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Two Mississippi Â鶹´«Ã½ senior architecture students are the latest recipients of Aydelott Travel Awards.

Seniors Jane E. Kent of Mandeville, Louisiana, and Mary "Jacquelin" Lee of Madison are each receiving $10,000 to travel domestically this summer to four sites to gather research on a chosen topic.

Kent will visit four iconic historical and contemporary timber structures – the John W. Olver Design Building in Amherst, Massachusetts;  Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Hangar B at the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon; and Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. With guidance from her mentor Associate Professor Jacob Gines, she will research the relationship between structure, maintenance, landscape, empathy and cultural responses to timber structures.

Lee will investigate the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability and how the cultural and historic significance of a place is a necessary aspect of sustainable practices. She will visit Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts; The Cobb Building in Seattle, Washington; the Colorado Â鶹´«Ã½ Capitol in Denver, Colorado; and The Armory in Portland, Oregon. Lee's research will be guided by her mentor Professor John Poros.

The $2.4 million endowment—established by late Memphis architect Alfred Lewis Aydelott and his wife Hope Galloway Aydelott—provides an award each year to four architecture students currently enrolled in the professional architecture degree programs at Mississippi Â鶹´«Ã½ as well as the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Auburn University; and the University of Tennessee.

Due to the COVID-19 public health crisis and current travel restrictions, the Aydelott Foundation granted a change this year from one annual $20,000 award for travel abroad at each institution to two $10,000 awards for domestic travel.