{"70749":{"#nid":"70749","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ron Kemnitzer: School of ID Chair Candidate Presentation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERon Kemnitzer is Professor of Industrial Design at Virginia Tech. Mr. Kemnitzer holds over 15 USA and International patents for his work, which has also been recognized in many design competitions. He received the Gold \u2018Good Design Award\u2019 from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in 2001 and 1997. He also received a Gold Award in the 1993 \u2018Plant Engineering\u2019 magazine \u2018Product of the Yea\u2019 competition and a Bronze Award in the 1992 Industrial Design Excellence Awards sponsored by \u2018Business Week\u2019 magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America. In 1988 he designed the best selling \u2018Bola\u2019 chair for Fixtures Furniture Company for which he was awarded an IBD Gold Award.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University. He currently serves as President of the Industrial Designers Society of America He has served six terms on the Board of Directors, three terms on the Executive Committee and two terms on the Planning Committee, which is comprised of the top five officers of the society. He was elected to the IDSA Academy of Fellows in August 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"RON KEMNITZER\nSchool of Architecture + Design, Chair\nVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kemnitzer is Chair of Virginia Tech School of Arch and Design"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:10","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-04-07T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-04-07T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-04-07T01:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-04-07 05:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-04-07 05:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-04-07 05:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"internal:\/NULL","title":"NULL"}],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESabir  Khan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArchitecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sabir.khan@arch.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Sabir  Khan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8995\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}