About the Designer
Rosemary Lapka
A 2006 graduate of Carnegie Mellon (BFA Communication Design), Rosemary is a Fifth Year Scholar for the 2006-2007 school year. Her design career has been defined by a focus on communicating sustainable design and an initiative to work with other disciplines in various projects. These have included studying sustainable architecture at Ecosa Institute in Prescott, AZ, along with designing for the Carnegie Mellon’s 2005 Solar Decathlon team and acting as Communication Manager for the 2007 Carnegie Mellon Solar Decathlon team. She has worked with Carnegie Mellon Green Practices and served as a Teaching Assistant and lecturer numerous times for the Design Department. Her Fifth Year project will continue to focus on using communication to raise awareness about environmental and sustainable issues. Working with the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research , Rosemary will help to craft a marketing and communications plan for the Institute to raise campus and outside community awareness of the innovative environmental academics going on at Carnegie Mellon.