The Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named 11 Loeb Fellows who will participate in the one-year independent study program for the 1997-98 academic year.

The Loeb Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for nurturing the leadership potential of promising men and women in design and other professions related to the built and natural environment. Established and endowed in 1970 through the generosity of Harvard alumnus John L. Loeb, the program has welcomed more than 280 midcareer design professionals over the past 27 years. In 1988, the Loeb Fellowship was awarded an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects "for improving the quality of the built and natural environment through the education of the practitioners who affect that environment."

The Loeb Fellows for 1997-98 are as follows:

Charles A. Birnbaum is the coordinator of the Historic Landscape Initiative, a program of the National Park Service Heritage Preservation Services Program. He also is an instructor at George Washington University, Center for Career Education and Workshops, Historic Landscape Preservation Program. As a Loeb Fellow, Birnbaum will explore innovative tools and technologies for instilling a landscape preservation ethic to the broadest audience possible. He will also investigate the interface between landscape architecture and historic preservation within the design process.

Gregory K. Dreicer is a historian of technology, a museum curator, and an exhibition developer whose area of interest is 19th and 20th-century building. He was most recently curator of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and he has written articles and book reviews for journals including Culture Technique, History and Technology, and Technology and Culture. As a Loeb Fellow, Dreicer will develop strategies and techniques for the production of exhibitions, as well as related publications, films, and educational activities, that provide an interpretation of building in its broadest sense.

Toni L. Griffin is an associate partner with the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where she has been involved in a variety of architectural, master planning, and urban design projects. In 1993, she was instrumental in establishing a development concept for the Grand Boulevard Community, one of Chicago's premier historic ethnic neighborhoods. She continues to consult within the community and has facilitated several planning charrettes which have led to the acquisition and redevelopment of one of the neighborhood's landmark buildings. As a Loeb Fellow, Griffin will explore methods of using culture, heritage, and historic preservation to create economic and community development in urban ethnic neighborhoods.

Pamela W. Hawkes is a principal with Ann Beha Associates Inc., a Boston-based architectural firm specializing in buildings which support culture and community. She has developed innovative preservation planning projects for the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and numerous state and local historic sites. As a Loeb Fellow, Hawkes will explore methods for preserving heritage that respond to the changing context of multi-culturalism and global communications, and new avenues for architects and the public to participate in them.

Daniel Hernandez is executive director of Mission Housing Development Corp., a community-based, nonprofit organization in San Francisco. Since 1992, he has been responsible for the development of two community resource centers and over 400 units of affordable housing for low income families, seniors, the formerly homeless, people with HIV/AIDS, and other special needs populations, all located in a culturally diverse, predominately Latino neighborhood. As a Loeb Fellow, Hernandez will investigate land use, demographic, and social issues impacting the Latino community, and create a plan to develop housing and neighborhoods in a responsible and sustained way for Latino communities throughout the region.

Leonard Mc Gee has been characterized as a community advocate, leader, and ombudsman. In his neighborhood on the near south side of Chicago, known locally as "The Gap," he has volunteered his time to forge relationships that have improved the quality of living for residents, businesses, and government. He has worked for over 12 years with others to negotiate a renaissance of this inner-city neighborhood that has become the cornerstone of redevelopment for an overall area called Bronzeville. Mc Gee is currently a manager of systems development for Cermak Health Services for Cook County, a television director for Saving Grace Ministries at The Apostolic Church

of God, and a business consultant. As a Loeb Fellow, Mc Gee will explore urban planning and leadership development.

Julio Peterson was recently appointed director of the Washington Heights Neighborhood Strategies Project. Prior to this appointment he served for seven years in a variety of roles managing the development of commercial and residential properties in blighted New York City neighborhoods, such as East Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx. He most recently served as director of the Neighborhood Builders Program and Minority Contractor Assistance Loan Program under the auspices of the New York City Housing Partnership. As a Loeb Fellow, Peterson will study and seek to formulate economic models which maximize private and local financial participation in community development projects.

Peter Pollock is director of the community planning division of the city of Boulder, Colo., Department of Community Design, Planning and Development. His current planning projects include development review and implementation of Boulder's solar access ordinance. Pollock was manager of Boulder's 1993 Integrated Planning Project, a community visioning exercise, which received a National Planning Award from the American Planning Association and an Award for Smart Growth and Development from Governor Romer of Colorado. As a Loeb Fellow, he will explore local government growth management systems and models of regional intergovernmental cooperation on issues of land use, transportation, and housing.

Anne Raver writes about gardening, nature, and the environment for the New York Times. During her six years with the Times, she has reported on farmland preservation, urban land use, the community garden movement, historic landscape preservation, African influences in southern gardens, the national seed-saving movement's relationship to biodiversity, and many other issues. She is the author of Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, published in 1995. As a Loeb Fellow, Raver will study biology, as well as geography and landscape history. In addition, she will study how various problems of today shape the contemporary environment and landscape design.

Jean Rogers is an environmental engineer and planner whose work in the U.S. and Europe has focused on amelioration of the impacts of industrialization on the environment since 1990. As a management consultant for Deloitte & Touche in San Francisco, her recent work has included development of a "design for the environment" methodology which employs life cycle analysis to incorporate environmental, performance, aesthetic, cost, cultural, and legal requirements into the design process for new facilities and products. As a Loeb Fellow, Rogers plans to investigate alternative forms of industrial development and corollaries to resource management on a regional scale.

Wayne Ruga is president, CEO, and founder of The Center for Health Design, a nonprofit, non-membership organization in California whose mission is to promote the development of life-enhancing environments through educational programs, research, and publications. Trained as an architect and interior designer, he has traveled all over the world talking to healthcare consumers, executives, and design professionals about the less-than-satisfactory physical condition of our nation's hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, and how thoughtful design can affect the quality of health care by improving therapeutic outcomes, enhancing staff productivity, increasing family and visitor involvement, and broadening community support. As a Loeb Fellow, Ruga plans to study how to build a stronger bridge between healthcare design research and practice.

Nominations of potential Loeb Fellowship applicants for the 1998-99 academic year are sought from professionals in design-related fields. For further information contact Kersti Winny, Loeb Fellowship Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138; 495-9345.