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Susana Alves
susanamalves@terra.com.br

Licn., Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil

Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (2003)     [Cohen, Committee members]

The role of nature-related activities in the psychological well-being of nursing

     home residents.   

     Concentration: Humans, culture and natural landscapes
     Minor: Visual research method

Departamento de Psicologia, Campus Universitário-Lagoa Nova Universidade

     Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil


Gowri Betrabet
Gulwadi
betrabet@uni.edu
B.Arch., Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (2000)     [Weisman, Ahrentzen, Cohen]
Restorative experiences in an urban context. 
     Concentration: Restorative and Health Promoting Environments
     Minor: Computer applications in architecture
Assistant Professor, Interior Design; University of Northern Iowa
    http://fp.uni.edu/dfcs/InteriorDesign/BetrabetGulwadi.htm

Mallika Bose
mallika-bose@psu.edu

B.Arch., Jadavpur University
M.Arch., School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
M.Arch., Kansas State University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1997)      [Ahrentzen, Rapoport, Sinha]
Women's work, women's spaces: A socio-spatial analysis of slums of
     Calcutta, India.

Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture,
     
Penn State University
     
http://www.larch.psu.edu/people/faculty/bose.htm

Lou Ann Bunker-Hellmich
lbunkerh@umn.edu

B.S., University of Minnesota
M.S., Housing, University of Minnesota
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1995)      [Moore, Ahrentzen, Cohen]
Environmental stress in a neonatal intensive care unit:  A comparison of
     visitors and staff.
 

Research Associate, Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel
     
University of Minnesota

Margaret Calkins
mcalkins
@IDEASConsultingInc.com
B.A., English, Kenyon College
M.Arch., UW-Milwaukee
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)      [Weisman, Harvath, Montgomery]
Conceptualizing and assessing environmental press in special care units for
     people with dementia.
 

President, IDEAS, Inc. Consultants in Aging and Environment
     http://www.ideasconsultinginc.com/default.asp

Habib Chaudhury
chaudhury@sfu.ca

B.Arch., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
M.S., Architecture, Texas A&M University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (2001)      [Weisman, Jaffe, Kovach]
Journey back home: Self, place and remembering among residents in
     long-term care settings.

Assistant Professor, Gerontology Programs and Research Centre,  
     
Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
     
http://www.sfu.ca/gerontology/01faculty_staff/chaudhury.html
 
Herbert A. Childress
herb@bayces.org
herbc@duke.edu
A.B., Architectural Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)      [Hubka, Weisman, Kenny]
Landscapes of betrayal, landscapes of joy: Curtisville in the lives of its
     teenagers.
 

Director of Research and Communications, Bay Area Coalition for Equitable
     Schools in Oakland, California

Mellon Teaching Fellow, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
     
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/UWP/faculty/herb

Barbara A. Cooper
cooperb@mcmaster.ca

B.A., McMaster University
M.H.Sc., Health Sciences, McMaster University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1995)       [Weisman, Blackburn, Cohen]
Functional color: Its effectiveness and acceptance as a cueing agent in the
     residential environment for elderly women.

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences
Director, School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, McMaster University

Kristen Day
kday@uci.edu

B.S., Psychology, Michigan State University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1994)       [Ahrentzen, Miller, Feldman]
Assault prevention as a social control: Women and fear of sexual assault on
     urban college campuses.

Associate Professor, Department Planning, Policy, and Design
    
School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine  
     
http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/day/

Lynne Dearborn
dearborn@uiuc.edu

 

B.Arch., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.Arch., University of Oregon
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (Year)       [Ahrentzen, Weisman, Committee member ]
Immigrant culture and housing provision, examining the nexus: A case study
     of the ACTS Landmark Housing Program and its Hmong participants.

     Concentration: Housing and cultural change.
     Minor: Economics of real estate development

Assistant Professor, Design, School of Architecture

     University of Illinois at  Urbana-Champaign

     http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/dearborn/


Carole Despres
carole.despres
@arc.ulaval.ca
B.Arch., Laval University
M.Sc., Architecture, Laval University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1991)       [Ahrentzen, Rapoport, Groat]
The meaning and experience of home for unrelated households in shared
     housing.

Professor, Department of Architecture, Laval University
     http://www.vrr.ulaval.ca/bd/chercheur/fiche/22208.html

Frances Downing
fdowning@archone.tamu.edu

B.Arch., University of Oregon
M.Arch., University of Oregon
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1989)       [Weisman, Hubka, Groat]
Image banks: The purpose, function and meaning of environmental imagery
     for designers.

