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We are delighted to announce the nominees for election to the ARCC Board of Directors. Board elections will be held August 1-25 using electronic ballot with one vote per ARCC member institution.

> NOMINATIONS for VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez is a Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Alfredo’s interest in the building sciences led him to serve as President and Board Member of the Society of Building Science Educators. His research and teaching have been recognized with many prestigious awards such as the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Architecture and Design Leadership Award; USGBC Nevada Chapter Leadership in Research Award; 2003 ARCC Best Architectural Research Paper of the Year; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Nevada Professor of the Year; and the Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teacher Award.
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Barbara Klinkhammer, Thomas Jefferson University 
An accomplished scholar, senior administrator, design educator, and architect, Barbara Klinkhammer serves as Dean of the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Thomas Jefferson University. Previously, she held faculty and administrative leadership positions at the University of Tennessee and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Klinkhammer brings a deep understanding of the contemporary professional design world and a timely vision of the future of architecture and design education. She co-founded the Jefferson Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities and has framed the discourse of contemporary architecture through research, publications, practice and participation in international design competitions. She has served in leadership and board positions of numerous professional and academic organizations including the ACSA, ARCC, ACE and SESAH and served as the co-editor of ARRIS. A registered architect in Europe, Klinkhammer holds the German equivalent of the Bachelor and Master’s degrees in architecture from the RWTH-Aachen and has practiced with her firm Klinkhammer and Stach Architekten in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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> NOMINATIONS for AT-LARGE DIRECTOR
(three positions open)

Rima Ajlouni, University of Utah
Dr. Ajlouni is associate professor of Architecture at the university of Utah. She has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Architectural Engineering and a Ph.D. with emphasis on computation and digital technology in Architecture and Historic Preservation from Texas A&M University. Her work focuses on linking historical research and mathematics to contemporary applications through computation and digital fabrication. Early in her career, Dr. Ajlouni led the design team for the reconstruction of the Minbar of Saladin in Al Aqsa Mosque. In 2010, Dr. Ajlouni directed the effort in establishing the first international Historic Preservation program in Iraq. Her recent ground-breaking research on quasi-crystalline Geometry has potential for a wide cross-disciplinary applications in sciences, technology, and humanities.
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Patricia Andrasik, Catholic University of America
Patricia Andrasik is an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America and a licensed architect in Washington, D.C. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Slovak University of Technology while earning her Master of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. She then taught as a visiting professor in Beirut prior to returning to the US to practice before she began her teaching career. In addition to creating several novel courses to promote environmental integration into architecture, Andrasik was awarded funding for much of her work which is internationally recognized by the publications/conferences of organizations including JNIBS, NBI, AASHE, ACSA, AIA/COTE, and others.
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Craig Anz, Southern Illinois University 
Dr. Anz serves as the Director of the School of Architecture and Program Director for Architectural Studies at Southern Illinois University. He practices as an NCARB architect and is a full professor of architecture, urban design, environmental systems, and graduate research. His research and practice engage critical social theory, history and criticism, research methods, environmental discourse, ecosystem resourcing, place-making, architecture, urban design and community development. The work negotiates multi-methodological analyses and knowledge integration approaches, stakeholder engagement tactics, and multi-scale development strategies toward complex socio-environmental systems within broad, international ranges of projects.
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Lyndsey Deaton, Clemson University 
Educated as an architect, planner, and urban researcher, Dr. Lyndsey Deaton is principally an urbanist, whose specialty is the study of policies, the urban design of public space, and community health. She is an Assistant Professor in Architecture + Health at Clemson University and teaches professionals at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Learning Center, an accredited higher education institution. She is also the co-founder/senior architect at The International Development Collaborative where her team works with USAID to build community capacity and healthy spaces in low-income communities across the United States, the Middle and Far East, Asia, and Africa.
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Mona El Khafif, University of Virginia
Mona El Khafif is an Associate Professor at UVA School of Architecture and Principal of SCALESHIFT. She received her professional degree in Architecture from the RWTH Aachen and her doctoral degree in Urban Design from the TU Vienna. Her research operates at multiple scales, examining the role of architecture at the scale of the city, urban prototyping, and strategies for the smart city. At UVA El Khafif serves as the graduate director of urban design, teaches architecture studios and core seminars in the urban design curriculum.
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Ihab Elzeyadi, University of Oregon
Dr. Ihab Elzeyadi is an architect, building scientist, and professor of architecture. He has been engaged in the design, construction, and research of high-performance buildings for more than 30 years. Dr. Elzeyadi is a full professor of architecture and the founder and director of the High Performance Environments Lab (HiPE), College of Design, University of Oregon. His lab group investigates applied research related to occupants’ comfort, health, and well-being in high-performance buildings. In addition, he has provided design assistance for more than eight million S.F. of commercial buildings. Professor Elzeyadi led student design teams who placed as finalists in the Solar Decathlon Design Competition three years in a row and won first prize and grand jury prizes in 2020 and 2021. He has also led design studios that won ACSA/AIA COTE Top 10 student Awards in 2015 & 2016. Dr. Elzeyadi is currently an elected Director-at-Large of ARCC. He has published more than 155 peer-reviewed papers, 10 chapters in peer-reviewed edited books, 2 books, and 1 pending US patent. Various grants and awards exceeding $5.9 M in funding supported his research projects.
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Philip Horton, Arizona State University 
Philip Horton is a Clinical Associate Professor, a Senior Global Futures Scientist, an Affiliate Faculty Member in the Biomimicry Center, and Co-Founding Director of the new Center of Building Innovation (CoBI) at Arizona State University (ASU). He received a Master’s in Architecture with commencement honors from ASU’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design in 2003, and is currently completing the Stanford University LEAD Executive Education program through the Graduate School of Business. Horton has performed research with the US Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), and the Aspen Institute, amongst others.
