STARKVILLE, Miss.--Leah Faulk is being named assistant director of the Carl Small Town Center in Mississippi State University's College of Architecture, Art and Design.
The Starkville native and Starkville High School graduate will join with director Kimberly A. Brown in providing architectural guidance to Mississippi municipalities and rural areas through the community design center's research, planning and design programs.
Brown, also of Starkville and Starkville High, is an MSU architecture graduate who holds a master's from Yale University. She is an assistant professor in the college.
Faulk joined the Carl Center in 2003 as an intern architect after completing her master's degree at Tulane University. A cum laude interior design graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, she previously held adjunct and visiting assistant faculty positions in the college concurrent with her duties at the center.
Earlier this year, Faulk received a research award for her work at MSU. Formal approval of her appointment is expected at a future meeting of the state College Board.
Named for major university benefactor and Viking Range Corp. founder Fred Carl Jr. of Greenwood, the center is a non-profit organization established in 1979 as an extension of the architecture college's traditional focus on the American small town. Recent projects have involved locations from Gulfport to Oxford and Charleston to Meridian, among others.
The only one of its kind in the state, MSU's architecture academic program includes four years of study on the Starkville campus, with the fifth year completed at the college's complex in downtown Jackson.
For more information on the Carl Center, telephone (662) 325-2207.
