Contributor: Marty Matlock

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Dr. Marty Matlock is an associate professor in the Ecological Engineering Group of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. He serves as President of the American Ecological Engineering Society and is Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability at the University of Arkansas.

Matlock received his Ph.D. in Biosystems Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1996. He is a registered professional engineer (Texas) and a Certified Senior Ecologist (Ecological Society of America). Matlock integrates design, science, and policy to enhance ecological services in built and non-built landscapes. His collaborations with the UA Community Design Center has garnered more than a dozen national and international design awards, including:

2008 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). "Habitat Trails: from infill house to green neighborhood design", a collaboration among UACDC, the University of Arkansas Ecological Engineering Group, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Department of Landscape Architecture, Morrison Shipley Architects, and JKJ Architects in Rogers, AR

2007 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award for Excellence in a Housing Education Course. This inaugural award is jointly sponsored by ACSA and the American Institute of Architects, and has been established to recognize both the centrality and difficulty of housing design as a subject matter in curriculum development. The award was for the Habitat for Humanity/Rogers housing course involving UACDC, Marty Matlock in the Dept of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Mark Boyer in the Dept of Landscape Architecture.

2007 Charter Design Award, Congress for New Urbanism, the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. The CNU Charter Awards were awarded internationally to twenty planning and architecture projects that manifest principles of exemplary urbanism as defined by the CNU.

2007 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards NCARB Prize, awarded annually to six initiatives in architecture programs based on their "creative integration of practice and education in the academy".

2006 Places Award for Sustainable Development from the Environmental Design Research Association, for the UA Community Design Center’s Habitat Trails Project. The EDRA/Places Awards are unique among the programs that recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design.

2006 Planning and Design Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for Habitat Trails, a green community designed for Habitat for Humanity.

2006 Education Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, with the UA Community Design Center, for Habitat Trails Low Impact Development Design, 2006. http://www.aia.org/

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