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NEXT EVENT WHAT: General Meeting + Young Alumni Guest Speaker WHERE: Room 405, Campbell Hall WHEN: Wednesday, March 25 from 6:00-7:30 Light Refreshments Provided TODD RAY, AIA, LEED-AP is a Principal in the firm Studio27 Architecture. Todd has a Masters of Architecture from University of Virginia in 1994, and Bachelors of Design from Clemson University in 1990. Over the past seven years, projects in which Todd has held active design roles have received multiple design awards and have been published in an array of newspaper and professional journals. Todd remains active in academics serving as a jury critic at various schools including the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Morgan State University, and Pennsylvania State University. He has taught at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences and is currently a guest critic at The Catholic University of America. Todd has provided volunteer assistance in ARE preparation classes and several projects for the Washington Architectural Foundation's Community Design Service program including an emergency urban design charette for the tornado ravaged Town of LaPlata, Maryland. He also promotes architectural education in the public realm. Todd volunteered in the construction of two educational carts for children and family programs for the National Building Museum. He has worked with middle, high school, and college students to provide exposure on being and becoming an architect, and he has also provided career guidance for many young intern architects moving to the Nation's Capital Area with an open invitation to coffee. In 2003, his design work and service were recognized with a National AIA Young Architects Award. He has served on various design award juries including the 2006 South Carolina AIA Design Awards, 2005 AIAS/ICPF Chair Affair Competition, 1999 Central Pennsylvania Design Awards, and the 2002 DC AIA Pro Bono Design Awards. He is completing his fourth year on the AIA/DC Board of Directors where he is serving as the vice president, president-elect. Prior to co-founding Studio27, Todd was a Project Architect for Williams + Dynerman Architects and Alan Dynerman Architects in Washington, DC, an Assistant Architectural Designer for Ballinger Co, and an Intern Architect for Kieran, Timberlake & Harris in Philadelphia,PA. GREEN GROUNDS EXECUTIVE TEAM: >> Maria Bninski (Co-executive director) Maria Bninski is a first year Path A MArch student. She was a research assistant for the ecoMOD3 project and has some additional experience in efforts to green affordable housing from a volunteer year at a community development agency based in Charlottesville . She enjoyed studying environmental ethics and theologies in her undergraduate Religious Studies major (also at UVa), and likes to ride her bike around town. >> Renee Pean (Co-executive director) Renee Pean is a MUEP/MArch student. More bio forthcoming! >> Meg Johnstone (Financial director) Meg is a first year MUEP student, and will also serve as the Financial director for SPA. More bio forthcoming! >> Glenn Heimgartner (External liaison) Glenn is a first year MUEP student. His interests relating to the University include water sensitive planning and design, energy efficiency of buildings, and urban forestry. >> Nathan Foley (Communications director) Nathan is a first year MLAR student, and completed his MUEP last year at UVA. Nathan is transitioning into the Communications position from Co-executive director. He WILL design T-shirts for us this year! ABOUT THE GREEN GROUNDS GROUP: The Green Grounds Group is dedicated to educating and advocating for sustainable planning, design, implementation and operations on the grounds of the University of Virginia. Holding a strong conviction that the University of Virginia can and should employ sustainable practices as part of their growth strategy, the Green Grounds Group promotes a broad range of projects from minimization of energy consumption to selection of low environmental impact materials to site and building water management to improved indoor air quality. Green Grounds Group Resolution Last updated 3/12/2009 Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and
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