both current MFA students presented with Associate Professor Dori Tunstall (now an Associate Dean at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia) at MAKE THINK, the AIGA national design conference held in Memphis October 8-11.

Xie Zhen also recently co-authored an article published by a Chinese Art Journal. "How to Interpret Chinese Design" by Xie Zhen and Zhu Shuai appeared in Observation: Volume 168, August 2009.