ASID Announces 2002 Educational Foundation Winners

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The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is pleased to announce the 2002 Educational Foundation scholarship and award winners. A jury of professional designers and design educators selected winners in five educational award programs. The 2002 ASID Education Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize winners are Buie Harwood, Bridget May and Curt Sherman, for their book, Architecture and Interior Design through the 18th Century. The ASID Educational Foundation bestows the prize to recognize outstanding academic contributions to the discipline of interior design through literature or visual communication. The 2002 ASID Educational Foundation/Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award winner is Dr. Debra Harris for her dissertation, Environmental Quality and Healing Environments: A Study of Flooring Materials In a Healthcare Telemetry Unit. The ASID Educational Foundation gives the award on an annual basis to recognize an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student’s interior design research or thesis project. The 2002 ASID Educational Foundation/Yale R. Burge Competition first-place winner is Brenda Nan Friedman-Andrews – a student at the American Intercontinental University in Los Angeles. The competition is designed to encourage students to seriously plan their portfolios while still in college. Jean Carlo Sanchez from the University of Texas at Arlington was awarded honorable mention in this category. The ASID Georgia Chapter Universal Design Task Force is the winner of the first annual ASID Educational Foundation/Irene Winifred Eno Grant for their project, ASID Task Force to Interface with the Easy Living Home Coalition to Promote Universal Design. The purpose of the grant is to provide financial assistance to individuals or groups engaged in the creation of an educational program or an interior design research project dedicated to the health, welfare and safety of consumers. The 2002 ASID Education Foundation/Dora Brahms Award winner is Kristy Furnish, for her project, Historical Restoration of Best Parlor, Ferry Plantation House. The award is open biennially to educational institutions, on behalf of their students in historic preservation and/or restoration studies, to encourage and support the advancement of professional activities in these areas. If you are interested in receiving more information about these and other awards offered through the ASID Educational Foundation, please visit www.asid.org, or contact the ASID Education Department at (202) 546-3480, or education@asid.org. ASID is the largest professional association representing the interests of interior designers. Its mission is to advance the interior design profession through knowledge generation and sharing, advocacy of interior designers’ right to practice, professional and public education, and expansion of interior design markets. The Society supports its more than 31,500 members – comprised of practicing interior designers from all design specialties, design students and industry representatives – through a variety of programs and services and a network of 48 local chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada.