For release: April 12, 2011
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Rachelle Schoessler Lynn

A reception will follow her talk.  Both events are free and open to the public.

Work by students in the Department of Architecture’s Interior Design Program will be on display before the lecture and during the reception.

Lynn, FASID, CID, LEED AP BD+C, has made environmental and socially-minded strategies the foundation of her work and is a national and local leader in sustainable design solutions.  She is widely recognized as a lecturer on sustainable design, indoor air quality, workplace issues, material development, and other facets of ecologically responsible design.

She serves on the board of the Minnesota Environmental Fund and served recently as a director on the board of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).  She helped create Minnesota’s current sustainable building design guidelines, Buildings,  Benchmarks, and Beyond.  She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota.

Lynn is the recipient of the Designer of Distinction Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers and the prestigious 40 Under 40 Business Leaders Award given by the Twin Cities Business Journal.

She and a partner, David Loehr, AIA , AICP, LEED AP BD+C, operate Studio 2030.  The firm works in an integrated way by tapping a wide spectrum of knowledge in architecture, interior design, urban planning, energy modeling, engineering, landscape architecture, technology, and science.

William R. Eubanks inaugurated the William R. Eubanks Distinguished Lecture Series in Interior Design at the University of Memphis through an endowment in 2007.  Lectures in the series take place annually, with outstanding speakers in the field of interior design chosen by a committee of the faculty in association with Eubanks. The 2007 speaker was Dr. Frank Koe, former dean of the New York School of Interior Design.  The speaker in 2009 was Jennifer Garrigues, international interior designer, and in 2010 the speakers were VERANDA’s Features Editor Linda Sherbert and author and historian John Francisco Andreu.

Eubanks has also established theJames Weaver Memorial Scholarship in Interior Design, to memorialize his longtime friend, a former Winona, Miss., resident, who died in 1998.  The scholarship will be awarded to deserving and qualified students based on merit, with consideration of need, and given to undergraduate students majoring in Interior Design.

William R. Eubanks Interior Design Inc. was Weaver’s professional home in Memphis for many years, and the University of Memphis is alma mater to Weaver and Eubanks.  A portrait of Weaver was given to the University’s Interior Design Program.

Eubanks characterizes the Interior Design Program as “...so important for the future of our city.” 

“These young men and women at the University of Memphis will help shape our community’s design future.  The more tools we provide them, the greater their accomplishments will be,” he said.

Contributions may be made to theWilliam R. Eubanks Distinguished Lecture Series in Interior Design and to the James Weaver Memorial Scholarship Fund in Interior Design.  Gifts should be made payable to The University of Memphis Foundation, Dept. 238, P. O. Box 1000, Memphis, Tenn., 38148.  For more information, call 901- 678-4164.