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New Minor Interior Design

 

Students Win Top Awards at Regional Career Day

Students from the Interior Design Program recently participated in the ASID South Central Chapter Career Day in Clinton, MS on February 1 – 2nd and took home many of the top prizes. Congratulations to the following students:

Caroline McCall
Caroline McCall
  • Senior Caroline McCall from Metairie, Louisiana won 1st place in the Hospitality category for the design of a New Orleans boutique hotel named “The Gregorian”. She also won 2ND place in the Portfolio category and Honorable Mention in the Commercial Design category for the proposed new office space for Knight Abbey Printing of Biloxi, MS.
Sarah Babin
Sarah Babin
  • Senior Sarah Babin from Baton Rouge, Louisiana won Honorable Mention in the Portfolio category.
Elizabeth Curtis
Elizabeth Curtis
  • Junior Elizabeth Curtis from Clinton MS won 1st place in Rendering and 2nd Place in Beginning Studio for the design proposal for the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection Renovation at the McCain Library on the University of Southern Mississippi’s campus.
Jamie Jelenski
Jamie Jelenski
  • Sophomore, Jamie Jelenski from Diamondhead, MS won Honorable Mention in the Beginning Studio category for her design of a mobile shipping container that was converted into a conservatory.


  

 

Interior Design is excited to be offering their British Studies study-abroad course in London this summer! Miranda Grieder, LEED AP (Visiting Assistant Professor) and David Cochran PhD (Geography) will co-teach “London Inside Out” as part of the Southern Miss British Studies Program. Focusing on built form and design at scales ranging from a typical British living room to the metropolitan region as a whole, this course offers a unique opportunity to study first-hand one of the most important global cities of the world. The course also satisfies ID major’s GHY 331 requirement, and their history course requirement. For more information, contact Miranda Grieder at miranda.grieder@usm.edu, David Cochran at david.cochran@usm.edu or Southern Miss International Programs at 601.266.4344 or on the web at http://www.usm.edu/study-abroad.