{"id":6673,"date":"2021-06-01T19:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.tamu.edu.staging2.juiceboxint.com\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/untitled-4\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:22:53","slug":"untitled-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/untitled-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Former dean who oversaw period of college growth and change passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"
Michael Martin McCarthy, whose initiatives as dean of the Texas A&M College of Architecture from 1988-1992 spurred a period of growth that reverberates to the present day, passed away May 30, 2021 at age 76.<\/p>\n
A major force in the development of visualization<\/a> education at Texas A&M, McCarthy secured $4.5 million in initial funding to establish a visualization laboratory, and oversaw the establishment of the Master of Science in Visualization<\/a> degree. Many former Aggie visualization students are now key contributors to blockbuster animated movies as well as leaders in a diverse array of disciplines.<\/p>\n In 1991, Texas Governor Ann Richards approved a legislative package, based on a proposal McCarthy wrote, for $2 million in funding to assist colonias<\/em> settlements along the Texas-Mexico border. Today, that effort continues as the college\u2019s Colonias<\/em> Program<\/a>, whose staff partner with a wide variety of public and private agencies to provide literacy and job training, health education, economic and community development for colonias<\/em> residents all along the Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n During his deanship, the college also significantly bolstered its status as a leading research hub with the establishment of three new research centers: the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center<\/a>, the CRS Center for Leadership and Management in the Design and Construction Industry<\/a>, and the Center for Housing and Urban Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n