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AIA Seattle, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, is pleased to award its first Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship to Cristina Bump Assoc. AIA for her proposal to study innovative seawall design in Australia and Canada. Her research will include seawalls in Sydney, Melbourne and Vancouver, and will explore the impact alternative approaches can have on urban development and natural habitat. Bump plans to work with partners at the University of Washington, the City of Seattle and the US Army Corps of Engineers to develop a series of recommendations for Seattle’s seawall replacement. She will present her research through an exhibition and model at AIA Seattle’s gallery in late 2009. She will receive $5,000 to complete her proposed travel and research.

Bump, a LEED® Accredited Professional, graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2007, and is currently an intern at Mithun. View her complete proposal at right.

Congratulations to all of the 2008 Travel Scholarship finalists! View proposals from the finalists here.