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Xiao Hu, University of Idaho
Xiao Hu is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Idaho and a registered architect in China. He holds a B.Arch degree from Chongqing Jianzhu University (China), and a M.S. degree in Architecture and a PhD degree in Architecture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research focuses on urban sustainability, community development and the architectural representation of the broader cultural, social, and political transformations. His publications address those issues in the cases of North America, East Asia and the Middle East. Currently, he is actively engaged in projects that employ scenario-based analysis to explore alternative futures for communities.
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Kyounghee Kim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Kyoung Hee Kim, Ph.D, AIA, NCARB, is a Professor of the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. She is Director of the Integrated Design Research Lab (IDRL), an interdisciplinary research platform for integrating architecture design and innovative building technologies. Recently, she published a book entitled Microalgae Building Enclosures: Design and Engineering Principles (Routledge). Dr. Kim has more than 15 years of professional experience and has engaged in over 50 institutional, cultural, residential, commercial, and governmental projects around the world. Dr. Kim received her Master of Architecture, Master of Science, and Ph.D in Architecture from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
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Silvina Lopez Barrera, Mississippi State University 
Silvina Lopez Barrera is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. She is a licensed Architect in Uruguay, LEED-AP accredited, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from Iowa State University. Her research focuses on how socio-spatial inequalities influence informal housing, housing insecurity, and community resilience in the US and in Latin America. Lopez Barrera’s field work methods incorporate oral histories and participatory processes to engage with disadvantaged communities. She is member of the Uruguayan Society of Architects and International Associate member of the American Institute of Architects.
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David Mwale Ogoli, California Baptist University 
My education includes (1) Doctor of Philosophy (Energy, climate and comfort in buildings) (University of Florida) (1997-2000) as a Fulbright Scholar, (2) Master of Philosophy (Environmental Design in Architecture) at the University of Cambridge, UK (1993 – 1994) as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Merit Scholar, (3) Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honors) (1983 –1988) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and (4) KACE (1980-1981) at the Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya. Member of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, Society of Building Science Educators, Building Technology Educators’ Society, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, Acoustical Society of America, and Associate Director, AIA-Inland California.
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Seung Ra, Oklahoma State University 
Seung Ra is an architect and associate professor at Oklahoma State University. He holds a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia and a Bachelor of Architecture from OSU. He taught at New York Institute of Technology, the University of Nebraska, and Korea National University of Arts. He has served as a design critic at Columbia, the University of Southern California, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Seoul National University. His current research and design practice focus on interdisciplinary approaches to architecture and urbanism. He was invited as a juror for the 2023 ACSA Architectural Education Award and served on the 2019 & 2012 ACSA Steel Competition as an author and juror. He served on the paper review committee for the ACADIA conferences since 2012.
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Traci Rose Rider, North Carolina State University 
Dr. Traci Rose Rider is Assistant Professor at NC State University’s College of Design and faculty in the PhD in Design and Doctor of Design programs. She is an Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation exploring how the K-12 built environment in an under-resourced community can increase positive health outcomes for students, staff, parents, and the community. She has two books on green building guidelines and materials (W.W. Norton), with another on healthy building guidelines for design practitioners (Routledge). Her focus is on interdisciplinary research addressing larger issues of health and sustainability.
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Clare Robinson, University of Arizona
Clare Robinson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses in modern architectural history and theory. Robinson earned a Doctorate in Architecture from UC-Berkeley, an M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a B.A. from Smith College. Since 2001, she has taught at several universities, received grants, and published award-winning research. Her current research examines architecture and planning in the mid-twentieth century, focusing on the college campuses, suburban typologies, and regional planning efforts during the mid-twentieth century. In this work, she addresses socio-economic conditions, and the ways architecture has served and continues to be an instrument of class realization.
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Andrew R. Tripp, Texas A&M University 
Andrew R. Tripp is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University, where he teaches architectural design and history/theory. He has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Architecture History and Theory) and the Cooper Union (B.Arch.) and has practiced throughout the US. His fields of research include the history/theory of 20th and 21st century architectural practice and the education/pedagogy of the architect. Before joining Texas A&M, he taught at the Cooper Union, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and Mississippi State University. He is currently a Fellow of the CRS Center for Leadership & Management in the Design & Construction Industry and holds the John Only Greer Endowed Professorship in Architectural Heritage.
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Dongwoo (Jason) Yeom, Arizona State University 
Dongwoo (Jason) Yeom is a researcher and educator with a strong interest in human-building interaction, high-performance building, and sustainable building design. He has conducted multiple experimental research projects on sustainable design, building performance analysis, indoor environment quality (IEQ), and human-building interaction. At ASU, Dr. Yeom is conducting multidisciplinary research projects, investigating the relationship between the indoor environment, human physiological responses, and occupant’s behavior and productivity. Based on his works, Dr. Yeom has published multiple papers in prestigious journals, including Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Indoor and Built environment.
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Yun Kyu Yi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Yun Kyu Yi teaches environmental architecture and sustainable technology and research in the area of computational building modeling and simulation, building performance evaluation, and indoor occupant’s behavior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Yi is the co-founder and lead investigator of the Responsive Architecture Lab (RAL) at the School of Architecture. The lab embraces interdisciplinary research. Currently, the lab is collaborating to develop advanced building energy model and collaborated with several architects for international competitions. Dr. Yi is also a lead author or co-author of numerous scientific papers. He published numerous peer-reviewed journals and conference papers.
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