Association of University Interior Designers
Scholarship Recipients for 2011

Courtney Padgitt, a senior the University of Missouri-Columbia, will be graduating in May 2012 with a Bachelors of Science HES in Architecture Studies with an emphasis in Interior Design and a minor in Fine Arts.

While attending school, Padgitt has been assisting designers in the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Residential Life Planning and Design Office as a Student Design Intern since January 2011. Padgitt also works at Tigers Academy Gymnastics Training Center as a gymnastics instructor.

Padgitt is a member of Kappa Omicron NU and Phi Upsilon Omicron Honor Societies, College of HES Student Council, MU USGBC Chapter, the Secretary of Student Environmental Design Association, and the True Tigers Student Alumni Association.

Padgitt is passionate about helping others through volunteering and hopes to make an impact in the design field. Future goals include working with a major architecture firm and ultimately owning her own firm.

Brie Reid, a senior at Cornell University, grew up with an acute awareness and appreciation of Chicago’s outstanding architectural design legacy.

Drawn to the focus on academics, research, and outreach within the department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Reid was taught to work through design problems at the most complex level with a strong appreciation of how informed design can change lives.

At Cornell, Reid volunteers as a program coordinator with Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways and had to opportunity to work on a hands-on collaborative project with the National Head Start Association to enrich the educational space of impoverished children. This, in turn, inspired her senior honors thesis, which explores the effect of interior play-space on the cognitive development of young children. She also is active in the Cornell community as captain of the women’s water polo team, president of the student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers, and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Reid aspires to be a leader in her field by engaging with communities around her and leading by example. Her professional aim is to design for future generations by focusing on sustainability, innovation, and design that enriches the education and lives of children, whether it is working to certify a sustainable building, creating interiors that encourage playful learning, or connecting communities through design and volunteer work.

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