Anvay Das x’26 knows the environments people live, work and play in can make them happy. As an Interior Architecture student, he wants to create spaces that support health, learning and comfort. In the following …
Interior Architecture
From IT to interior architecture: Mary Alesandrini ’18 redesigned her career
Transform a deserted mall into a patient-centered healthcare clinic. That was the challenge Mary Alesandrini ’18 was tasked with during her internship as an Interior Architecture student. She designed layouts for the clinic’s many settings, …
Meet former intern: Hayley Pendergast ‘19
Major: Interior Architecture Pendergast says at first she wasn’t sure what she wanted to study — until she took her first interior design class and says “it just clicked.” As a student, she also founded …
Remembering Phillip Levy, an Advocate for SoHE Students and Design Excellence
A member of the SoHE Board of Visitors and a fixture of Madison’s design and philanthropic communities, Phillip Levy was a determined advocate for people-centered design and the human ecology approach. The Phillip A. Levy Design Excellence Fund will help to honor his legacy.
SoHE News: Feb 26–Mar 4
Whelan audiobook places in Audible’s top 10 for nonfiction; Muentner, Weymouth, and Poehlmann-Tynan publish on the impact of children witnessing a father’s arrest; two SoHE alumnae named in In Business Madison’s 40 under 40; Collins introduces “WisconsinSaves” program on Channel 3000; Interior Architecture undergrad highlighted by Nelson Institute; and more.
Congratulations and Farewells to SoHE Faculty This Summer
Several Human Ecology faculty have earned promotions in their departments, and we bid farewell to several retiring faculty.
Two New Design Studies Faculty to Join SoHE
Drs. Nastaran Shishegar and Uchita Vaid will teach in the Interior Architecture program.
SoHE News: May 1-7
Student accomplishments to celebrate, Collins joins Crossroads of Ideas COVID-19 discussion, Addo on financial impacts for millennials, and more.
SoHE Undergrads to Lead Two Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Projects
Congratulations to Danielle Wendricks (CNPL) and Nina Sugaya (IA)! Their projects, two of just nine awarded this year, will address local hunger relief and biomass energy production in Kenya.
Textile Tuesday: Helen In Thread
Happy Birthday Helen Louise Allen! Professor Allen spent her life teaching, traveling, and collecting the thousands of textiles in her legacy collection—a sample of which can be seen from now until April 14 in both …