End of the Year

As the year is wrapping up, so is the AIAS!

I'd like to thank you all for your contributions to the club, and I hope that you've had as much fun as we have this year! This year's Beaux Arts Ball was the biggest we've had in the four years that I've been here, and never before have we been able to raise so much money through fundraisers. We thank the graduate students who offered their time and skills to present through our Lecture Series, as well as our guests from Career Services and Past-President Brett Roeth-- and congratulate grad students Kris Kunkel and Brian Albrecht for entering the AIAS Student Design competition earlier in the year. I'd also like to thank my amazing exec board for all of their hard work-- planning fundraisers, the Chicago Trip, Beaux Arts Ball, Freedom By Design projects, lectures, workshops, socials, and everything else.

I've enjoyed watching this organization grow, and I can only see it becoming bigger and better in years to come. Tyler Rice and Kat Roosen have been busy planning Fall Quad 2011, our regional AIAS conference that our chapter is co-hosting with UC next fall. Fall Quad is a really exciting opportunity for us to show off all of the best qualities of our faculty & department, as well as the strength of our chapter.

We have also tried really hard this year, to make AIAS more accessible through our twitter, blog, and website. Though these are all new and works in progress, we hope that these enable students to better keep up-to-date with what's going on, and spread awareness throughout the department. We also hope that these tools will be used to promote events within the department, highlight student achievements, spread news within the profession, and connect with other chapters nation-wide.

I hope that you all continue to follow the AIAS and support what we do, we promise you won't regret getting involved!

See you all Sunday, at our bi-annual End-of-the-Semester Party!


Best of luck with all finals & presentations,
It's been real--

Sarah Pytlik
Your Former AIAS Chapter President