November 30, 1972
Dr. Francis Ferguson
Ferguson
Appointed
Grad
Program
Chief
Dr. Francis Ferguson,
Professor of Enviromental
Design at Capitol Campus has
been named Chairman of the
Regional Planning Program. His
promotion was announced last
week by Dr. Robert E.
McDermott, Provost.
An architect and planning
consultant, Dr. Ferguson joined
the Capitol Campus faculty in
the fall of 1971 after serving as
Associate Professor of Urban
Planning in the School of
Architecture at Columbia
University. While at the campus,
Dr. Ferguson has concentrated
on developing the computer
graphics and design capability
within the Regional Planning
Program.
After obtaining his
architecture degree from the
University of Notre Dame, Dr.
Ferguson did graduate work at
Harvard and Columbia
Universities, receiving his Master
of Science and Doctor
Philosophy degrees in Urban
Planning from the latter
institution.
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He practiced architecture and
planning in New York and Paris
prior to becoming a member of
the faculty at Columbia in 1964.
While there, Dr. Ferguson
received the William Kinne
Fellows Memorial Fellowship
and spent the 1962-63 academic
year studying in Europe. Also he
is the recipient of a postdoctoral
grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts for
work on planning and design
theory.
Dr. Ferguson's major work to
date is a United Nations
sponsored development plan for
New Providence Island and the
City of Nassau in the Bahamas
which he prepared with the late
Paul Lester Wiener under the
Auspices of Columbia's Institute
of Urban Environment. He also
served as a senior research
associate of that institute.
He is co-author of the "East
River Renewal Study," which
involved the design of the area
bordering the East River
immediately across from the
United Nations in New York
City.
Dr. Ferguson is a licensed
architect in New York and
Pennsylvania and is a member of
the American Institute of
Architects as well as the Society
of Architectural Historians, The
Architectural League of New
York, Environmental Design
Research Association,
Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture, the
American Institute of Planners
and the American Society of
Planning Officials.
While serving with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers in
France from 1956 to 1958, he
was cited for the design of
facilities for the selection
ceremony of the Unknown
Soldier of World War II at the
American Cemetary and
Memorial, Epinal, France.
Dr. Ferguson is married and
the father of three children and
lives in Maytown, Lancaster
County
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