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Mitzi Vernon, project lead on the Phoebe's Field team, was awarded with the 2007 College of Architecture & Urban Studies Diversity Award at Virginia Tech.

Clay Moulton, team member and "bookmaster" for the Phoebe's Field project, placed in the Urban Re:Vision's recent Re:Volt competition (www.urbanrevision.com), which was held to seek alternative energy production methods to power a city block. Virginia Tech Industrial Design graduate student Clay Moulton submitted his Gravia LED-lit floorlamp to the competition. Gravia was developed as one of three artefacts proposed in his thesis entitled "Resonant Frequency: Artefacts in Response to Time". Clay's submission was recognized by UrbanRe:Vision as a runner up in the competition, for providing an alternative means for lighting interior spaces by harnessing the potential energy of the lamp's human users.

Ben Tew, team member and Industrial Design graduate student, is the grand prize winner of the 2007 JPMA Student Design Competition and recipient of $2,500. His product, NIPA or nested interactive play area, provides a versatile and mobile play area that is convenient and less physically demanding for the adult, all while promoting educational and artistic activities for the child.