Una Interior Design Students Win Top Awards In State Competition

May. 05, 2010

Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@xfmlsp.com, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

FLORENCE, Ala. - Three University of North Alabama interior design students won first- and second-place awards recently at the IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Alabama chapter competition in Birmingham. Winners included: Josh Hall, of Killen - First place in Commercial Design Brittan Yeager, of Joppa - First place in Hospitality Design Shelley Johnson, of Florence - Second place in Hospitality Design Hall and Yeager each received $1,000 awards, and Johnson received $50. Other universities competing included The University of Alabama, Auburn University, Samford University and Virginia College. Interior design is one of six programs offered in the UNA Department of Human Environmental Sciences. For more program information, visit l0jiu.web-sitemap.xfmlsp.com/hes.

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The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: xfmlsp.com and xfmlsp.com/unaworks/.