Case Western Reserve University has hired a new assistant vice president for campus planning and design to lead the development, integration and implementation of the university's campus master plan.

Margaret M. Carney, formerly the director of programming and planning for Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates based in Butler, Pa., with offices in Cleveland, assumed the newly created position in the university's Office of Campus Planning and Operations last month.

Carney brings to Case extensive experience in higher education campus planning, including project management of an $100 million research facility at Cornell University and 900,000 sq. ft. instructional and performance facilities at the University of Baghdad in Iraq.

She has been involved in the programming, planning and design of numerous buildings and campuses across the country, including a residence hall at New York University; athletic facilities at Cornell University, Smith College and Kent State University; and classroom buildings at Cincinnati State, Bowling Green and Kent State universities.

Carney also has helped develop master plans for Gannon University; Mercyhurst College; Cornell's Physical Sciences Precinct in Ithaca, N.Y.; and Ohio University's 350-acre eastern campus. In addition, she has been involved in the development of urban design projects for several communities, including Erie, Pa., and Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Before joining Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann in 2001, Carney worked with Collins Gordon Bostwick Architects in Cleveland and Sasaki Associates, Benjamin Thompson Associates and the Architects Collaborative, all in Cambridge, Mass. She also worked in private practice with a variety of clients, including the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, for whom she led the development of a student center and mixed-use facility in Harvard Square.

Carney has been an adjunct professor at the Boston Architectural Center, Kent State and Cornell, where she earned a bachelor's degree in architecture.

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