Distinguished visitor attends ID student design presentations.

Dr. Mary P. Hoy arrived from Kansas to attend the presentations of student designs for one of her major projects, the College of Integrative Medicine in Eudora, Kansas. Sixteen senior interior design students from Texas State University teamed up in pairs to propose eight renovation plans for the 1980's building, recently acquired in order to institute and launch the program. She was joined by critic Jacqui Dodson, AIA, of STG Architects in Austin. The presentations took place Thursday, May 4, 2007 8:00 to 10:30 A.M. in the second floor gallery of the Family and Consumer Sciences Building .

Dr. Hoy's credentials are extensive, beginning with a bachelor's degree in Home Economics. She earned both of her advanced degrees from the University of Iowa. After teaching home economics and special education in public schools, she became a professor of special education and later Dean of Colleges of Education at both Fort Hays State University (Hays, KS) and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her numerous federal and private foundation grants were directed towards the delivery of instruction using various technologies. She consulted for over five weeks in Gansu Province, Peoples Republic of China in 1991, assisting in distance education. She ended her full time career as an Associate Dean for Medical Education at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.

Although now semi-retired, she keeps active in several organizations and does academic accreditation consulting. She is part of a group of individuals developing the not-for-profit College of Integrative Medicine. The first program offered will be a four year post baccalaureate Naturopathic Doctoral Program. The College's mission is to "educate future leaders in natural health sciences that integrate mind, body, spirit, and nature while improving health and well-being of the human community through natural health education, research, and clinical services focused on naturopathic and other complimentary and alternative medical philosophies."

Dr. Michelle Toews & her colleague Dr. Karen Brown receive grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.