Source: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu

Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

K-STATE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS HAVE A HAND IN ORGANIZING DESIGNEXPO 2009

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's 2009 Design Expo, the annual career fair of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the K-State Student Union Ballroom.

Employers from across the country -- including from Kansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin -- will be attending the ninth annual fair and are offering full-time opportunities and academic internships. A full listing of employers is available at:
http://www.capd.k-state.edu/designexpo

Students from the College of Architecture, Planning and Design who serve on the 2009 DesignExpo planning committee include:

Jason Rivera, third-year architecture student, Andover; Paul Megli, third-year architecture student, Augusta; Russell Ploutz, third-year landscape architecture student, Hutchinson; David Vogel, master's student in landscape architecture, Manhattan; Adam Wagoner, fifth-year architecture student, and Tim Sherman, fifth-year interior architecture and product design student, both of McPherson; Karina Perez-Fajardo, fourth-year architecture student, and Lydia Palma, third-year interior architecture and product design student, both of Topeka; and Daniel Gensch, fifth-year architecture student, Wichita.

From out of state: Anthony Fox, fifth-year landscape architecture student, St. Charles, Mo.; Elizabeth Cordes, fifth-year interior architecture and product design student, St. Louis, Mo.; Jonathan Ryan, third-year landscape architecture student, Winfield, Mo.; Amy Shaffer, fifth-year landscape architecture student, Lincoln, Neb.; and Amanda Phelps, third-year interior architecture and product design student, Sandy, Utah.