Professor, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
     
http://archone.tamu.edu/architecture/faculty/downing/mainframe.html

Yasser Elsheshtawy
yasser_e@ecl.uaue.ac.ae

B.Arch., University of Cairo
M.S., Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)       [Rapoport, Cohen, Weisman]
Traditions, change and street encounters.
Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Engineering
     
UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Ihab Elzeyadi
ihab@uoregon.edu
B.S., Architecture, Ain Shams University, Egypt
M.S., Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2001)       [Weisman, Rapoport, Witzling, Utzinger]
Environmental quality assessment of work settings in adaptive reuse
     facilities in Cairo.

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon

     http://architecture.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=people&page=faculty

 
Hisham Gabr
h.gabr@link.net
hisham@cairo.eun.eg
B.Arch, Cairo University
M.Arch., Cairo University
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (1993)       [Rapoport, Rabinowitz, Weisman]
Enhancing the visual attributes of urban waterfronts for tourism.

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering

     Cairo University, Egypt


Lyn Geboy
email
B.A., Advertising and Public Relations, Simmons College
M.A., Communication, UW-Milwaukee
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2005)       [Weisman, Schermer, Stegall]

Architecture as a catalyst for organizational change: Facilitating a

     person-centered approach to care in an adult/dementia day center.

Research Consultant, Kahler Slater Architects, Inc.     Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Haryadi 
email
B.Arch., Gadja Mada University, Indonesia
M.Arch., University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1989)       [Rapoport, Ahrentzen, Weisman]
Residents' strategies for coping with environmental press: Relation to
     house-settlement systems in a Yogyakarta Kampung, Indonesia.

Associate Professor, Gadja Mada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Çagri Imamoglu
email
B.Arch., Middle East Technical University, Turkey
M.Arch., Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2002)       [Weisman, Rapoport, Schermer)
Toward an understanding of place schema: Societal and individual-level
     representations of assisted living.

     Concentration: Environmental assessment and preference.
     Minor: Landscape design and computer simulation.
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
     
Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

Karen Keddy
kkeddy@bsu.edu
B. Env. Design Studies, Technical University of Nova Scotia
M.Arch., Technical University of Nova Scotia
Ph.D., U-W Milwaukee (2006)     [Ahrentzen, Miller, Rodgers]
Embodied Professionalism: The relationship between the physical nature of
     nursing work and nursing spaces.
     
Concentration: Feminist and architectural theories in healthcare design
     Minor: Architectural education
Instructor of Architecture, Ball State University
 

Jeffery A. Lackney
lackney@epd.engr.wisc.edu

B.Arch., University of Tennessee-Knoxville
M.Arch., UW-Milwaukee
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)       [Weisman, Rabinowitz, Witzling]
Quality in school environments: A comparative study of the diagnosis,
     design and management of environmental quality in five elementary
     schools in  Baltimore City Public Schools from an action research
     perspective.  

Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Professional Development
     University of Wisconsin-Madison
     
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/epd/faculty/lackney_jeffery.html

Kyung-Hoon Lee
Kkh921ee@kuccnx.korea.ac.kr

B.Arch., Korea University
M.Arch., Korea University
M.Arch., North Carolina State University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1992)       [Ahrentzen, Franck, Merrill]
Community and burglary in the urban residential street block: An
     environmental analysis.

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture
     Keon-Yang University, Nonsan Korea

Chi-Wen Liu
Email
B.Arch., Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
M.Arch. & M.S., Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1995)       [Rapoport, Weisman, Gray]
From old town to new city: A study of behavior settings and meanings of
     streets in Taiwan.

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture,
Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

Paul Maas
Paul.Maas@calgary.ca
LCC School of Building, United Kingdom 
M.A., University of British Columbia
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)   [Rapoport, Greenstreet, Geist]
Aesthetics as survival mechanism: Toward a theory of architecture. 
Director, City Planning and Development, City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Atiya Mahmood
atiya.mahmood
@oregonstate.edu

B.Arch., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
M.S., Environmental Design, University of Missouri-Columbia
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2002)       [Committee members]
Dissertation title
     
Concentration: Gender issues and the built environment
      Minor: Socio-cultural aspects of home environments
Assistant Professor,  College of Health and Human Sciences
     Oregon State University

Janetta Mitchell
McCoy
jjanettamccoy@wsu.edu
BLS., St. Edwards University
M.S., Design and Environ. Analysis, Cornell
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (2000)       [Ahrentzen, Weisman, Rapoport]
The creative office environment.  
Professor, Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University

Byung-Ho Min
minbh@ajou.ac.kr

B.A., Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University
M.Arch., Seoul National University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1988)       [Moore, Weisman, Alexander]
Research utilization in environment-behavior studies: A case study analysis
     of the interaction of utilization models, context, and success.

Professor, Department of Architecture, Ajou University, South Korea

Keith Diaz Moore
keithdm@wsu.edu

B.S., Architectural Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
M.Arch., University of Minnesota
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (2000)       [Weisman, Ahrentzen, Lindeman]
The hidden program of adult day care for the cognitively impaired: A
     comparative case study into the negotiation of place.

Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture/Landscape Architecture
     Washington State University-Spokane

Yasser Moustafa
email
B.Arch., Cairo University
M.Arch., Illinois Institute of Technology
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2004)       [Rapoport, Schermer, Committee member]
Environmental design and the local community: A theoretical framework
     tested through two case studies in Cairo, Egypt

     Concentration: Behavioral, social, and cultural issues in residential
                                 environment research and design
     Minor: Computer applications in architectural education, research, practice
Current occupation

William Murray
murrawj@dhfs.wi.us

B.A., Design, Southern Illinois University
M.S., Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Southern Illinois University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1996)      [Ahrentzen, Fox, Hirsch]                                     
Planning residential environments with persons with mental retardation. 
Senior Psychologist, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services,
     Madison, Wisconsin

Malindi Neluheni
email
B.A., Geography, University of the North, South Africa
M.C.R.P., Cornell
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2005)       [Van Oudenallen, Committee members]
Airport passenger terminal design and operations: Critical challenges for
     configuring emerging spatial conversions

Chief Executive Officer, Council for the Built Environment (CBE)

Michael O'Neill
mike_oneill@hermanniller.com
B.A., Psychology, UW-Milwaukee
M.Arch., UW-Milwaukee
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1989)       [Weisman, Ahrentzen, Kaplan, Moore]
Evaluation of a neural simulation of cognitive mapping and wayfinding
     behaviors.

Research Program Manager, Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan

Monica Paciuk
monica@technion.ac.il

B.Sc., Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
M.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1989)       [Weisman, Ahrentzen, Stea, Utzinger]
The impact of personal control on thermal comfort and satisfaction at the
     workplace.

Research Associate, National Building Research Institute
     Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Celine Pinet

Celine_pinet@westvalley.edu

B.S., Psychology, Universite de Montreal
M.E.S., Environmental Design, Universite de Montreal
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1995)       [Ahrentzen, Blackburn, Cohen]
Nursing home design: Architectural characteristics of social spaces and
     social behavior of residents.

Applied Arts & Sciences Division Chair/Department Co-Chair,Interior Design,
     West Valley College    
     http://www.westvalley.edu/faculty/pinet.html

Lubomir Popov
lspopov@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Dipl., University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Bulgaria
Kand. Nauk, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1998)       [Cohen, Moore, Rabinowitz]
Programming of large and complex facilities: Patterns of selected practices
     in the U.S.

Associate Professor, Interior Design Program
     Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Laxmi  Ramasubramanian
laxmi@hunter.cuny.edu


B.Arch., University of Madras, India
M.Arch. Anna University, India
M.C.P., M.I.T.
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1998)       [Cohen, Huxhold, Ahrentzen]
Knowledge production and use in community-based organizations:
     Examining the impacts and influence of information technologies.

Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning Department
     Hunter College, City University of New York

Dina Shehayeb
dinakshehayeb@yahoo.com
B.S., Cairo University
M.A., Architecture, Cairo University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1995)       [Rapoport, Krause, Witzling]
Functional opportunities: An integrative theory of urban streets. 
Associate Professor , Housing and Building Research Center, Egypt

Kathleen R. Miller Stumpf
kstumpf@uwsp.edu

B.S., UW-Oshkosh
M.S., Pratt Institute
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1990)       [Ahrentzen, Hubbard, Moore]
Architectural images of the past: An investigation of residents' images of the
     past evoked through observation of older buildings in St. Charles, Illinois.

Professor, Associate Dean and Division Head, Interior Architecture
     University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Kapila Dharmasena
Silva
kapilads@uwm.edu
 
B.Sc., Built Environment, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
M.Sc., Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2004)       [Rapoport, Weisman, Kenny]
Mapping Meaning in the Mind: Towards preserving the imageability of Urban    
     Cultural Landscapes

     Concentration: Cognition of urban environmental meanings.
     Minor: Economics of real estate development.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Donald Thompson
email
B.S., Grace College
M.S., Psychology, Jacksonville State University
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1993)       [Cohen, Moore, Screven]
Considering the museum visitor: An interactional approach to environmental
     design.

Research Associate, Center for Social Design, Jacksonville State University

Shin-Young Yoo
email
B.S., Hong Ik University
M.Arch., University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee (1992)       [Weisman, Cohen, Rabinowitz]
Architectural legibility of shopping centers: Influences on way-finding and
     shopping  behavior.

Construction & Economy Research Institute of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Suzanne Zukowski
email
B.S., Architecture, University of Michigan
M.Arch., University of Michigan
Ph.D, UW-Milwaukee (2005)     [Van Oudenallen, Greenstreet, Schermer, Wasley]
From green to platinum: LEED in professional practice.
     
Concentration: Cross-cultural analysis of multi-family dwelling alternatives.
     Minor: Alternative materials in building.
Current occupation
SARUP
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