Professors Jordan Kanter and Ray K. Mann have won a special merit in the 2024 Timber Education Prize by The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). According to their proposal: "We will demonstrate how a multi-layered approach grounded in the medium of wood/mass timber will leapfrog students towards achieving the generative embodied knowledge skills essential in the context of the climate crisis and ever-accelerating technological change."