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A game designed by senior Carolina Martinez helps preschool children imagine stories to

help them understand and solve environmental problems for undersea creatures.

After 18 years in Chicago, he moved to the San slotted Murray into a graduate assistant position. His
Francisco area, mostly doing freelance design for teaching duties rapidly increased and he was hired as
several years. “While I was out there, I noticed what a full-time professor in 1999.

I really missed about the exhibit industry was the

teaching part of it,” he said. “My job had been to Murray had returned with a renewed and profound
learn material, then figure out how to demonstrate interest in sustainability, well beyond the general

it or teach it back to the public. I knew I was really environmental awareness and sense of “eco-design”
good at explaining the concepts. Of course, back that had spread through college campuses a quarter
then, my ‘students’ were my clients.” century earlier amid the initial Earth Day in 1970

and the country’s first big energy crisis.

A memorable UC homecoming

So in 1996, he decided on a big life change — he “MY graduate thesis Was ‘HOW t° iritegr ate

would make students his students, so to speak — Sustainability Into Industrial Design Curriculum,’
and enrolled at San Francisco State University to and I did just that iii my ediirsesi” he Said-

eam a graduate degree that would Open up a second ‘Sustainability certainly wasnt a major concern of
career as a design professor. But when he told his iridiistriai desigri seh°°is- After aii» We had grow“ “I3
sister, who was then a non-traditional architecture aroiihd the e°rieePt er Piariried °bs°ieseeiiee- We re
student at D AAR that the San Francisco state about creating desire for the next new thing. But
experience wasn’t sitting well, she suggested he Part °rWhY I Was hired here W35 that eVeI1 though
Come home to DAAP’5 mastefs pr0gram_T1m1ng I was home-grown,I represented an emerging point
was everything: Only three days before UC’s new °rVieW that heeded t0 he e°Vered-

semester began, then-school director Dennis Puhalla

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