News: School of Architecture
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International competition wraps up today; Team Las Vegas places second in engineering contest, following earlier wins of first in innovation and second for architecture.
![Solar Decathlon house](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/Metal%20Fidgits-1_0.jpg?itok=4eKsQSgv)
Overall competition winner to be announced on Saturday.
![A self-sufficient home sits in the desert.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/SinatraLiving.jpg?itok=jKKpzRmu)
Voting for the Solar Decathlon People's Choice Award is open, and UNLV's team needs your support.
![Project rendering for the Origen Museum](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/baird.jpg?itok=2GvBl9jl)
UNLV architecture students imagine a different approach to the way museums curate our shared cultural experiences.
UNLV team readying its aging-in-place home for the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition.
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From professional reasons to personal connections, faculty across campus share why they’re fond of certain works they penned.
![Executive Chef Mark Sandoval works with students in UNLV's community garden](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71434_021.jpg?itok=jBpRxOcO)
UNLV’s Campus Community Garden gets Hotel College students digging down to the root of sustainability, the environment, and what makes for the best veggies on your dinner plate.
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Carol Channing and the late Debbie Reynolds to receive the Koep Dean's Medal. George Grove to be recognized as Alumnus of the Year.
![Nancy J. Uscher](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71359_018_0.jpg?itok=xBjoUiBK)
New College of Fine Arts dean says the creative work of faculty members can inspire students and help UNLV find its way into the Top Tier.
![UNLV’s Team Las Vegas design of a full-size solar-powered house](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/solardecathlon.main_.jpg?itok=sco2yYN7)
Fundraising for universitywide collaboration surpasses $750,000 with support from Switch and NV Energy Foundation.
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Through UNLV's Downtown Design Center, architecture students learn vital lessons in collaboration during neighborhood redevelopment.
![Patrick Duffy, Danielle Kelly, Hugh Taylor, Marlena Shaw, and Johnny Thompson](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/hof.jpg?itok=qxyENEdu)
Also being recognized are Dean's Medal recipient Patrick Duffy, and College of Fine Arts Alumnus of the Year, Danielle Kelly ('07).