauren Oertel | Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

Environmental Design Faculty Esteemed Graduate Award is nominated and voted on by each ENVD discipline-specific faculty. This honor is conferred upon graduating seniors who through their design work, character, contributions and efforts, embody the highest ideals celebrated within the ENVD community. 

• Dean Behary | Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

• Emily Roos | Architecture

• Kira Forbes | Environmental Product Design

• Meredith DeLong | Architecture

• Tucker Treat | Architecture

• Constantine Chrisafis | Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

• Sean Cunningham | Architecture
• Lauren Sharpe | Environmental Product Design

• Alec Stolz | Landscape Architecture
• Miles Shapleigh | Landscape Architecture

Architectural Education Fund, AIA ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Scholarships

C. Gordon Sweet Scholarship is awarded to a third or fourth year ENVD student who shows promise of contributing to the design/building industry. C. Gordon Sweet was a prominent ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ architect and two-time president of AIA ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ. His practice spanned 25 years from 1946 to 1970 in ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Springs. 

• Angus MacInnis, junior in architecture

ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ North Chapter Scholarship is awarded to an ENVD student in the pursuit of architectural education and their contribution to the program.

• Austen Keever

Gary G. Landin AIA Scholarship was established in 1999 undergraduate students demonstrating exemplary academic merit. Gary G. Landin, AIA, was a co-founder of Intergroup Architects and a respected ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ architect. He practiced in Denver from 1956-1998. This scholarship is presented by Intergroup Architects and his family to honor his memory.

• Katelyn Warren, sophomore in architecture

Oscar R. Sanchez Scholarship 

• ​Jocelyn Torrecillas-Miramontes

ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Garden Foundation Scholarships

The ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Garden Foundation Scholarship is awarded to students in landscape architecture.

• Kelsey Hernandez, junior in landscape architecture
• Isabella Manzo

Awards

ENVD Academic Paper Award is nominated by instructors.

• Aubrey Prestwich, junior in landscape architecture​

ENVD Research Award was established to assist senior-level ENVD honors and capstone projects. 

• Ana Corral
• Lauren Sharpe

Lynn M. Lickteig Photography Award 

• Elizabeth Sommer

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